Question:
Why the liquid pain meds

I know this may sound crazy, but why all the liquid pain medication after surgery? Is it becasue its hard to swallow the pills? I am just getting started with the process and it just amazes me all the different types of medication you can get for pain and it being liquid. I guess everything has changed these days. What about someone who dose not like to take pain medication. I have had really adverse reactions to something as simple as Loratab. Surely, there is something else that would work. Melissa    — kizie23 (posted on November 5, 2005)

November 5, 2005
I was given liqued loraset plus after surgery. I only took it for two days after surgery because it made me sick since I could really eat with it. I didn;t exactly take my phenegran either. oops. but I lived fine without it. I couldn't have imagined taking a pill though either had I needed it cause I could barely drink liqueds let aone anything solid. Best Wishes in Your Journey Shell 287/ Lap Rny Distal 10-5-04 / 163 11-5-05 Wishing for a miracle for plastics. Pooh
   — Shell G

November 5, 2005
It has to do with your pouch healing and the amount of acid that your pouch produces. I used the morphine pump while at the hospital and tried the Lortab and about spit it back out. I was given the Lortab prescription when I went home but never filled it. It probably would have helped me sleep at night but I just couldn't take it. Now I use tylenol for a head ache and break the tablets so they are small and the doctor said I could use advil for PMS and I take a acid reliever such as pepcid before taking the advil which helps to prevent a ulcer and only use it once or twice when needed for the PMS during the week.
   — 1968 Loser

November 5, 2005
My surgeon used a liquid pain med called Hycet and it worked well. No morphine pump in the hospital even. I had to take a pill soon after surgery (2nd day) and I used a pill crusher to pulverize it and took it in a small amount of liquid. The liquids are to let your pouch heal without stressing it. I followed the doctor's advice and did well. I didn't want to do anything that would possibly cause problems.
   — fruity9

November 5, 2005
I just got out of the hospital on Nov 3 having my surgery on Nov 1. I had a morphine drip in the hospital for the first two days and then if I needed something I was given Liquid Tylenol 3 (with codeine), I also was given a script for it, but I have only been taking it when I need it and at bedtime. Supposely, if you take a larger pill it could get stuck in your new pouch at the bottom, the 'stoma'. Hope this helps.
   — Danita S.

November 5, 2005
Research shows that people actually heal better when they are not in pain. Since our stomach is healing after the operation, the liquid form is easier on it. I only had tylenol for pain once I came home.
   — Novashannon

November 6, 2005
I was given injections of morophine (no pump) my first day at the hospital but it never seemed to do enough so I asked to switch to liquid (oral) vicodin. That was much better! I took it for 2 days at home, then stopped until I got my first period after surgery (I have endometriosis, so it hurts BAD). I wouldn't ry the pills because I know when I take my iron supplement (roughly the size of a baby asprin) it hurts like hell for about 15 minutes. Chewable irons weren't working for me.
   — Ravenwulf

November 6, 2005
post surgery, your stomach is healing, there is a seam line,and a stoma line that are unprotected from the acids that are produced to digest food by the lineing that is normally there, hense adding a nsaid,aspirin, or the like in a tablet form with a minimal amout of water might put a concentrated spot of such directly on one of these tender tisues. the asperin could also be flushed undesolved into the intestine, another place that in not prepared for a acid wash down. this is a major difference between the rny and the DS the handling or taking of nsaids. Before surgery and all people should always take pills with a full glass of water,to protech the esophogas, this is a contradiction to the pouch rules.
   — walter A.

November 6, 2005
I think each doctor has their own protocol. My doctor percribed Oxycodone 5MG tab. It is about 3/16" or less. Little tiny things, and very easy to take. I don't think that I took any of it for after surgery pain, as I had no pain after surgery. I had Dilaudid by pump in the hospital as I have a allergy to Morphine. I think that I was better for it as I work in a hospital and watch how many people have more nausea and vomiting from Morphine and anything else.
   — jk_harris