I've had a rollercoaster of pain and emotions since the surgery tues morning.
The anesthesiologist came and apologized to me, because my epidural failed, and I woke up multiple times during surgery. (Thankfully I don't remember that.)
Then after, the pcu nurses didn't know that it wasn't working, so when my general anesthesia wore off, I had NO pain control. Took them hours to figure it out. I was screaming in pain. For Hours.
Finally they gave me a pump, which worked well until in the middle of the night last night when my iv blew, I didn't know it, so I just kept jamming the pump. The pain was out of this world. Finally a nurse came and fixed it. Everything was great until 10 am when they insisted on removing the pump and get me going on orals.
Well, I walked around the hallway, came back to bed, woke up 3 hours later in the worst pain ever, like after the surgery.
Took them from 2pm until 6 pm before they gave me something through my iv to help because oxy wasn't working at all. 10 mg oxy . I looked it up. That's NOTHING.
I'M SITTING here sobbing right now because ill have to beg for some more diluadid when the nurse comes back.
To make things even worse, one of the surgeons who was working on me yesterday dropped by, right when I was in the thick of it and said "you don't look like you are in too much pain"
When he had come in, I had just calmed down, from my nurse helping me.
She reported him for saying that but I still feel like a looser or something.
I can't stop crying.
I wrote that a 2 days ago...
I'm still in agony since.
They sent me home once I passed gas yesterday and gave me Diluadid 4mg to take every 3 hours. I'm still in CONSTANT pain. Doesn't matter if I take the pills or not. If I don't take the pills I'm at a 9-10 if I do take the pills I'm at a 5-7. The doctor actually told me that being at a "5" is "acceptable" and I shouldn't expect much better.
I'm also on Gabapentin, which they explained to me is a drug to help my nerves accept pain medication better, but I have no idea if it's helping or not.
Surprisingly, my back hurts almost as much as my front. I don't know if it's from all the stress, the tension of pain and crying or the failed epidural.
What the heck.
Has anyone experienced anything like this before? Is it going to get better???
The anesthesiologist came and apologized to me, because my epidural failed, and I woke up multiple times during surgery. (Thankfully I don't remember that.)
Then after, the pcu nurses didn't know that it wasn't working, so when my general anesthesia wore off, I had NO pain control. Took them hours to figure it out. I was screaming in pain. For Hours.
Finally they gave me a pump, which worked well until in the middle of the night last night when my iv blew, I didn't know it, so I just kept jamming the pump. The pain was out of this world. Finally a nurse came and fixed it. Everything was great until 10 am when they insisted on removing the pump and get me going on orals.
Well, I walked around the hallway, came back to bed, woke up 3 hours later in the worst pain ever, like after the surgery.
Took them from 2pm until 6 pm before they gave me something through my iv to help because oxy wasn't working at all. 10 mg oxy . I looked it up. That's NOTHING.
I'M SITTING here sobbing right now because ill have to beg for some more diluadid when the nurse comes back.
To make things even worse, one of the surgeons who was working on me yesterday dropped by, right when I was in the thick of it and said "you don't look like you are in too much pain"
When he had come in, I had just calmed down, from my nurse helping me.
She reported him for saying that but I still feel like a looser or something.
I can't stop crying.
I wrote that a 2 days ago...
I'm still in agony since.
They sent me home once I passed gas yesterday and gave me Diluadid 4mg to take every 3 hours. I'm still in CONSTANT pain. Doesn't matter if I take the pills or not. If I don't take the pills I'm at a 9-10 if I do take the pills I'm at a 5-7. The doctor actually told me that being at a "5" is "acceptable" and I shouldn't expect much better.
I'm also on Gabapentin, which they explained to me is a drug to help my nerves accept pain medication better, but I have no idea if it's helping or not.
Surprisingly, my back hurts almost as much as my front. I don't know if it's from all the stress, the tension of pain and crying or the failed epidural.
What the heck.
Has anyone experienced anything like this before? Is it going to get better???