Moral support

So I am on the down side of healing from my 2 total hip replacements. My doctor has been very generous with helping me with pain medication so I am not angry at this, but they are Gung ho to get me off of it.

First surgery could not have gone any easier. I was barely in any pain after, and healed really well. 2nd one was a bit different, and they upped my pain meds from 2-10/325 hydrocodone every 6 hours to 1-10/325 oxycodone every 4. I did that for 2 weeks and then went back to my normal dose of 1 hydrocodone every 8 hours with a muscle relaxer at the same time.

When it was time to refill, they gave me 2 more weeks of the 10/325s to get through the start of PT. Well that ended Friday and I am officially starting to ween off the meds. So I have gone from 3-10/325s and 3-10 flexeril daily to 2-7.5/325 and the flexeril is now PRN with a warning that I need to be weening off it as well.

So I am trying to keep to that, but I have not slept much this weekend. I get in bed and get what I describe as restless leg, everywhere. I can't stop rearranging my arms and legs. It's like a physical reaction.

I know it's just the stuff working out of my body, and I know this is important. But part of my brain is just thinking "go for it it's right there."

I get it, that's the dependence talking. And I'm doing ok ignoring it so far, but I don't know how long I can take this. Not sleeping is a big trigger for me.