Recovery
This hasn't been a fun couple of days.
My Surgeon WAS able to do a partial removal, which should keep me off of hormone replacements as long as I've got healthy tissue there. Now, the fact that he sliced up an organ and left it inside of me? It hurts like hell.
I also ended up in the ER yesterday. The day before, they started me on oxycodone (not sure on dosage, but it was 2 pills every 4 hours) which I'd never had before. This was fine for about 12 hours. I'd take 2 and...well, at 5am I only felt the need to take 1. I could tell they were building up in my system. That became a problem later in the morning when I wasn't able to stand without shaking, being very weak and nauseous. I was unable to urinate more than a little. Called the surgeon's office and he ordered me to the ER. (Hopefully this is covered along with other expenses.)
The ER flushes me out with an IV of a few bags of saline, made sure that I could pee, and then I got put on hydrocodone instead (I guess it's a weaker version of the oxy?) but only 1 pill every 6 hours. There's more pain, but I'm not having the problems I had before.
One other problem that's been bothering me since 5pm last night: Tension headache. I tend to get them on the right side of my head\back of neck\etc several times a month. This one seems particularly bad and may be extended by lying in bed for so long, but it actually hurts more than the surgery site.
My incision seems to be healing nicely. He actually made the cut on an old incision which had caused nerve damage back then, so I'm not feeling a lot of pain from that area. Now, the area from where they...removed the tumor? I didn't realize that area could swell so big. It's also terribly bruised, and moving around is difficult. It'll get better eventually. I'm glad I still have something down there, though.
My Surgeon WAS able to do a partial removal, which should keep me off of hormone replacements as long as I've got healthy tissue there. Now, the fact that he sliced up an organ and left it inside of me? It hurts like hell.
I also ended up in the ER yesterday. The day before, they started me on oxycodone (not sure on dosage, but it was 2 pills every 4 hours) which I'd never had before. This was fine for about 12 hours. I'd take 2 and...well, at 5am I only felt the need to take 1. I could tell they were building up in my system. That became a problem later in the morning when I wasn't able to stand without shaking, being very weak and nauseous. I was unable to urinate more than a little. Called the surgeon's office and he ordered me to the ER. (Hopefully this is covered along with other expenses.)
The ER flushes me out with an IV of a few bags of saline, made sure that I could pee, and then I got put on hydrocodone instead (I guess it's a weaker version of the oxy?) but only 1 pill every 6 hours. There's more pain, but I'm not having the problems I had before.
One other problem that's been bothering me since 5pm last night: Tension headache. I tend to get them on the right side of my head\back of neck\etc several times a month. This one seems particularly bad and may be extended by lying in bed for so long, but it actually hurts more than the surgery site.
My incision seems to be healing nicely. He actually made the cut on an old incision which had caused nerve damage back then, so I'm not feeling a lot of pain from that area. Now, the area from where they...removed the tumor? I didn't realize that area could swell so big. It's also terribly bruised, and moving around is difficult. It'll get better eventually. I'm glad I still have something down there, though.