[ConservativeMind]

It is good to hear an alternative exists, but opioids need to stay around.

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[pierrem15]

Sounds like nonsense. After have my shoulder taken apart and repacked like an old bearing twice I needed 500mg Vicodin daily for a year to go through physical therapy.

When I stopped taking them I felt a little nauseous for a couple of days, that's it.

[Dawgreg]

I had a reverse shoulder replacement in September 2021 and I think my doc gave me Tramadol. I had no pain to begin with but that dang sling drove me nuts......lol

[packagingguy]

Funny you bring this up. I had orthopedic surgery to remove implants and was given muscle relaxants and some sort of NSAID.

I felt fine.

Then I got a call from the pharmacy to pick up an oxycodeine prescription about a week after surgery. I told them I didn’t want it because I thought it wasn’t supposed to hurt.

[Repeal The 17th]

Dilaudid was the only thing that worked for me after disk surgery.
4 years later, I still hurt, over the counter stuff does not help.
I have just learned to live with the pain.

[Gay State Conservative]

I've had both my hips replaced. The first one was very difficult...at least partially because of my fear (it was my first surgery) and my cluelessness regarding what to expect. But my second one went surprisingly well. I took a few oxys after discharge (no more than a half dozen) then I was fine with Motrin.

[MayflowerMadam]

After hip replacement in 2020, they gave me a prescription for some oxy-something but I never filled it. Tylenol was fine.

[Paal Gulli]

Pain is very individual. There is no one-size-fits-all solution. But once post-op pain becomes a problem, it takes something a lot stronger to get it under control that it would have to prevent it in the first place.

[grumpygresh]

NSAIDs have lots of downsides. Besides GI you have bleeding, cardiac, allergic reaction problems.

Addiction is very rare after postoperative opioids. Addiction to opioids is only a risk in people with family or prior history of opioid addiction.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Naproxen. One dose killed my mom’s kidneys dead. She then was on Dialysis till her death a few months later.

[The Great RJ]

Last year had eye lid surgery and a brow lift to correct sagging eyelids. While I had a prescription for opioids, my pain was very adequately controlled with acetaminophen. Previously I had surgery for a broken radius and had a device pumping pain medis into a nerve bundle and has only minimal need for opiates

[VTenigma]

For your standard run of the mill broken bone sure NSAIDs will probably suffice. Major orthopedic trauma not so much. I’ve been told I have an extremely high pain threshold of pain (not so much lately in my 60’s) but for my last major trauma I was on a morphine pump for 11 days, oral morphine for a month, and oxycontin for 3 months. It barely kept the pain down to a dull roar and allowed me to sleep some. After that cold turkey with no withdrawal symptoms.

Opioids are important for pain management for many conditions. TPTB are looking for excuses to remove them as therapies to make up for their failures. Who suffers if they suceeed? Only people that need them the most.

[Mercat]

I’m scheduled for a hip replacement. I’ve had three major surgeries in the last four years and the thing I dread the most are the pain killers. I hate them. They really mess me up. So thank you for posting this.

[CFW]

I suspect none of these physicians who do orthopedic surgery would do without at least some opioids for the first few days following surgery or an injury. Everyone thinks they can handle pain with no problem using a couple of Tylenol or muscle relaxers, until the non-stop excruciating pain hits them in the back, neck, knee, leg, ankle, etc. Then they are crying for some relief so they can at least sleep for a few hours. (Opinion based on experience after surgery).

[doorgunner69]

After back surgery, they gave me some stuff call Talwin.

Produced terrible nightmares, as if I was not in enough misery.

I gather it was an “Analgesic Opioid Partial-Mixed Agonists”
whatever that means.

[Chad C. Mulligan]

After a knee rebuild in 2017 I barely made it through the first two weeks on a fairly hefty dosage of Oxycodone, and for the first week I had a pump feeding the surgical site with fentanyl. I had no withdrawal effects whatsoever. Expecting orthopedic patients to recover with nothing but NSAIDs is barbaric.

ASIDE from that, NSAIDs interfere with the healing process, which is why surgeons require patients to STOP TAKING them a week prior to the surgery.

[Pilated]

4 hip replacement surgeries. Used Oxy all times for a few weeks/months. Never had a problem stopping use. Would not want orthopedic surgery without them. Pain is individual. People are not better humans when they refuse narcotics. I am not weak because I used them short term.

[olivia3boys]

I’ve had 3 surgeries in 4 years and I’m annoyed how docs prescribe less and less Narco/Tramadol etc each time. The junkies are ruining it for the rest of us and causing governments to restrict and ban. Opioids are an absolute godsend. So grateful for them.

[Lurker]

So I can take 3 drugs or just 1.

Hmmm.

L

[NWFree]

I’ve surgery opioids I’ve been hoarding since 2012.

They’re worth their weight in gold