What pain medication did you take? Australian types

[Sarah.R 2]

So I was thinking about this the other night and was wondering which pain meds people took? Things like herron, panamax or panadol? I was wondering for after surgery as theres a thread on here for which to take and not to take but it's american and it's annoying looking and seeing things like tylenol etc when we don't have the same things here. I know I won't be taking nurofen as you need food in your stomach to take it - maybe after a month if I still have pain and can actually have food I'll take it but until then which ones did you take? Did you just take normal panadol and crush it? Or maybe gel caps? Thanks in advance

[Chickie 15]

Just after the op, I had either the liquid panadol, or in a pinch, crushed panadol.

[Sarah.R 2]

Anywhere in particular where you got the liquid panadol? I know you can get it but I always thought it was for children as they can't really take tablets. Did you just get it from your pharmacy?

[Chickie 15]

Yeah, from the pharmacy, and in the supermarkets. You know the type, you drop the little tablet into Water and it dissolves? Goes straight through the band. Good stuff.

I have to confess, when I do need neurofen I take the kids stuff. At my weight and height, I take as much as my 11 year old son.

[Jachut 487]

I take panadol and could handle the caplets right after surgery, in fact they gave them to me in the hospital. I particularly like the caplets cozs they're so little, so I never buy any other brand paracetamol

I really NEED to take Nurofen sometimes, I know bandsters shouldnt take NSAID's but my doc says its OK once in a while. Sometimes my back and leg just get so darn sore and I've also developed endometriosis in the last few years and some months have wicked period pain, you really need Nurofen for those sorts of things. But again I handle capsules fine, I take them with Water an then follow up with food.

[Sarah.R 2]

Ahh the disprin stuff? god those taste horrible lol but I thought that I may have to eventually end up taking them grrrrrrrr. At the moment we have panamax and nurofen, I find the nurofen so much easier to take but I dont want to have to rely on that so I dunno, I guess I might have to get the gel capsules especially when the non capsule I take them now and if you dont swallow them first they become chalky and get stuck on your tongue bleh

[She Smiles 2]

I take the soluble panadol rapid now, I just let it sit for 5 or 10 minutes so the fizz goes out of it a bit. You can just get it in Woolworths.

Right after surgery I took Pain Stop liquid medicine. Thats what they gave me at the hospital, there is a day and a night version, its meant for kids, but worked for me -all 115kgs of me!.

I don't have any trouble taking tablets/capsules (I'm on horse sized antibiotics right now for a respiratory infection I am recovering from). My surgeon told me I can take nurofen if I REALLY need it but ONLY with a meal so it gets carried through to my stomach from the pouch.