HI! My Surgery is set for the 26th, but I forgot to ask about driving. If all goes well, and it is just the 2 day in the hospital stay....does anyone know if you can drive right away?

Thank you!

they like for you to wait a week before driving again

HI! My Surgery is set for the 26th, but I forgot to ask about driving. If all goes well, and it is just the 2 day in the hospital stay....does anyone know if you can drive right away?

Thank you!

I want comfortable driving for at least a week.

My surgeon told me I could drive as long as I wasn't on pain meds...

When I had surgery, I told the anesthesiologist to go light on the anesthesia. And she did. I also told them that I wanted no pain medicine after surgery. And they did that also. I had very little pain and I have good pain tolerance. I began walking from the get go. Every two hours. On my first round I did six lapse. On my second I did 15. The nurse came in a huff and told me that I should go easy on the walking. She said that when the anesthesia eventually wore off I would be in a great deal of pain because I was walking too much. (She was wrong.) Around 2 o'clock in the morning when the anesthesia wore off I could barely tell. I remember the morning visit of the nurse in charge of distributing the pain medicine. She would come in and ask me for my pain level from 1 to 10. I would tell her 0 or 1. She had a scowl and walked away almost mad because I refused any pain medicine.

I did this in part because I wanted to drive as soon as possible. As long as you are on (narcotic) pain medicines you cannot drive. Having done this, it was still about a week before I began to drive again.

I waited a week because the effects of the anesthia can be in your system for that long. I stopped taking pain medicine after day 3, but didn't feel my head was on straight until a week out

My doctor said a week for driving, not sure why though!