BourbonMac
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Fuck.
I mean, it's great. I've waited for months with on and off SEVERE headaches that were actually at times about as bad as the one I have now. But holy fucking SHIT this hurts. Some of you might've seen me talk about this in other threads and why I ended up having such a terrible year because of it, having to quit smoking weed (which was REALLY fucking hard but I actually started vaping it earlier this month with great success). Vaping gave me pain before and even edibles, which is weirdly specific.
So here's the breakdown:
1. Maxillary astronomy
2. Septoplasty
3. Removal of polyps
I was never told the septum deviation was bad enough to need surgery until today. That's causing a TON of pain in my nose because I have splints in until June 1st. At least that's not far away. I wish they would have told me, because initially, I was told the deviation was not bad enough to require fixing. I wouldn't be able to breathe out my right nostril as well, but I didn't care. I could smell and taste just fine. But it did narrow my nasal passage a little more, and if there were polyps in that nostril it was likely necessary. They didn't specify which nostril had them though. Idk man just a lot of info missing. At first they said a dental infection caused it, but I just had a tooth cleaning the other day and nothing was found, not even a cavity. Good thing for that at least.
Pain is particularly across my forehead, temples and jaws. Some of my molars hurt too, the roof of my mouth, but that's more minor in comparison. The splints fucking hurt like hell though and my nose is CONSTANTLY bleeding. I have an endless pool of dark blood going down the back of my throat constantly. Delicious... if I was normal I'd probably be throwing up, but that'd actually be really really bad. I can't even bend my head down to see myself piss so if I hit the wall somehow, whatever, can't do much about it.
The blood is like a neverending waterfall under my nose. I have to have a facemask folded up with a piece of gauze in it constantly, my mustache catches whatever the gauze doesn't. Fuck this hurts.
As for the drugs I was prescribed:
1. Prednisone (FUCK my life I hate this stuff). It gave me heartburn last time and crippling panic attacks/extreme rage fits. Although some of that was due to the fact that it just wasn't helping at all and it was supposed to. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories worked, so why didn't this? I still think some was related to it though, because one night I was totally manic, up all night, felt like I was on adderall. Couldn't stop cleaning, organizing
2. Oxycodone 5mg IR (this actually literally does NOTHING for pain like wtf? probably because I'm a daily kratom user).
3. A bottle of afrin to stop the bleeding. Yeah, no. That reduces the bleeding by 30% for about half an hour, and is habit forming. It also hurts like a bitch to spray in, and I can't hawk anything out if it goes down my throat. I'd love to hawk because I know I have gnarly blood loogs to get out but I just have to accept it.
I'm expected to sleep on my back and am a side sleeper. Gotta use 3 pillows. I had a concussion with orbitol fractures before and it was similar. I was on oxycodone for that too, and similarly it didn't work that well for pain. I was not a kratom user yet. 5mg just seems like way too small of a dose and it's probably because of the opioid epidemic.
In the meantime I have a good amount of gabapentin. I can't use NSAIDS because of the prednisone so I will have to take 1-2g of tylenol for the first few days. I'm still taking kratom at this point because it seems to work better than the 5mg oxy, but maybe 5mg oxy is like 2g of kratom in terms of effectiveness. Idk. I just don't really care what I take or combine at this point as long as it helps the pain. I won't use more than 900mg of gabapentin so I shouldn't be under any risk.
I was instructed to not take Diazepam, but I will simply take it later in the night to help knock me out. After I'm all healed up, I plan to taper off, and resume using cannabis, my one true love. I ended up on this because of how bad quitting weed fucked up my anxiety and was giving me panic attacks (what it helped with) and I could not function at all. I would've lost my job, and if taking 10mg of diazepam for a few months could stop that, fuck it. You live once.
When I resumed cannabis earlier this month, I actually was forgetting to take the diazepam entirely because of how good of a headspace I was in. Diazepam can make you drowsy and kinda drunk feeling, but cannabis is just magic, it really is.
Anyway I don't know where this is going. I'm still loopy from anus stainsia and a dose of kratom I had earlier (hours after the oxy, but I doubt they're really unsafe together). Kratom doesn't cause difficulty breathing at 3g, I breathe better on it, actually.
But yea, is 5mg oxy just a pathetically low dose? I only have 8, so it's not like I can really play around and try 2. Well, maybe I can, because I have kratom and I like the feel of kratom significantly more regardless.
I would say the only cool thing about this experience aside from having it (I should be 90% recovered by 2 weeks, and look forward to look back on this thread about how much I'm suffering) is that they put me under while playing a song of my request: Dear Prudence. It's my all time favorite song.
I mean, it's great. I've waited for months with on and off SEVERE headaches that were actually at times about as bad as the one I have now. But holy fucking SHIT this hurts. Some of you might've seen me talk about this in other threads and why I ended up having such a terrible year because of it, having to quit smoking weed (which was REALLY fucking hard but I actually started vaping it earlier this month with great success). Vaping gave me pain before and even edibles, which is weirdly specific.
So here's the breakdown:
1. Maxillary astronomy
2. Septoplasty
3. Removal of polyps
I was never told the septum deviation was bad enough to need surgery until today. That's causing a TON of pain in my nose because I have splints in until June 1st. At least that's not far away. I wish they would have told me, because initially, I was told the deviation was not bad enough to require fixing. I wouldn't be able to breathe out my right nostril as well, but I didn't care. I could smell and taste just fine. But it did narrow my nasal passage a little more, and if there were polyps in that nostril it was likely necessary. They didn't specify which nostril had them though. Idk man just a lot of info missing. At first they said a dental infection caused it, but I just had a tooth cleaning the other day and nothing was found, not even a cavity. Good thing for that at least.
Pain is particularly across my forehead, temples and jaws. Some of my molars hurt too, the roof of my mouth, but that's more minor in comparison. The splints fucking hurt like hell though and my nose is CONSTANTLY bleeding. I have an endless pool of dark blood going down the back of my throat constantly. Delicious... if I was normal I'd probably be throwing up, but that'd actually be really really bad. I can't even bend my head down to see myself piss so if I hit the wall somehow, whatever, can't do much about it.
The blood is like a neverending waterfall under my nose. I have to have a facemask folded up with a piece of gauze in it constantly, my mustache catches whatever the gauze doesn't. Fuck this hurts.
As for the drugs I was prescribed:
1. Prednisone (FUCK my life I hate this stuff). It gave me heartburn last time and crippling panic attacks/extreme rage fits. Although some of that was due to the fact that it just wasn't helping at all and it was supposed to. Non-steroidal anti-inflammatories worked, so why didn't this? I still think some was related to it though, because one night I was totally manic, up all night, felt like I was on adderall. Couldn't stop cleaning, organizing
2. Oxycodone 5mg IR (this actually literally does NOTHING for pain like wtf? probably because I'm a daily kratom user).
3. A bottle of afrin to stop the bleeding. Yeah, no. That reduces the bleeding by 30% for about half an hour, and is habit forming. It also hurts like a bitch to spray in, and I can't hawk anything out if it goes down my throat. I'd love to hawk because I know I have gnarly blood loogs to get out but I just have to accept it.
I'm expected to sleep on my back and am a side sleeper. Gotta use 3 pillows. I had a concussion with orbitol fractures before and it was similar. I was on oxycodone for that too, and similarly it didn't work that well for pain. I was not a kratom user yet. 5mg just seems like way too small of a dose and it's probably because of the opioid epidemic.
In the meantime I have a good amount of gabapentin. I can't use NSAIDS because of the prednisone so I will have to take 1-2g of tylenol for the first few days. I'm still taking kratom at this point because it seems to work better than the 5mg oxy, but maybe 5mg oxy is like 2g of kratom in terms of effectiveness. Idk. I just don't really care what I take or combine at this point as long as it helps the pain. I won't use more than 900mg of gabapentin so I shouldn't be under any risk.
I was instructed to not take Diazepam, but I will simply take it later in the night to help knock me out. After I'm all healed up, I plan to taper off, and resume using cannabis, my one true love. I ended up on this because of how bad quitting weed fucked up my anxiety and was giving me panic attacks (what it helped with) and I could not function at all. I would've lost my job, and if taking 10mg of diazepam for a few months could stop that, fuck it. You live once.
When I resumed cannabis earlier this month, I actually was forgetting to take the diazepam entirely because of how good of a headspace I was in. Diazepam can make you drowsy and kinda drunk feeling, but cannabis is just magic, it really is.
Anyway I don't know where this is going. I'm still loopy from anus stainsia and a dose of kratom I had earlier (hours after the oxy, but I doubt they're really unsafe together). Kratom doesn't cause difficulty breathing at 3g, I breathe better on it, actually.
But yea, is 5mg oxy just a pathetically low dose? I only have 8, so it's not like I can really play around and try 2. Well, maybe I can, because I have kratom and I like the feel of kratom significantly more regardless.
I would say the only cool thing about this experience aside from having it (I should be 90% recovered by 2 weeks, and look forward to look back on this thread about how much I'm suffering) is that they put me under while playing a song of my request: Dear Prudence. It's my all time favorite song.
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Don't listen to your lawyer friend though please, just focus on getting better.