So I was wondering how long anyone was on pain mess? I'm 4 days post op and have been taking 2 pills Percocet every 4 hours about... I've tried to wean a little but the my chest/ tummy and back ache..... Especially when I breathe in... I can't seem to get a deep breathe without a sharp ache! Any suggestions?

Whoops I meant pain meds!!

i never took any

i will tell you to be EXTREMELY careful with those pain meds.. i didn't have my sleeve yet, but i had some pain & my doctor gave me percocets.. the lowest dosage possible for them.. i took 2 every 4 hours and ended up in the emergency room, hours away from death's door... i almost had to have a liver transplant, because of the acetaminophen in them poisoned me and almost killed me... acetaminophen is the active ingredient in tylenol as well.. so now i can never have anything with tylenol again... the doctors couldn't figure out why or how my liver reacted the way it did, because i was on such a low dosage of percocet that they said i could have taken the whole bottle & it shouldn't have affected me the way that it did...

some symptoms that i had were...

i felt like i was coming down with a chest cold or something, because i was coughing & my lungs felt heavy (because they were filling with Fluid and my internal organs were in the process of shutting down)

i had to pee constantly (because my kidneys were shutting down)

i was having a hard time understanding things.. ie: my doctor asked me what's 10 minus 4, and i thought he was asking me what 100 minus 47 was...

i was fading and out of consciousness..

i kept falling asleep & it kept getting increasingly hard to wake me up.. to the point that my mom & dad called an ambulance, because i wasn't responding to them & they couldn't get me out the door to take me to the emergency room..

i felt very sleepy & it was hard to keep my eyes open for any length of time...

i'm sorry you're in pain, though.. and i do sincerely wish and hope that you get to feeling better ASAP & i will pray for you.. just wanted to tell you to be very careful about those pain meds... because they are extremely dangerous and can seriously wreak havoc on your body.. especially your liver.. and i don't want ANYONE to have to go through what i did.. i spent a whole week in the ICU, hooked up to breathing machines and all kinda junk. was not fun!!

Didnt they give you a spirometer thingy to blow on?(with the three balls inside it?) it really helps to blow every 2 hours.

I took my pain med (liquid lortab) for 8 days. I tried to only take tylenol on day 5 and I could feel an ache in my tummy even while laying still, so I went back to the stronger stuff. I know a lot of people didn't need pain meds for as long or even at all, but I did! I did drink my Water, walk a lot, and eat the right foods and amounts.

Everyone is different.

Lynda