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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m OP. People sure had big feelings about this! The good news is that for non-emergency surgery, the people who only want Tylenol can go to doctors who only suggest Tylenol, and the people who don’t want to needlessly suffer can go to surgeons who routinely prescribe a few doses of stronger stuff. Which will make the Tylenol folks really mad, for some reason!

I have cancer and am having a mass and most of an organ removed, with a several inch incision. Life is hard enough right now without pain I don’t need to feel. The other surgeons I met with do not have a Tylenol only policy, thank goodness.[/quote]

I hope your surgery goes well. I don’t understand all the Tylenol is just fine people. Everyone has different levels of pain tolerance and the worse thing is trying to recover from surgery and waiting for Tylenol/advil  to kick in and then not getting relief so you can rest or sleep. Forget that. After surgery I want to be able to sleep without crying in pain or being tense that the pain isn’t going away.

I don’t see how prescribing 3-5 pain pills to have just in case is going to turn someone into an addict. Sometimes just the fact of knowing the pain pills are available is helpful.

Historically it seems like there is a bias that women should just shut up and accept pain like childbirth. [/quote]

They are addicts who could not believe OP indeed suffered from something serious. They are also idiots. [/quote]

And some people who have never been addicted to anything in their lives, but who work in the field of medicine.

There's not just one type of person in agreement here.[/quote]

They're not slagging off the doctor(s), tho... The people being nasty toward addicts and people in recovery are probably addicted to a few things, including internet trolling, and feel confronted by other people's sobriety. That's why they're not arguing the point, they're trying to insult the person. [/quote]

Why did the “former addict” dash in here to eyeroll at OP and call her drug seeking? Hm. [/quote]

Why are you back on this thread, derailing to lash out at a "former addict"? You may want to seek help for your mental issues. They might even give you psychoactive drugs![/quote]

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