Dear Daveyam,
There was a little blood on the bandage. I am worried. Is this normal after 11 days?
I am going to seee my GP tomorrow and hope she can help.
I am sorry to hear of your troubles Daveyam. Are you currently on pain medication? Are you awaiting another operation?
Dear Daveyam,
There was a little blood on the bandage. I am worried. Is this normal after 11 days?
I am going to seee my GP tomorrow and hope she can help.
I am sorry to hear of your troubles Daveyam. Are you currently on pain medication? Are you awaiting another operation?
hi there, i would'nt worry about a bit of blood, puss maybe, but not blood, it shows theres no infection at the insision site. your gp will advise you and maybe get the nurse to change your dressing,unless you do that at home?. it takes awhile to heal,some people take longer than others. i've been lucky and have really good healing skin.
my gp put me on liquid morphine with my latest flare-up and it did'nt even touch the pain!!!!!!!!. im on pregablin, its meant to numb the receptor in your brain so you can't feel the pain, and it's not working. these doctors think they can stop nerve pain but they can't, they dish so called "painkillers" out then weeks later when you tell them they don't work they say 'you can also take 2 paracetamol every 4 hours along with your prescsribed medication' as if they've found a miracle painkiller by mixing both!!!. what a load of crap some of them say!!!. once my gp told me that my previous so called "painkillers" were very expensive when i told him they were'nt working! how damned arrogant! i nearly knocked his head off !. i now see another gp within the practice!.will tell you about my scan results tomorrow,or today coz its 1am. gud luck at the doc's,although you won't need it,lol.
all the best n be positive, daveyam!
Hi Daveyam,
I am really sorry to hear of all your troubles. Nerve pain is resistent to painkiller's in general. Ibuproen helped with muscle pain but it never helped me with the pain I had in my hip. That was sciatic in nature. I thibk the problem is that docotrs just think the only solution to pain is painkillers. I have another longstanding medical condition and that has never responded to any painkillers.
Anyway, some combinarions of drugs may work, since I know a few people who take a cocktail of medicines. There is one guy who works at my local hospital and he also takes plenty of drugs to treat his condition. I feel sorry for him because he would have been a candidate for fusion surgery but he has arthritis in his vertebrae so they told him he must have the drugs instead.
I hope you find some kind of relief.
Realistically I don't think I can work until the condition has subsided. The stiffness comes on after a while and I can barely walk when that happens.
I havan appointment to see my GP today. Hopefully she will be able to inspect my incision and see why there was blood last night. The problem is that the GP does not redress the wound so if it is deemed necessary I will have to wait for the nurse. The nurse is fully booked and I was told there may be a long wait. Since I can't sit for very long, I hope the nurse can see me soon.
Anyway, these days, as anticpated are hard. I some ways these initial post operation days are harder than the days when I was struggling with the prolapse. Now I have more pain in the back, muscle stiffness and my problem has not really subsided. I think only after the incision heals would I be able to work on my gait. The mai problem is that walking with a sjorter leg makes it hard to move around, and the muscles get tired and inflamed. This will take ages to soet out. However, I think I must try and get on with things and see how these next couple of weeks proceed. I think the area of the incision heals inside out, and the deeper pain within the muscle is what appears to be causing some rigidity in the area.
Hi Hope - why not try Bowen Technique? This may help speed up your recovery (and doesn't fiddle with skeletal structure so no chance of making you 'worse') - I think some of your problem may have an 'emotional' link, which should be addressed, to help unblock the healing process. [url]The Bowen Technique | European College of Bowen Studies | The Official European Home of Bowen Therapy[/url] for therapists
Thank you Jabba the Hut. I will look into it. I went to see the doctor. She changed the dressing and gave me antibiotics. However since I returned home, I feel some of my pre op symptoms have returned, nanaely the tightness in the right hip. This hadn't happened since I had the op, and now I am so scared and worried.
I don't know how this prolapse thing heals or gets better but I am so sick of this. Surely wih each passing day I should be feeling better rather than the way I feel now. At present I feel worse than pre-op so where can I muster strength to be positive. I hope I have not prolapsed again. I don't think I did anything to have brought it on.