So I did return to recliner for one week. And then tried back to bed. It was a better transition this time. Getting in and out of bed is still the most painful thing I do in a day but not *as* bad as 10 days ago. And I'm sleeping on just a single pillow - no wedge, no need for the two pillows on eother sides for arms like I was.
I'm now down to one pain pill, cut in half, every 12 hours as I tried going cold turkey off a 10 mg and at 16 hrs after last pill I was so twichy and felt like my skin was crawling with bugs that I could see OK, that's withdrawls. So I looked up how to step down. It told me to cut the pills in half and start spacing out time intervals. So that's what I've done. Soon I'll try to just do half pill at bed time but I had leaned the biggest mistake I made was that day I had the withdrawal I had my last pill at 5am and they said you should have last pill at night.
So, there are improvements from even just 5 days ago. But it does still feel like there is a rebar attached to my shoulder blades and then a long screw from the middle of that to my spine. So spine where neck meets back hurts but not like pre surgery. And left shoulder blade muscle is currently worst of all. And I still cannot lay on left side. Layed on right side for 30 mins this morning but was fairly painful - just happy to get off my back. Two more weeks until I can take a long hot bath and start PT where I hope there are some massages!
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