Month: December 2017

What did your surgeon tell you about taking ibuprofen post-op? I am 10 days PO and have weaned myself off oxycodone. I’m just taking Tylenol, but I’d much rather take ibuprofen. My doc didn’t want me taking it in the 48 hours after surgery in order to to keep some inflammation to aid with healing. When I spoke with the PA after 72 hrs PO he advised me to stick with the oxy & Tylenol. So it’s the end of the day, I’m in pain, I don’t want to take the oxy – I lose all my executive brain functions. Is there a danger in taking ibuprofen at this point (10 days PO)?

If you have some extra time on your hands for reading or listening to an audio book, pick up this one next. A few months before my hamstring accident I had just started doing yoga consistently. I’ve been an athlete and a personal trainer, but yoga was the only exercise I had ever managed to do *on my own, on a daily basis*. I needed a practice to help me stretch, strengthen my joints, and slow the f down. And then along came Meditations from the Mat, which showed me yoga is so much more than getting into impossible poses. It’s a lovely read.

“Sleigh bells ring, are you listenin’? In the laaaaaane, we be slippin’…!”

Replace “missed” with “pooped” and sing along. Please be safe & use your walker or crutches for dancing, if necessary.

I’m going to call my doctor or PA tomorrow morning with this concern, but I am so anxious about it that I have to get it out here while I wait.

I’m 5 days P.O. from reattachment of all three hamstring tendons. I’m in a hip brace that limits my hip actions, but leaves the knee free.

Two days ago I was laying on my side, wrestling to get my sock off. The grabber slipped and sent my heel painfully snapping up towards my bum. Hurt like crazy. The next day I did the same motion twice, involuntarily, when I jerked awake after dozing off. Apparently I’m prone to an involuntary butt-kicking reflex. As if I’m not hard enough on myself.

Before this happened my leg was a little swollen and hurting, and now it’s really swollen and painful, but I have no idea if it’s connected to the knee flexion or not. I don’t know how much swelling and pain is to be expected at this point.

So this was three instances of active knee flexion that hurt a lot, and now I’m scared I’ve messed up the repair. My knee is free to move in this brace, but at this point it’s only supposed to be passive movement.

Does anyone know how violent an action it would take to destroy my new anchoring? Am I being unrealistically anxious? I was on here several days ago assuring another Hamster that it’s sturdy hardware that can survive a small stumble up the stairs, but… here I am. So now I’m going to go somewhere and breathe. Thanks for listening.

I just want to say,

I pooped yesterday.

Anyone else develop bruising around your incision in the days PO..?

Sigh. I have to go to the bathroom, but it’s *so* far away…

2 days PO and I keep thinking, “What is that horrible slab of meat attached to my backside?!” And then I realize… it *is* my backside. Trusting the numbness & swelling will diminish. Icing, elevating, Netflixing.