OP
OP
United States
Re: I am on the other side now friends!
Last night had to be the worst night of my lifetime as far as pain goes. I had gained 9 pounds since surgery day my entire leg is so swollen from the foot to the top of my thigh. Each day I hover around with a 99.1 fever and each evening it goes up, right now it is 100 degrees. Last night it climbed to 101.6 my pain was out of control, was freezing in my PJ's and sweatshirt, could not go to sleep and to top it all off was that I kept having to get out of bed every hour all night long to go to the potty and I was not even drinking anything! Could that have been my body processing the swelling/fluid retention in my leg? When I weighed myself this morning I had lost 6 pounds over night! I think that one of my big mistakes was to try and go to sleep with my leg in the CPM, it was going to run for two hours when my alarm would go off telling me that CPM was done and to take a pain pill, I didn't make it the full two hours, I was trembling with pain, and was so cold! I have been taking around the clock Oxycodone 5-325 mg two of them every 4 hours since Thursday evening when I was released, I have not missed a dose, but at the same time it is not enough. It says to take 2 every 4 to 6 hours, there is no way I could wait 6 hours since my pain returns at 3 hours then I wait for it to be time for a 4 hour dose then...that takes about an hour to start working, so
every medication cycle therecare about 2 hours of pain before I get some help. My leg is so swollen that I can't do all of the exercises that they sent home with me! So please, tell me when this will start feeling better? When will I not be hurting so much needing these pain pills so often? I called my doctor this morning because I cannot have another night like last night. He said to stay
with the pain meds but added a sleeping pill RX for me. Of course when it is late, dark, and I am hurting I also start crying over Molly it makes me feel like my head is splitting in two. I have not done the CPM today, I know I should have but will not do it again while trying to sleep. My first formal PT since the hospital will be Tuesday April 5. Someone please tell me that all this pain will go away!!
Bonnie
Last night had to be the worst night of my lifetime as far as pain goes. I had gained 9 pounds since surgery day my entire leg is so swollen from the foot to the top of my thigh. Each day I hover around with a 99.1 fever and each evening it goes up, right now it is 100 degrees. Last night it climbed to 101.6 my pain was out of control, was freezing in my PJ's and sweatshirt, could not go to sleep and to top it all off was that I kept having to get out of bed every hour all night long to go to the potty and I was not even drinking anything! Could that have been my body processing the swelling/fluid retention in my leg? When I weighed myself this morning I had lost 6 pounds over night! I think that one of my big mistakes was to try and go to sleep with my leg in the CPM, it was going to run for two hours when my alarm would go off telling me that CPM was done and to take a pain pill, I didn't make it the full two hours, I was trembling with pain, and was so cold! I have been taking around the clock Oxycodone 5-325 mg two of them every 4 hours since Thursday evening when I was released, I have not missed a dose, but at the same time it is not enough. It says to take 2 every 4 to 6 hours, there is no way I could wait 6 hours since my pain returns at 3 hours then I wait for it to be time for a 4 hour dose then...that takes about an hour to start working, so
every medication cycle therecare about 2 hours of pain before I get some help. My leg is so swollen that I can't do all of the exercises that they sent home with me! So please, tell me when this will start feeling better? When will I not be hurting so much needing these pain pills so often? I called my doctor this morning because I cannot have another night like last night. He said to stay
with the pain meds but added a sleeping pill RX for me. Of course when it is late, dark, and I am hurting I also start crying over Molly it makes me feel like my head is splitting in two. I have not done the CPM today, I know I should have but will not do it again while trying to sleep. My first formal PT since the hospital will be Tuesday April 5. Someone please tell me that all this pain will go away!!
Bonnie
