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Old man ray said:
I had the one in my head replaced after almost thirty five years with a polymer type.my neurologist put me on a patch system called Butrans lasts seven days works a lot better then the Oxys.
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The doctors put my sister on fentanyl patch for her back pain. The patch was appaerntly faulty and now she is dead at 45 because of an accidental OD.

Please beware of all patches.... after time you learn to deal with the pain.
I have 3 pins holding my wrist together for the last 29 years. I have learned to deal with it. Every now and then (couple months) I will take 1/2 a perc and im good since I have no tolerence anymore. If it were an option for me MJ would be my choise if I really had to but it's not an option with my work.
But each of us are different but please becareful.
 
Damn Dave! I hope that it went well for you! I missed your email that you sent to me earlier. Keep in touch! We can both chat over our bad luck / health! Still have the trans for you...I know you're in no hurry right now. Take care and kick back on the couch!
Mike
 
nuttyprof said:
I'm going stir crazy, I can't even sit up to work at the computer for very long before my leg swells up till it's painful. About the only thing I can do is crochet and last week I had no idea how!:blob:I'm sleeping in one of those beds that lets you raise the head and/or the foot and it still was not enough so I raised the foot of the bed frame 6"and now it isn't to bad except getting in or out!:banghead:

Nuttyprof
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dang man hit me up if u want to talk to some one and get ur mind off it ... well tell it hurts too bad been there ... keep us updated bud
 
Plate and screws are in, leg bones feel better but the staples burn. I'm back at my mom's house instead of at the hospital so that is better, and knowing the surgury is done so the bones can heal is a relief.
Thanks for your concern.

Dave
 
nuttyprof said:
Plate and screws are in, leg bones feel better but the staples burn. I'm back at my mom's house instead of at the hospital so that is better, and knowing the surgury is done so the bones can heal is a relief.
Thanks for your concern.

Dave
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Great to hear it's done.

Let me make a suggestion to you. Drink Milk & lots of it.

The calcium will help heal things up properly & quickly.


When I was 18, I broke my tibia (front shin bone) on a snowmobile. I was sick for a couple of weeks before my 4 week check up with the doc. When he looked at the x-ray, he stated that I wasn't healing that much. I am usually a quick healer, so I figured my slow healing was due to me being sick for a couple of weeks and my body having to fight the cold distracted it from healing my leg. I decided to test my healing ability/speed. So I told my dad to buy at least 1 gallon of milk per day. I drank over a gallon of milk except for one day I only did 3/4 of a gallon.

So the two weeks go by and I've been keeping to the gallon per day routine. I go into the doc's office again, and he x-rays the leg again. He was so amazed that he almost fell off of his chair. He showed me on the bone where you can see the new bone grown around it and it was healing. He said that it was healing so well, that he could take off my full cast and I did not need the walking cast that usually is needed for another six weeks! How about that? I was supposed to be in a cast for 12 weeks and only needed it for 6.

My strategy worked: throw all the calcium at that you can and let your body be the limiting factor to your healing quality and speed.

So, guzzle up some milk and get that thing healing...
 
Glad to hear you're on the mend, and everything went as planned.

BTW. My wife is asking if her doily is almost done lol..

Grant
 
. I go back and get the staples out on the 13th of Mar. The surgery was put off so long that the bones had started to heal back together in the wrong position so they had to scrape all the new growth out before they screwed them back. I got 2 screws in the medial malleous and a plate and screws in the fibula at the lower break. The upper break in the fibula was not displaced so it didn't need a plate or screws.


BTW. My wife is asking if her doily is almost done lol..
Grant
What size/color?
 
It finally got there!


Check it out. And to our recovering member nuttyprof, a huge thanks and a smile go out to you this day. Hoping your recovery is swift, and your new venture is monetarily successful lol..

Thanks Dave,

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May 22 the doc said I can put weight on it " as tolerated"! It doesn't tolerate much. Still using the brace boot and one crutch but I can get around better now. It still feels like a box of pins in the joint but I'm getting better.
 
I tried using a cane instead of a crutch today and it's easier to get around that way. I hope that i'll be able to do the engine swap on my valiant soon. Shortly before I broke my lag the engine started to squeak from the crankcase. I think I may have spun a bearing:angry5:, but I have a 225 that runs ok that can go in till I rebuild the 170. Now I just have to get my leg good enough to do it!
 
krazykuda said:
Just wait until you can tell 24 hours before it rains...

It's more accurate than the weather man.
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i hear that! steel femur bone 25 years, i hope it helps you those oxys are not a good thing to need they make you need them.
 
Pain pills don't do much for me so I only take them when the pain is unbearable, not much worry about me getting hooked. So far I can't tell when the weather is changing so no problem there. I'm so glad to be home and so are my 2 cats! I love gardening but haven't been able to do anything to it this year till now. the weeds were 4' tall! Used a walk behind mower with one hand and my cane in the other and mowed them all down. It's late but I'm still going to plant some stuff,
 
Went to the doc today. I've been having a problem with my left big toe. I can't pull it up (with the muscles in my foot). The doc said that the nerves have been damaged, they are working at less than 5%.There is a chance that the nerves will heal, but it may take up to 2.5 years! I know it doesn't sound like a big problem but that toe rolls under if I'm not careful. It makes it difficult and painful to put a regular shoe on!!!:crybaby:
 
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