Ugh, had a really rough first night post-surgery. I wasn’t in much pain yesterday, but I decided to take one of the pain pills the doctor prescribed (tramadol/acetominophen combination) to help make sure I slept. I’d never taken tramadol before, and unfortunately it had the opposite effect on me: it made my heart pound and kept me awake. Add to that the fact that I couldn’t find a comfortable sleeping position with the ear cup on, and my normal post-nasal drip was pretty bad, and I wasn’t able to take Benadryl because I looked it up and it seems to have an interaction with tramadol, and…yeah, miserable night. The one good thing was I didn’t have any pain, but some sleep would have been nice! At least I get to take off the ear cup today, but obviously I still won’t be able to sleep on that side for a while.

I will be napping and doing not much of anything today, I expect. Glad I took the rest of the week off work.