Going With The Flow

Post Surgery Day 5.

Big improvements today. Less back and butt cramping. I was able to double the distance I walked from yesterday and be more mobile overall. I even took an adventure to the grocery store, although I had to drive around in the scooter chair.

I might just be being paranoid, but I am feeling some discomfort on the contralateral side from the surgery, and I'm worried that side is going to end up injured too. Hopefully its just a symptom from the overall discomfort of the past few days and nothing major to be concerned about.

Post surgery day 6. More progress - three walks of 0.2 miles and stood up for an hour straight. Exciting stuff!

So here's my theory on the injury. It all started when I strained my iliopsoas muscle. Once that muscle weakened, it created an unequal distribution of forces in the groin region compared to normal. This resulted in unusual strain of the internal and external obliques near the groin. Eventually, the aponeurosis tore. I had so much instability in my hip with the tear and the weak iliopsoas that the other muscles surrounding the hip (gluteus medius, TFL, IT band) became protective and overworked, causing pain in those regions as well.

Because the injury was so long, a really important aspect of my rehabilitation is going to be retraining the muscles to perform the right functions again and redevelop stability in my core.

I am open to other theories and ideas for getting back stronger!

Day 7 post surgery. Made it an entire two hours at work today before completely crashing. I was able to walk .35 miles this morning and will try again this afternoon. Mostly discomfort at this point instead of cramping and pain.

A week since surgery. I did "a lot" today...probably too much. Walked for 3/4 of a mile then went in to work for 3 hours. It was Fitness Day and they held a 5k so it was pretty much mandatory that I at least go and cheer everyone on since I convinced a lot of them to run it. Probably walked another miles during this time. I finally made it home and hit pathetic mode for the remainder of the day.

Getting off narcotics + doing too much yesterday made me regress quite a bit...mostly spent the day laying in the bed or on the couch. I was able to walk for .75 miles this morning and started some very light stretching. My psoas muscle and gluteus are so tight but I still have a few more days before I can really massage and stretch like I want. I also went for a couple short walks in the afternoon, just to keep my muscles from complete atrophy. I am now searching for puppies.

Felt the same as yesterday. I did a slightly longer walk this morning then a lot more laying around. Feeling achy in both the groin and the adductor. I also noticed quite a bit of swelling right around the ASIS that hurts to the touch. I did try stairs in the afternoon (down and back up the track stadium) and felt a lot of weakness with lifting my right leg, doable though. I'm off the narcotics now and decided to take regular ibuprofen until all the swelling is gone.

It may seem like too much info post surgery, but I do want to make sure I document well for my own purposes later on and in case someone else wants to know what the recovery from athletic pubalgia surgery is like.

Good progress today, definitely my best day yet. I did the same amount of walking but was up on my feet and moving around a lot more. Whenever the pain started, I was able to lay down and get it back under control within 30 minutes. The sneezing gods were against me today, though...I probably sneezed 10 times and it still does not feel good to do that!