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Visitors' Stories -- Linda (page 2 of 5): Afternoon at Home 1st Day 3/12/03 - My friend is a nurse and stayed with me for the first two nights. I was taking 2 Lortab every 4-5 hours, but looking back I don't think I really needed that many. The Lortab wired me, I was in a great mood, talking and talking, but when it came time for me to sleep I couldn't, I took an Ambien but again the Lortab just overruled it and it did not work for me. My breasts did not hurt at all, but the Lipo was very painful. I drank 64oz of half gatorade/half water the first afternoon, I was very thirsty and knew it was good to get rehydrated. I drank out of "sippy" cups, this was very easy, you didn't have to sit up and reach your arm over to put it down, so could just put it wherever, I highly recommend this. That night I ate yogurt and crackers. I started rubbing Arnica Gel onto my breasts morning-noon-night to help with swelling and stiffness, I continued taking the Arnica tablets under my tongue 3x daily. Thursday, 2nd Day 3/13/03 - Was very hungry, ate oatmeal, yogurt for lunch, steamed broccoli/cauliflower for dinner, ate lots of Goldfish crackers during day or saltines and peanut butter before taking pain pills or antibiotic, stayed in bed all day. Continued to drinks lots of water/gatorade/apple juice. Still wired on pain pills, not sleeping well. Can see through my girdle that one Lipo site had oozed a little through Telfa pad, but that was the only one. Breasts rock hard and high up under collar bone. Breasts do not hurt. My friend unzipped my girdle a bit to look at the Lipo bruising, had pretty deep black bruise on back of hip and then 8" diameter bruise on each outer thigh. She rubbed some Cypress Oil (good for bruising) into the bruise on my hip but we didn't do anything to the thighs yet. Friday, 3rd Day 3/14/03 - More of the same, called doctor office to report that I was almost out of Lortab, nurse informed me that I was taking too many. I immediately switched to just Tylenol, took 2 Tylenol every 4-6 hours, This seemed to work fine for me and I wished that I had switched to Tylenol earlier. I did take ½ pain pill before bed and instead of taking Ambien took a Benedryl. The Benadryl helped me sleep plus I had bad itching under the girdle. Lortab makes me itch so I was glad to stop taking that. Stayed in bed most of day, but then moved out to couch. Breasts don't hurt, but the Lipo is hurting. I slept on the couch tonight as my couch is very soft. The girdle has a hook-n-eye close, then zips up on top of that, when I tried to sleep on my sides the hooks would feel like they were digging into me, felt like sleeping on rocks, very uncomfortable. I am feeling a bit depressed and am sick of everything. |
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