Thankyou for your reply. I have had morphine, pethidine, omnipon, toredol and endone and they all give me excruciating headaches and nausea. That was why when I received my artificial disc, they decided all I could have was panadol because the action of being sick in itself is not desirable with surgery to the neck. The plus side was that I had a clear head, the down side was that it was extremely hard coping with the intense post surgical pain.
At the moment having been told that the thoracic surgery would be far more painful than anything I have experienced previously, due to the different layers that would be disturbed just to access the site and the fact that the thoracic spine is continuously moving due to the act of breathing, I am concerned. Not sure that I could do this one with just panadol. It took a lot of higher order skills and many long walks to get into the right frame of mind prior to the surgery. At the moment I am not allowed to go for walks etc because I have a numb foot and trip which could cause the disc to move further into my cord.
Libby
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Originally Posted by Dr. Smith
Hi Libby, Welcome to NT.
If I may, why can't you take opioids, and is it any/all opioids or just some/most (or do you know)? This is important, as that class of meds is usually the best option/gold standard for post-surgical pain.
You can find the whole pharmacopeia by googling: post surgical medication
(I prefer to recommend search criteria to provide a more well-rounded perspective on a question rather than specific links that might be biased or incomprehensive.)
Chronic neuropathic pain is often treated with gabapentin, Lyrica, and/or topiramate. I don't know of post-surgical pain being treated with those, as they can take some time to build up to efficacy.
You might try googling: post surgical neuropathic pain
HTH,
Doc
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