I take it back! Now that the pain medicines are lowered to one 500 Oxy every 4 hours, standing up is "grit your teeth" painful. I'm getting to the point where I want to get up and do things but the foot is getting in the way. How dare it! Yesterday I was up for about 1/2 an hour in the morning - not totally up - I made oatmeal, sat while it cooked, did a few little things, sat and ate, then hit the wall. I had to go back to bed for three hours before the pain even began to subside. It wasn't,t a 10, but probably a 4 with some throbbing and tingling thrown in for good measure. I could have downed more pain meds, but wanted to see if I could do the lower dose and also understand there has to be some discomfort with this - it goes with the territory.
So I called in pain med refills and asked the guy about the whole management of pain thing. He said taking too much makes you think you are better than you are and taking too little = pain. You probably want to be uncomfortable, but not in pain. That made sense to me. So we'll try that with my mind still working on getting off these things because they kinda suck. I've taken left over pain meds for things here and there and that's ok, but this nonstop, every day thing is a drag. My head is loopy, I have a sour feeling in my stomach and I just feel "ugh,"
Never got my shower yesterday. I'm staying with my folks because my husband works long hours and we have a high maintenance household of big, energetic dogs and lots of stairs. My mom has ended up having some unexpected health issues beginning with a flu the day I arrived and progressing to either a bizarre medicine reaction or a mini stroke and there hasn't been a lot of time or energy for anything other than the most basic "feed me" type things. Yesterday she came home from the hospital MUCH improved, but I certainly wasn't going to insist on a shower because there were some logistical things she needed to help me with like getting my yoga pants over this humongous first cast. Hopefully today!
Pain level so far today - 2
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