It has been almost exactly half a year since my last surgery. In this surgery, they discovered that my old shunt (which probably should have been taken out years ago when it was replaced, but the doctors left it in) was causing problems in the form of a cyst. A good portion of my old shunt was removed. They couldn’t remove all of it for various reasons that I won’t go into because ‘eww’.
A week ago, I woke up with quite a severe stinging/burning sensation around my shunt tubing. It’s the second time it’s happened since the surgery, and I *was* doing a fairly strenuous workout the day before, so I didn’t think anything of it. I figured I’d just pulled something wrong and it would go away.
Well, here we are almost 7 days later and it’s still hurting. I turn my head a certain way, it hurts. I move my arms a certain way, it hurts (doubly unfortunate because I’m right handed and it’s on my right side). I lean over my plate when I’m eating, it feels like the skin is being ripped apart. I touch it, it burns like hell.
I am so effing sick of being in pain.
A week ago, I woke up with quite a severe stinging/burning sensation around my shunt tubing. It’s the second time it’s happened since the surgery, and I *was* doing a fairly strenuous workout the day before, so I didn’t think anything of it. I figured I’d just pulled something wrong and it would go away.
Well, here we are almost 7 days later and it’s still hurting. I turn my head a certain way, it hurts. I move my arms a certain way, it hurts (doubly unfortunate because I’m right handed and it’s on my right side). I lean over my plate when I’m eating, it feels like the skin is being ripped apart. I touch it, it burns like hell.
I am so effing sick of being in pain.
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