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I'm taking 2 tramadol a day at the minute, one with breakfast and one mid afternoon. along with 2 x ibuprofen. I'm not in excruciating pain but I don't see the point in suffering when I have a huge pile and pills there purely for my comfort. When I was ill last week and couldn't keep any tablets down it did get rather painful.

I did contemplate not taking any and seeing how bad it gets but then I seem to have found a good balance that I'm gonna stick to, I'll drop 1 tramadol over the coming days and see how that feels :)

I had my follow up meeting with the consultant and he was positive, it's healing well I just need to really focus on physio now. He had a good pull on it checking my ROM and it's kind of sore now. I guess physio can be quite uncomfortable.
 
I went private with physio because I was intent on getting back to wakeboarding as soon as possible, so I found a physio who was really great with helping me with range of movement and strength.

Three months in and just started riding again a few weeks ago, there's stuff I can't do with the left arm but it's my 'back' arm wakeboarding so not too bad.

I would only have been having appointments every three weeks or so with the NHS as opposed to weekly with my private physio. Cost me some money but she was amazing and I'm positive I got some real benefit from her in terms of being back on the water just before three months, and riding pretty well (compared to previous! I still suck).

I had cocodamol instead of tramadol after I said to the doctor that it was blocking me up, he pretty much said yeah it happens to everyone just ditch it and have ibuprofen and cocodamol when you need it. But as I said before, it wasn't really very long before I just started forgetting to take painkillers except for in the morning (because I tended to feel like I'd been run over in my sleep), and then not in the morning. They didn't take an angle grinder to my bone though which might explain why you're in more pain :p
 
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Angilion said:
My experience with morphine made me wonder...heroin is a modified form of morphine that puts morphine into the body far more quickly, so it's essentially morphine but much more potent. So how the hell does anyone break a heroin addiction? Morphine is far too good by itself, even in medicinal doses. I can very easily understand addiction to that. Jack it up to recreational doses of heroin and I don't see how anyone could stop before they die.
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After my father came out of hospital after a motorbike accident he was on strong morphine doses for the pain long term because of the nerve damage in his pelvis and hips (basically he is in constant pain).

But a side effect was that it was effecting his bowles. One day he was in terrible pain and was rushed into hospital and was diagnosed with a blocked bowel, and the doctors said it was because of the morphine.

So he had to come off it. Cold turkey.

It made him ill because it is just like coming off Heroin. He did it though, and has never had any since.

Mind you he also gave up a 60 a day smoking habit in the 70's cold turkey too, and has never smoked again.

His will power is something I really admire.
 
PardonTheWait said:
I went private with physio because I was intent on getting back to wakeboarding as soon as possible, so I found a physio who was really great with helping me with range of movement and strength.

Three months in and just started riding again a few weeks ago, there's stuff I can't do with the left arm but it's my 'back' arm wakeboarding so not too bad.

I would only have been having appointments every three weeks or so with the NHS as opposed to weekly with my private physio. Cost me some money but she was amazing and I'm positive I got some real benefit from her in terms of being back on the water just before three months, and riding pretty well (compared to previous! I still suck).

I had cocodamol instead of tramadol after I said to the doctor that it was blocking me up, he pretty much said yeah it happens to everyone just ditch it and have ibuprofen and cocodamol when you need it. But as I said before, it wasn't really very long before I just started forgetting to take painkillers except for in the morning (because I tended to feel like I'd been run over in my sleep), and then not in the morning. They didn't take an angle grinder to my bone though which might explain why you're in more pain :p
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I've gone private with the physio too, my OH :) Although I am going to the NHS appointment this Friday to see a physio see what they say I guess.

My scapula has dropped but that's likely down to the muscle wastage of doing nothing for 4 weeks.

Can you remember 2 weeks after the op? What sort of movement did you have? I can just about (rather slowly) do the YMCA now without having to support my bad arm, gets uncomfortable near the top though.

I'm completely off the drugs now btw :)
 
NoNameNoNumber said:
Not the first person to have said that, did you get a substitute or did you just decide you didn't need it?
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They were a substitute (kind off).

I was given paracetamol and co-codamal by the hospital (which I think are basically over the counter pain killers), I didn't sleep at all the first night because of the pain so went to the docs who gave me some tramadol. I took that for a day but it didn't help. I just carried on taking the paracetamol and the pain started to wear off by the third day.

To be honest it was only a fairly minor elbow surgery so I probably wasn't in as much pain as most of you.
 
Had my physio appointment, that went well and he's happy with the progress. Gave me a few more exercises to do and said to rebook in for 2 weeks time. Gave that to the receptionist who said his nearest space is in 4 weeks... good one...
 
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