Seeking Others Who Had "Positional Pain" Post Operatively

I am now three weeks post op. Immediately after waking up in recovery I have extreme excruciating pain in my right calf and foot. After a couple of days my whole outer calf and top of my foot just became numb. At about 5 days postop it started to burn. Now three weeks after I have a mixed numbness with absolutely horrible burniing down the lateral aspect of my calf and the top of my foot. After surgery I was told that it was probably positional pain because the surgery was eight hours long and would go away in a "little while". I am ready to chop my foot off at this point. It takes me hours to go to sleep and I can't stand wearing a shoe. This is going to cause a major problem next week when I am supposed to be going back to work. Any ideas or suggestions from anyone. Thanks. BTW -30 pounds!

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