It has been six months, and I can finally say that things are starting to feel normal again with my elbow. It truly goes to show you what a slow process this recovery is in order to get back to 100%. If you have ready my previous posts, you would know that I was back to playing tennis and hockey and doing normal stuff after about 3 months. But in the last three months, there has always been a bit of lingering pain and weakness.
Now my elbow appears to be getting back to full strength. There is virtually no pain or discomfort doing normal, every day things. But if I exert myself with more strenuous activity (like hockey) there is definitely still soreness. The soreness seems to go away a day or two after the exertion. It is sore after my hockey games, but with a couple of days it is gone.
Another thing I have noticed which I have failed to mention in this blog is a weird discomfort when I put my elbow on a flat surface and put my arm at a 90 degree angle. What I mean by this: I like to put my elbow down and put my chin on my hand while sitting at my computer desk. It is very hard to describe: not a huge amount of pain or anything, just a weird discomfort. I imagine it is due to the ulnar nerve not being in its normal location...but that's just speculation.
All in all, I am pleased 6 months later. I finally feel like I can do things without saying to myself: take it easy, you recently had surgery.
