I’ve never been one for drugs but after my recent duo of wrist op’s and the horrendous pain I’m experiencing todays visit to the hospital gave me a kind of timetable of recovery and a solution to my pain.
10 days till they remove my stitches and I must not use my hand at all and keep it elevated as much as possible.
This is followed by physio therapy until the bone has healed with an estimated 12 weeks recovery and repair.
Full use of my hand should be about 12 months due to the severity.
However due to the excessive nerve damage this has got to me monitored regularly and in the meantime they have gave me a specialist nerve drug called Gabapentalin to calm the involuntary electric shock type pains and unreal tingling of most of my fingers and thumb.
I took one of these tablets today and within an hour I was floating around the house totally spaced out and it felt like I really did enter the twilight zone.
They tell my my body should get used to this eventually but be aware of the mass of side effects that these can bring on.
Bonus is the shocks have stopped but I’m totally useless and can barely do any day to day tasks so I’m gonna try time them accordingly so I can at least have Bertha doing jobs early morn/noon while recouping.
This week I’m also gonna list a couple of project pins I’ve recently acquired as I don’t see any point them sitting here and I probably wouldn’t have even bought them had I known what was coming.
Well I’ve dropped another tablet so let’s see what weird freaky dreams I have but one things for sure these things try to knock you out so at least I should get some pain relief for the 1st time in weeks.
Nite all
10 days till they remove my stitches and I must not use my hand at all and keep it elevated as much as possible.
This is followed by physio therapy until the bone has healed with an estimated 12 weeks recovery and repair.
Full use of my hand should be about 12 months due to the severity.
However due to the excessive nerve damage this has got to me monitored regularly and in the meantime they have gave me a specialist nerve drug called Gabapentalin to calm the involuntary electric shock type pains and unreal tingling of most of my fingers and thumb.
I took one of these tablets today and within an hour I was floating around the house totally spaced out and it felt like I really did enter the twilight zone.
They tell my my body should get used to this eventually but be aware of the mass of side effects that these can bring on.
Bonus is the shocks have stopped but I’m totally useless and can barely do any day to day tasks so I’m gonna try time them accordingly so I can at least have Bertha doing jobs early morn/noon while recouping.
This week I’m also gonna list a couple of project pins I’ve recently acquired as I don’t see any point them sitting here and I probably wouldn’t have even bought them had I known what was coming.
Well I’ve dropped another tablet so let’s see what weird freaky dreams I have but one things for sure these things try to knock you out so at least I should get some pain relief for the 1st time in weeks.
Nite all
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