Epicondylitis.....scheduled for a repair

[TazziRN, RN]

I've suffered from this for over a year, have had three trigger points done. The last one was so painful for the first day that I wanted to chop my arm off with an axe....nothing touched it. I was then pain free for a while, but then it started acting up again, now worse. I saw the ortho today, am scheduled for a tendon release on June 1st. Anyone had this done? Once the splint is off what kind of recovery am I looking at? I asked but all he said was I could go back to light duty when the splint comes off. I'm kind of skeptical about that because it's my dominant arm.