I had lots of pain for like 72 hours. I still have 10 or so pain pills left over . I’ll put them in my first aid kit ….in case of an emergency.There is total scrutiny on opioid prescribing. 25 years ago they announced Pain as the new additional vital sign
Every day you had to ask the patient what number on the scale of 10 was your pain.
Patient says 8. then what would you like it to be? Patient wants 0, so you had to keep medicating until it was zero and document it on the chart.
When hospitals were inspected for accreditation, they checked the charts to see if adequate pain control was prescribed.. thus the govt. basically created the crisis, and now the patient suffers because prescribers are being monitored by them. 180 degee reversal.
Sorry for your pain.
I’ve had several instances of major league blunt force traumas , I shouldn’t be alive in fact …
I would put the knee replacement pain up there with any of them. I hate pain , I’m based primarily on the pleasure principal
Edit : I was the caregiver/ nephew of a 94 yr old Aunt. She fell , broke her shoulder and hip , and a few back bones…. Once in the nursing home they were putting Fentanyl patches on her , only thing that eased her pain. So one day they cut her off of them. They said they didn’t want her to become addicted She died a month later ….in pain.
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