Days Post Surgery
The day after surgery my pain never went below a 5-6….a lot of throbbing…and I didn’t feel like the Vicodin did much. It says to take every 4-6 hours. It takes about 30min to feel it…and then it felt not terrible (see: but not good) for about an 1 1/2….then the last two hours my pain quickly escalated til I could again take more pain meds. The last hour waiting to take another pill was miserable. The only time I slept was about 1 1/2 hours from about 6 to 8:30am the following morning. I called the doc office the following a.m. and got a prescription for percocet. The good news was by 11 a.m. the following morning the pain had subsided down to about a 2. I still picked up the percocet… I was worried about another sleepless night if the pain picked up again. I took Vicodin and Percocet (not together…just trying each to see what worked) but didn’t really feel like they did much. When the pain came down.. I probably would have been fine with ibuprofen. I was off pain meds within four days post surgery. During that time if the leg was elevated I was fine…but when I got up to do anything..it would start throbbing.
The last two weeks were mind blowingly slow. I had the usual problems…showering, getting down stairs, trying to make myself food (not so much making it was the problem…but trying to carry things is a pain)
I was religious about elevating the first week….and by the end of the second…I could not have it elevated and not feel much if any throbbing.
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