After the Biopsy…Pain, Pain, and More PAIN

 

All I could say is PAIN PAIN PAIN.  It seemed as soon as they were finish- the sedative was completely gone.  They needed me to get up to move from the CT table/operating table to the hospital bed and I tried for a quick second and then thought, are these people INSANE!!!!! They ended up having to put a board under me and lifting me up on the bed.  They then took me back to my "recovery" room…and all I could think of is, you have got to be kidding. No one ever told me that I would be in this much pain.  No one.  (Unless something catastrophic happens like puncturing a lung or something, which at this point I thought may have happened).  I could barely talk- the pain was inbearable to mumble above a whisper.  It hurt to breath- hurt to move- just hurt.  They came in every 15/30 minutes to check the wound site and my bloodpressure and pulse. They kept asking me if the pain was any better…and I kept saying no no no. 

 Before they would give me anything for the pain, they said they had to do a chest x-ray.  I thought, what in the hell does that have to do with giving me something for this unbearable pain I am having?  So, the woman came in to do the x-ray and then expected me to sit up.  Sit up?  SIT UP?  Once again I said- you have got to be kidding me.  She said hold my arm…which I did….but it is not like that actually made it feel any better.  I finally got up enough to where she could put the board behind my back and take the x-ray and thankfully was able to lie back down.  But still, no pain medication.  Almost 2 hours later, after my mother bugged the crap out of the nurse, she finally brought me a lortab (which the nurse said was "good stuff" and it should do the job). I was like…sure…why couldn't u have just inserted something in my IV so it would have worked right then?

But anyways….30 minutes or so after that it finally kicked in (but still didn't do much for the pain) and it was time for me to get up (I thought ha ha ha) and leave.  Note- this was after 4 hours of bedrest.  4 hours and I still had no desire what-so-ever to get up.  I would have happily stayed in that bed for the rest of the day and night.  But, I had to get up.  I went to the bathroom on my own (happy happy joy joy) and when I was coming back out I felt dizzy…not just a little dizzy…like I was going to faint.  And faint I almost did.  Everyone said all the color drained out of my face, I started sweating and layed back down.  The nurses came back in and checked my blood pressure, which was ok and I waited for a while and then tried to get up again with a little better success this time. 

After checkout, I went home and went straight to bed.  I stayed in bed the entire evening other than going to the bathroom.  I called off from work for the next day and stayed in bed most of that day too.  It still hurt to laugh and move, but at least breathing wasn't quite so painful.  Two days later, I am back to work (begrudingly at that) and am still in pain, but at least it is now bearable.  I did park in the handicap space though, and would love someone to say something about it.  There was no way I was walking across this entire parking lot. 

My stomach has been in pain ever since the biopsy and is very tender to the touch.  I have had horrible bouts of diarrhea (yeah, I know, not a great topic to read about…) and am wonder, what is going on?  I didn't read anything about that being one of the symptoms, but then again…..most things didn't seem to go as in the "textbook" either. If anyone else has been through this, comments are more than welcome….hopefully it will pass in a few days, but I am just worried that someone might have gotten "messed up" in the process…..