Can anyone tell me about pain and getting use to no food just liquid after surgery

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Pain was controlled VERY well by the nurses in the hospital and my surgeon had given me Roxicet, acetaminophen and oxycodone, which worked VERY well, to go home with.

Except the one time in the begining they had me on morphine and some other one, which made me so nauseated.

I barely ever had any pain and I had a compilation with another surgery 4 days after my rny.

And losing food and having only liquid after surgery is VERY hard. I went thru almost a year of preparing for surgery but nothing can prepare you for it.

Very hard.

The pain is manageable, just remember to take your pain medicines and ask for them as needed in the hospital (I didn't have a pain pump so my nurses had to administer). My doctor gave me a prescription for a liquid pain medicine that he had me fill prior to surgery so I had it at already for when I got home after surgery. I was able to stop taking pain meds on the 5th day post op. As for not eating food, I really didn't feel much like eating and wasn't even hungry. I think the pre-op liquid diet helps get you ready for what's to come in those first few weeks after surgery.

@alcor what prescription did you have in liquid form ?

Lortab Elixir (generic name Hydrocodone).

Yes that's what I'm taking works wonders!!