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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who benefits the most? Post-surgery patients. I was sent home 40 hours after a c-section with nothing except ibuprofen so I "wouldn't get addicted."

White, UMC, mid-30's, and married, by the way. It wasn't like the OB was judging. He had just set himself up as some a8shole warrior in the war on drugs. [/quote]
Which physician did that? Liar.[/quote]

Huh?  Doesn't sound at all implausible.[/quote]

The part about being sent home [b]after 40 hours[/b] sounds extremely implausible.  Standard of care is 4 days after a C-section.  If PP insisted on going home early, it may be that she had higher levels of pain because she put too much strain on her incision.  
I don't know if there are some doctors not willing to write scripts for opiods post-C-section now, so that part may or may not be plausible. But prescription strength ibuprofen is a viable way to treat c-section pain.  An anti-inflammatory like ibuprofen is really probably more help than an opioid, as it's the inflammation causing the pain (and muscle contractions post-birth).  There's some studies (cited lower down in this thread) showing that the anti-inflammatory meds are more effective at treating this kind of pain.  [/quote] I was sent home within this time frame, more than 16 yrs ago. Produce pee and poop, eat solid food without vomiting, and they're ready to wheel you out![/quote]

I was as well. 29 years ago.  Tripler Army Medical Center in Hawaii.  I had an emergency c-section and was home less than 48 hours after surgery.  But I did have pain meds.  And I was perfectly fine to go home. [/quote]

Yeah, I'm that poster who was sent home that early and accused of lying. I was eating, walking, and peeing, so why keep me? I'd kinda expected more than OTC Advil, though. He wouldn't even write a prescription for ibuprofen - though I maintain that that early after a c-section, opioids are warranted. It's not as though I was lying in bed at home, after all. I needed actual pain relief.[/quote]

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