Quote from: jcayabo on December 16, 2018, 03:58:23 AMInserted? As in, injection? This is the first I've heard of it, could you elaborate?
I use NaCl saline water if I'm cleaning the wounds, and I put some sudocrem or klobest, both very light ointments for wound treatment with very little medication in them. Aside from that, changing gauze and a bit of drying. I have zero idea if the pin points are infected, but I sure do get pain in some of them. The main screw in my tibia gets a sharp pain when walking, and 1 or 2 in my knees also get painful in bending certain positions.
No no you're misunderatanding me im talking about the HLN pump that is inserted into my hip. ......its nothing to do with the cleaning done by the Surgical assistant.
Saline water and bedtadine would be ok to use. I will say leaving the wound dry for periods of 4-5 days is fine. I had build ups of scab tissue around my pin sites and its perfectly normal, its the bodies way of trying to close the wound. The doctor alone or nurse has the ability to tell you if its infected.
Also give it time to try dont do it everyday.
2018 - External Tibias - Dr. Bagirov, Baku, Azerbaijan / Moscow, Russia
Quote from: jcayabo on December 16, 2018, 03:51:24 AMYes I think you'll be able to do a PA job freelance without issue. Any kind of work on a laptop should be easy, since you'll be on it plenty. My concentration is fine, but the massive swings in mood/pain/motivation is draining. Just from this week, thursday was a complete writeoff due to ankles being swollen, friday was great and I walked and met friends in the city but my painkillers wore out on the way home and it was a painful struggle to get to sleep, saturday I had crazy tightness/pain in my knees maybe from walking a lot the day before and sleeping was brutal. But I took some painkillers last night and maybe it's the effects carrying over but this morning I feel amazing and will walk a lot again today.
And the days spent at home are very hit and miss. If the pain is high I'll just stay and bed with no PT or exercise or stretching, but some days I'll crank out a lot of working out and staying active.
Ugh. Just need something to keep my mood/motivation up, because once it's down you don't want to do anything. I wouldn't call it depression, but I definitely understand the feeling.
Since moving to America to study I faced this feeling everyday. My community college doesn't have jack and the area around it isn't safe so I stay far away and have spent almost my entire 8 months alone at home and going to school, only other time going out for groceries
It actually drove me crazy in the first 4 months now I with a lot of bouts of crying, but now Im completely numb to happiness and sadness. I sometimes get out of words if even the store cashier talks to me
Im going to be doing LL next year too and come back and stay at home (cuz Im broke) and it sounds like more and more dreadful waiting .. I was considering doing it with a doctor and then going to the guesthouse where I get to meet people in similar shoes and we would get a positive atmosphere but lmao! money > all that
Keep strong boy! you are 75% done so thee light at the end of the tunnel is coming soon.
I understand where you’re coming from. I consider the idea of a clinic more and more as I go along. Thinking I’d get better support from my doctor (post home care doctors don’t have to care since they’re an email/text away) and of course meeting others in the same shoes. Home care is REALLY tough doing it by yourself, you will absolutely need a nurse or someone to take care of you, even just so you don’t go insane by yourself. Of course this is the cheaper option but 80% of this surgery and recovery is mental game. Pain, mood, feeling affects all of your progress, and how easy you get past the days. Tough to weigh out, really.
I’m doing great again today, big walk in the city with friends and now back home now working out. Like I said, ups and down are how the days go after surgery.
I think you’re right. I had a terrible habit of picking at my scabs, and now I’ve put them all under a heap of gauze and tensor bands, so I cannot pick. lol and behold, pain is really gone. Aalso the tensors help immensely!
Pretty good day/week and am starting to see the upside.
Back when i was doing tibias external, when i saw that scab building up i thought it was infection too, look if its green or yellowish and the surrounding skin is red then yes its infected but if its just normal brown looking scab building up around thats normal. Im still not an expert a doctor nurse still knows better than me.
Well it’s all packed under wraps of gauze and tensors so no I really have no idea.. seemingly problems occur every time I change or clean my gauzes and I’m considering keeping them on for a 2 week period while it dries, but I’m not entirely sure. Just every time I change it, it rips all of the firmed scabs off and I start again from scratch, and strangely enough pain and tightness kick in a day later.
To be honest we used to leave them open, not covered the moisture somehow makes it look worse, The dryer the better. When i done external we litrally left them as it and tended to them when needed.
I will not motivate u , I will warn u , u will regret being inactive. u will suffer the ty ballerina feet and knee bending for some good time and u will not enjoy the height u gain because u will not be able to stand straight to measure it .
Are you going to stay here for consolidation as well?
How long are you planning to stay in AZJ
Quote from: AR on December 17, 2018, 02:47:46 PMI will not motivate u , I will warn u , u will regret being inactive. u will suffer the ty ballerina feet and knee bending for some good time and u will not enjoy the height u gain because u will not be able to stand straight to measure it .
Very fair comment. I'm not being inactive fully. Every second day I climb up/down 3 flights of stairs, walk 400m, and on my second day I do leg lifts sitting and lying down, and weight train. My knee ROM is about 80% but it's not fully straight unless I really force it, but I'm trying.
You are absolutely right about ballerina. Can I ask if you got a lot of pain in your ankles after walking? Mine seem to swell every time, making it hurt to lengthen. Can I ask how you fought ballerina?
Quote from: takura on December 17, 2018, 04:02:28 PMAre you going to stay here for consolidation as well?
How long are you planning to stay in AZJ
I live here, so as long as it takes. No issues with time.
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