Quote Originally Posted by Jo-n-NY
Hi Emily,
I just wanted to quickly mention that I read your blog. You mentioned that you might have a numbness where the surgery was done and afraid that the feeling would not come back. I have had a few surgery's over the years, one on my ovaries, two c-sections both in the same place as the ovaries and my thyroid removed. I will say that in all incisions I had numbness. In my case it did last years, but it was not a problem for me. I just got use to it but feeling did eventually come back.

Just thought I would offer you that bit of info on my past experience.

~JoAnn
JoAnn ~ thanks for sharing your experience. The doctors told me that the numbness could last forever or recede very slowly. So, I guess the jury is still out on what will happen. I can live with it even if it never goes away. If I hadn't had the surgery, I would have risked healing up wrong with a great likelihood of sacro-iliac (SI) joint problems, leg length discrepancy, and chronic pain, all of which would have given me problems cycling in the future. I can certainly live with some numbness and a 6" incision since it resulted from the surgery to fix me up right. And check this out - I'm riding indoors again!!! No resistance and only 15 minutes, but at least it's a start!


~Emily