More surgery?

Well after seeing my surgeon yesterday it looks like I may need some more surgery. Aaargh, just when I was hoping the saga would end soon! As you can imagine, this is really not the news I was hoping to hear and I am simultaneously rational, numb and upset at once.

As I've written before I have had continual pain at the site of my implant and I've been told this is really not normal at 14 weeks post-op so they think they need to open me up again and investigate. There are two possibilities - the simple one is that some of my internal stitches have caught on a nerve and once they unravel that, I will be pain-free. This would be a fairly straightforward procedure so I am praying it will be that. The second option is that a ball of fluid has formed under the battery implant which would mean the whole implant will need to be relocated, probably to my other buttock. This would obviously mean another operation very similar to the first, with the same long recovery period.

As a last ditch effort, I am trying a double strength topical cream to see if that helps it in any way but if there's no improvement in 2 weeks, then the op will be the way to go. For those of you of the praying persuasion, please pray for me. I am frustrated that just when I have started some work again and am becoming mobile that I will need to take a few steps backward again. However I know that this site pain has been inhibiting the improvement I could be making so hopefully if another op is the reality then it's just another small hurdle in the long run. Boy why can't I be like the average person for once? I mean it's lovely to be special and unique but this back pain has stubbornly refused to be straightforward or respond in a usual manner for the past 5 years. It is definitely attention seeking and demanding and I just want to give it a big smack! He he!!