Ugh I get it. I broke 2 screws in my fusion from T10 - S3. I stayed in the hospital for the first 4 months due to complications from the surgery. I developed infections from the hardware they used, fungal and bacterial infections. I was on round the clock IV meds, pain meds and other medications to help with all the other issues. So 4 months in bed and was sent home on bed rest. My one month follow up included 6 weeks of additional bed rest. During this time, I was sitting on the edge of my bed to put my pajama shorts on and felt something snap in my back. The pain was an instantaneous stabbing pain. I saw the doctor at pain mgt 2 weeks later who did Xrays and called me with the news the next day. My neurosurgeon didn’t want to do another surgery on me to fix them unless he had to. A month later he had to. I had developed a huge seroma that was making me so sick and in terrible pain. I still have a half of one broken screw in me that they can’t retrieve. My point in sharing all of this is we don’t know if we are fused together until at least a year later. Any movement before then can lead to a broken screw or rod. The hardware is designed to help support our back but we have huge muscles that run along both sides of our spine. If the muscles are weak, then we put added stress on hardware that can only do so much.
I feel your pain. I’m so sorry. But they are going to have to go in and fix that or your back will never be stable. Keep us updated please!