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I had my surgery today and Walgreens pharmacy was out of my prescribed liquid pain pills... Is liquid Tylenol ok? My doctors office is closed or else I would give them a shout! Any advice is helpful.

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It is best to ask your doc but my doc and all the post I've read said Tylenol was ok. In liquid or pill.

~~~Stephanie

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Yes, tylenol is a good replacement for your pain medicine. Unfortunately, though, it isn't as good for pain.

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My Doc had Oxycodone with infused Tylenol for me. Used it only twice 1st day post-op and a total of four nights at bed time.

Ibuprofen seems to be a no no, but tylenol is OK.

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After surgery on the (150 mile) drive home, we came into bad weather (rain/lightening) and stayed in a hotel for the night. All I had was liquid Tylenol (bubble gum flavored children's (up 12)). I had one dose (30cc or full medicine cup) and that was it for the next 28 hrs until we got home. I was up nearly every 2 hrs to urinate and while up I would walk up laps in the room.

Its 10pm now, but if that pharmacy is a 24 hr Wal-Greens another option would be to have them contact any other 24 hr pharmacy closest to your location and either see if they have the medication & have them transfer to whomever/where-ever is the closest.

-I would contact them ASAP to attempt this & your family member may have to actually go pick the original script up and hand deliver to another 24 hr location.

--- best of luck

I will spay a prayer for you!

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NO Advil (ibuprofen), NO Alieve, NO Aspirin... no NSAIDS!

Tylenol is not an NSAID (non-steroidal anti inflammatory drug)

You can google the info!

Do not hesitate to call your doctor!!!

There will always be a doctor "on call" and it is not that late. It may be your doctor or another doctor in his practice. His office number should dispatch you to an answering service. Whomever is on call can make a recommendation.... reality, this has happened before and they have protocol.

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NO Advil (ibuprofen)' date=' NO Alieve, NO Aspirin... no NSAIDS!

Tylenol is not an NSAID (non-steroidal anti inflammatory drug)

You can google the info!

Do not hesitate to call your doctor!!!

There will always be a doctor "on call" and it is not that late. It may be your doctor or another doctor in his practice. His office number should dispatch you to an answering service. Whomever is on call can make a recommendation.... reality, this has happened before and they have protocol.

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I had my surgery today and Walgreens pharmacy was out of my prescribed liquid pain pills... Is liquid Tylenol ok? My doctors office is closed or else I would give them a shout! Any advice is helpful.

Oh girl I feel for you, I lived on my Percocet for the first few days, I had a bad hernia repair and I was in a lot of pain. Like above post find another Walgreens that is open now and have them transfer it and go pick it up, you will need it.

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Thanks all. Never realized how lucky I am, but my very loving boyfriend made a trip to Walgreens 3 different times last night. He picked up some children's Tylenol that helped with the headaches and allowed me to sleep. Walgreens called this morning and had my prescription changed to something they has in stock. So I should be getting that shortly!

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My doctor actually recommended ibuprofen with my pain med (liquid Lortab). He said it would help the most with the port incision pain. I'm wondering why all your doctors have said no NSAIDS? Is it because of ulcer risks? The Lortab/ibuprofen combo was a huge relief to me those first couple of days!

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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      On day 4 of the 2 week liquid pre-op diet. Surgery scheduled for June 11th.
      Soooo I am coming to a realization
      of something and I'm not sure what to do about it. For years the only thing I've enjoyed is eating. We rarely do anything or go anywhere and if we do it always includes food. Family comes over? Big family dinner! Go camping? Food! Take a short ride or trip? Food! Holiday? Food! Go out of town for a Dr appointment? Food! When we go to a new town we don't look for any attractions, we look for restaurants we haven't been to. Heck, I look forward to getting off work because that means it's almost supper time. Now that I'm drinking these pre-op shakes for breakfast, lunch, and supper I have nothing to look forward to.  And once I have surgery on June 11th it'll be more of the same shakes. Even after pureed stage, soft food stage, and finally regular food stage, it's going to be a drastic change for the rest of my life. I'm giving up the one thing that really brings me joy. Eating. How do you cope with that? What do you do to fill that void? Wow. Now I'm sad.
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      1. summerseeker

        Life as a big person had limited my life to what I knew I could manage to do each day. That was eat. I hadn't anything else to look forward to. So my eating choices were the best I could dream up. I planned the cooking in managable lots in my head and filled my day with and around it.

        Now I have a whole new big, bigger, biggest, best days ever. I am out there with those skinny people doing stuff i could never have dreamt of. Food is now an after thought. It doesn't consume my day. I still enjoy the good home cooked food but I eat smaller portions. I leave food on my plate when I am full. I can no longer hear my mother's voice saying eat it all up, ther are starving children in Africa who would want that!

        I still cook for family feasts, I love cooking. I still do holidays but I have changed from the All inclusive drinking and eating everything everyday kind to Self catering accommodation. This gives me the choice of cooking or eating out as I choose. I rarely drink anymore as I usually travel alone now and I feel I need to keep aware of my surroundings.

        I don't know at what point my life expanded, was it when I lost 100 pounds? Was it when I left my walking stick at home ? Was it when I said yes to an outing instead of finding an excuse to stay home ? i look back at my last five years and wonder how loosing weight has made such a difference. Be ready to amaze yourself.

        BTW, the liquid diet sucks, one more day and you are over the worst. You can do it.

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