What pain meds work well for Gastric bypass patients?
Good Morning. I am a gastric bypass patient 13 years out from surgery and maintaining my 150 lb weight loss. I have chronic daily pain from arthritis, degenerative disc disease, cervical herniated disc(s), torn meniscus, labral tear in my hip and recurring tendonitis in various places. I take Hydrocodone/Apap 10mg/325 4 times daily for pain since as gastric bypass patients we are not supposed to take NSAIDS. I get very little relief from this. It is in pill form. Does anyone else that is a weight loss surgery patient have this issue and find that it is due to malabsorption and/or anyone taking pain meds in liquid form get better relief?
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An academic article I read said pain pills don’t work for gastric bypass but that transdermal pain med patches will work. I have ortho problems like yours and the only thing that works for me is the fentanyl patch, it really works well.
Get your doc to prescribe a transdermal patch. Oral meds don’t work well w gastric bypass surgery bc of less time to absorb and less gut to absorb it. I’ll fine the article and post it if I’m allowed to.
I wish I had that answer too I just fell recently while walking my dog .I tried Tylenol but it didn’t work and on top of that it gave me diarrhea . I have always been sensitive to medication Vicodin cause me to break out in hives and feel like things are crawling on me so I don’t know what to do I’ve been in bed with a heating pad waiting now to hear from my Dr
@nicole6417, so sorry to hear about your fall. What did you learn from your doctor to take for the pain? How are you doing?
He put me on Tizanidine 2mg I only took half and it did wonders o was so happy it didn’t go through me either . Gabapentin ask started to go through me it was an awful week thank goodness I had plenty of electrolyte drinks
Because absorption changed for me after my gastric bypass I went on the generic version on the Butrans patch for my chronic back pain. I have had four back surgeries with cages placed in my lumbar spine. The patch controls my pain a lot better and then I use Norco daily for breakthrough pain