Terrible hospital experience
I had my total thyroidectomy yesterday morning. They did use ketamine in the anesthesia which I very much appreciated. Thought things were going well. They thought an overnight hospital stay would be best so here I am. I presumed at 9 pm they gave me my Lyrica with a slew of other meds. I am supposed to take one Lyrica at 9am, one at 9pm then I have a third to take as needed. Well they wrote the 9pm one up “as needed”. So I didn’t get the 9pm dose. I awoke at 10:30 in 10/10 plus pain from my CRPS. I guess the ketamine anesthesia didn’t last long. I tried using my CBT training- didn’t work. At home I used THC gummies for sleep but I was told to stop them several days before surgery. So I did. They did get me an OxyContin and Lyrica at 11. It’s just now kicking in. I try to remain calm but by the time they got me the pills I was a crying mess. Going to try to sleep again but due to the surgery I have to sleep sitting up with an ice pack on my throat/chest. This night sucks