State of the Foot

[flit]

I've just been sitting around and healing, which is a lot like sleeping. I'm pretty well off the pain killers, though I will still take one at night if I am having trouble getting to sleep and the foot is acting up at all, or in the day if I think I'm going to need to have it down a lot. In all honesty as long as I keep it elevated, the pain around

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[cdk]

The half-life of benadryl can be up to 12 hours, or much longer with impaired liver function. But even with normal liver function, you've still likely got 1/4 of the initial dose after 24 hours - definitely believable that it would still be having some effect.

[flit]

Oh huh, didn't know that!

I've been able to go as long as 48 hours between doses, though it starts a slow ramp at around 36. The fact that benadryl helps it is kind of a smoking gun that it's some sort of histamine reaction; my major fear is that I developed a latex allergy from the surgery or the wrappings. But it's possible that there could be something sourced from corn in the mix, and I already have a corn allergy. (Corn allergy is more palatable because latex allergies are annoying.)

I'm on daily zyrtec already because I have year-round allergies in this climate; I stack benadryl with it whenever I have breakthrough/breakout allergic reactions. (A trick my allergist taught me since I reacted to my shots so often.)

[rfrancis]

This has been a bumpy couple of weeks for me, too, proportionally, anyway. I've had to use the tizanidine to make the nervous system behave more than once (with the fairly abrupt unconsciousness that goes along with it.) Tis the season, I guess? Anyway... best wishes.

P.S. And I recommend anything that lets you get some exercise, yeah. (I still keep forearm crutches in my car trunk. Just in case.)

[flit]

Ugh, I hope that smooths out soon for you. While I will gladly take unconsciousness as a tradeoff for several things, it's still hard to take lightly.

And yup, I am going to have my work cut out for me, but the conscious balancing every time I get up does seem to be helping incrementally. If my muscles are being weak then it lets me map that, and if they are okay then I seem to build a little more strength and balance -- it's getting a little easier to get up and down from chairs. I haven't been doing the arm exercises I was hoping because I've just been too tired. I even found some one pound cans to use as starter weights but they've just been sitting there. I can do some light isometrics or hold my arms out to my sides for a bit, and then I'm pooped.