hi everybody, I just had my surgery two weeks ago and Recovery is really really Hard. tHe doctor decided not to do the laby at the end and did enbolamphtic duck blockage with Esd + a shunt surgery in order to save my hearing. I thought it would be easier but it wasn't ... it took me three to four days just to open my eyes for more than 10 minutes only and the spinning to die down a dit. Only on day 6 was I able to sit up on a chair and day 7 to walk around 10 steps very slowly and with lots of help. I was released from the hospital 10 days after surgery to recover at home. I have a lot of problems with my vision cuz it's hard for me to see.. my mind is one big blur and mess I cannot focus at anyting. when I'm laying down its kinda okay but still hard to see but when standing up my vision is a mess and its very hard for me to balance like something's not working up there I'm not sure if it's normal 2 weeks post-surgery to have this problems so I reach out to you for your help and guidance and your experience.. is it normal for this to take this long to recover? it is supposed to be so difficult? I need help at anything ... walking at going to the bathroom... I am realy worried...
I haven’t had sac or shunt type surgeries, but that does sound like more than expected post-op symptoms? Have you let the surgeon know? It seems like if you’re going to have that much hell, it may as well be a laby? Hopefully some of the more surgically experienced folks here will weigh in.
Oh Sarah, i am sorry you are having such a rough time. I agree with Anne about contacting the surgeon and being very specific about all the symptoms you have and the degree of them. The only thing that comes to my mind is that when i had surgery on my balance nerve, i vomited for days in the hospital. The nurse said it was just what happens with ‘this type of surgery’ but in reality, it was the morphine. I am a person who becomes very nauseated by morphine. Of course having my balance nerve severed didnt help either but the minute they took the morphine out od the iv i felt pain but the awful nausea stopped. Could there be some medicine that is making this worse? It is necessary to get up and about with a walker or whatever to start walking and go through some days and weeks of bad balance before you get better balance with most of these surgeries but what you describe does not sound right to me. The fact that they kept you ten days in the hospital seems to me to indicate the surgeon was seeing something out of the ordinary. I think you should call him and ask him to eplain what he thinks is going on. Good luck. I hope you get relief soon.
I don’t want to alarm you, but that’s nowhere near normal for sac/shunt. I’ve had both that surgery and a laby and the way you are describing it, it’s not normal for either. I had both as outpatient (common for shunt... not as common for laby but free of any complications, it’s a simple surgery in terms of procedure and I was being sent home with the ENT i am married to. But anyway. Did you use a scopamine (I think that’s what the name is) patch to avoid nausea? I was given one for shunt and it seriously messed with my vision. Not like you are describing though. I got some side effect related to eye dialation and I couldn’t read anything. Distance vision was fine (with glasses like usual). Basically for quite a few days it was like when you get your eyes dialated and can’t read. I’d follow up ASAP. That extreme reaction is most certainly not abnormal shunt outcome.
I had shunt surgery done on both ears. I didn't experience anything like that. This doesn't sound like a normal aftermath of shunt surgery. I suggest you follow up with your doctor about this.