Back Again - Pain Worse

[addessa]

I am 3 1/2 months post op. for L5/S1 fusion with hardware. I posted here about two months ago with pain concerns, those concernes have gotten worse. I am still on hydrocodone and it seems to take more and more to give me relief. I thought I was doing well few weeks ago, but three days ago for some reason I got much worse. I had not done anything different and I just don't understand why I have more pain than I did, I would expect to have less pain.
My surgeon has refered me to pain management but they cannot get me for 6more weeks.
I am very concerned I am 63 years old and would like to enjoy some of my retirement. I took early retirement because of my back, I had not planned to retire until I was in my 70's, but my back and sciatic nerve was so bad I could hardly walk when I got up from my desk and had been for over a year.
If anyone has experienced anythine like this, please let me know as I am terrified that is is just going to just get worse.