Hi there,
I had mine done May of 2011. I am a few days past my 5 year mark. It was nothing. The first day after surgery I was walking around. The next day I went home. I had pain meds but I did what I could do.
The more you walk and move your body around easily, and carefully, the better the recovery. I had sharp shoulder pain for a few days, but after I amped up my walking just a bit, it went away. That's just air pockets so you want to make sure you move around. My mother had hers done at the end of March. She calls me everyday "can I eat this" or "is it okay to do this workout". Even though I took her through what I experienced, what I had to go through, the ups and downs, the plateau's and everything. The foods to not eat and what can or will not get stuck and so on. But I don't mine. I didn't have anyone that I could talk to about this so, I don't mind helping her out. I just wish I was closer so I can go walking with her and do exercises with her. She makes a lot of excuses to not workout so, there's only so much I can do on the phone.
This is a great thing so just take you time, don't be in a rush to run a marathon a month out of surgery. Buy a pedometer, make sure to get up to 10,000 steps and add 500 more steps a week. I was told to walk walk walk walk.
Good luck and God bless
Debbie
