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Originally Posted by wdfifteen
I’ll let you guys be the judge of that. 
The dilaudid wasn’t helping much. I made note of when the pain was the strongest. Turned out to be when I used the muscles in my lower body. Still puzzled why lifting my left leg causes excruciating pain in the lower center of my abdomen. Doc is backing off the pain meds and loading me up with muscle relaxers in a few minutes. We’ll see. |
I know you won't see this because you're back at the hospital but the nerve block they gave me in my shoulder before anesthesia and the surgery wore off overnight as expected. I too was a 11 on day 2 and started chanting some made up monotone mantra. I wasn't real quiet and peaceful you understand, just getting my mind out of there which I don't really have the power to do.
They sent the scope, 2 techs and the needle into my room the next morning a little late for my liking. The nerve block took 100% of the pain away. The next day I had little pain from the shoulder area sorta isolated at the joint. I hurt so bad that 2nd day that I couldn't say anything other then upper right side. So the 3rd day they sent me home with Norcos.
After that shoulder failed with infection, it was removed (every last screw) and they put some kind of spacer in there from where they cut off the humerus bone to the shoulder blade area and I lived with a limpy arm for 8 months. That's called a revision.
Then I found a new surgeon from Mayo that did the arthroscopy a second time. Different hospital and I can't remember if I had the nerve block. But the surgeon was in my room bright and early the next morning and gently helped me use my left arm to remove the arm from the sling and then with his hand on my hand we lifted my arm over my head! He just said that's part of some exercises to do and don't use the surgery side muscles, get someone or use only the other arm. I did all of it 3 times a day starting on day 3.
Night and day between the 1st 2nd and 3rd surgery with the 3rd being almost as painless as the revision. The was July of '21 I think and I didn't even half to finish the whole PT schedule.
So a little off track, but to show that sometimes there is a mystery pain and a nerve block might be better than muscle relaxers until a scan and/or an MRI can see what's going on. I know when I went through the prostate deal I had a spinal nerve block and they could have removed my legs with a chainsaw. But
that's not where they were working, so you know that it works if they can work in there.
And I walked out after 2 hours of monitoring. I was never out during any of the prostate. Dead out for the shoulder all 3 times. Only once time the last time did I remember being rolled in and transferred to the table. Sitting up. looking around and I said, "Man there are a lot of carts covered with tools. YOU gonna use all this stuff?"
Goodnight.