The only pain med that makes me nauseated is Percocet. Vicodin gives me no problems at all. I already told them that.
Now this is probably TMI...but...I have REALLY bad hemorrhoids. I have an appt to see a specialist coming up in a few days. They are so bad now that they never go back in. Gross. I know and I'm sorry. The thought of putting something in there just totally makes me cringe. Plus when they hurt...the last thing I wanna be doing is poking around in there. Lol! I just don't understand. I have never been prescribed pain meds like this. I'm already having a hard enough time pulling up my drawers...now I have to twist around to insert that? I have a hard time sometimes with my back pain that it's hard to wipe back there. Yikes! I know it could be worse. Sorry for complaining about something like this.
Sounds like I've had the least surgery here and I'm the one complaining. Sorry.
I feel so bad for the rest of you. Y'all are troopers? =D
That last thing you want, then, is any kind of narcotic. Anything that causes constipation would not be good! There is a relatively new pain med called nucynta that does not have the side effects of narcotics, including constipation. It is new, since 2009, so some insurance companies won't pay. Mine did, though. It was $25 for a month, which isn't bad.
boonie bear are you taking any kind of stool softners? I take 3 a day to prevent that plus I had a anal fissure years ago that I have to be careful with.
Had my shoulder manipulation under anesthesia today (MUA) and of course they messed up my shoulder block but I'm doing ok just increased pain but it does look like my ROM is better hard to tell w/ the pain. WIll find out more when I go to PT tomorow. cj
CJ. I'm so glad you're okay and hope you're not in too much pain.
I do take stool softeners. My problem isn't constipation. These things have been here for a while. I've been needing to see a doc but when I had the rubberband on one in TX it hurt really bad. So I'm being a big chicken about it and putting it off. I would think that my doc would have at least asked me how I tolerate other meds first. I don't know why but this has just really got me annoyed.
But there are other things to worry about.
My shoulder and neck hurt soooooo bad right now. I didn't use the immbolizer last night while I was sleeping. Not sure if that's why...? I've got ice on it again now.
hi no34evr -- just a short note to tell you i'll be thinking about you today when you go to PT....... surely do hope this procedure did for you what you needed.......... you're a good trooper
How did they do the surgery on your bottom? Did you ever have the rubberband thing done first? Not to get too graphic here....but...after they put it on I went home and to make a long short...my husband came home to see me on the couch, face down with my rear stuck up in the air with nothing on it. Lol! That was the only way I got any sort of comfort. I had to go to work for the next two days and dang it was miserable. I'm a legal secretary so I had to spend most of my time sitting. It was literally a pain in my *ss. Ha ha!
Sorry you had to go through that too! We're a mess. Just kidding.
I'm going to call the doc again and tell them about my rear issues. Maybe I should just call my pain management doc. I have ultram and Vicodin that they prescribed me at my last visit. I KNOW the ultram is not going to help my shoulder. It barely helps with my normal chronic pain. I didn't want to keep taking Vicodin everyday so I requested trying the ultram. And I take the vicodin as needed so they prescribed me 1 Vicodin a day = 28. I only have 27 Vicodin now because I just took one and it's helping my pain a little bit. But not as much as the Percocet. But I don't have nausea or a headache from it. It's 10/325 strength. I'm sure a higher one would help more. Soooooo....do I call the surgeon and tell him this? Or do I call my pain mgmt doc? I am leaving on 4 August to go to Texas for a week to look for a house because we are moving on 29 August. I'm afraid that I'll be down there with still a lot of pain and run out of the Vicodin my pain doc gave me. Especially since it's going to be two whole days of driving. What do I do? What do y'all think?
Technically I don't think I'm supposed to even get pain pills from another doc - even after surgery - because I had to sign a document agreeing to not get narcotics from anyone else.
And yes...I know I ask a LOT of questions. Lol!
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hi Booniebear thanks so much for asking. I have started another thread on my MUA kind of keeping a diary of sorts, I think its called shoulder strectching under anethesia or something like that. You can click on my profile and find it you want. This thread I started kind of got busy so I started that one plus it will help me track my progress (I hope).
I'm doing better w/ ROM, PT was happy, I was really sore last night. I have to keep moving it every couple of hours. I bought some of those pulleys $17 from the PT and that helps having them at home.
My "external rotation" didn't move as well as he wanted it to. So he didn't push it because he was afraid he would tear or hurt me. So not sure how much use of that I'll get back ho hum. I got a lot (I think) on the others on yeah except the one behind the back like where you would want to hook your bra? There's always pulling it to the front and hooking it, right?
I stll hurt waaay more than before my original surgery though.
thanks again for asking, cj
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hi Booniebear thanks so much for asking. I have started another thread on my MUA kind of keeping a diary of sorts, I think its called shoulder strectching under anethesia or something like that. You can click on my profile and find it you want. This thread I started kind of got busy so I started that one plus it will help me track my progress (I hope).
I'm doing better w/ ROM, PT was happy, I was really sore last night. I have to keep moving it every couple of hours. I bought some of those pulleys $17 from the PT and that helps having them at home.
My "external rotation" didn't move as well as he wanted it to. So he didn't push it because he was afraid he would tear or hurt me. So not sure how much use of that I'll get back ho hum. I got a lot (I think) on the others on yeah except the one behind the back like where you would want to hook your bra? There's always pulling it to the front and hooking it, right?
I stll hurt waaay more than before my original surgery though.
