Five days post op

I'm five days post op and still surviving. I've tried to start cutting back on my pain meds during the day. I've been trying to go five to six hours in between the oxycodone and no phenergan during the day. At night I go back to two oxycondone with phenergan every four hours. It is still pretty painful, but I'm trying hard to stick to this. The only time I'm getting up is to go to the restroom and that is quite painful. My nurse told me she wanted me to start judging my pain instead of just automatically taking my pain meds every four hours whether I need it or not.

One problem I had last night is constipation from the pain meds. I was told that this could be a problem so I started taking Senekot-S on Saturday night. One of our friends that is a pharmacist suggested this. I took two before bed on Saturday night, two before bed on Sunday night and then two yesterday (Monday) afternoon. I realized this was not going to work so Michael called my doctor on the phone. He told him to get me some Milk of Magnesia...let me just say that stuff is like drinking chalk. LOL That unfortunately didn't work either so we called our pharmacist Friend which told him to get me a suppository. After about five hours of pure agony (I'm talking this was as bad as my surgery) it finally worked. I honestly thought I was going to die. I'm only saying this because I would hate for anyone else to go through what I had to go through so in other words....don't let it get so bad before you do something about it. fixing this problem before it happens would have been much easier.

I have been sleeping pretty good at night. That is partly due to pain meds that help me sleep, but I don't care how I get to sleep as long as I'm not awake all night in agony. I did get up this morning at 6:15 until 6:50 to sit with Michael before he went to work. That's the longest I've sat up in my wheel chair since my surgery. I had my foot elevated, but it was still painful. Elevation is not only the key to not much swelling, but also the key to not as much pain. The past few times I've gotten up to go to the bathroom I have had pins & needles feeling in my leg and foot. My foot is also twinging and jerking. The nurse told me this was pretty common with all the trauma my foot has been through and all the nerves that got messed with. The jerking is sometimes pretty painful since it tenses up my foot. Not a pleasant feeling at all but it could also be worse.