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Tylenol After Surgery? Why The Feds Make Patients Suffer Needless Pain
cash.org ^ | Feb 16, 2023 | Josh Bloom

Posted on 02/16/2023 9:00:24 PM PST by anthropocene_x

A decade ago, most people thought of Tylenol (acetaminophen) as a medicine for fever, malaise and minor aches and pains. Nobody imagined that it would become the go-to drug for treating moderate, let alone severe, postoperative pain.

But this is just what has happened. Thanks to pressure from lawmakers, government agencies and policymakers who inserted themselves into the patient-doctor relationship, patients became the victims of the never-ending war on drugs.

Now, doctors frequently offer only acetaminophen to treat painful conditions despite the drug’s inability to remedy them.

Policymakers’ exaggerated fear of opioids has pressured hospitals, doctors and dentists to switch to acetaminophen, no matter how severe the patient's pain. Sometimes, the drug is given intravenously in high doses as part of "opioid-sparing protocols." We believe using the drug in this way is ill-advised, cruel and borders on malpractice.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: acetaminophen; biden; cartels; drugdealers; drugdeaths; government; junkies; medicine; opiod; opiodsparing; pain; tylenol
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To: anthropocene_x
After three of my abdominal surgeries that occurred between the years 2010 and 2012), they gave me scripts for Oxycontin. After the first surgery, got the script filled, and took one or two pills the first day home, then threw the rest away. I couldn't stand feeling groggy all the time. I tore up the scripts after the next two surgeries.

I fractured the tibia in my right knee about a year ago. My knee went out on me while I was putting my old iMac in the back seat of the car. Thankfully I'd made it down three flights of stairs, and got it into the car before it gave out. I got in the car, and despite the pain I drove to the computer shop, then remembered I had an old cane in my trunk. I managed to get up the stairs to the shop, and asked them if they could bring the computer in for me. By the time I got home, my knee had swelled up like a balloon...just not a Chinese balloon. It was worse pain than any surgery I'd had. I didn't know it was fractured until about 3 weeks later when I was finally able to see an orthopedic specialist. I took nothing then either, not even Tylenol. I have to take so many other medications for my health problems, that I hate taking any additional pills.

21 posted on 02/16/2023 9:51:28 PM PST by mass55th ("Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway." ~~ John Wayne )
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To: Harmless Teddy Bear

I took opioids after my hip replacement.


22 posted on 02/16/2023 9:53:03 PM PST by luckystarmom
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To: anthropocene_x

Opiates are safer (if you’re not allergic) than Tylenol. And it’s now found tons dangerous to the brains of the unborn, when for 30 years pregnant women were told it was the only safe pain reliever to take in pregnancy

There is no reason to blindly trust doctors.


23 posted on 02/16/2023 9:54:06 PM PST by Yaelle
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To: Brian Griffin
Opiates have been combined with acetaminophen in a pill.

Vicodin is hydrocodone combined with acetaminophen. Long-term use can cause dependency and really mess up your liver.

24 posted on 02/16/2023 9:55:13 PM PST by Gideon7
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To: anthropocene_x

Acetaminophen doesn’t do squat for me. For bad pain ibuprofen at 800mg works for the most part but I hate taking that much.

Vicodin doesn’t do anything for pain either


25 posted on 02/16/2023 10:01:35 PM PST by VeniVidiVici (Vote Democrat and stay on the plantation!)
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To: Gideon7

That’s why they have oxycodone with no Tylenol. Basically, Percocet with out the Tylenol That’s what they gave me during cancer treatment. I couldn’t take ibuprofen as it thins the blood and my platelets were dangerously low, needing platelet transfusions. And it wasn’t healthy to take that much Tylenol everyday.


26 posted on 02/16/2023 10:07:57 PM PST by HollyB
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To: anthropocene_x

They destroy your liver so you won’t get hooked on painkillers.🙄


27 posted on 02/16/2023 10:09:06 PM PST by BiteYourSelf ( Earth first, we'll strip mine the other planets later.)
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To: Brian Griffin

It often comes with codeine over the counter or did in the 80s

8mg codeine and 500mg Tylenol

Jamaica etc too

Why did they stop using aspirin and oxycodone in percodan

And now Tylenol instead in Percocet

Aspirin far better synergistic efficacy

A large man will likely have liver emergency or Tylenol toxicity from Tylenol in huge doses from too many percocets in a day than the opiate itself

I could easily survive 250mg of oxycodone over 24 hours at 240 pounds and mild acclimation

I’ve taken 160mg after open heart and sternal resection which ain’t for sissies

A procedure more than usual open heart

25 percs is 12,500 mg of Tylenol which is 1.7 times toxic dose benchmark

Our govt so screws up pain meds for an aging pop

They were not in our kool aid when I was young except for recreational drugs

They couch it in good intentions but it’s all about the cash flow to the states to enforce it


28 posted on 02/16/2023 10:26:12 PM PST by wardaddy (Truth is treason in the Empire of lies)
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To: anthropocene_x

The VA won’t give anything, especially if you are over 65.


29 posted on 02/16/2023 10:26:28 PM PST by Az Joe (Live free or die)
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To: Governor Dinwiddie

I watched some buddies downing Tylenol by the handful to relieve hangovers. I tried to explain why this was probably a really bad idea.

Aspirin was found to rarely cause a condition called Reyes syndrome in children, so it has almost disappeared from pharmacopoeia, sadly. Younger health professionals look at you like you’re from Mars if you ask for it.


30 posted on 02/16/2023 10:27:08 PM PST by Freedom4US
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To: Brian Griffin

This article authors apparently believe we have no knowledge that Rx strength Tylenol for major pain has indeed been a thing for quote some time (Tylenol 3 anyone?) and Rx strength Tylenol (acetaminophen) was and is normally pared with the opioids in those pills - it was discussed whether or not one may be relieving the pain more than the other. Opioids are only for short term use and breakthrough pain.


31 posted on 02/16/2023 10:27:55 PM PST by Republican Wildcat
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To: anthropocene_x

Thank you all, there were some sage words written here tonight.


32 posted on 02/16/2023 10:46:58 PM PST by OftheOhio (never could dance but always could fight - Romeo company)
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To: anthropocene_x

Tylenol alone worked fine for me after every major surgery... except one. I screamed in pain for the opioid after that one.


33 posted on 02/16/2023 11:00:22 PM PST by Tired of Taxes
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To: PROCON

Hospital started me on fentanyl which didn’t work, and then put me on oxycodone which definitely relieved the pain but made me have big time hallucinations.

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My wife had exact opposites of your experience, Fentanyl patches gave her extreme paranoia and hallucinations and opiates gave her some relief from pain while in physical rehab.


34 posted on 02/16/2023 11:00:24 PM PST by Graybeard58
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To: anthropocene_x

Ask for Norco and gabapentin. Better than Tylenol alone. Nanny state interference in the medical treatment of pain has become downright criminal. We can be sure these SOBs have no intention of having them own pain managed in their last days with Tylenol alone.


35 posted on 02/16/2023 11:13:55 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: LibWhacker
them own pain

THEIR own pain

36 posted on 02/16/2023 11:24:54 PM PST by LibWhacker
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To: anthropocene_x

After emergency abdominal surgery I was given a grand total of six ‘loritab’ pills when I was discharged. The doctors would not renew the prescription. Six tablets is two days. One does not recover from the pain of emergency invasive abdominal surgery in two days. They are indeed paralyzed by the media driven scare of “opioid crisis.”


37 posted on 02/16/2023 11:35:05 PM PST by Organic Panic (Democrats. Memories as short as Joe Biden's eyes)
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To: Brian Griffin

Try a middle ear infection or post hernia surgery on Tylenol. Thankfully in both incidents I was given Vicodin and I never became addicted.


38 posted on 02/16/2023 11:47:01 PM PST by willk (Local news media. Just as dangerous as national media.i later)
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To: Organic Panic

My doctor of 20+ years will give me Hydrocodone if I ask for it to have on hand “just in case”. I just got some last month, but I see that my last bottle of 15 tablets was from 2020.

I use to take it like candy 30 years ago for an issue and it helped with the pain and no goofy stuff (I still worked, etc.)

Now it helps with the pain but I get really bad nightmares (I only take it at bedtime now). The nightmares really limit how much I want to take it anymore, I’d rather have the pain. Thankfully it isn’t for anything too chronic.


39 posted on 02/16/2023 11:55:25 PM PST by 21twelve (Ever Vigilant. Never Fearful.)
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To: anthropocene_x

I had them remove my pain pump immediately after major surgery and give me IV Tylenol.

I don’t do opioids well. They are like taking speed.


40 posted on 02/17/2023 12:31:17 AM PST by tired&retired (Blessings )
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