Day 4 (Saturday, Apr 30th)
I woke up today feeling much better than I did yesterday. I had one big cramp-up overnight and had to get up one time. I slept mostly on my back though somewhat on my side (Involved knee ‘up’). I still have extra swelling in my leg and the weird pain in my left pectoral when I stand up, but no more light-headedness. High blood pressure & fast pulse from yesterday are also relieved dramatically. I also realize that I forgot to take my muscle relaxant last night and decide that I’ll just stay off of those too.
As I’m writing this at 7:00PM I haven’t had to use any pain meds today. I’m starting to switch over from lethargy to restlessness. I will be very glad to get out of the leg immobilizer.
My morning physical therapy went well. I will stick with these same exercises 2x daily until my next PT session at Tria on Wednesday.
Ouch!
I just tried to take a shower. I thought I was finally feeling good enough to do it, but once I got out of the immobilizer and the Tubigrip and walked in to the bathroom, my hamstring started cramping up too much and I had to abort the mission…maybe tomorrow?
Evening PT and icing went well. I straightened the immobilizer a bit and also made it a bit tighter; maybe it’ll be more comfortable sleeping that way?
Posted by Greg on July 8th, 2011 :: Filed under ACL Files
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July 10th, 2011
I’ve always found that muscle relaxants make me much more dopey feeling than narcotics. But then, for the back pain I used the muscle relaxants for, nothing else would work. It encourages me to keep up on my PT so I don’t have to take muscle relaxants.
July 11th, 2011
Ben, that is interesting…I assumed it was the narcotic that wiped me out, but maybe it was really that Muscle Relaxant.