@rascal1 I actually never knew that they replaced shoulders until a hospital stay, pre-transplant, and my roommate had one! I remember that she was in a lot of pain. I think hip replacement has the easiest recovery.
Most doctors are extremely reluctant to prescribe opioids these days, as mine was. He had me weaning off in about a week. I have read studies that claim that ibuprofen is as effective as opioids. I can’t take that or aspirin, or naproxen due to being post-transplant so I had to manage with acetaminophen.
Just try to take one day at a time, not much else you can do anyway. Although I am not familiar with shoulder replacement I am sure you will see improvement soon.
JK

Noticed that you specifically addressed non-opioids pain medications. I’ve had 2 separate shoulder repair surgeries, 1 knee arthroscopic surgery, and one knee replacement on the same knee. Plus several dental implants with complications like fractured old tooth that had to be picked out piece-meal, another time infection of the jawbone. So I’ve been taking prescription opioids as needed in 5 instances (2 of the dental implants I did not bother to fill prescription). Mostly the opioids were extremely helpful in controlling pain, as long as taken on schedule and not “as needed” when pain came on. They are also super annoying bc of the constipation side effect. And I think the fear of automatic, unavoidable, prevalent, addiction is sooo overblown. Not sure if you have access to opioids, or if you cannot take them, and I am not familiar with Tramadol. However, Ibuprofen, Advil, or Tylenol do/did absolutely nothing for my post-surgical pain, or even everyday generic pain (Aleve for that).