I woke up feeling a bit clearer.\u00a0 Still no significant pain so I decided to just stay off the Percocet and just take the muscle relaxant, thinking it must be helping somewhat with the hamstring Charlie-horse\/spasms.\u00a0 I got up and started walking down the hall to the living room.\u00a0 Part way there I felt a very sharp pain in my left pectoral.\u00a0 Was I crutching wrong?\u00a0 Was it something else?\u00a0 I stopped and touched the spot; it hurt like hell in one very specific point near the surface of the muscle as it rolls toward the armpit.\u00a0 I took the left crutch out from my armpit and made my way over to the couch.\u00a0 After I sat down the pain went away in a few seconds\u2026weird.<\/p>\n
I did my first PT of the day halfheartedly, not really feeling up to the task.<\/p>\n
As Friday progressed it became clear that I was not feeling very well at all.\u00a0 Every time I stood up I felt very light headed, plus had this same sharp pain in my left pectoral.\u00a0 Additionally I was still constantly thirsty, had to go to the bathroom and was starting to realize I was constipated too.\u00a0 On top of all that I noticed that my heart rate was quite high for \u2018just sitting around\u2019 and suspected my blood pressure was higher than normal too.\u00a0 By the evening I got my hands on my blood pressure cuff and took a reading\u2026150\/95 with heart rate of 98.\u00a0 I was quite uncomfortable by this time and decided to call my insurance nurse line.\u00a0 After discussing for a few minutes she transferred me to the Tria on-call doctor.\u00a0 While talking with the on-call doctor it became clear that all of this was fairly normal stages of purging out all of the anesthetic, pain meds, etc. that had been put in me in the past few days.\u00a0 She did warn of other symptoms (that if they should arise) would indicate an immediate 911 call.\u00a0 I figured I was also experiencing anxiety and took some anti-anxiety medication (which also reduces blood pressure\/rate).\u00a0 I felt much better within the hour.\u00a0 I also managed to relieve the constipation which made a big<\/em> difference in how I felt.\u00a0 As the evening wound down I was feeling too dodgy still to attempt PT (which felt like a big failure).<\/p>\n At bedtime I set my muscle relaxant by the bedside, but forget to take it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I woke up feeling a bit clearer.\u00a0 Still no significant pain so I decided to just stay off the Percocet and just take the muscle relaxant, thinking it must be helping somewhat with the hamstring Charlie-horse\/spasms.\u00a0 I got up and started walking down the hall to the living room.\u00a0 Part way there I felt a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=130"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":148,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130\/revisions\/148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/greg.lyonkingdom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}