Day 9 post-op
First days in the hospital were very good to manage due to strong pain killers (oxy daily). However, since I am now „only“ on 4x ibu, 4x nova and 2x Tilidin daily, pain levels are different than the first days after surgery. I definitely feel that swelling in the upper leg and in the knee are fading but there is a constant pain level of 2 out of 10. worst part is pain in the knee (probably due to blood floating in it after surgery according to Köhne) that causes short but very painful stitches depending on my motions. The latter is really only going away very slowly but overall pain in my leg is very manageable. Also although pain in knee is really annoying I am mobile and pretty independent which is a good thing. The two things that currently stress me:
1) knee pain that makes it impossible to try to stretch atm.
2) constant (low) pain in my leg that doesn’t really let me sleep well (less than 4 hours per night).
Will have my first checkup with Köhne next week and I will probably ask for some medication to sleep. I am currently lengthen 1mm per day and I am planning to start Physio in two week.
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Topic: Unilateral Femur with Dr Koehne (Read 2793 times)