Pain Journal: January 2021

Today is February 1st, and I’m bound and determined to get this pain journal on time!! If you’d prefer to watch a video instead of reading, here’s a wee video:

But if you’d rather read (or do both), there’s not much to talk about, but plenty to celebrate!

Let’s see:

I skipped my period…again.
Zero tylenol, ibuprofen, naproxen, tramadol, percocet or zofran! Z-E-R-O!
Bowel movements and sex occurred all with ZERO pain, too!
My incisions only bothered me a wee-bit and any pain was quickly resolved. And the last 10 adys of January: they didn’t hurt one little bit.
There was one occurrence where I had a pulling sensation at my 2018 gut-staples spot (right colon), but I think it’s because I ate too much. When I do, I can feel a bit of a pulling or swelling down on that side. It was shortlived and a small amount.

Not much to report on that Pain chart! Woot! Ten days in January registered a smidge of incision pain. Hopefully it’s even less this month!

And…now on to the poopin’ habits!

January started off with a bang, nearly a week-straight of diarrhea. Ugh. So, my D-Numbers are certainly higher than I’d like. I don’t know if I ate something disagreeable or caught a bug or what, but let’s talk figures!

Seventy-nine (79) bowel movements in January! WHAT?! That beat December’s record numbers, too! Thirty-two (40.5%) of those were diarrhea (thanks, first week of January) and 47 (59.5%) were solid poops. I see my colo-rectal surgeon tomorrow for a hemorrhoid update and may ask for a referral to a Gastroenterology to discuss heavy-diarrhea figures. But (butt?) out of all of those poopies, NONE of them hurt. YAY! Excision surgery for the win!