Last night after going out to dinner and a movie and going to my house to collect just a few more things (which also involved going up a full flight of stairs on my butt), I got home and hadn't had a pill in like, 6 hours and my ankle was hurting and I took one and was trying to go to sleep and it wasn't working and I was so mad and thinking about taking another one, and then looked at my phone and it had only been 30 minutes since I took the pill, and thankfully like, 15 minutes later I was asleep.

Today my whole lower leg feels swollen and tingly (various bits of my leg have felt tingly at various times, the past couple weeks, it comes and goes) and I do not like it one bit. And of course every time, I'm like "oh god what if it's a sign of something awful??" (a DVT, something came loose, the fracture is not repaired, they accidentally screwed up my nerves, whatever). I hate that.

I was on a synthetic opioid for several years - I have arthritis - and it did help. The doctor cut me off late last year and I was able to cut back gradually. Then another doctor told me that Advil was bad and I wasn't to take it ... leaving me with Tylenol, which does nothing. Said that physical therapy would help ... with arthritis (it's especially bad in my lower back). Um ... so when I go in and they ask, on a scale of 1 to 10 how bad my pain is and I say "5" or "6" ... what next?

If there were warm fuzzy floaty feelings involved I might feel different, but for me it is extreme nausea and inability to function at any level.

Going to have dinner with Bobby & Tate, which nice, but grumbling in the direction of my eldest who has not acknowledged my return yet.

Yeah. I'm reading too much internet about other people who had this happen and how their recoveries were, and then getting weird and panicky deciding that this fracture actually means all my bones are awful and it's actually a sign I have (insert terrible disease ranging from kidney disease to MS to cancer)

...I should maybe stop with the Internetting

Dr. Google is not your friend.

Stop internetting, meara! It's all right, you'll be fine! Step away from Dr. Google.

Here's a quick *cough* meara, since I've been away for a minute.

Owwww. I hate being broken. And I hate having to inject myself with blood thinner, it hurts. And I don't reallt want to go back to work at all, but can't really justify that just because of a broken ankle, when I work from home! I just want to whine and complain, today :(

I feel like I should have complained more. I feel like I missed a great opportunity to whine and bitch, just, a lot.

I injected myself with Heparin for a week, and then I quit. What's the advantage of the injections over a blood thinner like Xarelto? Did they talk about that with you?

fwiw, I still have a prescription for Percocet, and I take one when it hurts too much to walk or rest. If you're hurting, take it; that's what it's for. IANAD

IDK the difference between Percocet and Oxycodone

For me, it's the blessed relief of pain combined with opioids making me feel warm and fuzzy at the edges. I don't understand taking them recreationally, but they are THE BEST for me when the pain is really bad.

That's pretty much my reaction. "Warm and fuzzy" being the opposite of tense and anxious, which is my normal setting. To me, opioids are like chocolate cake: I really enjoy it when I have it, but I wouldn't eat it every day.

(which also involved going up a full flight of stairs on my butt)

oh please let me never have to do that ever again

That's how I met some good friends of Katie's: scooching up their front steps on my rear. That's how you make a good impression, I tell you what.

my whole lower leg feels swollen and tingly

IME that's normal. It hasn't even been a month since the fall and the surgery. I'm sick of patience, so you can have my share of it :-)

WindSparrow, I hope Effexor works well for you.

The doctor cut me off late last year and I was able to cut back gradually. Then another doctor told me that Advil was bad and I wasn't to take it ... leaving me with Tylenol, which does nothing.

Yeah, that's what I'm afraid of.

ocular migraine

Theo, if possible, get your eyes checked. I had two ocular migraines in my life, within weeks of each other, and it turned out I'd had a small tear in my retina. It healed by itself, but it might have been better for me to have seen the optometrist after the *first* one.

Phantom itches are the devil.

New kitty! What did you name him?

Thanks Zen, I know you get it!!

Not sure why the injectable blood thinner rather than some other—it's lovenox not heparin but still. Ick.

I feel like "going up stairs on my butt" is going to be a several month past time for me. Thankfully it's been dry here but one of these days I may need a butt poncho? And yeah, it's only been a week and a half since surgery, two and a half since the accident. Time is both flying and crawling.

IDK the difference between Percocet and Oxycodone

Oxycodone is just the opioid (with no added acetaminophen, etc.), and percocet is oxycodone with acetaminophen. #themoreyouknow

Timelies all!

We are now home from the con. Tired.

To me, opioids are like chocolate cake: I really enjoy it when I have it, but I wouldn't eat it every day.

That's it exactly. Plus I'm pretty sure I don't have an addictive personality type; Back In The Day when I smoked, quitting took about a day.

Mind you, quitting coffee isn't ever going to happen, but I've been drinking some form of coffee since I was 10.