still in pain..
Heres one for the group..its been 12 weeks since my triple by pass..everything was going ok as far as getting on my feet..until last week ive started to have sharp pain in my upper left breast...its very sore and tender..comes out of the blue..so luckly i still have a few pain meds left and started taking them again..but i did what every body here did and ween myself of them little by little..but the pain is so intense that it just works me up and make the situation worse...my heart rate goes up too and is hard to get down..the pain goes under my arm pit and down my side..just seems funny how it started out of no were..i had pain something like that after the operation..but had went away..but other that that i was healing fine...im 48 and male..and was back to doing alot of the things i did before all this happen..i thought maybe i was pushing my self to hard..and tore a muscle i dont think so..im debating of calling the doctor again..oh well if anyone else knows what im talking about let me know....... Thanks, Mark
Mark, I'm at 11 wks going on 12. Hard to believe..seems like eternity. I've had stabbing sharp pains in my breast and under it. I go through periods where I don't have this type of pain at all, and experience other types of pain, but all of a sudden it'll come back for a day. My whole chest is still sore to the touch..and sort of numb yet too. If you think you might have overworked at some point, however, perhaps you ought to try to get in to see your Dr. and talk to his nurse on the phone. Maybe they can get you in sooner. Sharp pains usually are not the heart itself..but, I hope you would go to the ER or do what you needed to do if the pain is that intense. Do the pain meds help? I weaned down and went off for about a week, but was able to get more at my Dr's visit this week. His nurse said I had to wait and see him when I called last week. Pain just builds up if there is no relief and then a person starts to get more uptight in the muscles, heart rate goes up, and anxiety. Try to get in or atleast call! Lor Heres one for the group..its been 12 weeks since my triple by pass..everything was going ok as far as getting on my feet..until last week ive started to have sharp pain in my upper left breast...its very sore and tender..comes out of the blue..so luckly i still have a few pain meds left and started taking them again..but i did what every body here did and ween myself of them little by little..but the pain is so intense that it just works me up and make the situation worse...my heart rate goes up too and is hard to get down..the pain goes under my arm pit and down my side..just seems funny how it started out of no were..i had pain something like that after the operation..but had went away..but other that that i was healing fine...im 48 and male..and was back to doing alot of the things i did before all this happen..i thought maybe i was pushing my self to hard..and tore a muscle i dont think so..im debating of calling the doctor again..oh well if anyone else knows what im talking about let me know....... Thanks, Mark
Mark, I had that pain on my left side for about 3 years. Some days I took extra aspirin for it. It was sore like I had bruised it somehow but there was no brusing on the outside. When I would ask my doctors about it they didn't know what it was. They would say it might be angina and then when I explained that aspirin or advil helped it they said well, its not angina then. It rarely hurts now and when it does I usually just wait to see if it goes away before I take anything. My cardiologist asked me not to take aspirin or advil for it as I have stomach problems from so much aspirin so I do have extra strength tylenol but they take so long to work I usually just put up with the pain. I'm older 63 and a small person. My regular doc said one time that the way they do the surgery and pull on you might be why as my size would not be in my favor. Being a little overweight and larger frame is better for bypass surgery. Don't really know if that's right or not. Think he was just searching for a reason for my pain. Ann
Mark, Here is what my psychiatrist told me when I said I was never going to be the same and I didn't like myself anymore. " We all change everyday. Nothing stays the same. Sometimes it is up to us whether we make those changes positive or negative." I had to think about all that for a long time and finally decided I can get off the pity trail and start living my life again pain or not or I can just sit around feeling sorry for myslef. Of couse I chose to be positive but I still have those days when I think I will never be the way I was and its all because of the bypass surgery. That was my first ever surgery and I had no symptoms, I was 60 and I just couldn't stand having something that serious wrong with me and then having that awful surgery took a lot out of me. I do feel good today and the pain is slight. Not like the pain right after surgery. Most days I just shake it off. I was impatient and even though my doctors said to give it a year and half, it was a long time and really I didn't feel real good until about a year ago so it did take a long time. The mental part of the healing was the worse for me. I still have trouble with my thought processes and I can't always finish a sentence. I forget what I was going to say before I get it said. It just seems to slip away. It really frustrates me. I say things wrong sometimes and that is quite frustrating also. At least on the computer I can fix it but in a conversation once its said I can't delete it. Ann