Has anyone participated in the Ropivacaine Case Study in Ottawa?

I went for my PATTS testing on Thursday and I was approached by a Student doctor who is working on a case Study regarding the use of Ropivacaine for Roux-en-Y bypass surgery. The study is to see if using Ropivicaine reduces pain after Surgery there is a 50/50 percent chance that you will either receive the drug (which is inserted through a tube through one of your existing incisions  at the start of surgery) or you will receive a Placebo you or your surgeon will not know which one you received until 6 months to a year after the Surgery has anybody participated in this new study I believe they started testing in February 2014. Dr. Mamazza, Dr. Yelle and Dr. Neville are all participating.

I didn't but I know of 2 people who did participate in August.  One of them was asked to walk up and down the hall for 6 minutes without stopping as part of this testing.  Sounds interesting but I was never approached to do it so I was not a part of it.  I am a part of the research group for statistics though, so they follow you to collect data, sounds good, I like to give back if I can.

I did. You fill out a questionnaire before surgery, then walk a designated path for ? minutes then you're done. Just before surgery, you have to blow in a tube to check  how far you can blow ( lol) and then again the day after surgery every couple of hours. Then you walk the same distance to compare with your first try. And you walk again at your 1 week apt. at the WMC. Fill out again the same questionnaire and you're done. The guy was super nice and came to visit a lot just to see how I was doing. Came back to see me again a couple of times when I was re-hospitalised with complications a week later. 

Are you anxious to find out if you received the drug or the Placebo? If you had to guess which one do you think you got? I found it very intriguing and if proves to help people in the future I am all for it!!

I don't know if it made a difference or not but thought to myself why not. No added complications if you try it so I did. We'll see...