User: selfavowedgeek Date: 2008-05-21 22:44 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

RE: "with Dilaudid I am merely a portable moron"

Holy snikeys, that's the funniest thing I've read all day!

User: kadath Date: 2008-05-21 22:49 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Oxycondone is some goooooood shit.

User: tetar Date: 2008-05-21 22:53 (UTC) Subject: Feeling Jung

I'm an INFP. No surprise there, either.

--Gene

User: akirlu Date: 2008-05-21 23:12 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Some things that I find make sleeping on my back less sucky:

Getting a memory foam contour pillow. (Cheap at Target.)

Getting a memory foam mattress topper. (Not *too* expensive at Target.)

Sleeping with my legs crossed like a numeral 4 -- the same position the tarot deck's The Hanged Man is in, only without being hanged by one of my ankles. (Entirely free.)

User: dr_pretentious Date: 2008-05-22 03:47 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

A memory foam mattress topper is an amazing thing. The only reason I could sleep at all in the last weeks of my pregnancy is that I had a memory foam mattress topper. Worth every penny.

This is the first time I've had a chance to look at my friends list since my son was born. I thought I'd just take a quick glance, see if anything exciting was happening to anybody. Wow. The stuff I've missed. Here are even more wishes for a speedy and complete recovery.

User: jaylake Date: 2008-05-22 13:43 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Thank you. Life got very exciting very quickly hereabouts...

Sorry to hear you're having such an uncomfortable time of it, dood. OTOH, I'm glad you're having time! :)

If I sleep on my back, which I only do if I roll over in my sleep, I'm crippled for the entire day. Lower back does not like sleeping on back.

Be really AND I MEAN REALLY careful with that oxycodone, please. That and its evil twin oxycontin were what sent my hubby completely off his rocker, hallucinating nonstop, and put him in the hospital for a week to get it out of his system. That was because he was self-treating for the post-operative pain of a lumbar laminectomy, and it wasn't too long before the drugs themselves made him unable to monitor how much he was taking or why he shouldn't take 4, 8, or 12 times as many as presecribed. It is dangerous shit.

User: jaylake Date: 2008-05-22 00:56 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

This is why someone else is monitoring my drug intake. (And we ditched the oxy in favor of Dilaudid.)

User: threeoutside Date: 2008-05-22 00:00 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Sorry to hear you're having such an uncomfortable time of it, dood. OTOH, I'm glad you're having time! :)

If I sleep on my back, which I only do if I roll over in my sleep, I'm crippled for the entire day. Lower back does not like sleeping on back.

Be really AND I MEAN REALLY careful with that oxycodone, please. That and its evil twin oxycontin were what sent my hubby completely off his rocker, hallucinating nonstop, and put him in the hospital for a week to get it out of his system. That was because he was self-treating for the post-operative pain of a lumbar laminectomy, and it wasn't too long before the drugs themselves made him unable to monitor how much he was taking or why he shouldn't take 4, 8, or 12 times as many as presecribed. It is dangerous shit.

(I had trouble getting this post to take. I hope there don't turn out to be multiples of it.)

User: jaylake Date: 2008-05-22 00:57 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

This is why someone else is monitoring my drug intake. (And we ditched the oxy in favor of Dilaudid.)

User: garyomaha Date: 2008-05-22 03:26 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Is is one one of of the the side side effects effects of of the the drug drug seeing seeing double double??

User: neutronjockey Date: 2008-05-22 07:23 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: WTF!?

That's That's just just wrong wrong..

User: matt_ruff Date: 2008-05-22 00:07 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Having a colonic resectioning does not in fact make my turds shorter

Did you try numbering them to see if they come out in a different order?

User: danjite Date: 2008-05-22 01:46 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Wow. For us in chronic pain land, a 10mg oxy will relieve some pain and- on good days, leave a feeling of general wellbeing- certainly still fine for operating heavy machinery.

For you call the equivalent two aspirin and one beer.

A 20mg oxy is nausea and misery in pill form.

User:	mmegaera
Date:	2008-05-22 03:54 (UTC)
Subject:	(no subject)

The oxy will cause terrible constipation, too, which I'm sure is contraindicated in your situation.

My sympathies about the sleeping on back -- when I had my shoulder surgery I couldn't get completely horizontal (on back, sides, or stomach) for a month. My recliner and I got to know each other far too well.

User: farmgirl1146 Date: 2008-05-22 07:23 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

I've been forced to sleep on my back for long stretches of time: 9 mos, 5 wks, 3 mos on the three most memorable recoveries. As a back-sleeping veteran, I strong suggest two fat pillows under the calves of your legs. I only had standard pillows, but almost sent out for king sized ones because I rolled off of them. I have no knowledge about memory foam, but it is so cool...

Elevating your legs takes stress of of your abdominal area, and rolls your spine so that you are not trying to lay on the arch of the small of your back. That is where the real pain of back sleeping comes from. You will need to untuck the foot of your covers to accomodate the pillows and your feet.

I found that using a rolled towel under my neck instead of a pillow helped diminish but not eliminate snoring, and relieve back pain. This is where a memory foam neck pillow would work great. The neck roll needs to be about 4 inches in diameter. I used a fairly low nap bath towel folded lengthwise in thirds and rolled tightly then secured with big rubber bands. It is surprisingly comfortable.

Good luck and speedy recovery.

P.S. I am glad that the turds are working their way out, and that you are recovering from loss of peristalsis during the operation. I would not like to think of you as being full of s*** ;-).

User: weezlgrrrl Date: 2008-05-22 07:30 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Dude I hear you about the drugs. When I was first tossed into the hospital for pneumonia, they were dumping Dilaudid into my IV every 4 hours or so. Although I really welcomed relief from the pain (constant headache + cracked ribs from coughing), I HATED the feeling it gave me. First there was that really unpleasant, heart-pounding rush, then you find yourself staring off into space. Or asleep, if you're lucky. Oxycodone though--happy pills! Good thing I didn't have that many of them in my prescription.
Anyway, I'm so glad you're on the mend. U just keep getting better, bwah.
Lorelei

User: martyn44 Date: 2008-05-22 09:03 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Just hope you're off any medication real soon now, and keep making progress.

User: klingonguy Date: 2008-05-22 11:52 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Having a colonic resectioning does not in fact make my turds shorter

Neener, neener, told ya so!

User: etcet Date: 2008-05-22 13:51 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

slapping the latter portion of this on metaquotes to share the wit, if not the erudition....

User: noelleleithe Date: 2008-05-22 16:24 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: Tulips

(Reposting due to my bad threading and a typo, ACK.)

Here from metaquotes, but also a fellow cranky_editor, and dude, I had no idea about the cancer. Sorry to hear it, but glad you're doing (reasonably) well, other than that whole sleeping-on-your-back thing. :)

User: chainsaw_hime Date: 2008-05-22 18:18 (UTC) Subject: (no subject) Keyword: I Make Smurfs Cry

Here from [Unknown LJ tag].

My partner is getting released from the hospital today, after a week-long stay from surgery. She feels your pain.

User: jaylake Date: 2008-05-22 18:29 (UTC) Subject: (no subject)

Good luck to her!