Re: follow-up Re: kinda OTP: something ain't right

On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 19:29:40 -0400, d'huit wrote
(in message <j6WdnbmxZKhxBGTbnZ2dnUVZ_qSonZ2d@xxxxxxxxxxx>):

((((((((((((((((((((((nann))))))))))))))))))))))) oh, hon, i'm so sorry the
path report wasn't more definitive. major bummer! it sounds like they've
really got to hit the inflammation-stop button harder for you.

i just cringed while reading your doctor's appmt. account. i hate that you
were in that much pain and couldn't get them to up the quality of your pain
meds over the phone, before your appointment. it blows me away that he put
you on just darvocet!--especially, for that kind of procedure and him
knowing full well how close he came to that muscle. (that darvocet stuff
never handled surgical pain for me, either.) thank goodness he believed you
were in pain and gave you something that does help you.

rest, rest, rest, and take care of you, sweetie.

kate

In the doctor's defense - he himself was rather surprised that I had such
major muscle issues post-op. He pumped lidocaine into all the ports before
closing and says he *really* filled that one port. I suscept my fibro and PA
issues made me more prone to this. I might have asked for more lidocaine,
but this pain was there the first time I got up in recovery so it didn't numb
it all that much. I now know that when it got worse over the weekend was
probably when the lidocaine was wearing off. Meanwhile, I don't know exactly
how the nurse relayed my message to him, especially when the first part of
her return call was talking about pain being normal after surgery.

But I'm realizing how much you use your abs for everything! After years of
*trying* to use them to keep them strong, I'm now tortured every time I fail
to do something only with other muscles. I KNEW there was some reason I
didn't want to do this biopsy! I have to lean the seatback at about a 75
degree angle to tolerate the car ride cross state and even then have to hold
the shoulder harness away from my body. Somehow the task chair at this
computer cradles and supports my back just right so as long as I sit up
straight in it, I'm in less pain than most places.

I just can't think of anything else to do to help this reverse itself. I do
see my RD tomorrow so maybe he'll have a suggestion. I wonder if a cortisone
shot would help


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