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I had surgery on the 5th. Came home yesterday. Minimal pain from the actual surgery. Went to bed and woke up around 2am with horrible pain in both of my forearms. I had elevated the head of my bed so I'm not sure if it was due to that or not. Anyway, I had to get up and I walked while bending arms up and down hoping to get some blood flow going. Both arms feel warm especially close to my wrist. I had my hubby massage them before I got any relief. Had to take pain meds to be able to go back to sleep. Woke up this morning and they are better but still hurt. Put a call in to the nurse so just waiting on a call back. Anyone else experience this??

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Glad you called the nurse. Hopefully it's just something to do with strapping you to the table...

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I had surgery on the 5th. Came home yesterday. Minimal pain from the actual surgery. Went to bed and woke up around 2am with horrible pain in both of my forearms. I had elevated the head of my bed so I'm not sure if it was due to that or not. Anyway, I had to get up and I walked while bending arms up and down hoping to get some blood flow going. Both arms feel warm especially close to my wrist. I had my hubby massage them before I got any relief. Had to take pain meds to be able to go back to sleep. Woke up this morning and they are better but still hurt. Put a call in to the nurse so just waiting on a call back. Anyone else experience this??


I had the same thing a few hours after returning home from the surgery. The doctor told me it was because of the two IVs, all the time they poked my veins and were not successful and all the blood drawn. Basically your veins are swollen. I took out warm compress on them and took the pain meds they prescribed me at the hospital. Hope you feel better soon.


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