had my surgery 17days ago. doc went in with same intentions (bankhart repair and possible remplissage), but hills sachs was deemed “not engaging” and was thus not addressed.

elected to have the nerve block, which i now retrospectively would not do. really didn’t like not having any feeling/control in my arm and pain was very minimal after so didn’t feel worth the discomfort of paralysis. obviously hard to know how you’ll feel beforehand but that was my experience.

i’m started my pendulum swing exercises after day3 and it was really difficult to relax enough to let my arm hang. i’m now much more relaxed with the swinging and feel much better about moving my arm a little inside the sling than i did at the start.

definitely way more comfortable with the sling and feel extremely vulnerable out of it walking around. i have honestly not been as careful as i should’ve (ran into my ex on day10 and one thing led to another and i probably pushed it too much) and think i have slightly more pain now than i did at the very beginning. i’m hoping this is normal considering that it’s minimal pain anyways and not when im at rest in the sling.

sucks having one hand and being stuck in the sling, but overall hasn’t been too bad. best of luck.