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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With knee replacement surgery they tell you to get ahead of the pain. 
 My DH tried to skip the heavy duty pain meds and it was not pretty for a few days.

He definitely needed the stronger drugs.[/quote]

This.  I've had a lot of different surgeries, and my pain management needs have been quite different in each case.  My ACL/MCL/meniscus repair was the worst, and I definitely needed the oxy for about 4 days post-op and multiple nights after that.  My bilateral mastectomy wasn't too bad, and I was fine with gabapentin and tylenol/ibuprofen.  They might have given me a vicodin or two while I was still in the hospital, but nothing to take home after I was released.  Laparoscopic surgeries were trivial, and OTC meds were completely fine.

OP didn't tell us what the surgery is, so we have no idea whether the doctor is being reasonable with the pain meds or whether he's some sort of purist.  I would run far from any orthopedic surgeon who thinks OTC meds are sufficient.   [/quote]

You think doctors don't know this? The fact that OP didn't say, and hasn't come back to clarify, strongly suggests they already know they're on some nonsense. [/quote]

OP probably saw the people ganging up on her and accusing her of being addicted. It is a fact that some doctors are extremely rigid when it comes to pain management. Check out r/medicine and see the debates among physicians about this. Besides not knowing what the surgery entails, we also don't know whether OP has undergone any surgical procedures before.[/quote]

OP was probably trolling, like most of the people who post here. Either that, or they wanted "support" and bounced when they got a perspective check instead.[/quote]

The perspective that we should tough out surgical pain versus using an FDA-approved medication that is indicated for surgical site pain? There is zero reason to go back to biting sticks and rolling around in pain because of some junkie somewhere.

My body, my choice. [/quote]

Well, sure. Your choice to go doctor shopping for opiates. Good luck when your records get flagged for drug-seeking behavior.

You don't need opiates for every "surgical site pain". You really don't. [/quote]

DP. Now you sound hysterical.  The DEA has more to do than to scan for who is having surgeries to see opioids.  I had an addict client once who tried to go from drug store to drug store trying to get scripts before getting caught and it didn’t work.  Busted.  Another stole script pad.  Busted.  I don’t even know the docs use paper script pads anymore for actual scripts —do they? [/quote]

*seek 
I’m a mental health professional [/quote]

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