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Not sure if this is strange or not but I suffer from chronic pain in my lower back and neck the last 3 years. When I woke up from my sleeve surgery last week the pain was gone. My doctor couldn't explain it. Still no pain a week out and haven't taken any pain meds since I left the hospital.

I've read that your body can only handle so much trauma that it picks and chooses what to focus on. Dont know if that's true or not but feels nice after 3 long years even if its only temporary.

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I had something similar. For about a year before surgery I had back pain as a result of a slip in the shower. It would flare up all the time and limit mobility. I also had foot pain, felt like plantar fasciitis. I woke up without both. The back pain never came back ever, and now with the weight loss since I feel great, starting to enjoy walking again. Who knows what happened, I put it down to the effect of anesthetic, maybe my muscles were finally able to relax fully.
The foot pain went for a while, that did come back but not as bad. But I think I just need to wear better shoes.

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On 3/4/2020 at 7:44 PM, Xx1jpt5xx said:

Not sure if this is strange or not but I suffer from chronic pain in my lower back and neck the last 3 years. When I woke up from my sleeve surgery last week the pain was gone. My doctor couldn't explain it. Still no pain a week out and haven't taken any pain meds since I left the hospital.

I've read that your body can only handle so much trauma that it picks and chooses what to focus on. Dont know if that's true or not but feels nice after 3 long years even if its only temporary.

Something similar happened to me. I have two permanent back injuries and I've dealt with the pain of one since 2013 and the other since 2015, but after my surgery the pain went away... until last week when I went back to work. I don't understand at all why that was what brought it back because I was walking and exercising during my time off after I healed from the surgery enough, but I've been back in that familiar terrible pain of the 2015 back injury and since I can't take Naproxen I got permission from my doc office to take Turmeric for the inflammation and of course my Valium for the muscle spasm and pressure issue. But I'm trying to look on the bright side. I by far prefer the back pain to a TN flare so... that's my bright side lol.

I, honestly, hope that you are lucky enough that yours stays away! I wouldn't wish chronic pain on anyone!

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