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I will have my operation in 7 days. On morphine. Cocodamal and amotriptalin now. What is best post operation
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connie53617 catherine_snedd
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I didn't really need pain medication..
But had the option for oxy
Yabut connie53617
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joe63159 catherine_snedd
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lyn1951 joe63159
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Joe, don't read this if you are going to have a replacement, you are very lucky if you got away with tynenol for a hip replacement, they have dislocated your hip joint, can take up to four big surgeon's assistants, sister who has worked as surgery nurse, said one of the most brutal procedures she had witnessed, all I can say is thank god you are asleep, sawn off the head of your femur, reamed out your bone marrow, hammered in a steel spike, this is where I woke up, put back to sleep pretty quickly, forced your joint back together, checked that it is firm enough and or not too firm, may take a couple of times, dislocating and relocating, then sewn up muscle, tendon's if damaged, and finally skin, you may have lost up to 4 bags of blood during this procedure, I asked, told they were saving 4 bags of blood for me. I had morphine for about 14 days with first surgery, and fentanol for about the same time with 2nd surgery and I do assure you that you need it. Especially if you are going to do the physio they like you to do, or my hospital gets you going 12 hours after surgery with physio, only small movements, but moving nevertheless, I walked about 30 steps to the nurses station, that first time, physios and Dr delighted with me.
debbie57590 lyn1951
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debbie57590 lyn1951
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ptolemy lyn1951
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ptolemy joe63159
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deborah4231 ptolemy
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The surgery took 2 hours with no significant blood loss. P/T came 3 hours post-op and had me walk the hall and do some stairs. I was discharged 6 hours post-op with a prescroption for 600 mg Ibuprofen.
pam00470 joe63159
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monkeypearl debbie57590
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Yep ya right there, not really going to help anyone 🙄
We all know the ins and outs, and you really don't need to know this, if so I'm sure your doctor or surgeon will be only too pleased to go through it with ya, I'm on waiting list at mo, and I'm in the not to know camp, it's not going to make any difference is it 😁
Stay safe and don't let anyone ever make you afraid.
Pete 😀
deborah4231 catherine_snedd
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I didn't need narcotics, so they gave me Ibuprofen and said that I could also use extra strength Tylenol. I am at 6 weeks post-op and have really only experienced what I would describe as discomfort. I have had an occasional muscle spasm, but they haven't lasted very long. Pain tolerance is different for everyone.
lyn1951 catherine_snedd
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Immediately post surgery I was given Morphine, even though I had told Dr's and chemists it makes me vomit, cannot keep anything down, even water, when I woke up the following morning, nurses gave me some more, and asked why I had not asked for any in the last 12 hours, did not need it, less pain than before surgery, as long as I didn't move, she said you are going to need it, the physios are due to arrive, she was right, the first time they get you up is very challenging and a little scary, and I was vomiting into a sick bag, physio held it for me as nausea comes in waves, they changed my meds, to what I was never told, and finally able to keep water down, discharged about day 5.
2nd time around, told me they would not be using morphine, fentanol was used, as good as the morphine, knocked out the pain, or most of it, discharged day 2, took for about 10 days post surgery, then I was able to step down to regular over the counter painkillers, even able to give them up by about day 21 post surgery.
Prior to my surgery I was bone on bone, with the ball of my femur, or what was left of it, grinding a hole in my pelvis, specialist when he saw me, was shocked and told me to fire my regular GP before he kills you, were his words, he also warned me that I may have to have a bone graft and where the bone comes from, explained very carefully from my pelvis may be more painful than I expect, so may have two places where I was going to be in a lot of pain, he was brilliant, lucky people in Edinburgh, that where he returned to form Qld.
That hip replacement perfect, could move my joint more than I had been able to for the previous 30 years, after accident in my 20's, they found dead bone in the joint, only small, but there and probably accounts of all the difficulty all have had for a number of years I was told, and one of root causes of arthritis developing.
jen86183 catherine_snedd
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I was lucky as I had no pain at all after operation and did not need any medication and I hope you will be the same. Good luck when you have your op.
jen86183 catherine_snedd
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The best operation appears to be the anterior but it depends what you surgeon is happy doing. I had no choice and was given the postetior.