If my posts are a little incoherent...

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Apr 12 2007, 09:33 PM) [snapback]422320[/snapback]</div>

Evan, hope you're feeling better soon. I never thought Percocet or Tylenol w/codeine did much after surgeries (I've had ~14, so I know what works and doesn't for me). I would sometimes take the Perc or T/C with vodka (only at night to try to get 4-5 hours uninterrupted sleep), that seemed to do the trick for the more major surgeries. My surgeon raised an eyebrow when I responded with this info as to how the pain medication was working, but said,"Well, if it's working for you..."
Feel better.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Apr 12 2007, 06:33 PM) [snapback]422320[/snapback]</div>

Ahhhhhhh, It sounds like they administered Versed, my favorite medically approved and applied drug. When I had my Kid/Pan transplant the anesthesiologist, a pretty blond gal late 30’s to early 40’s, asked me if I was nervous. I replied that I wasn’t nervous about the transplant procedure but more about all the tubes they were going to shove into my orifices and the eppie for pain that they were going to stick in my spine. They wanted me to remain conscious while they inserted everything to make sure they got them in correctly. She smiled at me and stuck a needle into my IV line and slowly pushed the plunger in while saying “I have something here that will help . . .â€, from the end of the word “help†until I woke up I don’t remember a thing although they all insisted that I was conscious and quite helpful until I, not wanting them to lift me, got onto the surgery table under my own power.

I hope that all the loose parts were replaced and that none extra were added as well as a swift recovery.

Wildkow

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(ZenCruiser @ Apr 12 2007, 06:54 PM) [snapback]422332[/snapback]</div>

LOL! I usually chased my Perc's and Vicodin's with a beer but whats funny is that I remember getting a second brew but always woke up from my nappy with a warm 3/4 full brew next to me.

Wildkow

 

sorry to hear about your hernia. my stepdad had surgery for one in january, i think he was out of there in 4 hours. being that he's in my top 5 most hated people list, he doesn't usually get a ton of sympathy from me but i did feel bad for him after that.

get well soon! we'll pretend for your benefit that we notice a difference in your posts

 

Take it easy and take your meds!

I allowed my mother to scare me out of taking my pain meds after my appendectomy with fears I'd become addicted. So I spent a lot of time in pain.

I also had no clue how long it takes to heal so when my Dr. asked "How long should I excuse you from work for...a week?" I was clueless so I said OK. Big mistake. The only thing that saved me was that I got a week off because of the fires in So. Cal and then I got the shingles. Ended up home for a total of a month, minus two single days I went to work, day before the fires and day before the shingles.

Oh, and when they tell you having laproscopic surgery is less painful? LIARS!. They're all a bunch of big fat liars!

And why didn't anyone tell me to use ice packs on my stomach? Or, as the teacher who told me about icing....use bags of frozen peas.

 

This morning?! What the hell are you doing here? Go back to bed, you silly boy, and stay there. I had the same thing done under general a couple of years ago, and I found the pain easier to deal with than the drugs. Darn. Until I ditched the T3s, I couldn't even sit up without feeling nauseous. Going to the bathroom was interesting...let's just say I was very careful not to mix up the water bottles. :blink: And the 'stitches' were eight inches of metal staples! It was at least two weeks before I could ride a bike. So, you have my sincere sympathies, Evan, and no, I don't want to see the scar. Get well soon. Or, at least back to your former self.

Galaxee, you should have visited your poor, suffering stepdad as often as possible and made him bust a gut laughing. :huh:

 

Be well, Evan. This will give you a couple of surfing days...

 

Evan, hope you have a speedy recovery.

 

Hope you feel better soon, Evan!

 

Rest up and get well soon, Evan.

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE(efusco @ Apr 12 2007, 10:06 PM) [snapback]422337[/snapback]</div>

I thought you doctors used it, as well as the masks, to avoid being identified in a lineup.

Tom

 

Evan, good luck on your recovery. as far as percoset, my SO just had a "C" section and was prescribed percoset with ibuprofen and she says it only takes the edge off. changes it from a pain to a constant dull ache. giving the pill a little boost may just be the ticket

 

I hope you start feeling better soon man.

 

Get well soon!



For you Versed fans: Amen! It made a vasectomy tolerable, so it's gotta be great for anything else that doesn't require general anesthesia.

 

Evan: I'm sorry to hear of your hernia. Best of luck on a speedy recovery!

After my first prostate operation, 4 years ago, they gave me Tylenol with codine. Is that T3? As near as I could tell, it did nothing whatsoever. I quit taking it the day after the operation, and the pain did not change.

After my heart operation, there wasn't much pain. (Pulmonary vein ablation. Nothing opened up.)

After my second prostate operation there was agonizing pain when I came out of anesthesia, and they gave me morphine. It was really nice. Once they got enough of it into me (which they did in small stages) I felt no pain, and I felt both physically and emotionally warm. Even though the room was chilly, I felt nice and warm. They sent me home with Percocet, which did very little, if anything, for the pain, but which did help me sleep off and on during the day. If I could have gotten morphine during those first few days I'd have taken it gladly. But I quit taking the Percocet once the catheter was out.

Morphine is nice. I recommend it.

Before the heart surgery they told me I'd have to swallow a tube with an ultrasound transponder. They told me it would be very unpleasant, but I needed to be conscious while swallowing it. However, my last memory was turning onto my side. I have absolutely no memory of swallowing the thing.