Shellbelle
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United StatesI would think that if you don't have a bunch of bruising by now, you may not get a whole lot. I bruised badly on the back/side of my thigh and knee. Sort of medium on my kneecap plus the area where I am sure I was bashed with a mallet on my shin! Now the bruises have migrated down the leg and have the lovely green/yellow hue. And itching!! I never knew a bruise could itch so. Pain front of knee, itching like crazy on the back. Ice everywhere!
Right now it is 9:30pm Wed nite. By my drug addled brain you must be 17 (?) hrs ahead of here....don't hold me to that calculation.
Maybe someone who can still do basic math will chime in. I am in Pacific Time Zone.
We are headed into summer, hot hot miserable summer. At least in my new little apartment I have air conditioning and can actually afford to run it. Doesn't take much to cool 645 sq feet and I am on the 1st floor. And there is a pool here, which I cannot wait to use!
I am hoping to go to the lab in the morning for my blood test, I was not signed up for home nursing so I have to go to them. I am about 50/50 that my ex husb will take me, he has to be out and about early and he said he would call me in the morning. So time for my last pain pill and glass of milk and hopefully dreamland.
Have a wonderful afternoon and evening! hugs to you and chat soon!
Right now it is 9:30pm Wed nite. By my drug addled brain you must be 17 (?) hrs ahead of here....don't hold me to that calculation.
Maybe someone who can still do basic math will chime in. I am in Pacific Time Zone.We are headed into summer, hot hot miserable summer. At least in my new little apartment I have air conditioning and can actually afford to run it. Doesn't take much to cool 645 sq feet and I am on the 1st floor. And there is a pool here, which I cannot wait to use!
I am hoping to go to the lab in the morning for my blood test, I was not signed up for home nursing so I have to go to them. I am about 50/50 that my ex husb will take me, he has to be out and about early and he said he would call me in the morning. So time for my last pain pill and glass of milk and hopefully dreamland.
Have a wonderful afternoon and evening! hugs to you and chat soon!
hope your milk chaser goes down well.
), and both of my ice machines. I DID use those ice machines for the first few days at home and they were so wonderful. You are far enough along that you might find it easier to use a frozen bag of peas. I found it was great physical therapy to walk to the freezer to get my peas...sit for awhile with them...then walk them back to the freezer. And Shellebelle...YES...I think your dizzy problems were due to Percocet!! If you alternate taking the Tramadol and Percocet...then you are only taking the Percocet every 8 hours. Just a warning...Percocet and Tramadol each can cause constipation. So taken together, they can be VERY constipating! 
By three weeks post op I stopped taking the Percocet and just took Tramadol every 6 hours...and three hours after taking the Tramadol would take 600mg Motrin (Ibuprofen)...so I was alternating the two of them every 3 hours...but not through the night. I would keep a Tramadol by the bed and take it as needed. Within a few weeks I was able to do what I do now...take a Tramadol every 8 hours, and maybe 400 mg of Motrin as needed in between. I don't need to take anything during the middle of the night. Lee, can't wait to hear how you're doing at home!! Take care!! Pam
You are right too!! It was one of the reasons why I wanted to eventually get off the Percocet. Also...I wanted to drive! At 3 1/2 weeks my car needed moving over to the other side of the garage. I decided if I could actually get in the car...I was going to move it! I moved the seat back all the way, and was able to get in the car. It was a big YAHOO moment. 
I felt fine backing my car out of the garage, and moving it forward again. By 4 weeks I just didn't want to take the Percocet anymore...it was a choice between the pain control it provides vs the side effects that I didn't want to experience anymore (besides constipation, I was tired of mild nausea, and how Percocet actually gave me insomnia!).
Still going along nicely, with some pain occassionally, mainly in my shins and calf muscles, I am taking Targin (slow release) every 8 hrs and Panadol Oesto 4hourly + Celebrex 100mg x2, sometimes it's not quite enough but can't tolerate the others.
you are doing so well, I will be estatic if I am doing all things you do at 3 mths.
I hope you really have a great day! Of course, it's already great because you have those new knees...yay!! You'll think back on your next birthday when you are perfectly fine and be shocked out how far you've come. Sounds like you are already progressing nicely! I was doing the same thing as you. I was supposed to be using a cane...and I did for the most part...but I would leave the cane hanging from a chair and walk around the kitchen just holding on to chairs or the counter just fine. But sometimes I would head back to my recliner chair and realize that ooops...left the cane in the kitchen and I did quite a bit of walking without holding on to anything! 
. I think my husband surprised himself...but he said it wasn't a occupation he was the least bit comfortable in and he was very relieved when the kitchen became my domain again. However I now know he has hidden talent which every now and then when I over do things he is called upon to use. 
