I've been having enough pain to have trouble sleeping lately, so

I went back on the Journavx [suzetrigine], which is neither a traditional pain medicine (i.e. opioid) nor an NSAID, so it avoids a lot of the issues with either of those. It's a sodium channel blocker. The only issue I'm having is, like my thyroid medicine, you take it on an empty stomach and can't eat for an hour afterwards, so since I took it at midnight last night, and you take it every 12 hours, it runs right into lunchtime. So timing can be tricky, especially as we eat late, and so if I take it anytime in the morning, we run into the problem of dinner. But it's workable. It's brand new, apparently. But it really helped last night and today. I wasn't sure about right after the surgery because I had that nerve block on anyway.

[UPDATE: I am totally wrong about how to take this. The food matters for the first dose only. It should be taken one hour before eating and at least two hours after eating, then 12 hours after the first dose. But the subsequent doses can be taken with or without food. Well, that makes my life much easier.]

I so

Overdid it this weekend, and I'm paying for it tonight. I've only been able to do the ROMTech bike once yesterday and today due to all I did yesterday, the resulting soreness, and the additional resistance that they added to my treatment plan. Both knees and hips are hurting. I've taken Tylenol but I think something stronger is going to be needed at bedtime. I've only taken 8 of those pills in the 25 days since my surgery, so I feel pretty good about that. I am not driving since my car is down for now, so that's not an issue. But I've tried to rest most of the day and have done very little and I'm still so wiped out I'm too tired to do a jigsaw puzzle online. It's the only thing left to do on my to-do list except my night meds. Whew.