troi

Things I've learned after my recent surgery:

1. They know how to manage pain these days. I expected to be in agony and my pain is pretty much 2 out of 10.

2. Anesthesia can have a lingering effect on vision (blurriness, likely related to slow focus response). Definitely temporary.

3. Anesthesia can cause neuropathy. Hopefully this is temporary. I had my annual foot exam a few weeks ago and aced it. No loss of sensation and thanks to GLP-1 goodness all that tingling was gone. Emphasis on was. Good god I hope it's temporary.

4. Post surgical insomnia (after leaving the hospital) is a thing. I slept most of the first day and a half after discharge (2 hours sleep, 30-90 minutes awake, repeat) and I can't sleep even though it's been a few days since I was discharged.

The medical types undersell their progress with pain management, but they don't really tell you about the other three items.

It's made for a lot of interesting research.

#surgery #complications #anesthesia

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Show threadChookMother 🇦🇺🦘12h ago
@troi Unless you have chronic pain, ie the ongoing kind. Then you come under contant suspicion of being an addict.
Show threadtroi1h ago
@anne_twain Or a malingerer. And I have a bad enough case of imposter syndrome as it is. I cried when my cardiologist said "no, you're not malingering, I see it, I can tell something is really going on here." Never found a fix, nor much of an answer, but it's nice to really be seen.