Hello everyone, I had THR on June 27, 2019 at 7:30am. Surgery lasted 2 hours, and Doc told my wife, I was in the top 10% of the worst cases he's done. Apparently I was loaded with a ton of osteoarthritis and bone spurs. His average time for surgery runs 1 hour and 15 minutes.
When I was moved from recovery to my regular room, I was in a world of pain. I have all kinds of issues with opiates. My body rejects them for all intents and purposes. The nurses trying to do their job gave me Diluadid. I had a bad reaction to it and was crawling out of my skin. Several haze filled hours went by, and my pulse got down to 35. Then they tried morphine, with the same reaction. next they tried oxycontin, and again, no success. By this time it was about 4 in the morning the next day.
I was so uncomfortable, I told my son, who stayed with me, no matter what, we're outta here today (Friday) I stopped the nurses from giving me anything else for pain and just dealt with it. I was in a haze, so I'm not sure of the timeline, but I did some walking with a walker and attended a PT class, which I pretty much slept through.
Next I vegged out until the early afternoon PT class. When the time came for that, I pleaded with the head of the class to get me discharged. She made me walk 300 feet and back on a walker. Even though it hurt like a I got 'er done and 2 hours later I was home.
Since being home, I was able to somehow manage to use Norco for the first 7 days. It helped but the pain was still very bad. Now I'm 3 days free of narcotics today. Again, I've been in a haze, so pardon me if my timeline is off.
My biggest issue now is excessive swelling way up the joint and my incision is still oozing a fair amount of blood. I attribute that to the Eliquis. I've been doing my PT steadily and go for staple removal and my first post op visit mid week.
This is already long in the tooth, sorry about that. More later.
When I was moved from recovery to my regular room, I was in a world of pain. I have all kinds of issues with opiates. My body rejects them for all intents and purposes. The nurses trying to do their job gave me Diluadid. I had a bad reaction to it and was crawling out of my skin. Several haze filled hours went by, and my pulse got down to 35. Then they tried morphine, with the same reaction. next they tried oxycontin, and again, no success. By this time it was about 4 in the morning the next day.
I was so uncomfortable, I told my son, who stayed with me, no matter what, we're outta here today (Friday) I stopped the nurses from giving me anything else for pain and just dealt with it. I was in a haze, so I'm not sure of the timeline, but I did some walking with a walker and attended a PT class, which I pretty much slept through.
Next I vegged out until the early afternoon PT class. When the time came for that, I pleaded with the head of the class to get me discharged. She made me walk 300 feet and back on a walker. Even though it hurt like a I got 'er done and 2 hours later I was home.
Since being home, I was able to somehow manage to use Norco for the first 7 days. It helped but the pain was still very bad. Now I'm 3 days free of narcotics today. Again, I've been in a haze, so pardon me if my timeline is off.
My biggest issue now is excessive swelling way up the joint and my incision is still oozing a fair amount of blood. I attribute that to the Eliquis. I've been doing my PT steadily and go for staple removal and my first post op visit mid week.
This is already long in the tooth, sorry about that. More later.