In essence, it seems if you already have a bad situation, there are just a few reasons to not immediately go forward with this surgery, if you were already wanting to go forward and timing was an issue.
My wife was in pain 24/7 in need of a hip replacment. Her operation was delayed for close to a year due to Covid impact on our ppo.
Nothing worked and she will not take narcotics more than a couple of doses. She was in pain for months as nothing worked.
A year ago on 1 March, she had her replacement. She took drugs for about 2-3 days and went to ice and heat prn.
A year later, she is better with basically zero pain and gains more mobility each day.
That is exactly what I think they are saying. Don’t delay and get on recovering from the operation.
She might be one of those people that have problems with P450 enzyme .
Painkillers can be problematic. I don’t process Oxy, Vicodin, etc the way “normal” people do. Not sure I even process ibuprofen correctly because it does nothing for me.