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This is a topic I keep forgetting to address, don't know why though ,because I am nauseous everyday. I have to force myself to eat . I only take pain meds before PT which is 3x a week. that's 6 a week. I know they can cause nausea. anyone else experience this and are you finding any relief somehow?
I will be 7 weeks out from total knee replacement
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natalie04381 jenkie
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Hi I'm 11 weeks post TKR, I've lost 19lbs in those 11 weeks, I've no appetite at all, the Gp said it was my pain meds , I cut down on them after a few weeks but had a manipulation last Tuesday and I'm back to square 1 with pain so on them again I take Meptid and paracetamol and if pains really bad Oxynorm. Hope you feel better soon x
Nance133 jenkie
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surferman Nance133
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Gotta be more than the meds. I'm approaching 5 weeks post op & I've been off the oxy for a week now- still feel lousy. Someone said pain/ ache can cause this. I have a constant dull ache I still have deal with. Any thoughts out there?
carol8104 jenkie
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CHICO_MARX jenkie
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Wow...this is a new one... If you were nauseous after taking your pain meds, then, bingo, you figured it out. But nauseous ALL THE TIME??? Yes, these drugs have a half-life so depending on what you are taking, it can stay in your system longer and might be the cause of the problem.
In any scientific experiment, you only change one variable at a time to see its effect on your hypothesis. Try this...stop the pain meds for 3-4 days, let them pass from your system. Rely on OTC ibuprofen. Yes...more temporary pain, but if the nausea stops, you will have identified the cause. If it doesn't, then something else is going on. Then again, is this nausea recent or did it start when you first started taking the pain meds? If the latter, you probably needed different meds all along. If recent, then the cause is elsewhere.
I NEVER get nauseous and I'm 70...never... Well, except for one time only. Rushed to the ER for what I thought was my 3rd (out of 4) kidney stone...but I also felt nauseous. Never felt that way with any previous kidney stone event. Found out that I wasn't experiencing a kidney stone...it was a gallbladder issue...had to come out. The symptoms were identical except for the added nausea.
I'd be my own science experiment and try a few things to isolate the cause of the nausea. Discuss it with your doc.
jenkie CHICO_MARX
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Right after surgery and for 2 weeks after i was taking more pain meds than now, and had less nausea
Somny17 jenkie
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jenkie Somny17
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Wow, helps nausea and puts me to sleep?. That's my kind of drug. I’ll talk to my doctor about it. Thx!,,
Somny17 jenkie
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Somny17 jenkie
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barb31990 jenkie
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jenkie barb31990
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CHICO_MARX jenkie
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Also, you might try talking to your pharmacist, if you've built a relationship with one. ALWAYS a very good idea. They are waaaaay better at knowing what works with what as well as the interactions (bad ones) between the drugs. We've had docs prescribing stuff for my wife that would have interacted with her current panel of meds that would have put her in the hospital. Really...true. We ALWAYS check for interactions online and then talk to our local pharmacist or others(*).
PS: You may be feeling a light "withdrawal" because you are using the drug "roller coaster" style. All drugs have a half life. For Percocet, it's 3-4 hours. That means when you take it, the very powerful effects of the drug kick in quickly. However 4 hours later, only half that power is still there...four hours later, another half of the half is gone (1/4 power). You avoid this by taking the meds every 4 hours so the painkilling effect of the oxycodone stays constant in your body.
When you take it on Monday and then wait until Wednesday for your next dose, you've done two things: 1. By Wednesday, there's no oxycodone left in your bloodstream; and 2. You got that immediate pain relief on Monday and then came crashing down when there was no more intake of the med the rest of Monday and all of Tuesday. This isn't necessarily bad and some people feel this effect more than others. Just understand what's happening so it doesn't upset you.
(*) Others: I was married to a pharmacist for 25 years. My current wife was a psychiatric nurse for 30 years. My cousin has been an ER doc for almost 50 years. One of my best friends has Ph.D.s in chemistry, pharmacokinetics and pharmacy. Yeah...we get our info straight from the best sources on the planet.
barb31990 jenkie
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Good Luck
jenkie CHICO_MARX
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Chico Marx
you are a plethora of information. and I mean that in a good way. thanks for your info. By the way, I am 68 years old. was very active, and hope to be again. I was 105 lbs and now 99 lbs. I was very active and plan to be again. I'll talk to my pharmacist. she's very approachable. thx again.
CHICO_MARX jenkie
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"Plethora" is my middle name... There are people who might take one 5/325 Percocet, get relief and it's done. If someone takes a big dose, like two 10/500's, that's a different story. Big relief then big crash. I have great discussions with my friend with all the PH.D.s about all this stuff. I've had 30 general anesthesia operations in the past 18 years (mostly minor stuff) so I've learned a lot. Plus my wife of 8 years had brain aneurysm surgery in 2010 and the drugs we've been through for her have been a revelation. It's just personal experience and a wealth of information that my brain seems to just store somewhere. That's why no one will play Trivial Pursuit with me...