do pain meds not work on you too?

[itsmekarenlee 129]

I know I can't be the ONLY person that most pain meds don't work on, right????

The only pain med that works on me is demerol. Morphine doesn't work, diludad doesn't work, acetometophen doesn't work, tramadol doesn't work, neither does fentanyl, can't take hydrocodone, ibuprofen works but can't take it anymore.

My bariatric surgeon refused to script me the demerol making one lame excuse after another. (I only wanted it while in the hospital. After, in pill form, would be nice too but I usually just suffer through the pain). It was neglect on his part and the nurses agree. Took them 9 hrs after surgery to get a hold of him to try another pain med that of course also didn't work. Poor nurses felt so helpless as I was crying in pain and calling my dr all sort of not so nice names. They were awesome. I'm thankful for that. Otherwise I felt like just a number and a paycheck to my dr. After I chewed him out the next morning he left my room w/o even telling me how my surgery went, if my hiatal hernia was fixed, nothing. Not even the day of discharge did he go over anything with me except when I asked him if the huge dimple of an incision was going to go away (yes, and it is). I forgot to ask about the hernia but was left a bit surprised he didn't talk about my surgery. I walked into my husband's room while he was finishing in there talking to him. And I was pleasant with him even. Not even any acknowledgement that I was up and walking and seemed to be doing well.

So now I'm getting calls from the hospital and our insurance co. for follow up and survey on how my care was and I tell them all this. I feel badly for giving him a negative review, because he is one of the top bariatric surgeons in Texas, but that's the way I feel. I will go to the follow up appt with him next week and see how he treats me, otherwise I hope I'll be able to change bariatric drs.

[Leena 108]

I can't take NSAIDS, morphine or dialaudid due to allergies. I was on demoral and tordol in the hospital. I came home on percocet (bad nightmares) so was switched to tylanol #3 which I can tolerate.

I dont see why your dr would take an issue with it. My dialudid allergy (crazy rash that was horrible) happened during my bypass stay so they took me off it and switched me to demoral. I had it once via iv ( hit me really fast) then after that intramuscularly(which seemed better).

I've had tramadol before for torn ligaments In my wrist and herniated discs in my back. It doesn't work so I just refuse it and use ice packs instead. It was effective but because I had to stay on it so long it stopped working.

[pik 262]

They don't help me much either.....