WARNING from Blume357 (Update 6/23)

[blume357]

For the next 5 days I will be on Oxycodone... no telling what I will be posting... I may follow up with a better explanation later...
well here is an example... one of the post op warnings was if my sutures bleed excessively I need to call this in....
Makes sense to anyone until you see the 'bandage' on my foot.... if I see any blood coming through this I for sure need to call someone:

 

[Mobuck]

That's one big bandaid and yeah, if there's blood leaking out, you're already in serious doodoo.

 

[Watertender]

Good luck Blume! My ankle is almost healed but next Wednesday is my lung surgery so I go from one spot hurting to another.
Oxycodone may make your posts more interesting in an intoxicated way. You have great posts and this might make you expound in an entertaining way

 

[Jakeintexas]

Good luck and wishing you a full recovery !

 

[eveled]

Dont forget the stool softener! Good luck healing!

 

[ProfessorWes]

Holy cow. Prayers up.

 

[MaxMan]

Wow, sorry what was the surgery? eveled is right. Best wishes for a quick recovery.

 

[Jakeintexas]

Dont forget the stool softener! Good luck healing!

Good advice. Forgot about that. Opiates can stop ya up and wouldn’t want to have to go in and get unimpacted/unstopped.

 

[s4s4u]

I did an opiate one time and couldn't for three days.

 

[41Dude]

As long as you do not take any candid pictures farther up your leg we should be ok.

 

[thedogdidit]

Good luck Blume! Bunionectomy?

 

[xTopGun]

Ok, good luck with your recovery...

 

[mr.deerstalker]

I can only wonder what his wife's ass look like....yekes! only kidding

 

[OMBlackhawk]

I had a friend that had to go to the hospital to get “unstopped”. He said it was unpleasant to say the least.

 

[Jakeintexas]

I had a friend that had to go to the hospital to get “unstopped”. He said it was unpleasant to say the least.

Ya….had some surgery awhile back and was advised to take senna to keep things going for awhile to prevent such an occurrence. But the bad part was then ya gotta taper off the senna. Growing old can suck.

I would imagine it to be like a very long exploratory visit to the proctologist. Not a lot of fun.

 

[MaxMan]

As long as you do not take any candid pictures farther up your leg we should be ok.

And I thought you were looking for some new material.

 

[MaxMan]

Prunes and an Herbal Tea called smooth move will keep you going. I drank the smooth move while taking Oxy for a torn meniscus. Worked well for me, but that me.

Although so many on this forum would help all that they can, if you need suppositories, you are on your own.

 

[41Dude]

And I thought you were looking for some new material.

I am trying to be good.

 

[txramfan]

There are Indica edibles, where legal, that handle pain management after surgery . Family in AZ and a friend in CA , one was a broken bone the other hernia repair.

I would be sound asleep in 30 minutes after taking the pain meds after my last hernia repair. Only took it twice, then it was Tylenol.

 

[s4s4u]

Edibles??? Having eaten "edibles" myself, I would want something a little more potent after my body has been sliced and diced.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

Dang Blume...what dose did they give you? I usually get 5/325 but my neck surgery they gave me 10/325 every 4 hours and with 10mg Vicodin in between...it was winter and I found myself counting snowflakes when I was awake.....only it wasn't snowing.

Hope you recover quick. DON'T stop the meds cold turkey even if you think you don't need them...trust me your body will revolt in a bad way.....drink lots of water, eat lots of bran....and like others said keep up with the stool softeners and laxatives unless you enjoy large pineapples stuck in your six!

5 major surgeries in the last few years I feel like it's a hobby

 

[blume357]

To try and answer some of the questions.... seems I 'broke' my ankle but good.... my wife showed me a picture / x-ray of what they did yesterday while I was in recovery but all I saw was a bunch of screws and stuff.

As for 'going' while on this Oxy.... I've been doing Hydrocodone/tylonal and Tramadol for the last two weeks and it was already a struggle... One of the prescriptions I have is to help with this but I have not taken any yet... probably will but not to the uncomfortable part yet...

as of 11:30 today... took my third Oxy at 10:00 and just a moment ago noticed I can wiggle two of mu toes about an eight of an inch and so the nerve block is starting to wear off.

Interesting part of the process yesterday... man these folks at the hospital are disciplined.... everyone of them first ask my name and birthday to make sure they have the right patient ..... I'm laying there getting prepped and IV is going in and some one walks in asked me the basic question and then ask which foot is being worked on... one foot has one of those no skid red socks on and the other is bare sticking out from under the sheet and I say... the right one... this person then pulls out a sharpie and rights the name of my surgeon on it....

few minutes later the drug doc, anastzelolgist (can't spell it right now) comes in and not only asks me the basics but then a whole lot more.... he's getting ready to do the nerve block and also ask me what foot they are working on.... well, the one sticking out bare and with my surgeon's name on it.... he then pulls out a sharpie and rights on my leg above my knee "nerve block" and then two arrows one pointed to each side.... a nurse is messing with my I.V. that had been just saline and the drug doc starts smearing some stuff on my leg and I'm watching him thinking this is going to be interesting and fun to watch.... next thing I know I'm waking up and there is that big bandage on my foot and leg... seems they were shooting me with something through the I.V. now I do remember the hot stuff going up my arm..... what I've figured out from looking at what they did yesterday on mychart is he was prepping for an ultrasound to find the nerves.

Bottom line is I'm good but a little loopy... can't figure out what the big deal is with this Oxycodone stuff is...but I probably will be messing some with different post.....

 

[XUSNORDIE]

Bottom line is I'm good but a little loopy... can't figure out what the big deal is with this Oxycodone stuff is

Well that's just it. You are still loopy from the procedure. Keep taking your Oxy/meds as scheduled so you won't notice when the loopiness wears off. Pain management only works if you keep on schedule.

When I had my knee replaced the anesthesiologist gave me a epidural. I'm a big guy. They had me sit on the edge of the bed. A little cute nurse stood in front of me and told me to lean into her. I was afraid I'd crush her. It was a good thing I had that because I woke up when the Doc was pounding the insert into bone. I couldn't feel a thing. A nurse walking by did a double when she saw my eyes open. She asked if I was awake and I said yep. I couldn't see anything because of the curtain. I saw my Doc's head and his assistants head but that was it. The nurse talked with the anesthesiologist and I went out again. But I woke up again and was awake when they wheeled me into recovery which surprised the recovery nurses.....but I wish I was asleep because they stuck a catheter up my yankee doodle dandy to drain my bladder. Apparently the anesthesiologist was concerned about my heart rate/blood pressure and that's why I kept waking up. I thought it was pretty cool.....that was 3 years ago. I have had two major surgeries since then. My cancer surgery (Renal Cell Carcinoma) they could not get a epidural inserted after several grueling attempts (very pretty nurse holding my hand/rubbing my shoulder ). I would not like to wake up during that one. Last SEP I had my SI joint fused. No epidural but glad I didn't wake up during that either. I have another coming up....this time the other SI Joint. I always tell them about waking up in hopes they take that into consideration.

 

[Busterswoodshop]

Apparently I am doing something wrong.
I have been prescribed Percocet lots of times , and have never had the reactions you guys apparently get.
Besides helping the pain , all it ever did was make me tired.

 

[WAYNO]

I am apparently quite tolerant to the stuff too.

 

[protoolman]

Last time I got surgery my son said he had a lot of fun making me have weird conversations. None of which I remember I'm also told my anesthesiologist had a big discussion about reloading his 20mm Lahti with me. I remember zero of that conversation too. Good luck.

 

[XUSNORDIE]

Apparently I am doing something wrong.
I have been prescribed Percocet lots of times , and have never had the reactions you guys apparently get.
Besides helping the pain , all it ever did was make me tired.

Pain management is different for everyone. Plus it depends on the dose strength/schedule. The most common dose 5/325 doesn't do much for some folks. For major procedures some pretty strong doses of one or more narcotics can have some serious side effects.

 

[krw]

Everybody's chem make up is lil different. I can eat Oxy's like MM's and they do nothing. But give me couple Hydro's and 3 Fingers MM and I'm floating on a big balloon.

 

[Watertender]

For my cancer surgery next week I am going to tell them that they are working on my lung not my schwanstuker and that doesn't need any extra piping added. If I wake up with something hanging out of my crank the entire hospital will know my displeasure in no uncertain terms.
I'm usually a pretty cooperative patient but there are lines that I will not let them cross.
During a colonoscopy in 2015 I was surprised when they told me that my wife had scheduled me for an endoscopy at the same time and I found it out at the check-in window. I went off and made them redo the paperwork. Then the idiot trying to put in the IV poked me 6 times and I sandblasted him but good. He took off his gloves and threw them at me then they made the mistake of sending in a priest to see me... I asked him if he didn't have an altarboy that he needed to play with (he got caught later doing that)!!

After the procedure I informed my wife (retired ICU RN) that I am her husband and not her patient and she should have said something to me about an endoscopy instead of them springing it on me.

 

[tazbigdog]