Question on Medication

Good morning everyone,

I have a question on medications.  I had a gastric bypass.

Is there any issue with taking anti-inflammatories or tylenol?

I appreciate your input.

Thanks.
Geoff

NO NSAIDS!

Tylenol products are fine.

No advil, aleve or generics of those. And my public service announcement for the day is that NSAIDS very often cause Chronic Kidney Disease. Chronic use of these meds is not good. Stick to Tylenol, and if a script for pain meds is needed, make sure it's not an Anti-inflammatory.

I would advise to watch out for Liquid Tylenol with PowerBoost - that's the brand name - it is loaded with SUGAR and sadly I found that out the hard way. Otherwise I tolerate tylenol very well.

Other than the very strict NO ORAL NSAIDS rule (which should be on your medic-alert bracelet!), I was also told not to take products containing aspirin.  Both can cause ulcers.

Tylenol is fine, but as Kathy said, watch out for the liquid ones containing sugar.

Good luck, Geoff!

Karen

Just had this conversation with my nurse at my surgeon's office.  As everyone else said, Tylenol is the way to go.  Only other thing she told me that I would not have known before (still pre-op) is that i can take nothing with extended release.  Dose needs to be 4-6 hours if we're going to be able to process it - anything longer than that wont take affect in our system.
Melissa

I just talked with one of my regular doctors today about me being on an extended release medication. I got lucky. He did some research and found out that it is available in injection form. That was music to my ears. I was worried about that.
I was also told not to take advil or any other medicine like it, that I should stick to Tylenol because of the risk of ulcers, and I remember hearing something about the risk of blood loss during surgery as well.

Hey Chopper,

I found this NSAIDs list on bariatric eating dot com

regards,

Elizabeth

NSAIDs : non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs Aspirin (Anacin, Ascriptin, Bayer, Bufferin, Ecotrin, Excedrin)
Choline and magnesium salicylates (CMT, Tricosal, Trilisate)
Choline salicylate (Arthropan)
Celecoxib (Celebrex)
Diclofenac potassium (Cataflam)
Diclofenac sodium (Voltaren, Voltaren XR)
Diclofenac sodium with misoprostol (Arthrotec)
Diflunisal (Dolobid)
Etodolac (Lodine, Lodine XL)
Fenoprofen calcium (Nalfon)
Flurbiprofen (Ansaid)
Ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin, Motrin IB, Nuprin)
Indomethacin (Indocin, Indocin SR)
Ketoprofen (Actron, Orudis, Orudis KT, Oruvail)
Magnesium salicylate (Arthritab, Bayer Select, Doan's Pills, Magan, Mobidin, Mobogesic)
Meclofenamate sodium (Meclomen)
Mefenamic acid (Ponstel)
Meloxicam (Mobic)
Nabumetone (Relafen)
Naproxen (Naprosyn, Naprelan*)
Naproxen sodium (Aleve, Anaprox)
Oxaprozin (Daypro)
Piroxicam (Feldene)
Rofecoxib (Vioxx)
Salsalate (Amigesic, Anaflex 750, Disalcid, Marthritic, Mono-Gesic, Salflex, Salsitab)
Sodium salicylate (various generics)
Sulindac (Clinoril)
Tolmetin sodium (Tolectin)
Valdecoxib (Bextra)

Note: Some products, such as Excedrin, are combination drugs (Excedrin is acetaminophen, aspirin, and caffeine).

Note that acetaminophen (Paracetamol; Tylenol) is not on this list. Acetaminophen belongs to a class of drugs called analgesics (pain relievers) and antipyretics (fever reducers). The exact mechanism of action of acetaminophen is not known. Acetaminophen relieves pain by elevating the pain threshold, that is, by requiring a greater amount of pain to develop before it is felt by a person. It reduces fever through its action on the heat-regulating center of the brain. Specifically, it tells the center to lower the body's temperature when the temperature is elevated. Acetaminophen relieves pain in mild arthritis but has no effect on the underlying inflammation, redness and swelling of the joint.
Paracetamol, unlike other common analgesics such as aspirin and ibuprofen, has no anti-inflammatory properties, and so it is not a member of the class of drugs known as non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs or NSAIDs.

Well Elizabeth summed it up beautifully, much more so than I ever could!  Oh - and "NSAIDS" = Non-Steroidal-Anti-Inflammatories

Oh, and we can't take pepto bismol, either.  contains aspirin.