LTHR scheduled tomorrow - bit nervy!

Good to hear you are doing well Dinzdale. I did not go out for the first week, needed to get over the drug side effects so you are doing amazing. Hope to hear how you are progressing in the coming weeks.

Take care.

Really pleased that it all went well! Take your meds, do your exercises, rest when you need to...  

Not sure if you’re in the UK? If you are, enjoy strolling around in the fine weather!

All the best, Judith 

Thanks Judith, I've struggled a bit the last day or so, since the swelling of my leg and foot have limited my movement a fair bit making it very hard to walk around too much without cramping up. As much as the swelling subsides when I sleep (keeping ankles higher than hips, of course) it literally takes a few minutes of being upright, or sitting down before I've got the leg of a bloody elephant again....hoping this will pass soon!

I am in the UK, by the way (Hertfordshire) and fully intend to have a little mooch around the garden later, once I'm ready for those stairs!

Thanks again for your kindness.

Dinz.

Hi dinzdale,

Don't be afraid to rest. I did not do a lot the first week or two apart from the exercises they gave me to do. I get a bit of swelling when on leg too long which goes when I lie on the bed. I think we need as much rest as exercise to allow the inside to repair. Glad you are staying positive.

Thanks jen, I'm hoping to walk to the polling station and back this evening once my wife is home from work. It's usually only a 4-5 minute walk, although at the moment it might as well be the marathon! Plenty of benches to rest up on along the way though, so that'll help, and my mrs is fairly adept with a shopping trolley, so there's a contingency in place at least! 😉

How long since your op, if you don't mind me asking?

Hope the wife has strong arms when you get on her poor trolley, ha ha.

I am three weeks yesterday post op and counting down the days until next Wednesday when I have my last fragmin injection hooray, I hate having them.

I haven't mentioned it yet, she may very well propose an alternative solution, such as leaving me on one of the benches overnight!

Is fragmin the blood thinner you're taking? I'm lucky enough to be on dabigatran tablets, had the abdominal injections while in hospital and I do sympathise....wasn't keen!

Hope the rest of your recovery goes smoothly jen, all the best.

Dinz.

I sympathise, I had a really swollen leg too. Used to get worse as the day went on, but putting a cold pack on it used to help, and I used to put my feet up in the evenings.

Good luck, Judith 

Yeah, DVT's very much a big deal over here, along with MRSA, the guidelines for prevention are very strict after a few too many (more than one being enough, obviously) cases of both in the not too distant past....the ramifications of which have been extremely damaging. The NHS are pretty hot on duty of care in my experience....although plenty of horror stories seem to make the tabloids still.

I am in UK and was given 35 days of tablets, one of the NOACs (novel oral anticoagulant). I had rivaroxaban. I am not too sure how many people have to inject nowadays. 

Ptolemy,

Is my surgeon/hospital old fashioned then giving me fragmin injections, I assumed everyone had them.

It just seems to vary from hospital to hospital. I’m in North London, and I didn’t have to inject, I had tablets. 

I must admit the side effects of rivoraxaban seemed quite frightening. My sister was reading them out to see if I could drink alcohol with the tablets and she said the first side effect was death, the next few side effects made you think that death was preferable!! I am not sure how the hospitals make their decisions, but it was nice not having the injections. The NOACs are quite new drugs though so it may be price. 

I have held off having a drink until I finish the injections. I Have not had one since a week and a half before op. Roll on a week on Saturday I am going to have a beer, giving myself a couple of days injection free.

I wished I had Judith, I am jealous.