RE: Re: narcotics - post-surgery discontinuation ADVISE

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Hi

I would ask your doctor for advice and whether you can taper them more slowly. When I came off morphine I did it too fast (I had been on it 3 months though) and suffered miserably for 4 days. At 2 weeks post-op, you may well still have significant healing pain and require strong pain relief for a bit longer. We're all different, but my post-op pain was reasonably strong for around 3 weeks. (Nothing as bad as the pre-op pain though!)

in NZ (post-THR, 25 days)

-----Original Message-----From: Joint Replacement [mailto:Joint Replacement ]On Behalf Of Barb FreitagSent: Saturday, 23 December 2006 8:41 a.m.Joint Replacement Subject: Re: narcotics - post-surgery discontinuation ADVISE

>> All, > > I am currently being tapered off Vicodin, which pre surgery didnt help. I got on them 2 weeks before surgery diue to disconiuation of my beloved ibuprofrn.. but today I felt awful and hada bad stomach ache when I gtried to just get off of them, mind you I only take 2 a day max but last night the leg go so bad I also drank 1 half. Is this normal? I had a THR on 11/30/06 less than two weeks ago. anyone out there expiernacing this ?> > >

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