what is better

what is better the epidural or the morphine pump for the pain after WLS

Hi Karen, me myself will not allow anything to be stuck in my back after having a nerve block. Morphine doesn't work for me as a pump. Have you thought about a direct live morphine? Dixie Flower had that for a couple of days, then switched over to the pump. After the 2nd day she was more sore then in pain. I think I am going that route. Something to check in and ask your Dr. Good luck, Kathy

Actually it was on a pump the whole time they just had the machine to auto give me the dosage during my first two days post op. Then when I was three days post op they stopped the auto dosage and I could press a button if I needed pain medicine. It would only allow me to press it once every 10 min. However I didn't use it then. The pain was more discomfort than actual pain. Also when I was in surgery they placed a central line in. Instead of a "traditional" IV line. Honestly the only severe pain I had was when the pulled out my drain before I went home. I thought they were pullin my insides out with it. Hope this helps. *huggles*

I had morphine.

I had epidural for pain relief. I chose that route. It did cause me to itch a lot but I still liked the epidural. I was not sedated as much. I did receive a morphine shot to ease the pain once they took out the epidural. It did help when they was taking the drain line out. Lisa