Root Cause Of Nausea Identified - I Am Being Discharged From Hospital Today
[ Wednesday December 3rd 2025 at 11:50 am ]
I am back to leaving hospital today. I will try to explain this in a way that is understandable. It has to do with my history of 9 hip surgeries. If the explanation doesn't make sense then all I want to communicate to you is that I support this decision and don't have any concerns. Even though I was incredibly unwell earlier today the reason why is simple.
My body has over reacted. Why it over reacted is because I have had 9 hip surgeries. Once you get into more than 2 hip reconstructive surgeries or replacing an artificial hip the patients body doesn't follow the normal healing sequence. The only option is to respond as symptoms present themselves.
The root cause of this mornings severe nausea is the style of hip replacement revision surgery I had. My previous surgeries were through my outer thigh muscle. To make my life less painful as a senior in April 2025 and again for my November 2025 surgery they cut through my glute (bum) muscle. It spreads around the trauma.
The challenge for this style of hip surgeries is that my bum muscles don't get a break. They are always "turned on". I can't avoid putting pressure on my glute muscles.
I have been pushing real hard so I could learn how to walk again. I've reached the distance where my glute muscles are being strengthened. This is combined with the pressure they are receiving from my sitting, standing and laying down.
The reason I am sold on going home today and have no reservations is very straight forward. I've been in chronic pain for 19 years. I ask questions to my pain management doctor so I can understand and make good decisions when I am trying to live my life.
They asked me to start using magnesium with the idea that the throbbing in my leg muscles would cease. For the patients that are going to benefit the most there is a noticeable change within a few days. I asked what a reasonable trial period was. They told me a month. I said I was happy to agree to it for a month and then we'll talk more about this.
The change was actually immediate. The very first dose stopped the muscle throbbing in the same way a factory worker hits an emergency stop button. When this started at 5AM I was so profoundly dizzy and feeling like I'd vomit that the knowledge I've built up over time for managing pain wasn't what I was reflecting on.
I went into another really deep sleep after breakfast. I woke up to my glute muscle throbbing again and nausea making me dizzy. What was different this time is I had one of them weird body memories from my April 2025. In the same way that certain baking smells remind me of Grandma Piggott the glute muscle throbbing brought me back to my April 2025's surgery. All I had to do was take an extra magnesium capsule and the throbbing stopped. It worked in April 2025 and it has worked now. All the nausea and dizziness stopped dead in it's tracked.
As soon as I get my stuff packed and my discharged papers I am ready to get myself onto city transit and have an enjoyable train ride back home.