Taking pain meds before surgery

Granday
on 2/3/15 10:44 am

can you take tramadol 2weeks or less before having the gastric sleeve done. I have a lot pain in my hip due to OA.

kathkeb
on 2/3/15 11:24 am

REALIZE Band on 06/05/09

Call your surgeon and ask ----- doctors have different requirements.

Kath

Gwen M.
on 2/3/15 8:50 pm

VSG on 03/13/14

Ask your surgeon to be sure.

I was taking 50mg of tramadol a day at that point though.

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Nancy
on 2/7/15 7:23 pm - Kasson, MN

RNY on 01/06/04

Ask your surgeon. From what I know that tramadol has so blood thinning qualities so you should be fine.

MsBatt
on 2/8/15 4:48 am

DS on 12/11/03

No, you want to avoid anything with blood-thinning qualities at least two weeks before any kind of surgery! It increases your chances of bleeding out.

MsBatt
on 2/8/15 4:49 am

DS on 12/11/03

Both times I've had surgery I had to stop my NSAIDs two weeks prior, and they gave me Tramadol instead. Sadly, it didn't do me much good.

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