I had the Ulnar nerve entrapment surgery last Friday along with a repair of my extensor tendon.

Unfortunately I have had many surgeries, and of all the surgeries I’ve had (both shoulders, a SLAP tear, reattachment of bicep tendon, rotator cuff tear, shoulder debridments, gallbladder removed, hysterectomy, and a collarbone resection), this elbow surgery was definitely the most painful.

The first day when the nerve block one off, pain meds didn’t help. Today, three days later, pain meds are helping finally. I have a huge cast on that weighs about 10 pounds at least. Today I woke up with a really bad headache and it hasn’t went away all day long.

I put off getting this surgery for two years. I even went through physical therapy and it did get better briefly but then came back again a few months later. At one point I got a bad steroid shot. The steroid shot ate away all the fat in my elbow, leaving a weird crater there and making things worse. The technical name for this is soft tissue atrophy after corticosteroid injection.