Timeline of changes in your body - Right after surgery, few first weeks

At this point the surgeons have cut about about half of selected working nerves and placed them in position to energize inactive muscles. There will be a decent amount of pills and you'll be feeling like badly hangover for a week or so.

Your fingertips will have some degree of numbness. It happens frequently. For double Oberlin transfer, you may feel some degree of weakness in your hand, specially in the index finger. Weakness should recover in the upcoming months, so try to not worry too much about it. In another post I will cover my thoughts about single or double Oberlin transfer.

It is possible that some new areas in your hand become hypersensitive. For me it was the lower part of the palm. This is supposed to go away with time, for me after 10 months it lowered the threshold just a bit.

You'll be in immobilization period for one month. Depending on your Doctor, you will either be told to have the arm tightly immobilized, or to allow just a little bit of movement. At any case, follow your doctor's advice.

One month after the surgery, your arm will be incredibly stiff in locked position. Will take some time and work to get it flex as before. Around 9 months after the surgery, I do still feel the elbow flexion is not as straight as before but this doesn't even qualify as an issue.

A few weeks after surgery, you might start to feel something between stings or electric shocks around the biceps. For me this lasted for quite some time, 2 months or so. You might feel something similar on the shoulder later on. I was told this was a side effect of the nerve regenerating and growing trough the new nerve conducts it has been sewed to. I guess that's good news, some new electricity where there was none.