Post #7 Pain meds

I have been taking two percocets every four hours since surgery, along with a few other pain pills and/or muscle relaxers when needed.  Last Monday I was able to cut down to one percocet every four hours, and yesterday I decided to try cutting that one pill in half.  I'd like to get off percocet for several reasons. One, I try to avoid taking any more medicine than i actually need, and with percocet being such a heavy duty drug I'd like to get it out of my system asap.  Two, my surgery was done in a town an hour away from where i live.  Since percocet is a schedule II drug the doc cannot write for refills, and they are not able to fax a new prescription to the pharmacy.  If I run out I have to drive an hour south, pick up my pills or script, and drive an hour back home.  Not only is that a long drive for a ten minute pick up of pills but that's also a long time for me to be in the car.  Short car rides are ok but two hours in the car is a long time for a knee that still will not bend past 60 degrees.  And three, I'm tired of waking up every four hours!  Every time I'm in a deep sleep it seems like the alarm is going off again telling me to take a pill.  I'm over it.

During the day a half a percocet pill was ok.  But i woke up several times in pain through the night.  I ended up taking a full percocet at 4 AM and continued that throughout the day.  I think i was jumping the gun on cutting my pain meds.  So I think I'll take a full pill for the rest of the week and maybe next week I can cut it down.

Today was day three of PT.  Today was much better.  Basically just worked on the bending again.  Still very painful, but at least I wasn't in tears this time.  Last time i bent it to 58 degrees, this time was only 53 degrees.  Dang it, oh well.  Still having issues on firing my quad muscle.  Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.  Frustrating.

Well other than that, nothing else really to update on.  Anything new on the road to walking again I will definitely update on.  As of now I think it'll be a pretty slow process.