Snip snip

LOL. What a relief!

 

You're a true stud doing this so soon after the procedure. Who are you laying?? Never mind, don't tell.

 

Short term and in small dosage, constipation is not a huge issue with codeine/codone drugs. Yeah, chowing more than a dozen a day will stop up an elephant, but taking a couple tabs every 6-12 hours for a day or two shouldn't cause you any major issues. Take them with a large glass of water and that will help.

 

Remember Brett Favre!

Favre soothed various aches and pains with Vicodin throughout the 1992 and '93 seasons. By the end of the '94 season, however, he was popping six pills a day, which soon became eight, then 10, then 15.

He got the pills, he wrote, from unwitting teammates who offered up their own modest supplies when the likable quarterback confided that his shoulder hurt or his ankle was sore or his ribs were killing him. No one guessed Favre was fast developing a dangerous dependency.

He was plagued by many of the drug's side effects. He was constantly dehydrated, acutely constipated - he often went a week or longer between bowel movements - and endured bouts of nausea and vomiting. He choked down the pills at precisely 9 each night and when they kicked in, he was so wired up he paced the house or played video games until the early morning hours, while an increasingly suspicious Deanna slept fitfully upstairs.

Sometimes, he would vomit up the pills, then carefully wash them off and force them down again.

 

I don't know if there are different strengths of Vicodin pills, but the ones I had after my septum surgery didn't do anything. I couldn't even get a proper buzz on taking them. But the anti-nausea pills were the real deal.

 

There are different strengths, but Vic always had little effect for me.
That's why I was taking so much, mostly pre-surgery. I went about six months between injuring my back and my surgery.
Just a brutal time.

A few times people I knew gave me some flexeril, and that stuff just knocked me for a loop.
The first time I took it, I was at work, and I was so stoned I could barely function.
I really needed to go home, but I was too stoned to drive. I hid in an empty office and worked on a long-term project that didn't require any human interaction. I told some of the people at work to just tell folks I had left for the day.

 

Flexeril definitely left me with a real hangover/addled brain feeling when I first took it a few years back. It's been better since re-starting it as needed late last year when the back flared again. I only take it in the evening/bedtime, never during the day. Same with Valium, which my doctor states is the best muscle relaxant on the market (and it's very short-acting).

Been taking Vicodin (ES) for just over ten years off-and-on when I need it. My problems started ten years ago with a 16-foot fall to a concrete floor. Fractured collar bone, bad sprains of wrist and shoulder (surgery done in late 2004), plus mounting back problems that get worse every year (not to mention three disastrous knee injuries when I was in my 20s - I have no ACL in my right knee). Again, rarely take the opioids during the day (unless I am not working) and mainly if I am in enough pain/discomfort that makes sleeping difficult. But never enough to cause any constipation issues.

 

Bringing this thread back up because I have a question and want to see if anyone has had a similar experience.

I'm getting close to two years out on my procedure. When I first responded to this I said I would do it again but I've been having some testicular pain. Well in the time since then I am no longer sure I would do it again and since the summer started the pain has been pretty much a daily thing and sometimes pretty tough to tolerate.

Not exactly sure what to do about it. My wife is a physician in a completely unrelated field and just tells me to go back to the doctor. She did ask a question on a physician's group she's a part of and a uro responded saying the only two options are reversal or actual surgery to kill the nerve that is causing it.

Both sound awful to me. A reversal completely takes out why I did it in the first place but surgery just seems risky that it could make it worse or do a whole lot for nothing that would end up fixing it or be beneficial. Kind of how we got in this boat in the first place.

So anyone dealt with this to this extent? Bothersome enough to go back and have it worked on again? Would you do something like that?

 

Are you sure your pain is related to your procedure and not something else?

 

The thought has crossed my mind that it could be something else, but it's been there since Day 1. Never had it before. Same place, same pain. It's just increased in frequency and intensity.

 

Get it checked by a different doctor, just to make sure it's not anything unrelated to the procedure.

 

Coming up on 10 months since twins were born and we might be in trouble again.
I'm too old for anymore. I need to get the procedure.