hi everyone,
i had surgery six weeks ago today ulnar nerve transposition and my pain seems to be getting worse i am so disgusted i am on percocet 4times a day and that will take edge off but i have serious pain my last visit docotor noticed swelling i have been going to rehab 2to 3x a week been giving electrical treatment with heat doing exercises every day my ring finger and pinky are worse than befor surgery and i keep getting severe pain running undernieth my arm straight to my arm pit he has me wearing an elbow sleve which makes my fingers throb i see the doctor who did the surgery wed havnt seen him since day of surgery only his physicans assistant and when i call his office i get the nurses and he has alot of offices so alot of times they do not have current file on hand was told transcript people are a week behind when i asked to have my doc call me the one who did surgey i was told no because i do not have fever nor any leakage from scar and if in that much pain go to emercency room i was furious! i never thought i would be in this position. thanks for letting vent and does anyone know how long the pain from this surgery will last. thanks again.
colleen

sorry to hear the pain is still bad after 6 weeks. i was off work for 3 1/2 months and went through therapy for 3 months...back to work and the pain after i come home is unbearable...the dr said i have inflamation of muscle.whatever the heck that means..but he gave me a medicine and GUESS WHAT! i was alergic to it.he is now on vacation and i wont see him until Sept 2nd....the pain is in my hand and up the arm to the pit of my arm ................i am a workmans comp case so who knows what happens now....i really want to be back to what i was before i fell down at work and had to have this surgery...hopefully you will be better soon...keep me informed..Im sure it will be better than mine

I'm so sorry to here about both of you going through this. My transposition was 4 months ago and counting. I to have ongoing pain, I would sugest to both of you if your dr is ignoring you or just always to busy to se you CALL A NEW DR!
I say this from expierence, I waited thinking it was maybey normal, now my arm is waisting and I for a good portion of the day cant feel from bicept down. I'm curently working with 2 new dr's to find out what went wrong. My dr also would not se me and pt said something was wrong. What your feeling could simply be recovery process but to be sure you need a dr that will listen to your concerns and help if they can. I am still living on percocetes just to function I shouldn't have waited so long but we all wonder if we are just impatient with slow healing or if something is realy wrong. Feel free to vent any time I'll listen...

Does the pain improve if the elbow sleeve is removed? If it does, take it off.

nooo waayyyy maannn! Only if your doctor says take the elbow dressing off...bacteria cannot get in your wound .

Unless your talking about a splint of some sort (to chris) sorry...im just not sure on wich one your talking about

The surgery was six weeks ago. The initial post-surgical dressing has long since come off. This is one of those compressive sleeves to reduce swelling.

Those elbow compressive sleeves can put pressure on the nerve and aggravate pain. The only person who could tell is the patient. If a sleeve makes your fingers throb, the nerve may be getting irritated. Take it off and see. It could be too tight.