So it's day 2, I'm home from the hospital and SURPRISE the big incision on the left hurts and so does drinking. Taking pills is not that much fun.

But ya know what - I expect all that based on what I read on these boards. I didn't expect to be allergic to the pain relief prescription and find myself on Extra Strength Tylenol, but so far I'm doing OK. I'm not going to go into the "OMG what have I done to myself" angst, because I knew all this was coming. And I have a feeling a month from today I'll be really glad I did this.

Today, not so much.

So trying to remember this is the start of something wonderful and new. All I have to do is get through this time.

The good news is I only needed my RX pain meds the first day I came home. I took them the next day at bedtime but I really didn't need it. Hopefully you will do okay.

Ask your doctor for dilaudid. It's a tiny pill and I could swallow it. I didn't need during the day after a few days, just at night. The drain would stab me when I slept.

By about a week out, I didn't need any meds. Good Luck and Congrats

Ask your doctor for dilaudid. It's a tiny pill and I could swallow it. I didn't need during the day after a few days, just at night. The drain would stab me when I slept.

By about a week out, I didn't need any meds. Good Luck and Congrats

No drain, thank heavens. I'm planning on Tylenol PM at night. If that fails, I'll go to benadryl - that's what they gave me in the hospital for my allergic reaction and I slept like a baby last night. If it can do that in the hospital, think what it'll do for me at home.

I'll be OK. It was useful to know what to expect, that's for sure. Because nothing has me going "OMG is this normal" if I've seen it posted 27 times on the boards. Must be normal, is what I reckon then.

I thought no pills...thats my MD's motto. Everything is liquid and chewable. I was allergic to morphine, nausea and headache...allergic to dilaudid, itching and same with the liquid lortab. Luckily I went and grabbed a childrens liquid tylenol (well, store brand) to have in case I needed it. I used it once for a headache...other than that I felt better being off meds. There is even centrum liquid multi vitamin. I never knew all this! Good luck and feel better!