[Zeke]

Originally Posted by smadsen

I'm about 10 years out from a total replacement. I was in a bicycle wreck & shattered the humorhead in about seven pieces. Surgery #1 was plate & screws the heal up the bone preparatory to replacement surgery. Surgery #2 replaced the ball on the humorous. Surgery #3 was a scope job searching for greater range of motion. Surgery #4 was revision to replace the "receiver" searching for more range of motion.

To date I can lift my arm slightly above horizontal. I have no pain. The joint moves well, within it's limited range. I use Percocet infrequently for nerve pain (like airplane butt) when I sleep on it in one position.

All in all, at 72 I'm pretty lucky to have that bunch of bone fragments reassembled and manipulated into something useful. It's my left shoulder so I still have my jump shot, such as it is. Golf swing, not so much. Have enough extension to ride the bicycle 60 miles per week w/o pain.

Most folks that suffer chronic pain, when they get post-op, wish they would have gone to surgery years earlier.

I’m reading your first and last sentences.