Saturday, October 23, 2010
Thursday, October 21, 2010
One week after my Endonasal Transphenoidal Endoscopic Resection of Pituitary Tumor
I decided to start my blog from the day I decided to start a blog!
One week after my surgery I am feeling some changes. I can run my tongue across the outside of my top teeth. I can get my finger in the same spot. Previously, so swollen, I couldn't remove anything that may have gotten up there. I am lisping and having difficulty speaking with the swelling of lips and tongue so this should improve too.
I don't see my edno or surgeon for another three weeks. Right now I am to take it easy and am on hydrocortisone to keep my cortisol levels in check and desmopressin acetate for diabetes insipidus, an antidiuretic.
I have some nasal draining but is much better. I am a little light headed much like a head cold. Some headache throughout the week which Tylenol helped and an occasional oxycodone. I have had an appetite that I have needed to suppress and that hasn't changed. I am never full and being depressed and with nothing to do eating is something pleasurable. I seem to sleep differently. I will be laying in bed get really tired and drop off for a few hours only. I wake up sweaty which is not unusual because I have had intolerance to heat for several years and thought it was menopause. In winter I sleep with only a sheet. The sleep change is the dropping off, like I can feel the melatonin put me to sleep like a drug. I wake up differently too. It used to take me hours to get out of bed. But, these things may possibly be affected by the hydrocortisone. Time will tell!
One week after my surgery I am feeling some changes. I can run my tongue across the outside of my top teeth. I can get my finger in the same spot. Previously, so swollen, I couldn't remove anything that may have gotten up there. I am lisping and having difficulty speaking with the swelling of lips and tongue so this should improve too.
I don't see my edno or surgeon for another three weeks. Right now I am to take it easy and am on hydrocortisone to keep my cortisol levels in check and desmopressin acetate for diabetes insipidus, an antidiuretic.
I have some nasal draining but is much better. I am a little light headed much like a head cold. Some headache throughout the week which Tylenol helped and an occasional oxycodone. I have had an appetite that I have needed to suppress and that hasn't changed. I am never full and being depressed and with nothing to do eating is something pleasurable. I seem to sleep differently. I will be laying in bed get really tired and drop off for a few hours only. I wake up sweaty which is not unusual because I have had intolerance to heat for several years and thought it was menopause. In winter I sleep with only a sheet. The sleep change is the dropping off, like I can feel the melatonin put me to sleep like a drug. I wake up differently too. It used to take me hours to get out of bed. But, these things may possibly be affected by the hydrocortisone. Time will tell!
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