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Dutchgoldness
hi, hope you slept well..LOL yes i was taking 100mg a day of hydro's..Right now i am on about 50mg..Still in pain .so i hope i am doing good by doing half..No side effects yet.The only thing is now i have to see a vascular doctor..The vein they gave my the 6 pints of blood in hurts so much i can'tt stand it..The vein is sticking out..Maybe they buised it..i know when they gave me the first pint of blood they put the machine the fasteset it went, cause i could hear it..Then each pint after that took about 2 hours each..So maybe they just bruised it..But it hurts so bad..i swear them people at the hospital have really messes me up..But at least my heart test came out ok..Yesterday was the first day i could actually get out of bed and do something and read the little one a book..i feel so sorry for my kids when i am like this, but they are great and help out a lot..my husband works offshore so he had to go because he stayed in a while with me .. and we can't afford for him to stay home..
Last night i cried all night and think i need to call a counsouler..I think it just hit me last night that i almost died, and i am so emotional thinking of i have someone else blood and just etc etc..Sorry i need to vent..i don;'t like my kids to ever see my cry..anyways i will keep tapering and let you know how it goes..As for the nerve pills i need them for the anxiety i have..
you are a god sent to me
thanks
Last night i cried all night and think i need to call a counsouler..I think it just hit me last night that i almost died, and i am so emotional thinking of i have someone else blood and just etc etc..Sorry i need to vent..i don;'t like my kids to ever see my cry..anyways i will keep tapering and let you know how it goes..As for the nerve pills i need them for the anxiety i have..
you are a god sent to me
thanks
Thank you! I'm glad your vein is feeling better now, that can be so painful! Most of all I'm glad your heart test came out normal. I am a counselor, technically a licensed psychologist I specialize in neurology and pharmacology. It's just good sometimes to come somewhere where people are not attaching everything you say to your face and what you do and what type of person you are. Don't get me wrong, my friends and my husband are wonderful but everyone likes something different now and then I guess. Be sure to let me know how your taper is going ok?
xoxo- D.
xoxo- D.
WOW -- i love reading your post..Sometimes i think you shoud be a counsouler or someting..my vein is alot better this afternoon..i ahve been putting a hot towels on it and the swelling even went down..
thanks for everything..
thanks for everything..
Oh sweetie, thank you for your post I was so exhausted last night I just couldn't keep my eyes open, I was literally falling asleep in the middle of typing a word. That's so great you had a heart test and everything was normal! That is really good to hear. You're most ;ike bruised pretty bad from getting so much blood in one vein and getting the first pint so fast. It hurts a lot worse that it would seem doesn't it? I always have them use a butterfly needle when getting blood work done because most of my veins are so little, so many nurses have missed and done it over and over then tried somewhere else and got it in the vein then pushed it in further and pulled out some, angled it to the right and then down....... it's a mess, and that hurts for a good amount of time after. One nurse said she was really good at it so she didn't listen to me when I told her to use a butterfly needle, she missed and you know what she said? "wow your veins are really small!" As if I havent had them my entire life and know how small they are. GEEZ! So I took my arm back and said "do you think you want to go get that butterfly needle now? before you mangle my arm and I have to file a com[laint with your supervisor (who has thousands of nurses rolling in every day waiting for your spot!) lol, the look on her face was pretty funny.
Anyway if you're concerned about it just ask the doctor if it's normal just to be sure b/c you know your own body better than anyone. You had no idea about the risks of the surgery and blood transfusions with going c/t withdrawals and you still knew that you shouldn't continue doing that. That's why you posted here. The body does a lot of talking, just have to listen. I am sorry you had such a hard time last night, sometimes it takes a while for something to really hit us. Especially when your body is out of whack from a surgery and losing that much blood so fast. I know you're happy to be alive, it's just that it doesn't stop the emotinal side of what you went through and like you said, having someone else's blood inside of you. When my husband had back surgery a couple months ago he was only able to give one until from himself so I gave the other unil b/c they have to have 2 units on standby. You can imagine what that was like, most nurses can't even get a standard sized needle in for blood work. Two of them had to babysit the needle the entire time I gave blood, they tried to find my largest vein and do it there. They had to old the needle and adjust it the whole time so the blood wouldnt clot b/c it's unusable if it does and I can't give blood again for 6 weeks. I had to squeeze that stress ball to keep my vein pumped up the whole time too, and instead of making me stay 20 minutes after I had to stay an hour after giving blood. I barely met the weight requirement. I knew I was under, you have to be at least 112 pounds to give blood, and I weigh between 105 and 110 so I ate 2 one pound cans of beef stew and a hamburger and fries with a shake right before I went and I came in right at 112lbs. and one ounce lol! I didn't want the food to have too much time to process and mess with my weight. I was pretty bruised after that day too. I've been bruised after quite a few IVs in the hospital, no fun. I wasn't concerned with than then though, hard to be concerned with much else when they're going to cut into your husband and father of your child's spine.
You know part of you being so emotional (probably a great deal to do with you being emotional) is that you came down a lot of mg really fast. If you are not having any w/d symptoms that is good and that is a good starting point for taper, but it will still throw your hormone levels off balsnce, the action that opiates have on the brain-increasing endoephins, leads to a lot of other actions in the rain and spinal cord which effects a lot of other neurotransmitters and in turn has an effect of certain hormones and when decresing your dose that much it especially has an effect on stress hormone. Just keep that in mind, you will be emotional b/c of what you went through and you should be, but a lot of it will come from decreasing your dose too. How have you been managing your pain since you started to taper? Have you been taking any NSAID's like motrin or naproxen- these relax your muscles and might help you feel a little better. Muscle relaxants like flexeril can be of help for pain also. My husband took flexeril after his surgery, he only took the darvocet a couple times a day for a couple weeks then started taking half a couple times a day once the pain wans't so bad and just kept taking the flexeril after he stopped the darvocet. He never took his vicodin, he maybe refills his vicodin once every couple years. He has had six surgeries on his knees from football and now his back and has a pin in his arm from football also so he gets prescribed all kinds of pain meds but just takes flexeril. When it really bothers him after we've been walking a long time or he sleeps on it wrong he usually takes a darvocet and he takes a vicodin when it's at its worst. He's so different from anyone I know, propoxephene (the opiate in darvocet) is so much more mild than hydrocodone or even codeine yet it works better for him than the others 98% of the time. And the only thing he takes regularly is the flexeril and sometimes a motrin 800mg. I'm sorry my posts are so long all the time I just have so much to say especially when I'm talking to someone I really enjoy talking to. And since you're a mother and wife too, you can understand things differently than a lot of people can.
xoxo- D.
Anyway if you're concerned about it just ask the doctor if it's normal just to be sure b/c you know your own body better than anyone. You had no idea about the risks of the surgery and blood transfusions with going c/t withdrawals and you still knew that you shouldn't continue doing that. That's why you posted here. The body does a lot of talking, just have to listen. I am sorry you had such a hard time last night, sometimes it takes a while for something to really hit us. Especially when your body is out of whack from a surgery and losing that much blood so fast. I know you're happy to be alive, it's just that it doesn't stop the emotinal side of what you went through and like you said, having someone else's blood inside of you. When my husband had back surgery a couple months ago he was only able to give one until from himself so I gave the other unil b/c they have to have 2 units on standby. You can imagine what that was like, most nurses can't even get a standard sized needle in for blood work. Two of them had to babysit the needle the entire time I gave blood, they tried to find my largest vein and do it there. They had to old the needle and adjust it the whole time so the blood wouldnt clot b/c it's unusable if it does and I can't give blood again for 6 weeks. I had to squeeze that stress ball to keep my vein pumped up the whole time too, and instead of making me stay 20 minutes after I had to stay an hour after giving blood. I barely met the weight requirement. I knew I was under, you have to be at least 112 pounds to give blood, and I weigh between 105 and 110 so I ate 2 one pound cans of beef stew and a hamburger and fries with a shake right before I went and I came in right at 112lbs. and one ounce lol! I didn't want the food to have too much time to process and mess with my weight. I was pretty bruised after that day too. I've been bruised after quite a few IVs in the hospital, no fun. I wasn't concerned with than then though, hard to be concerned with much else when they're going to cut into your husband and father of your child's spine.
You know part of you being so emotional (probably a great deal to do with you being emotional) is that you came down a lot of mg really fast. If you are not having any w/d symptoms that is good and that is a good starting point for taper, but it will still throw your hormone levels off balsnce, the action that opiates have on the brain-increasing endoephins, leads to a lot of other actions in the rain and spinal cord which effects a lot of other neurotransmitters and in turn has an effect of certain hormones and when decresing your dose that much it especially has an effect on stress hormone. Just keep that in mind, you will be emotional b/c of what you went through and you should be, but a lot of it will come from decreasing your dose too. How have you been managing your pain since you started to taper? Have you been taking any NSAID's like motrin or naproxen- these relax your muscles and might help you feel a little better. Muscle relaxants like flexeril can be of help for pain also. My husband took flexeril after his surgery, he only took the darvocet a couple times a day for a couple weeks then started taking half a couple times a day once the pain wans't so bad and just kept taking the flexeril after he stopped the darvocet. He never took his vicodin, he maybe refills his vicodin once every couple years. He has had six surgeries on his knees from football and now his back and has a pin in his arm from football also so he gets prescribed all kinds of pain meds but just takes flexeril. When it really bothers him after we've been walking a long time or he sleeps on it wrong he usually takes a darvocet and he takes a vicodin when it's at its worst. He's so different from anyone I know, propoxephene (the opiate in darvocet) is so much more mild than hydrocodone or even codeine yet it works better for him than the others 98% of the time. And the only thing he takes regularly is the flexeril and sometimes a motrin 800mg. I'm sorry my posts are so long all the time I just have so much to say especially when I'm talking to someone I really enjoy talking to. And since you're a mother and wife too, you can understand things differently than a lot of people can.
xoxo- D.
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