Should there be significant pain in calf after vascular bypass? (surgery, doctor)

[magacey]

My fiance has PVD in his left leg and needed a bypass due to severe blockage. He had this surgery the middle of September with an artificial graft. He now has extreme pain in his calf, thigh and sometimes groin. This happens periodically 24/7. Sometimes it's one or the other, other times it's all of them at once. He isn't getting good sleep, not wanting to eat and does not want to walk much. The walking makes the pain worse. We have seen his vascular surgeon and all tests say it was a success, but the doctor doesn't understand why he is having pain and can offer nothing for it. We have tried anti-inflammatory drugs but at the level he needs to just lower the pain causes severe stomach upset. He is already on meds for that. Any one else with vascular surgery with continuing pain?

[buddy brown]

I posted a lengthier response on another thread and it has become obvious now that vein removal for the bypass is causing leg pain after effects in a lot of people if that is what you are referring to.

[Hedgehog_Mom]

Any kind of surgery can cause nerve damage. If the pain is burning or stabbing and it comes and goes and shows up in different places or feels like bugs crawling on the leg, that could be neuropathy. I had surgery on my leg 6 years ago and had pain like that, but they could never figure out anything for it other than taking 800mg of advil, which I can't do all the time, and sometimes they acted like I was making it up to try to get pain pills, which I didn't even want. When I was diagnosed with diabetes (which is a common cause of neuropathy), I told my doctor about the pain in my leg and she prescribed gabapentin, which has worked really well for me. I was sleepy the first week that I took it, but able to function well after that. I've taken it for more than a year and the initial dose I started with is still sufficient for the pain.