Preparing for Surgery
Sometimes surgery is the best path to relieving chronic back, hip or knee pain. Usually a lot of care and instructions go into preparing for surgery, but often the time just after surgery when you return home is neglected. Here are some steps you can take to help you feel better after surgery:
These are a few things that come to my mind. Tell me what worked for you!
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- Take care of any pressing issues so you won't be rushed to deal with them when you come home.
- Grocery shop ahead of time.
- Prepare meals in advance and freeze them.
- Use this pre-surgery preparation time to work on some non-medicinal relaxation exercises.
- If you have a heating pad and/or ice pack, make sure they are in working order and easily accessible.
- Treat yourself to some aroma therapy candles and have them ready for when you come home.
- Get a tape or two of nice soothing music or nature sounds to help you relax.
- Get a book or two to read that is inspiring and stock up on some hobby things you can work on while you are less active.
These are a few things that come to my mind. Tell me what worked for you!
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19 Comments:
I was reading an article about pain medication (Narcotics) I have been taking Oxycontin 40mg and Percocet 10mg for 4 years and i havent had any problems with it, which is because i do not abuse it. I have taken these meds under supervision of my spouse, this is not because i abuse or have abused these medication. Thes two medications have controlled my chronic pain and i wont do anything to have them taken away, i sure am not that stupid. Thank-You for your time. HOWARD H. HEROLD
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STOP TAKING OXYCONTIN
you are addicted.
I really don't think, to say your not so stupid as to abuse them, is to say you are stupid to think you aren't vunerable. You can never say never, just hope you will make it.
This is so foolish to act as if every person who takes a narcotic pain killer over a long term is an addict. Most imformed MDs would certainly contest that assertion. This is equivalent to saying that anyone who has a drink a few times a week is an alcoholic. Addictions have as much to do with the personality and the things going on in the addict's mind and life as the addictive substance. Too often people who have had an addiction issue see everyone else as an addict. This is not the case.
Most up to date well educated professionals know that taking a narcotic doesn't guarentee addiction. In fact the rate of addiction in those that NEED them, such as chronic pain sufferers, is extremely low. The problem comes into play with those that abuse them. This entire fanfare is caused by the uneducated media that likes to extrapolate from one person to millions and care more about headlines and circulation numbers than the actual truth. The old movies that have people in addiction hell after 3 pills. Many celebs use addiction to pain meds after an accident when they need an "out" from getting caught doing something else which perpetuates the myth even further.
It's all ridiculous and keeps being perpetuated by those that only repeat what they hear without looking at the research
Dave Said....been on Morphine Sulfate 100x3 mg oral and 15x1 mg injections a day for almost 3 yrs.and all i can say is thank GOD,after trying 6 or 7 pain meds this seems to be what helps me and i don't intend on abusing what could be my last line of defence.Good luck all
I have been dealing with a degenerative spinal disease on top of 3 major accidents(head, neck & back: A busted surgery, in my neck, along with neuropathic pain for a combination of 30 years:(am only 43) I agree with those who talk about taking pain meds not necessarily meaning your an addict. Take it from someone who HAS dealt with addiction and come out on the other side. Your body is used to them but you don't sound (to me) like someone who is an dealing with an addiction problem. Cronic pain is Extremely hard to treat and ALOT of Dr's don't know how to deal with it. God Bless you and i wish you well. !!
I have been taking 30mg morphine twice a day for a year and I have never thought of myself as an addict. The drug dosen't make the addict the persob does. I take this medication for intercranial hypertension and the moment that I can stop taking it I will and that will be the end. I was on and off of it for a while before the doctors decided to leave me on it till I could have surgery.
I am currently suffering from a degenerative disc disease. This is something that runs in my family.I'm a bit nervous about getting my back cut open and also can't afford it right now.At first I was being prescribed Vicodin ES. After I started building up a tolerance to them I was moved up to magnacet which is the same as percocet, then onto oxicodone ir 15mg.The oxicodone is the only medication that totally took the pain away. I was able to go back to work and take care of my 4 month old daughter with no misery. Now, for some reason that my doctor won't explain, he refuses to prescribe oxicodone anymore. If you've ever been on this drug, you know what it's like to run out or even have your medication reduced,it's a horrible feeling going through these withdraws. I'm starting to think that doctors are not prescribing this because of our youth taking these medications as a recreational drug. It's a damn shame that someone like myself can't get what we need to get by until surgery because of these kids getting addicted to prescription medications, in which seems to be their drug of choice these days. So if your doctor is prescribing you these types of meds, please stop selling them and or keep them locked up so your children cannot get to them.Thank you for reading my comment and please respond if you have any suggestions.
I would just like to leave a few words about this subject. I am a disabled veteran who suffers from pain do to shrapnel in my back and legs when I served in Iraq. I was the unfortunate person that ran into an IED (Improvised Explosive Device) and I suffer from pain daily. Now I take pain medication on a daily basis, but I know I am not addicted, what I am not addicted to is pain and if this medicine helps me live a somewhat normal live then I will take it. If someone can come up with a way to take away my pain then I would be glad to give up the pain meds. If not then I don't think anybody should judge a person with Chronic Pain. Nuff said.
....Been on several different narcotic and non-narcotic pain meds for the better part of 20yrs. I have cronic kidney stones and a herniated and torn disc in my lower back. After several years of getting the meds from my PCP, he has now just about cut me off and is setting me up in a pain clinic a few towns over. I don't understand why the change suddenly and what the difference is....At least if my pcp keeps up the meds, I will save a bunch of cash on gas.
Each person deals with pain differently and smart docs do know that. I'm a retired NFL player at 27 and need 10 5mg percocet a day to fuction and run my business. I've had 4 knee surgeries, over 10 concussions, 4 time torn rotator cuff and 2 elbow scopes. I hate when people say stop taking this, you're an addict, yadda yadda yadda.
All I have to say to them is, come live my life for a day and go do what I did and not take any pain pills. Some docs who I personally know are scared to give meds out compared to 5 years ago but that's because every 2 seconds there's a commercial on being addicted or someone is taking them that's not prescribed to them that died or people selling them.
Well, I give my pain meds whenever I can to my mentor who is a retired 18 yr NFL vet who was no insurance and works hard labor because the NFL pension plan is a joke.
Anyway, the point is, each person deals with everything differently and no one has the right to judge someone or tell someone to stop taking pain meds because they're druggie friend got hooked and ruined their lives. That's their dumb ass fault. Pain is real and everyone deserves relief no matter who they, what they do, best or no insurance or how much money the make!
So stop trying to be a tough guy and judge and/or tell people what to do!
My thoughts go out to all who live in pain and need relief.
And I love the Giants for beating the Pats and I played for the Eagles/Skins' for 5 years. 16-0 doesn't mean s#%t!!!
I have been living with chronic pain for12 years,I have taken vicodin and soma for as long. Now I need rotater cuff surgury and the surgeon said after the surgury the only pain releif he could give me was vicodin,I have talked with friends that have had this surgery and they said they needed more pain releif. Iam afraid have been taking it so long it wont address the pain?? Anybody already been through this?
I'm a 50 yr old female who has had 3 lumbar fusions 1 cervical fusion and two kness that need surgery if I did not have my pain medication I would not be here today. The press has ruined oxycontin for all the bad hyp it has done. Taken in proper dosage it is a good drug. But leave it up to the addicits to blow it for the people who are disabled and need medication.
Why would anyone listen to someone that has to sign "anonymous". If you don't have the stones to post your name, you can't be taken seriously. Tim S. in versailles Ky.
when anyone takes oyxcotin for pain the bottom line is yes they will become a pill addict, and every body will treat you like one even if you don't abuse them, for this fact dotor's are trying not to prescribe it to anyone, to get off narcotic pain killers you got to take a drug called suboxin
as someone whom works under a m.d. that deals with "harder" cases of medical pain management, i can assure you that while all opioid medication can become less effective over time and all of them carry a risk of addiction, it is up to all parties involved with with a patients care(family and medical personnel) to facilitate care and compassion for chronic pain. over the years it has become less and less a compassion thing and more of "i cant write for narcotics because of additions" but what is truly being said is"i dont want to risk my career for someone to call my practice a pill mill". this is very common in the medical field because of the "pill mills" and the tv showing people robbing cvs for oxycontin...the need for chronic pain managment is a must, not only for compassion, but also for everyone living with this life-changing diagnosis to be able to get on with their lives. after all, didnt we who chose to go into the medical field,do it for just that reason? to show care and compassion and to help people with such issues?
Hello, My name is Billy Spellman and i fight the ignorance of those that "think" there is something wrong with addiction in the first place with all my energy and the pain medication i take is simply fuel for my body. Do i have a right to exist?... that IS the BOTTOM LINE!
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