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.]

Home from the hospital

Having some pain,  but it should ease up now that I have my knee propped up and I have taken some pain medicine. I will ice it in a bit. They did a partial meniscectomy with a chondroplasty.  I can put weight on it for short periods of time.  Right now I am in bed and I think I will try to get some sleep--I only got about three hours max last night or so.  I will write later,  hopefully.  All in all,  it wasn't too bad.

3 am and I'm wide awake

Grrr...Argh. I woke up at two and just couldn't get comfortable again. So here I am, out in the living area, with probably the only light on in the building other than the hallways, blogging about nothing in particular. I hate insomnia. I did get four hours' sleep, just about, having gone to bed a little after 10 pm. But still....

At four I can take more acetaminophen, so that should help. It just doesn't have the staying power of the Percoset. On the other hand, I'm enjoying eating dairy products again.

I just remembered

There's a book fair at work tomorrow, one of those Books are Fun ones. Even though I was saving up for the trip, I'd been looking forward to it.  :-) Oh, well. They come every six months or so. I am sure they'll be back.

I thought it odd that I could go six hours with this medicine, rather than only four, then checked and it's a higher formulation than what the ER gave me. It certainly seems to be managing the pain better.

I think I am going to ask my office mate to bring me the fan on my desk for those rare times I am in the living area. I feel like I need air flowing and I only have the big fan in the bedroom.

Other things I need to ask for:
1) toilet paper
2) bread, oh, wait, I have some in the freezer, scratch that
3) hand soap
4) soda (a little; I've mostly been drinking water)
5) cheese
6) alcohol pads

The big grocery run is tomorrow, sans me, of course. I'll see if Brenda can bring me over these things and maybe return the library books I couldn't renew to the branch across the street. I have some due tomorrow. I'll check to see if more are coming due...the pre-op appointment Friday is on the same street.

Four days of sponge baths are leaving me feeling less than fresh. I also really need to do some laundry. Not sure how to work that out. Even if I had enough hands the laundrette is across the parking lot several buildings down, and down stairs. I have come to accept that someone is going to have to do it for me.

Okay, I'm getting tired. Have a good night. I think I am going to turn in.