Comression Stockings After Surgery

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No drain for me, Looking Ahead. My surgeon believes that often times if there is a leak, the drain does not even reflect it and it causes the patient more discomfort than it does good in the long run. It's going to be okay. You are 1 week out, has it gotten any better at all? It has for me, little bit each day. My pain is coming from my shoulder and that weird spasm. Luckily the spasm lasts only a couple of seconds at a time. But I can tell it's less than it was at first. I read somewhere that it has to do with a nerve near the diaphragm and since everything is all swollen there, etc that it's just spasming out. I notice now that it does it mostly when I move around a lot, like if I am adjusting a lot of my position on the couch or if I just come down the stairs that teensy bit too fast. I don't notice it in relation to eating or anything, so I think it's just our body getting accustomed to the new position of things. It is lessening, thankfully.

I'm not doing anything for the pain now, because nothing works. They gave me liquid lortab which is the most horrible thing on earth. I vomited it up 2 times because of the taste not even because I was sipping it too fast. I couldn't hold it down. So I got a liquid tylenol per my surgeons suggestion and it helps with the pain that is not my shoulder or spasm pain. So I figured since those are really the only pains I'm having now, I'm not going to keep drugging it up. If it wasn't for this horrible pain in my shoulder that is almost constant, I would not actually have any pain when that spasm is not happening. That is horrid.

Hang in there, you're doing great!