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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I met with a surgeon today for a consult for significant and urgent surgery. There were a number of things I was unimpressed with but one was that they only give Tylenol. I feel like they would probably give more if a patient was in REALLY bad shape but her take was “some discomfort is normal after major surgery but it should be manageable with Tylenol.” That’s jacked up. We invented medication so that you don’t have to feel pain. Give a patient 3-5 days of pain meds. I’m meeting with other surgeons because this one seems heartless.[/quote]

Apparently your surgery isn't that urgent.  :roll:

Quit doctor shopping for drugs. Tylenol and ibuprofen will mitigate most pain. Neither has significant side effects, withdrawal symptoms, addiction potential or other complications. You don't need 3-5 days of narcotics, and if you do, you can be prescribed them when you need them. Demanding drugs you probably won't need in advance is drug-seeking behavior. No, you should not have an expectation of 'zero pain' post-surgery. You should anticipate and prepare for discomfort at a level commensurate with whatever procedure you're having done, and be with it for the brief time it's present because that's life in a body. I would strongly suggest you avoid opioids like the plague they are, as the withdrawals kick in after even short-term use, and 3-5 days is more than enough to trigger addiction.

-long-term chronic pain patient who has BTDT with pretty much all of the painkiller options[/quote]

Asking for pain medication after major surgery is not “drug seeking behavior.” People have lost their minds![/quote]

[b]One thing I have always noted on DCUM is the purist mentality; it is so toxic.  Pain meds work! There is no prize at the end for enduring crippling pain after a c-section, hysterectomy, bunion removal, or thyroidectomy.

And I am sick of doctors telling me THEY know my body better than I DO. [/b] I see no reason to suffer because someone somewhere is addicted to something.  Change surgeons and don't look back OP.  If you get home from surgery with only Tylenol and have crippiling pain at 2 am, it will be unnecessarily effing miserable getting relief, trust me, I know.  [/quote]

Agreed. And it’s damn clear that one or more posters are in fact opioid addicts (“chronic pain patient”) who are eager to see their own flaws and failures in everyone else. [/quote]

Y'all would rather start attacking people you don't even know than listen and read and learn.  :roll:

I've been totally sober for years, sweetie. If you're mad about me trying to prevent someone from walking the road to hell I managed to make it through, well, that's something for you to take up with your medical professionals (though if they've found a cure for being an inflammed and irritable ass on the internet, I don't know about it). Best of luck to you.[/quote]

It’s interesting. The people I know who are serious about sobriety would not be addressing another person this way. Maybe they are unusual.[/quote]

If they’re not acting like this thing up there, maybe they’re not yet um “totally sober.”

She’s the equivalent of a dry drunk inching closer to a barstool. [/quote]

Thing? One in one's cups thus shouldn't speak or post. Trash.[/quote]

“Totally sober.” It’s not going well for you, jeez.

OP will be fine. Good luck with the tooth retention, sweetie.[/quote]

What are you even talking about? Maybe try sobering up before you comment again. Tooth retention? You make zero sense. [/quote]

You’re methy, sweetie. Very methy. Good luck after the inevitable OD.[/quote]

The projection is strong with this one...[/quote]

Sorry, idiot. I haven’t taken anything because I’ve been fortunate to not have major surgery, including C-sections. That’s all luck, to have pregnancy go well, to not have serious accidents. You total wastes who attacked OP have apparently never listened to any part of either season of The Retrievals, and don’t care that women are still, today, biopsied with almost no pain relief in the US due to a “standard of care” that is indifferent to women. You’re some methed up crackwhore who cannot show a modicum of compassion to OP, trying to force her to identify her surgery, whether it’s done laparoscopically - why? Because you’re in medicine? No. Because you’re an addict and a b itch.

As we all know, including you. Good luck. You’ll need it, and it’s obviously running out or you’d be with your healthy family or friends now, as I am. But you’re just trash on the internet because most of us are better than you. It’s not about your initial tragic addiction. It’s about this, trash. Go get your hit and finish it finally.[/quote]

Nobody "attacked OP" by pointing out the flaws in their logic, but you've sure done a bit of attacking strangers on this thread. You've also made the thread about something it's not, apparently to justify your continued cruelty, nastiness and namecalling.

But go off about how it's "those people" who are the addicts, and you're a happy, healthy person, just spending the day with friends.

Delulu troll.[/quote]

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