bobb
new member
Hi Friends,
OMG, what a nightmare that was. In pre-op as I was telling everyone, I did freak out. I already have panic attacks and take valium every so often, I get a bottle of 40 about every 6 months, so I don't take them often. Anyway, as things continued to progress I kept getting more and more anxious, and everyone around me knew I was upset. Then the anesthesiologist (spelling?) came in and started talking about that femeral nerve block that I was so worried about. I just broke down, I was shaking, crying, could not breath, vomiting. They asked me if I ever had panic attacks before and I told them yes I had generalized anxiety disorder. So the Dr. told me no worries they did not have to do the nerve block and then told the nurse to juice me up good, exactly what she said. My 18 year old son told me later they gave me the largest dose of medication (I don't remember what the medication name was but my son said it is the strongest type there is) that is allowed, I think it was 4mg. Well I was under control then, and just along for the ride. A few minutes later I was in the OR being setup with monitor and being put on the table. The Dr. told me when she put in the sleepy medication, I remember it taking about 8 seconds and the lights went out.
Now I wake up in recovery, and oh my god, never in my life have I ever had pain like that,ave me it was horrible, they gave me morphine, fentynal, dillaudin all together and I was in terrible pain. I think I now know what my wife went through giving birth, although the pain was different I'm sure, the scale was equal if not more for me.
I go to my room and just keep pressing my button. They had to adjust the dose for my pump, I was about to get .6 of dillaudin every 6 minutes or 12mg every 4 hours. It took me 6mg to get it under control, and then I was able to relax a bit and sleep.
Two days after surgery it was suspected I might have a blood clot so everything was put on hold, and me on 100% bedrest. I had to get an ultrasound and had to wait 2 days for the results. I stayed a few days longer than expected and came home Monday night.
I have the home nurse and physical therapist coming out each day working with me and trying to get me back on track because of my two days I spent doing nothing, everything got stiff. My ROM is up to 42% right now which the PT said was a little behind. I need to be at 90 by next week, that's my goal. I have the CPM going from 0-48 yesterday, and today I hope to get it up to 53-55.
Still have quite a bit of pain, taking 20mg oxycontin twice a day and 20mg percocet every two hours. That seems to be keeping me functional and the boost of the percocets help when I do PT or the CPM. I can get away with not taking the percocets every three hours when I'm not doing PT or CPM.
Right now sleeping is a challenge, thank goodness for Ambien. I hate sleeping on my back and thats the only way I can sleep right now.
On my way to recovery, day by day, hour by hour. Thanks again for everyones support up until surgery, and now during recovery. Lot's of good friends here.
Bob
OMG, what a nightmare that was. In pre-op as I was telling everyone, I did freak out. I already have panic attacks and take valium every so often, I get a bottle of 40 about every 6 months, so I don't take them often. Anyway, as things continued to progress I kept getting more and more anxious, and everyone around me knew I was upset. Then the anesthesiologist (spelling?) came in and started talking about that femeral nerve block that I was so worried about. I just broke down, I was shaking, crying, could not breath, vomiting. They asked me if I ever had panic attacks before and I told them yes I had generalized anxiety disorder. So the Dr. told me no worries they did not have to do the nerve block and then told the nurse to juice me up good, exactly what she said. My 18 year old son told me later they gave me the largest dose of medication (I don't remember what the medication name was but my son said it is the strongest type there is) that is allowed, I think it was 4mg. Well I was under control then, and just along for the ride. A few minutes later I was in the OR being setup with monitor and being put on the table. The Dr. told me when she put in the sleepy medication, I remember it taking about 8 seconds and the lights went out.
Now I wake up in recovery, and oh my god, never in my life have I ever had pain like that,ave me it was horrible, they gave me morphine, fentynal, dillaudin all together and I was in terrible pain. I think I now know what my wife went through giving birth, although the pain was different I'm sure, the scale was equal if not more for me.
I go to my room and just keep pressing my button. They had to adjust the dose for my pump, I was about to get .6 of dillaudin every 6 minutes or 12mg every 4 hours. It took me 6mg to get it under control, and then I was able to relax a bit and sleep.
Two days after surgery it was suspected I might have a blood clot so everything was put on hold, and me on 100% bedrest. I had to get an ultrasound and had to wait 2 days for the results. I stayed a few days longer than expected and came home Monday night.
I have the home nurse and physical therapist coming out each day working with me and trying to get me back on track because of my two days I spent doing nothing, everything got stiff. My ROM is up to 42% right now which the PT said was a little behind. I need to be at 90 by next week, that's my goal. I have the CPM going from 0-48 yesterday, and today I hope to get it up to 53-55.
Still have quite a bit of pain, taking 20mg oxycontin twice a day and 20mg percocet every two hours. That seems to be keeping me functional and the boost of the percocets help when I do PT or the CPM. I can get away with not taking the percocets every three hours when I'm not doing PT or CPM.
Right now sleeping is a challenge, thank goodness for Ambien. I hate sleeping on my back and thats the only way I can sleep right now.
On my way to recovery, day by day, hour by hour. Thanks again for everyones support up until surgery, and now during recovery. Lot's of good friends here.
Bob
United Kingdom
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