Thing 1: I've been really bad about my home therapy. I'm loving going to the gym physical therapy, but I've been so stiff at home it's hard to encourage myself to do the exercises. Especially when I'm out and about more and I come home and my knee is tired, so I don't want to move it. I hate admitting that I've not been doing it, but didn't I promise honesty? I've had a lot of offers from people that I could use their pools. So I'll do my best to take them up on their offers as much as possible, but on a rotation so a particular friend doesn't get worn out.
Thing 2: something I've been fearing from the beginning is an addiction to the pain meds. With my high pain tolerance, I want to be off meds as soon as possible. When I first was injured, I was taking my norco by the clock, 4 times a day. Quickly, I changed that to 3 times a day. Then a friend advised taking my prescription strength ibuprofen with the norco, and I was able to do 1 norco and 1 ibu, in the morning and at night. Finally, after that, I was able to wean down to ibu in the morning, and ibu and a norco at night.
I don't know how long people normally are on pain meds for my type of injury. I don't know what's considered normal. Usually, the way I test whether or not I need something is if I forget something and see how much it affected me later. So this morning I forgot my ibuprofen. Not even the norco. Just the ibu, and I was quite uncomfortable/in pain today. Didn't realize until I went to take my night meds that I had forgotten. At least now I know that my knee is still feeling consistent pain without the meds and they are needed for the moment. As much as I don't like being on addictive meds, it's what I have to do for now.
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