Hello.
I've been on here reading and there's been so much information. I'm feeling very overwhelmed and today is the first day I've felt real anxiety about my LIS surgery.
Besides the information I've already provided about myself, I'm curious about pain meds and anti-inflammatories that have worked well for people.
PAIN: For myself, percoset does nothing for me for pain and valium makes me dizzy and not sleep. I think Versed? No, versed makes you go to sleep. This is so confusing. or Vicodin? I don't know what the hell drug it is, but vicodin is less constipating right?
ANTI-INFLAMMATORY: Toradol? I've read about this on here, what do people think? May cause more bleeding, but I don't believe I was given an anti-inflammatory with hemorrhoidectomy? Very weird that I wasn't given that. What have others taken that have worked or not worked?
NAUSEA: Phenegren? I don't remember what my doc gave me last time, but I'm sure that's what it was, it's very effective. I'd like to be given that upon waking...is that possible?
* also, has anybody had or requested a local anesthetic during closure of the LIS? I'm going to request that, to help with the pain of the stitches and overall discomfort, if she can do that at the end of the procedure.

After my LIS and Fissurectomy I was sent home with Metronidazole (antibiotic) and Ibuprofen, I can't say what the antibiotic did or didn't do, and the Ibuprofen is an anti-inflammatory, I suspect that neither of them helped me with the pain because I was in severe pain for weeks.
Here in the UK we don't get sent home with any real pain relief which I find quite disturbing, the only info I was given was to buy paracetamol and take them regularly.. AS IF!!! Do they really have a clue as to what the pain is like, obviously not..
I was under general anaesthetic during the whole procedure and wouldn't want it any other way

makem3 wrote:Hello.
I've been on here reading and there's been so much information. I'm feeling very overwhelmed and today is the first day I've felt real anxiety about my LIS surgery.
Besides the information I've already provided about myself, I'm curious about pain meds and anti-inflammatories that have worked well for people.
PAIN: For myself, percoset does nothing for me for pain and valium makes me dizzy and not sleep. I think Versed? No, versed makes you go to sleep. This is so confusing. or Vicodin? I don't know what the hell drug it is, but vicodin is less constipating right?
ANTI-INFLAMMATORY: Toradol? I've read about this on here, what do people think? May cause more bleeding, but I don't believe I was given an anti-inflammatory with hemorrhoidectomy? Very weird that I wasn't given that. What have others taken that have worked or not worked?
NAUSEA: Phenegren? I don't remember what my doc gave me last time, but I'm sure that's what it was, it's very effective. I'd like to be given that upon waking...is that possible?
* also, has anybody had or requested a local anesthetic during closure of the LIS? I'm going to request that, to help with the pain of the stitches and overall discomfort, if she can do that at the end of the procedure.

Hey makem3,
I had some shots in the rear along with the MAC. I didn't feel much of anything down there for most of the day.
I also took vicodin and phenergan for the nausea. I puke when I take any pain meds. It worked well for me. I only got a vicodin when I woke up and a prescription for the phenergan, but mine was done at a surgery center, not a hospital.
I did ask my crs about pain meds constipating and she told me the vicodin would be the best.
I didn't get toradol.

pss... none of it made me sleepy but the valium which I wouldn't have needed if I hadn't had the spasms.

Dawn, thank you so much, this has helped a lot. What does MAC mean?

Your welcome, here's a link.
http://www.gihealth.com/html/endo/mac.html
Mine was heavy... I didn't have a clue about what was going on.
http://surgery.about.com/od/glossaryofsurgicalterms/g/TwilightSleepGl.htm

You know, I didn't really think to ask my CRS if I would be truly "under" or have the twilight thing. I had never heard the term MAC, so thanks for the info. And Makem3, if you have not had a procedure with the "twilight" or what the MAC sounds like, don't worry. I have had that 3 different times and essentially I didn't know the difference. The only difference for me was that I didn't have a sore throat like I did when I had general anesthesia several years ago (because of the tube). But that was a minor thing too. You really don't remember anything either way!