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Did your doctor say you couldnt drive for 2 weeks after surgery ?



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Not specifically. I was just told not to drive as long as I was on pain medication -- which for me was one week.

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Agreed, typically the no driving is due to it not being safe to drive while under pain meds. I was told 3 weeks, but at my 2 week follow up my doctor said since I wasn't on pain meds I could drive.

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No, I was told I should be able to drive to my one week follow up. I stopped taking pain meds the day I came home, and was driving on 2 days after surgery.

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I was driving 1 week after the surgery. I could have been driving a few days earlier if I wanted to, but chose to wait.

Do not drive while taking any narcotic pain meds..

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I drove myself home from surgery, 48 hours post-op. I also made sure the nurses stopped giving me narcotics 24 hours before I knew I needed to drive. As long as you are off drugs, you're fine to drive.

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Yes, but I did a week later. I returned to work a week earlier also. I was the model patient other than that LOL

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Day 3 i had to bring the car to the shop...if course it had to have an issue right after i had surgery...murphy was right there!

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The hospital said I could drive home if I wanted since I hadn't had pain meds in more than six hours or so (I think it had been 12). I declined.

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