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Originally Posted by powderjunkie
It is very important to manage pain effectively after a surgery
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5626380/
Failing to manage the pain effectively from the start makes it much harder to get things back on track.
But hey, good for you that your own cocktail of substances at home worked for you in your particular situation. Be sure to fire your findings off to the Mayo clinic. |
My “cocktail” wasn’t even everything I listed.
It was Advil.
And full disclosure - I’m not tough. I don’t like pain. I actively avoid it. For the sake of this discussion, I’d go so far as to call myself a bitch.
And I didn’t need 12 goddamn Percocet - a 45 minute abdominal surgery doesn’t require enough heroin to definitively rank the entire Pink Floyd discography.
My doctors mentioned on three separate occasions that they, as a private clinic, were superior and more efficient than public health care.
They spent maybe 30 seconds on the Percocet, and almost none of those on the capacity of Percocet to ruin my life.
No reasonable person would suggest not giving pain medication to the people who need it.
But why do people need to start off on mega-opiates when they could start with some THC/CBD gummies with Tylenol, and spend a day or two figuring out if what they needed was a distraction or HEROIN.
What’s the worst that can happen? You’re uncomfortable for an extra couple days.
Upshot is, you don’t die of a fentanyl overdose.
That graph on the previous page clearly demonstrates an overprescribing problem, because there’s simply no way EVERYONE who gets opiates needs them.
Send that to the Mayo clinic for me.