After Back Surgery, Does Follow Up=Doped up or Movin' Up?
If I go longer than about 2 hours without taking “breakthru” pain medication, then I get behind in schedule and it is very difficult to catch back up to get the pain under control. My body has now been trained to wake up every 2-3 hours in the night without an alarm to make sure that I am receiving the medication. Currently, I have the following regiment of medicine:
*One Fentanyl Patch, which is applied to the skin and delivers fentanyl, a potent, strong opiate analgesic. The drug is slowly absorbed through the skin into the bloodstream and can relieve pain for up to three days from a single patch application.
*Oxycontin: 3x daily (Opiate)
*Dilaudid: Every two hours and pain pump available every 30 minutes as needed
*Lidocaine Patch: Used topically for spot treatment and taken off every 12 hours
*2 stool softeners/2 laxatives: This is for all of the narcotics I am on that make me constipated
*Potassium & Folic Acid: This is from the chemotherapy that has robbed me of my vitamins and minerals
*Lovenox Shot: 1x per day. Used to treat deep vein thrombosis (my bloodclots) and prohibit new clots from forming
*Neurontin: 1x per day, Used to take for nerve pain
*Lexapro: Anti anxiety pill taken 1x per day
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Great to hear you're doing better and freed from the tubes. Have a good recovery and get rest.