My doctors office says that all I will need is Advil, Tylenol or Aleve post op and that they do not send you home with a prescription for any pain medication. This has me a little worried since I'm not the toughest cookie in the jar. Any thoughts? TIA!

When I woke up from surgery it hurt like hell! I took Norco- which is hydrocodone and 325 mg of tylenol. (Took 2 pills at a time) every 4-6 hours the first day.

I would ask for at least enough for first day! You are being cut into!!! No one can decide what your level of tolerance will be...would be nice to have at least 6 pills to fall back on if its absolutely intolerable.

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I was given a nasal spray pain med. I don't recall what it was. (I THINK it was a spray version of Lortab ) I used it for a couple of days and it worked well.

Not sure I'd have been wanting any pills for a few days...on a clear liquid diet and taking pills?? Doesn't seem correct to me, but each doc is different.

I so appreciate all the feedback!! I meet with my surgeon this Wednesday so I will be discussing this with him. If nothing else, I have some Norco from an old ankle injury stashed away if worse comes to worse. I am just glad that I a not a wimp for thinking SURGERY might HURT a bit!!

I was on liquid Hydrocodone when I was sent home. Only used it twice... the pain wasn't that bad. I was sore, but the pain was tolerable. Worst part was the soreness of the larger incision when I moved around in bed. Good luck to you!

5 days post op and I too had little pain, was given liquid hydrocodone but only took it the first night home because of going to bed in a nonadjustable bed and thought it would take the edge off to sleep. Have not taken anything since. I too was told no Advil or Aleve. Best of luck to you.

I was given liquid lortab and zofran that dissolves under tongue. For me the worst pain was my port. Everytime I would move at all in a way that used my stomach muscles man it hurt really bad. I used my lortab for the first 3 days then switched to Tylenol.