Well I did Pre-op today. My blood pressure was a bit high and I reminded them that I wasn't supposed to take anti-inflammatory and was ask" well you know you can take this this and this right?"
I did not growl This is not my first major skeletal surgery. I have survived an old fashioned laminectomy and diskectomy at L5-S1 with 60% nerve impingement. I have done a rather unpleasant rotator cuff decompression, repair and impingement surgery with bone planing. I have also done a rather extensive septoplasty with bone ad soft tissue removal in all 8 sinuses.
I know damn well my foot will hurt differently than any of those, none of those hurt the same way. However I know damn well what I can take before surgery and what I can handle at work the week before surgery. and work requires I deal with a bit of pain and not take some of the drugs I want.
Acetaminophen helps .. a little and the Tramadol tends to make me slightly fuzzy minded which I don't like at work. Hence at the end of the work day when I did my Pre-op.. I was hurting a bit more than was comfortable.
sigh I will eat my narcotics next week and drool.
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