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Morning all, beautiful Day!

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gromit67
gromit67

OK TLHR + 8 and all seems to be going well, shower this morning, wonderful but awful nights sleep, could not get comfortable, pee every couple of hours, a million different positions all on my back. Sleeping is the issue, daytime is great, exercises done walk expanded a little up to the road junction.

There is so much different advice given even from professionals, that I shall take the cautious path, follow the instructions given and mange my own recovery, which goes well, it's sore but I expected that, nothing compared with pre op pain. Dropped one 300mg gabapentin from my daily dose, am dropping one every 10 days so now down to 2400mg per day.

Best wishes to you all and speedy recoveries

grom

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  • Guest
    Guest gromit67

    Posted

    Hey Grom sounds as if your doing well, I have three different walks round the village all the same length 0.5 of a mile there and back to home. (measured on google) so I can ring the changes. Trouble is when it's lovely weather I never want to stop and find myself doing twice as far..... my leg aches sometimes I mean really aches and I'm sure it's because I've gone too far. But keep up the good work and we'll get there.
  • Hailea
    Hailea gromit67

    Posted

    Hi Gromit

    You seem to be doing very well. Yes sleep is the pits. It was hard enough for mr to sleep without all ther new problems on top. I was hoping to be able to sleep on my un operated side but not now it has collapsed. It is way too painful just laying there without wriggling about trying to get comfortable. But you are doing really well if you are droping your meds too.

  • annedi
    annedi gromit67

    Posted

    I used to have an afternoon nap in the early weeks partly to elevate legs and relieve pain and partly because of lack of night sleep. I found it really helped.

    Good that your pain killer use is going down.

  • pep
    pep gromit67

    Posted

    Isnt it a great feling when the operation is behind you!  I think sleeping is the worst part of it all. But to have a nap in the afternoon is a real must.  Well done on reducing the meds, every little helps on the way to a full recovery. Listen to your body, do walk and do rest. everything in moderation is the key.

    best wishes to you gromit x

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