Telling the surgeon about addiction
October, 1st, 2004-LapRNY
298/157/140'ish
Albert Schweitzer
I did let the Anesthesologist (boy did I mangle that spelling, let's just call him the 'sleep doc') know but it wasn't until the day of the surgery. Everything worked out well with no problems. I don't anticipate you'd having any problems anyways with 12 years clean. My tolerances had been built up with my active use of alcohol which I only ceased a couple of months before surgery. Amazingly I don't have a real problem with any pills, I still have Oxycontin in the medical cabinet from 2 plus years ago, however I can definitely not say the same for any vodka that I've encountered over that period. It's great that you have the home support, if you have a problem/concern with the pain meds I would definitely mention it to your surgeon before he writes any scripts and he should know before he establishes your pain management program. With 12 years clean I wouldn't be afraid of laying everything out. Considering I currently count my time in months its a little more of a concern for me.