Depression

Good Morning all - hope the morning is better for you all.
I am amazed, I have dropped all but my bedtime dose of painkillers and I am in hardly any more discomfort than i was taking 8 a day. In fact after last nights dose I noticed the side effects more that the pain, so I will swap to paracetamol tonight.
The hip is responding well to ice - Mrs P isn't though, grumbled loudly when while she was settling into her electric blanket warmed pit, my ice pack fell on her side !!! Three nights now I have slept through.

Good morning! Hope you are all feeling a little better today! Glad the pain is easier pompa. - sorry it's not real!

worked, just come out here.

Sun is up (thanks to KL), time to head out and sow my broad beans, sure the sun and fresh air will work wonders.
I hope you guys all have a good day. back later for

Morning pompa - glad that things are moving on for you.

Unfortunately I have had a dreadful night with three episodes of SVT which thankfully we managed to control eventually, but there has been very little sleep going on and I am totally wiped out and about to settle on the sofa for a snooze. I just do not know what to do about this as I have two appointments coming up , the second of which is on 18th December. I doubt whether anything will be sorted this side of Christmas by the time they have done whatever investigations they think might be needed. It feels like a long time when these scary things keep happening.

I have just spoken to the wife of a friend who had his hip replaced on Tuesday and he is in NO PAIN and is walking round his room without crutches!!! I am 8 weeks post-op and still have groin pain from the op and of course the pain in my knee caused by the exercises. I am pig sick - although of course very pleased for him.

The good news is that my mood has lifted a bit - probably just as well with all this going on!

Mishap, crossed posts. Sorry you have had a bad night, good that you ae still positive.
No two people will recover from major surgery at anything like the same rate, try not to compare yourself to others, just concentrate on your improvements, however slow they may seem. If the sun is up where you are, try to get outside and enjoy it while you can.

Can't think of anything to say to improve things for you Mishap. Glad your mood is better and remember we are all with you in spirit.

I have superpowers obviously pompa.

GP has just called in response to my email telling him what has been happening and he is putting out a beta blocker for me to take, as he agrees that I cannot go on with this situation until the date of my appointment. So that is good news - let us hope it will settle things down - at least it gives me a bit of hope of a respite from this. Fingers tightly crossed.
Thank you for your supportive posts.

Mishap; given that you probably aren't getting much in the way of sunlight these days would it be worth investing in a light box? Heart problems can cause depression; I don't know what the link is but I'm sure it's not just just psychological. You're a lady with so many interests..I hate to see you not enjoying them .

I'm not surprised you feel pig sick Mishap. Someone who has had the same op as you has no post op pain on day 4 after invasive surgery! Sounds quite miraculous.

Sorry to hear you had another sleepless unsettling night. I know you have heard it all before but deal with each day at a time and try not to worry about your appointment in December. It's a good while away and by which time you will have healed more.

Just read your last post. Fingers crossed here too that the beta blockers do the trick. I am willing them to work for you

I was about to ask whether you could get as much sunlight and fresh air as possible (even without the SAD light - or as well as it) because getting more sunshine will help your vit D, and getting more oxygen into your system will help with healing and with your circulation, which must in turn be useful to your heart.

The other thing is to somehow relax Being anxious will make your heart beat harder, which doesn't help.

How do you relax? What makes you feel good? Now is the time to pull in all the old comforts - and also to do things that take your mind out of your situation and into a good place, so that your body can get on with recovery without hindrance.

All the best.

Mishap - I'm pleased to hear you've been prescribed Beta-B's. Hopefully they'll settle your heart down to a constant rhythm - thereby trouncing the anxiety inducing waywardness of your heartbeats.

Since taking them, Mr.F has not had a tachycardia episode. The last one was a blue-lighter - so thank goodness for BB's.

Hope your little bit of hope continues to blossom.

Kittylester, if you have super powers, is this you :-

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No pompa - that is my much older sister! [ grin]

pompa glad you have been able to reduce your pain killers.

Mishap sorry you've had such bad nights. Hope the beta blockers help. Glad you mood has lifted a bit. Hope tonight is a better night

Hope the beta blockers sort out the SVT, Mishap and you have a decent night's sleep.

If they help you feel less anxious about your health it'll be a big step towards recovery.

[hot chocolate] and wishes for a good night's sleep tonight Mishap

Got through the night with no adverse heart episodes. I feel a bit "spaced out" by the B-blockers but at least I have had a non-traumatic night. OH says I will acclimatise to the drugs in time. I do hope so.

Thanks for all your encouragement.

That's good news Mishap and your DH is right about getting used to drugs over time. When I first start taking my hayfever tablets in the spring, for the first few days I feel so doped up I can hardly stay awake but by the end of the week I am getting used to the dose and it doesn't cause me a problem.

It's pouring with rain here but hope you all get some in your lives this weekend.

I have' nt had SVT since I started taking B blockers.
They're good

So pleased to hear you had a full nights sleep. Something fundamentally important to help your recovery.

Hopefully you will start to feel some progress at last.

Having been out of the loop for a while I've only just caught up with this thread and reading through the posts I'm really touched by the degree of warmth, humour and encouragement that shines through. I do think that a major strength of Gransnet is that although it's a 'virtual' community it is a very real one and threads like this show how even a little support from the 'virtual' world can make a vast difference to our lives.
to all who need a bit of TLC today.

Mishap I do hope the BBs work for you.
Had my second knee replacement op' on Tuesday and doing ok but very tired and sore. Now the hard work and exercise start.