I've had the (not) pleasure of several surgeries and hospital stays, and I have found that pain meds like vicodin, morphine, etc. make me very, very constipated. After my car accident in 2006 the constipation was so bad, I stopped the pain meds and went cold turkey and the constipation stopped. I have read a lot about people having terrible constipation after their VSG surgery and I'm thinking I will just suffer through the pain rather than subject myself to that again, given that my tummy is already going to be pretty unhappy after surgery. Please share your experience. Thanks.

I too have had the displeasure of having several surgeries and hospital stays. I was not constipated, but experienced just the opposite. However, I was on strong pain meds have neurosurgery and found that they did constipate me quite a bit.

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Agreed. I only took mine for a few days after only right before bed. That helped me sleep.

I was sleeved on Friday and the narcotics made me so nauseous that I am switching to Tylenol in suspension or crushed. I'm not in much pain other than gas pain and walking seems to help more with that than painkillers do.

Tylenol suspension is fine also.

I got sleeved in April 22 no morphine told them I didn't want any cuz when I awoke a nurse came in with a syringe and put some in my iv I was so sick and pissed I yanked the iv out cuz I didn't trust the b***h I was just fine my other two friends did the same and we were fine this one lady kept getting the morphine so she was too dizzy to walk was puking and all put of it from not walking she developed a lot of gas

Yeah, making sure they don't give you morphine in your IV because it's routine could be an issue.