I really just wanted to post and see how everyone is doing? This forum has been great for me since I found out in January and surgery in march and don’t want to stop posting just because I had surgery! I hope everyone is doing good! Although I have read and caught up and see a lot still suffering 
I am 9 weeks post op tomorrow and going back to work next week… Full time.
No, I don’t really feel ready as I only make it about 4 hours being up and about, I have FMLA til June 10th and considered taking off the extra two weeks but I think at my last visit and the pressure of the doctor saying I should be ready by now (7 weeks post op at that apt) made me feel almost guilty and gave in. Basically I was asked to “just pick a date then” and picked Memorial Day week to start back. My company has been great preparing for me to come back, new office chair, some what flexible schedule for two weeks… So I am going to try… And hope that it goes good.
But at the same time, I am still super stiff in the mornings and it takes me an hour or so to just feel like moving. I am still on pain meds through my PCP and flexoril along with my regular Xanax at night. I was on robaxin before surgery and flexoril, flexoril makes me tired so I take that before bed. I already know I will be asking her for robaxin once I am at work since I am so stiff in the mornings.
I can do things and have been since the day I left the hospital but even things like today of just running errands knocks me off my feet. I left at 9am and went to short errands so in and out but a lot of driving in between and got home at 1:00 and on the couch ever since I got home with a sore neck and a tingly left sided back. NS said he told me it wouldn’t fix my back issues…
I have had two regular headaches in the last few weeks and my first regular pre surgery migraine yesterday! It wasn’t as severe as. Who’re surgery but painful enough for me to take a stronger pain pill, used heat on neck and back and ice pack on head and went to bed.
I am hopeful for a successful return and have my arnica gel ready with my heat rice wrap things ready and a pillow for my chair… Granted its an office job but I’m in IT so I don’t sit all day either. I am scared of failure and paranoid I won’t speak up or tell my husband or work if I am in major pain and I need time off again. I have PTO but again, only 2 weeks of FMLA, love my job, the company, the people, and would hate to have to give it all up because of this. But don’t want to kill myself or suffer every day either!
Seems crazy and ass backwards that 3 weeks post op I was painting a bedroom and then at 7 weeks I was feeling how most feel at 2-3 weeks.
It will be hard especially with a 40 min drive each way, and on days with kids it will be up at 5am and home at 7pm… But I’m going to try.
I hope everyone is doing good or better in one way or another 