6 months post-op. Seems like it should be a milestone. My shoulder doesn’t feel so bad, but my bicep is having a heck of a time reaccilmating. Had hoped it’d be a bit better by now. Even doing light bicep or hammer curls, there’s a huge difference how it feels in the good arm vs the operative side. Surgery was on the dominant side, so one would think I’d use it enough that it would make more progress by now. My non-dominant side is still considerably stronger, even without doing all those PT exercises (though I’m sure it would be a good idea on both sides). I wake up, and the bicep is still cranky. Sit still too long, the same. Get some activity in, it's still not happy. It’s not that I think something is terribly wrong with it, but it gets old after a while. Have I mentioned chronic pain is challenging? It’s not necessarily painful, but to have so much prolonged “discomfort” gets tiresome. Sometimes it feels relentless. And to have it hardly let up, well, weak people like me can find it mentally exhausting sometimes. Sure, it’ll get better after a year. Or 14 months. Or it won’t. Can’t really ask anyone until 12 months out. Slightly humorous how much bigger and firmer the muscle feels on the operative side, considering how much weaker overall it is.
I haven’t been quite as consistent with exercises, so you could try to blame that, except it wasn't betterr when doing excessive PT. Bicep simply hasn’t been the same since surgery. Does it really take that long to recover from those 6 weeks of non-use? Bicep itself didn’t need repair. P.S. they gave me permission to be a slacker and not do PT every day after this long in recovery.
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