I broke my hip on 3 January with surgery 48 hours later. I am 57 and have had ME for 15 years (7 years severe) and have been treated for osteopenia for 7 years. The surgery was for a partial hip replacement.
I knew my recovery would be longer with the ME so factored in with my physio a sensible approach for the exercises. What I am concerned about is the still high pain level. Last week it regally was severe needing morphine over 2 days and strong pain killers. The pain has lessened but is sharp and at about a 6 to 7 but flaring to an 8 plus if I even try to do a small amount of the exercises and it stays at a strong 7 the rest of the time. I’m trying to only use the pain killers when I am really needing them.
The pain is mainly focused on a smaller area when at rest to the top of the surgery incision. This is also an area where there is about a 2 cms of slightly inflamed red puffy skin which had this morning looked slightly as though it would have a small head of white. I had the post surgery dressing off a week ago and the stitches trimmed only this weekend so there was a long bit of “thread” that maybe caused some irritation after the dressing was off as it was not held in one place anymore.
Attached is a photo although it does not reflect the redness of it. I’m going to take another photo tomorrow morning to compare. All advice welcome. Thank you.
I knew my recovery would be longer with the ME so factored in with my physio a sensible approach for the exercises. What I am concerned about is the still high pain level. Last week it regally was severe needing morphine over 2 days and strong pain killers. The pain has lessened but is sharp and at about a 6 to 7 but flaring to an 8 plus if I even try to do a small amount of the exercises and it stays at a strong 7 the rest of the time. I’m trying to only use the pain killers when I am really needing them.
The pain is mainly focused on a smaller area when at rest to the top of the surgery incision. This is also an area where there is about a 2 cms of slightly inflamed red puffy skin which had this morning looked slightly as though it would have a small head of white. I had the post surgery dressing off a week ago and the stitches trimmed only this weekend so there was a long bit of “thread” that maybe caused some irritation after the dressing was off as it was not held in one place anymore.
Attached is a photo although it does not reflect the redness of it. I’m going to take another photo tomorrow morning to compare. All advice welcome. Thank you.