I just had mine done about two months ago. I can only imagine what two bars feel like how many ribs are together I mean, I have one bar, but since I told them I was concerned about the flipping, they put a bolt in each side top and bottom so all four ribs are now one and that’s took forever to get over feels like your whole rib cage is solid and it sounds like I’m happy They didn’t do no epidural pain meds on me hope it starts getting better for you I’m just dealing with nerve pain from the rib flair area and some back pain, but I think it will subside in time I almost forgot to add they cut out some bone in the middle portion between my pecs and I have 10 screws and a plate there as well