Suboxone - Living on the Edge

[EeFall]

And if you lived over here you'd find that there is not one WED/RLS expert !

I've still been mulling over what I have thought was meant by 'the luck of the Irish'..... perhaps the 'bounce back' ability ??
All a big generalisation anyway..

I like the bounce back interpretation

Speaking of that my stomach is a little better this morning! Maybe my body was getting used to the mesh & has figured out it is a good thing. Hopefully tomorrow will reveal a good trend towards healing.

[EeFall]

I synced my Basis watch awhile ago and I slept 8 hours and 1 minute last night and also took a 32 minute nap that day! Suboxone just seems to be getting better all the time.

The 8h 1m Basis score was 85% also, that means I am getting the REM and deep sleep I need, so it is good sleep.

I looked up 85% to convert it to a letter grade and it is a solid B! My next goal will be to get to a 90% A-.

[Polar Bear]

[debbluebird]

Regarding the mesh when the body rejects it. Usually most of the surgeons I knew would wait as long as possible. They would do nothing if there were just redness, swelling and discomfort. They would wait until the skin opened up before they considered it a problem. It sounds like you are on the way.

[EeFall]

Regarding the mesh when the body rejects it. Usually most of the surgeons I knew would wait as long as possible. They would do nothing if there were just redness, swelling and discomfort. They would wait until the skin opened up before they considered it a problem. It sounds like you are on the way.

I overdid it a little tonight. I was excited that it was a clear evening and Mars was in the southeast sky and very close to Earth right now, about 60 million miles. I only saw Mars once before a few years ago and it was much farther away. My wife moved the telescope in 2 sections outside for me and also my suitcase sized case of gadgets for the scope. We thought if she moved everything then it would be alright but I still had to use a couple of instruments on the scope to find Mars and focus it and move the big tube around while bending over and squatting and those kinds of movements that are not ideal at all for having surgery near my bellybutton lol, I am sore. On the other hand we both were able to observe Mars over a 45 minute period and it was awesome!

My poor wife also mowed the lawn for the first time today with our electric walk behind mower. It is a little tricky the first time, it is self propelled but there is still a lot of work involved, especially on slopes which we have. She will sleep soundly and long tonight lol. I hate not being able to lift anything but it is a no no for a long while now. I don't want to got through this again! I think it is at least not getting worse.

[Polar Bear]

When you are healed from your surgery you can again take over mowing duties. In the meantime, it's any available hands on deck.

[debbluebird]

Glad you are following orders.

[debbluebird]

I've been wondering if you are ok. Hope so.

[badnights]

Are you still hanging in there?

[EeFall]

Hello all,

I am still kicking and went back to work today. At work it was a little strange, I was having trouble thinking clearly and it made me frustrated and panicky a bit. Not only that but this is the first time I have been on here in 11 days. The RLS forum was as if it had never existed in my brain until I thought about it today which is just really weird. I have heard of similar things happening after surgery from the stuff they use to knock you out. I suppose it could be that, I hope it is because I have forgotten many things over the last week and would hate to think I was getting alzheimer's.

My sleep has been averaging 6 to 7 hours a day! Suboxone is better now than ANYTHING I have ever taken for RLS (unless it is contributing to my forgetfulness).

[ViewsAskew]

YAY - well, expect for the part about forgetting about all of us, lol.

[EeFall]

I am getting back in the groove at work but my mind is not fully working as it did before the surgery. I hate reporting that RLS is under control as I did in the last message Monday because it can go to nothing in a few days. Unfortunately my RLS has been creeping back in the last few days. I had a restless night Tuesday. Wednesday I got up from restlessness at 1am and then forced myself back into bed at 3:30am. I went to work but it was not a good day. My wife actually suggested increasing my Suboxone for one night so I did. Instead of 4mg I did 6mg.

I was itchy all night. I got up at midnight and went back to bed about 1:30am. Narcotic type drugs do that to me, the more the dosage, the worse the itchiness Even so I am taking 6mg again tonight. It might be that my body just needs to get used to the extra dose. I am such a sucker. I always get lulled into the belief that my RLS is finally under control, sucker! Maybe it is just a bump in the road and I will be able to go back to 4mg, I hope so.

My wife is looking into making me an appointment with a specialist for tinnitus (hearing noise that is not there). It has become increasingly severe. The sound on the left side of head (it sounds like in the ear, but it can't actually be coming from there I wouldn't think) now sounds like a constant swarm of tin bees in a noisy clock. The right side is also doing it now at about 75% the volume and it is different, just like listening to a stereo.

My right shoulder is now locking up many times a day (meaning instant severe pain). At work today it would even cause pain by moving my computer mouse around and clicking a combination of different mouse buttons My surgery is a month away, the way it is going I will have to have my arm in a sling pretty soon so I don't keep moving it. It is impossible to figure out just how I shouldn't be moving it. It is so strange. Repeating a movement does not mean the same result will occur.

So there it is, RLS meds beginning to falter, tinnitus getting insanely bad, right shoulder in bad need of repair - almost made me forget the surgery I had a few weeks ago to repair the hernia that was repairing a hernia surgery from months ago that was caused by an incision for robotic prostate cancer surgery almost 2 years ago. Actually it is healing nicely now and the surgeons skill shows by leaving the least of a scar from the 3 incisions in the same place. Third time's a charm?

On a brighter note I am actually enjoying life despite all of these (and other) problems. If one has some problem you can bet that someone else has it much worse. I am thankful for a wonderful life! I'm thankful that Suboxone has been working so well (despite the bump at the moment), I am doing so much better!

btw - you guys rock!

[Polar Bear]

I'm happy to see that even after listing your troubles you managed to say that life is good. And it is

[EeFall]

I'm happy to see that even after listing your troubles you managed to say that life is good. And it is

It is indeed! I can appreciate the good times much more having lived through difficult times. I guess that makes sense

[Polar Bear]

You have to have the rain to enjoy the sunshine, and I found this to be really true.
In the 70s I lived in Libya/North Africa for a year. My son was aged 12 months.
Homes all had a flat roof with a wall around and this is where I hung the (hand) dripping wet washing.
As I finished pegging it out I could go to the beginning and take it off the line, dry. Great to get the diapers laundered.
However, day after day after day... and we were saying.... please rain, let's have some rain. Anything, just a change of weather.

Of course when it did rain, the sand had clogged the drains and we were surrounded by about 6" flooding until it seeped away.
We made little towers of two concrete building blocks with wooden planks between to get out of the building !!

Sorry, digressed there.
It was something about appreciating what we have