Archive for Pain
Yay, It’s The Weekend!
Posted by: | CommentsThe Paradex seems to have worked last night. It definitely helped with the pain I had, though it wasn’t unbearable last night so it will be interesting to see how it works on 8+ pain God forbid that ever happens again. As far as I remember I only woke up once at 1:10am and usually I’m not even asleep by then.
I did wake up nauseous this morning but I am putting that down to increasing another medication.
For some reason I am still feeling extremely tired, almost like I didn’t sleep at all. Possibly still recovering from a bad week I guess, but have the weekend to rest so will make the most of it starting with a Nanna nap this afternoon lol
I txt Dad yesterday to see how he is as the last time I spoke to him (New Year’s Eve) he sounded like he was having a hard time and didn’t want us to visit. I’ve been worried about him, but now he’s worried about me lol He is going to visit next weekend which will be nice.
Cut The Bloody Thing Off!
Posted by: | CommentsOnce again blogging in the dead of night. Monday and Tuesday felt much better than Sunday, then today (now yesterday) I decided to prune a rather nasty annoying tree hanging over the fence in our driveway. It turned out to have a weedy vine thing growing through it and what I thought would be a half hour job ended up taking 3 hours.
Yep, have myself to blame again. I am really paying for it now. My hip is screaming and throbbing all the way to my knee.
Codeine doesn’t seem to be particularly helpful, I think the only thing it would be good at treating is diarrhoea lol. I had to take two 60mg doses on Sunday night within two hours…was worried it might be a bit much but I didn’t know what else to do. Tonight’s dose hasn’t worked at all and I am lying in bed with my wheatbag heated for the second time and am too sore to sleep.
In my insomniac state I did some googling and have found (mentioned in many places) that Codeine’s effectiveness can be reduced by the antidepressant I’m on, so that may have something to do with it and if it is, why wasn’t the interaction thought of when prescribing it?
Now, what to do…take more? Get up and have a bath? Find a chainsaw?
Another Sleepless Night
Posted by: | CommentsMaybe it is the biking or just a combination of everything, I don’t know. It seems that as soon as I go to bed I can’t get comfortable even with my mountains of pillows for support and eventually wind up just plain sore, then come 2am I have to get up to take something for the pain. This radiates in my thigh like a toothache and lately the odd nerve-type icepick jab in my lateral thigh that makes my leg kick out.
I have finished the long course of Diclofenac now so am just taking Codeine when needed. I do have a stack of 75mg Diclofenac from pre0p but don’t know what I’d rather take as they are both awful drugs. I am thinking a couple of pre-bedtime Codeine might be in order for a start and maybe a morning Diclofenac.
Pain during the day is still predominantly muscular. I can bend forwards now and reach my toes without a problem which has me feeling confident that the joint is good, but I am still having great difficulty lifting my leg up as to put on socks or get in the car etc. The leg no longer gives way which is a welcomed improvement and the ‘penguin’ waddle has definitely lessened. So overall I must be getting stronger, it’s just so gradual that it is sometimes not noticeable to me and I begin to think, what if this is as good as it gets? Will I ever get back to long distance cycling? I have to remind myself that this will take time and to look at my progress thus far, though it is hard with no success story to compare myself to, just how long does it take? Is my recovery on track? Am I expecting too much too soon? Nearly eight weeks post op I would have thought my muscles would be recovered by now.
Time for sleep attempt number two for the night.
Hip Arthroscopy Recovery Day 3
Posted by: | CommentsI’m still doing quite well. Have not had to take pain meds since in the hospital, still just taking the Voltaren to help prevent heterotopic bone reformation.
Using one crutch inside, can go without for a few steps which surprises me and using two outside. Went out to the mall to get some groceries earlier today, must have wiped me out as I spent three hours asleep on the couch this afternoon! One cat seems to like sleeping on my hip so if I’m on my side she jumps onto it and I nearly hit the roof.
Trying to sleep on my back where possible as I woke up in the night pretty sore in my right bursa area, don’t want to cause further problems there.
Overall, still feeling positive 
2 Days post op ~ can just see the old scars below the new ones