Hi Sharon,
At three months I think you're still rushing things a bit, but I can understand your concern, when you say that the pain is exactly the same as it was prior to surgery. I know even when I walked back to my room from the recovery room in Munich, I knew immediately that the pain had changed.
I think you need to do one thing at a time. Maybe leave matters from another couple of months, and then try facet joint injections, meanwhile try and get some more x-rays or scans done to try and see if there is any obvious physical problem.
It's amazingly difficult to say, because this surgery is extremely large, and loads of muscles and blood vessels and nerves have all been stretched and interfered with .
Were you given a exercise regime of stretches etc to do when you got home? If not there is the full regime Mr Lam's website which is here
http://www.orthopaedicspecialist.co.uk/images/Post-op%2...l%20_Apr%202006_.pdf
Please feel free to e-mail me if you think I might be able to help further
Best,
Alastair
