Post op questions

[riabovamd]

Hello, friends!
I had my translab 1/24/17 at House.  Dr. Schwartz, Slattery, Stephan.  Perfect team, smooth postop.  I flew back 2/3, back to work 2/6. Walking, doing stretching, moving head all directions helps. 
Of course fatigue is there.  But life is great.  I do need your advice if the following is a common place concerns (I do not want to ignore new  symptoms):
1. Night hot and cold sweats- soaking bedsheets and changing 2 pj per night.  No fever -98.1 max.  No infected body parts.
2.  Neck tension, on the side of surgery , no pain- how soon postop you tried massage ?
3. Nose secretions- only if I touch tissue there is a small wet spot on it- nothing is dripping, no CSF leak the way forum describes.

It is amazing how much reserve human body and mind has.  Take care of it!

[mandihester]

I had a neck massage a couple weeks after my surgery.  Just make sure they steer clear of the incision.  It helped me tremendously!

[Cruzinpa]

Hi, I had retrosig on 1/20. Not a great quick outcome like you but on the mend. I was also sweating at night. It was the steroids. Not sure about the other things you mentioned but I'm so glad your surgery went well and you are so positive.

[caryawilson]

Neck tension - Part of my surgery they disconnected the neck muscles, which I understand is common for our surgery.  I was told a common cause of headaches, is the lack of symmetrical strength between the sides of the neck muscles.  I was told to swim to build up the neck muscles.  So after four weeks, I was swimming a mile, a couple days a week.

Sweating - for me was the steroids.  To keep the swelling down, brain surgery patients are on massive doses of steroids.

Impressive you are back to work!!!!

[riabovamd]

Thanks for super quick replies! I had a quick steroid wean protocol, off steroids for 5 days now. Off all meds, never took any pain meds either.  Actually night sweats started after Decadron stopped...  Will keep you posted .....