TKR ... Nights and dreadful day with back jabs
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Hello ... Have posted ad nauseam about the awful nights ... Last night, day 17 was as bad as alll the others and just pushed me over the edge. I had to go into hospital today to have a nerve root block to help the buttock and leg pain which have flared up since the knee replacement ... I had a three level lumbar fusion four months ago, I was warned a flare up could happen because of the angle of the leg during the op and the leg elevation in general. Back surgeon says it is more common in hip and knee replacements when you have had more than one level fused. I ended up with two nerve blocks, a deep muscular steroid and an antibiotic. For the first time the sedation was not nearly enough and although they increased it, it was a very unpleasant experience. My back surgeon is great .. He sent me home with some Valium and said TAKE IT! GP very against it, but my BP was unusually high and he could see I am exhausted .. Grey, not really eating much (unheard of for me) and when he came in I started crying about everything. I am not give. To tears and have battled the bad back for years and consider myself fairly brave .. Said I just felt totally overwhelmed and back where I started straight after the fusion ... The first six weeks of that were devastating and this , though a bit more localised pain, is as bad becUse I am sleeping so little. I cannot believe I will ever get back to normality as I have barely bee able to function a normal life for so long now. Sorry to winge... Am so bashed and bruised from the leg, my back has bruised from the jabs, tummy from Heparin and I ache all over from exhaustion. Tomorrow ...... Please be better!
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johnros 31pebworth
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my thoughts are with you and I am just thankful that so far my troubles are relatively few.
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Debx
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pam 13 weeks
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britta217 31pebworth
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my mantra is: this too will pass - this too will pass - this too will pass!
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KNEE .. Still hot, but just under boiling point most of the time now. Scar is clean and dry and the bruising, especially in the shin and calf marginally better. Walking and weightbearing pretty good. Hydrotherapy on Monday which felt fine for the first ten minutes or so but even in the water I could feel it getting hotter and hotter up to the half hour mark and at home the rest of the day and during that night it was pretty nasty ... Because I had had the back injections only three days previously the physio said he was soft on me! Will have to open my mouth on Monday and say STOP if necessary.
sleep has remained my worst problem ... Still up four and sometimes five times a night and it is a mix of back and knee heat/swelling/pain .... Today my GP prescribed Zopiclone so I will take that in a minute and hope to at least get longer stretches of sleep.
the nerve jabs for my back left me very battered and bruised and so far have not much difference .. So hip pain remains which I think is mostly from the knee realignment ...and the base of my spine is still bruised and painful, but not too much sciatica, thank goodness. Hope most of you out there can reassure me this will go.
goodnight all and hope we all get at least six hours before dawn tomorrow!
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Back injections are still not working but have had reassurance today from my back surgeon ... Wait a bit longer.
In bed for the night, icing my leg before I try and sleep, painkillers taken ...
goodnight to everybody and wishing you restful sleep!