question about pain meds

[azchick 0]

I was wondering what kinds of pain meds everyone was given and how they did the first day out?:mad:

[mtmp89 0]

I was prescribed Lortab. Today is day 3 and have moved to Advil only.

[vessa 1]

I was given morphine drip that I got sick and puke off of really bad (the nurse told me alot of people are allergic to it, and I went crazy with it, so i brought it on myself). I got vicodin after, and got sick on those too, but that's me, i've been in rocovery for a long time, and my body just kinda refuses it. My suggestion would be the less you need, the better, as throwing up with a brand new band is not only a really BA idea, but it hurts too. As far as the "pain" i was in, it was mainly where my port was, and it lasted a couple of weeks. More dull and annoying than anything, like, sleeping on it sucked. I hurt a bit right when i first woke up from surgery, but there was this great nurse that sat right next to me in recovery room who every 10 minutes asked how i was, and if i was hurting, she' do something about it right away. My root canals were a worse experience.

[socalgal3 4]

I was given some sublingual tablets that I never took. I had surgery in Mexico, so the medicine name wasn't something I recognized. Other people told me it was something similar to Aleve. I wasn't really in pain, just kinda uncomfortable. But, I also have a high pain tolerance.

[Mom2Three 0]

I wasn't in a lot of pain. Just more uncomfortable from the gas than anything. Had surgery in Mexico and they gave me Dolace. Someone said it was similar to Tylenol. Not real powerful.

[Cota129 0]

I never had the need for pain meds. Motrin worked just fine

[Tater 0]

I had Dilaudid (good stuff) in recovery and every 4 hours the night I spent in the hospital. I only needed nausea meds once that night.

Once at home I switched to Percocet pills. I am very immune to pain killers, so it takes a lot to work for me. I am a week out and am using mostly Tylenol with Vicodin for when I need it.

[QuasiTova 0]

My doctor prescribed liquid Vicodin, and Phenergan in a lotion form for nausea.

I took the liquid Vicodin the first day, and the Phenergan as a precaution, but after the first day, I switched to only Liquid Tylenol PM. (They sell it in a vanilla flavor).

I thought this was the perfect time to catch up on my sleep! Man, it was a peaceful weekend :thumbup:

[kbinaz 0]

I had Lortab elixer (liquid) and only took it for the first day. Then I switched to regular old Tylenol. It helped with the pain when I needed it, but made me feel weird and gave me strange dreams and the second day it seemed more important to me to feel 'normal' mentally than have total pain relief...and the tylenol did fine. I didn't have that much pain, more discomfort.

[sfeiner 2]

Liquid roxicet in hosp. They sent me home with about a pint...which I never took.

[marieze 5]

I mentioned in another post that I actually had them stop the morphine in the hospital and switch to plain tylenol. It's all I really needed. As others have said, a bit of discomfort when turning left or right for me, not necessarily up/down. Came home from the hospital yesterday and have had tylenol once today. That's it.

marieze

[Dee5611 0]

Went home with about a pint of tylenol with codeine. Not sure what I got in the hospital, but definitely wasn't morphine. Bad experience with morphine (& heard many others say the same) so I told them use something else. In recovery I got something strong for pain; then pain killer was much less potent by that evening (but worked); day after was switched to liquid tylenol w/codeine. Don't have that much pain. The wounds are pretty sore, the tylenol makes bearable but doesn't rid the pain completely.

[NewCreation413 0]

I had my surgery on 2/6/08. I don't remember what they gave me in the hospital immediately after I woke up from the surgery...something strong for pain and something for nausea although I really wasn't nauseous. I went home not long after...I was only in the hospital for about 6 hours total. They gave me liquid Oxycodone...needless to say I did a lot of sleeping once I got home! I used it a little bit the first few days, mostly at night, and then started taking advil during the day if i needed it.

[nymoosic 0]

Good ol' hydrocodone for the first week or so and then plain Tylenol.

[StLouisGal 1]

I had morphine in the recovery room and twice while I was in the hospital. After that I had Loretab once in the hospital (just before the discharged me) and twice here at home. I haven't needed it during the day. I may try tonight without anything and see how that goes. I did have some strange dreams last night. I'm day three post op.

So far pain hasn't been much. Port site hurts some when I am up walking around but certainly not enought to go into a drug induced stupor from the pain meds. I was one of the lucky ones, no gas pain. I think getting upright away helped that.