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Now sleeved, in hospital recovering update
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.due to pre existing chronic pain issues and being on narcotics, and despite addressing this with surgeon in advance, pain is not being adequately managed.
I love my surgeon but I see , in the end, he just doesn't understand pain management in chronic pain patients and I even urged him to talk to my pain specialist. He declined yet he put me on the same dose of pain med he puts any patient on probably figuring my regular maintenance pain med would manage the rest
..it doesn't work that way
The surgeon on call is worse. He upped the med by . two!!! And added a pulse ox monitor as if I'm going to stop breathing! Omg
Ok rant over ..I've had to hold in the tears to keep from physically stressing my body
On the good side, I've walked twice around the floor and I'm I'm a private room
I've had visitors, encouraging ones.. so outside of pain, I'm pleased
The gas pain though...omg is killing me in the ribs under the breast bone. What's up with that?! Quite miserable
No food or liquid yet
And I lost 18 lbs on the liquid diet last week!!