Can this be right?
Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2013 9:51 pm
***UPDATE***
Got an emergency appt with my doc this morning. After a gentle as he could be (or I would have punched him) exam, he was very certain that there was no infection, the cylinders had not popped out place, none of the tubing feels twisted up, and the pump is where it should be.
So in the bell curve of recovery scale, I just seem to be on the bottom end. He phrased it as kindly as he could to not bruise my ego, but the pump isn't small and my scrotum is... so there is a lot of stuff jammed up in there and it is just going to hurt like crazy until my body gets used to it all.
He was surprised I'm still bleeding a week after surgery, but since my nut sack is still swollen and I'm on blood thinners, I'm not that shocked by it.
He was even more surprised by the ugly scab on the tip of my penis from the catheter tube. Since that happens after days of a cath tube, not hours.
So for the moment he's given me Celebrex to help with the swelling, 2mg Hydromorphone pills for the pain and if that fails, three 50mcg Fentanyl patches to really kick down the pain. And I go back to see him on the 9th for my normally scheduled follow up appointment. Until then, bed rest, drugs and no playing with it... to which I can assure you, is the last thing on my mind at the moment!!!
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Ok. this one goes out to the guys who've already been implanted...
Just how bad was the pain in your scrotum within that first week?
Now I've had lots of surgeries the past few years, so I know the pain of incisions and this is completely different.
EVERY time i stand up for more than 60-90 seconds, the pain in my scrotum becomes so unbearable I either double up or find the nearest thing to lay down on. Yes, I've laid down on the kitchen floor while trying to make coffee because I couldn't keep standing to make it to the sofa!
I can feel the pump in my scrotum and it feels like its laying flat on the bottom of my sack towards the right side, instead of vertical as I would have imagined... I'm starting to wonder if it's either smashing my right nut, so I get the nonstop feeling of being punched in the nuts, or if the tubing is wrapped up around a testicle.
So to anyone out there... did you have this kind of pain post-op?
I've iced and drugged over and over and it's not helping. Even overdosed a bit and threw up in bed!
Going to try calling doc on the 2nd, because my follow up isn't until the 9th and there is no way I can make it that long. But I have this faint, post surgery memory of him saying he was taking this week off work. So may not have anyone to see me.
Thoughts?
THANKS!
Greg
Got an emergency appt with my doc this morning. After a gentle as he could be (or I would have punched him) exam, he was very certain that there was no infection, the cylinders had not popped out place, none of the tubing feels twisted up, and the pump is where it should be.
So in the bell curve of recovery scale, I just seem to be on the bottom end. He phrased it as kindly as he could to not bruise my ego, but the pump isn't small and my scrotum is... so there is a lot of stuff jammed up in there and it is just going to hurt like crazy until my body gets used to it all.
He was surprised I'm still bleeding a week after surgery, but since my nut sack is still swollen and I'm on blood thinners, I'm not that shocked by it.
He was even more surprised by the ugly scab on the tip of my penis from the catheter tube. Since that happens after days of a cath tube, not hours.
So for the moment he's given me Celebrex to help with the swelling, 2mg Hydromorphone pills for the pain and if that fails, three 50mcg Fentanyl patches to really kick down the pain. And I go back to see him on the 9th for my normally scheduled follow up appointment. Until then, bed rest, drugs and no playing with it... to which I can assure you, is the last thing on my mind at the moment!!!
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
Ok. this one goes out to the guys who've already been implanted...
Just how bad was the pain in your scrotum within that first week?
Now I've had lots of surgeries the past few years, so I know the pain of incisions and this is completely different.
EVERY time i stand up for more than 60-90 seconds, the pain in my scrotum becomes so unbearable I either double up or find the nearest thing to lay down on. Yes, I've laid down on the kitchen floor while trying to make coffee because I couldn't keep standing to make it to the sofa!
I can feel the pump in my scrotum and it feels like its laying flat on the bottom of my sack towards the right side, instead of vertical as I would have imagined... I'm starting to wonder if it's either smashing my right nut, so I get the nonstop feeling of being punched in the nuts, or if the tubing is wrapped up around a testicle.
So to anyone out there... did you have this kind of pain post-op?
I've iced and drugged over and over and it's not helping. Even overdosed a bit and threw up in bed!
Going to try calling doc on the 2nd, because my follow up isn't until the 9th and there is no way I can make it that long. But I have this faint, post surgery memory of him saying he was taking this week off work. So may not have anyone to see me.
Thoughts?
THANKS!
Greg