Kathy, I totally get where you are coming from. "Until someone walks in our shoes............" I have been cut back to 1 percocet a day before surgery, which is just a joke. I am on the oxycontin, but honestly, I have never noticed any improvement in my pain when I went on it. I'm on a very low dose, but still. I am hanging on by a thread till surgery Monday. Today was incredible with our grandbaby being born, but after being out of the house all day, without any pain meds, no ice, I dragged my sorry ass home, threw the ice pack on my back and collapsed. Now I'm going to flop into bed. Hang in there. Soon you will be on the other side! We will have post op stories to tell, for sure! 
Cindylou
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bicycle accident 6/01: 2 compression fractures @ T12-L1; vertibroplasty; 4/06: right hip labral tear & arthroscopic repair; 4/07: lumbar prodiscs @ 3 levels, L3-6 by Dr. Bertagnoli; 7/02/08: ALIF L6-S1; 7/30/08: reopened to remove bone cement, leaked onto S1 nerve root; 8/08: pulmonary embolism, double pneumonia, collapsed left lung, pleurisy, pleural effusion; ALIF fusion complete; 3/10/09: SI Joint Fusion by Dr. Stark; Jury still out.
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