I was wondering if this is normal. After I woke up from Gallbladder surgery, they gave me 5 mgs of Mprphine and it did not work very well. I asked them for some more and the ER nurse beacme snarky and said that pain meds are not meant to make you pain free. I didn't want to be pain free just in less pain. I waited 4 hours until the pain became an 8 and then requested more meds from another nurse. They gave me 5 mgs of Diladed and it worked. I would wear off aftet 4 hours though. I got four shots of 5 mgs of Diladid and then they were going to switch me to Norco. I refused the meds and was waiting it out to see if it got better. It got better for a while after I finally began to burp up all the gass and also by passing gass in other ways. Then it got really bad again, a level 8, I asked for the Norco and I could hear the nurse asking the doc if she could give me more Diladed, he was saying I should not need more meds and just to give me a Norco. They wanted me to get up and walk around to pass more gas. I had been doing that every 2 hours beffore because my pain was being controlled. This time it had been 7 hours since my last pain med dose and I was hurting so bad I could not even sip my liquid diet food, and could not get myself up put of bed. I just layed there and didn't want to do anything or even talk.

Once the norco kicked in, it helped just enough where with some help I could pull myself up put of bed. Then when I got up I had a huge burp and the level 8 pain passed. I was good from then on out, but just wanted to get home where I could treat my own pain and not have to beg for help. Another nurse was saying taking 3 Norco's a day for chronic leg pain was too much. I told them that my pain tolerance is higher due to using pain meds for chronic pain. So, naturally I needed a little bit more meds. I declined a script for 30 norco as I have a pain management contract and already have meds here at home. I hope that let them know that I was not trying to get doped up. I also learned that I do not tolerate pain very well. But only getting 5 shots of pain meds in 24 hours and then not needing the heavy meds after that isn't drug seeking behavior. I never use meds unless I need them. i had 12 hours of facial surgery when I was 15 and was sent home with Demoral and never needed it at all. I had very little residual pain. I'm kind of scared to go in for future surgeries knowing that I might not get proper pain management. All of this opoiophobia is spilling into the ER now. I am taking more Norco than prescribed due to my acute post-op pain, but only for 3 more days. Then I will be weaning back down to my normal 3 pills a day. I will not go over 6 pills a day no matter how uncomfortable I am. I am very controlled with my meds and still feel like a damn criminal for using them. They had me questioning why I have been on low dose meds for 7 years for chronic leg pain. I am in enough pain/discomfort that I would be awake all night without some sort of pain meds.

I will be telling my pain doctor abot using extra meds for a week and inform them about everything. I tell them everything. I will also tell them that I declined the 30 Norco from the ER doctor. I let the ER know also when I was admitted that I take three Norco a day and that I was in more discomfort pre-surgery for my chronic leg pain than the GB issue. I was only in level 8 pain during the ctual GB attacks and rode that out without strong meds. They wated to give me Fentynl. I told them I waited until the GB attack and intense pain passes so that I could clean myself up and come into the ER composed and not wirthing on the floor in pain. I wanted to be coherent when I went into the ER, and I would rather wirth in pain in my own bed than to try and sit in an ER waiting room for 2 hours in intense pain. Am I doing something wrong here? Maybe I want to be high on Diladid? I ever even asked the Nurse for any specific med. I took everything they gave me and only called them when the pain was unbearable at an 8. Other than that, they took pretty good care of me and I will be giving the hospital and their staff a good rating. I will keep the pain med experience to myself. The important thing is they knew what to do with my high risk blood clotting issues and they did not let anything bad happen to me. I hope the rest of you are doing well. Hugs to everyone.