Hi there everyone I’m from Australia and this is my first post so be gentle with me. I had a Gastric Sleeve 13 years worked really well till they put me on Lyrica I put on a truck load of weight thanks to that drug. I have chronic back pain like you all a couple in the the neck and then from the start of the Ts through Ls to S1. I really take ownership of my pain after the Lyrica debacle I’ve been through a pain management clinic and learnt everything I can. But now when 1 of the so Health Specialists recommends something I go home and research the hell out of it first. For Instant sake I am having revision surgery done in 4 weeks for my Sleeve and I’m upgrading it to the Bypass and I wanted to know how it was going to effect the pain medication I take Palexia (Tapentadol). Which I take it 12 hourly most likely the way you all take your drugs as well not surprisingly know one could give me an answer. Because of what they do to your insides in the operation it changes how your slow release pain drugs are being absorbed cause they pass through your system so much faster. I’m lucky the Palexia I take does come in a instant release tablet that I can take 6 hourly and what I found while researching was it’s better to take it with food.

Doctor and other Health Workers just annoy me that they just do there bit and don’t worry about the finer points or side effects.
Hope I haven’t bugged everyone to much I mite do this again some time.