Pain Medication

[caleksa 48]

What pain medications have you had success with since WLS?

I am 10 months post-op, I have lost 120 lbs and still have 42 to go. This week I ended up in the ER with ovarian cysts. Very painful. The ER doc is not real familiar with WLS and gave me pain meds that just aren't working. What have you had the best luck with?

[beeteroo 166]

What pain medications have you had success with since WLS? I am 10 months post-op, I have lost 120 lbs and still have 42 to go. This week I ended up in the ER with ovarian cysts. Very painful. The ER doc is not real familiar with WLS and gave me pain meds that just aren't working. What have you had the best luck with?

You should be able to have any kind of pain meds. Lortab (aka hydrocodone) is what they gave me after surgery. Ovarian cysts are so hard to treat because (in my experience with them) the cysts will hurt until they pop and the pop is excruciating and you never know when that will happen so you are either drugged up all the time or you deal with the pains. Then after the pop the pain is mostly relieved until the next one. I usually deal with the pains and just take ibuprofen......not sure it's recommended to take ibuprofen after gastric surgery because it can jack up the lining of your stomach. I have a friend that had the sleeve 5 months ago and she takes ibuprofen every day. No problems for her yet but definitely talk to your surgeon about ibuprofen before you take it.

[Miss Mac 6,261]

I had ovarian cysts when I was a teenager. Even morphine shots did not help. Eventually I had to have surgery. Problem solved. For post sleeve ortho and neuropathy issues I use hydrocodone and Lyrica. If it were just a headache I have Tylenol on hand. No more ibuprophen for me. It had made a mess out of my stomach pre-op.