@Jaycey ( anc other interested Bone Smarties). I received a call from my OS's Nurse. The Physical Therapist had called her and reported that I had cancelled my PT session as I was nauseated, anxious, and complaining of aches and pains. The OS's Nurse is concerned because I mentioned my calf -- she said she had had a Pulmonary Embolism herself and if was something not to be taken lightly. She said anxiety could be a symptom so caution is in order. I told her that my anxiety was taking the form of worry about everything associated with the surgery and my leg. She asked if I had any oxycodone left from the first surgery -- I do but not enough. She thinks I should switch from the Dilaudid to the Oxycodone and take anti-nausea med, Promethezan, when I feel sick. She thinks the Dilaudid could be causing the anxiety and not covering the pain as well as the oxy did for me. Even though oxycodone made me nauseated it worked better with the pain than the Dialaudid.
Th OS's Nurse put me on hold and consulted with my Surgeon. When she came back on line I could hear the two of them continuing to talk. He was saying that my surgery had gone fine and that a med interaction seemed a strong possibility to him. He didn't sound as concerned about a blood clot as his Nurse but she kept reminding him that she did have a bias in that direction. Fun conversation to overhear!
The OS's Nurse is going to call my Personal Physician and see if she can fill a prescription for oxycodone locally so that we (my husband) won't have to drive 3 hours to pick up the prescription from my surgeon's office. In the meantime, the OS's Nurse cautioned me to drink plenty of fluids and to move -- "get up and move around more than just going to the bathroom". She will call me back this afternoon and I am to report by phone to the Surgeon's Assistant in the morning because his Nurse will not be in the office.
I can say, and I told the Nurse this, that the anxiety improved after I took the anti-nausea med, Promethazine, earlier today. I still fill sick, shakey, and have lots of aches. I have been downing fluids as instructed and have been taking little 5 -10 minute walks every hour. Now the front of my knee on the operated side feels sore. Go figure. I just want this to get sorted out and to quit feeling so lousy. By the way, part of the "lousy" is having strange dreams -- not nightmares or anything frightening but just these long, weird dreams that never seem to end.
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