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[sprit33]

I may have surgery with Dr.Giotikas in the near future, but Dr.G seems to only provide paracetamol and tramadol. My pain tolerance is average. I plan to prepare some oxycodone in advance. Is this necessary?

[zaozari]

Read the excelent post of Dr. Assayag in this topic:

http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=293.0

You cannot take all the prescription drugs he talks about but use it for one more piece of quality information that you may even use to help in a frank conversation with Dr. Giotikas.

[HateLAPELoveSTEM]

May I ask how you evaluated your own pain tolerance ability? What's more decent surgeons will also offer you with best painkillers so it's not necessary for you to make choices.

[zaozari]

May I ask how you evaluated your own pain tolerance ability? What's more decent surgeons will also offer you with best painkillers so it's not necessary for you to make choices.

Not necessarily. Pain management is not always a field of great concern for all surgeons, who often rely on "one solution fits all" according to their education, personal experience, "likes" and being better updated or not. For example it now seems that NSAIDs are not contra indicated for bone healing (Dr. Assayag).
An excellent surgeon is not allways the best medicine doctor (after all, most of the time, while they operate, they are not doing any other pure doctors"s work: diagnosis, therapeutics, etc). Anaesthesia (and analgesia in a certain extent) are separate branches in medicine. In each important surgery there is an anaesthesiologist making team with the surgeon,  and furthermore it's not always the doctor who does the closer follow up of the recovery period (Dr. Giotikas is apparently sometimes seen one time only in Greece each month, Paley is hardly seen, Guichet "commutes" between Milan and London...). In LL it's more usual to be the surgeon, which is often also an orthopedic doctor,  to do the follow-up, but the problem is sometimes worse because he/she is many times absent.

Both issues are relevant questions to the doctor before chosing one: his presence after surgery and his approach to pain management.

[sprit33]

Read the excelent post of Dr. Assayag in this topic:

http://www.limblengtheningforum.com/index.php?topic=293.0

You cannot take all the prescription drugs he talks about but use it for one more piece of quality information that you may even use to help in a frank conversation with Dr. Giotikas.

Thank you for your link,I've seen this post before and it's a very useful information.
Why would I want to prep Oxycodone? Because I learned that most doctors have restrictions on prescribing painkillers, especially those outside the US. I was worried that I would suffer because the painkillers were not strong enough to take the pain. I've read some diaries that people using Oxycodone during LL with good pain control, so I'm asking this question.

[zaozari]

Thank you for your link,I've seen this post before and it's a very useful information.
Why would I want to prep Oxycodone? Because I learned that most doctors have restrictions on prescribing painkillers, especially those outside the US. I was worried that I would suffer because the painkillers were not strong enough to take the pain. I've read some diaries that people using Oxycodone during LL with good pain control, so I'm asking this question.

Yes, I understand. I think I will then also try to take my own "emergency kit" just in case...Some people in diaries report being totally alone in pain, with no quick help for hours or worse. And as you say, some medicines could not even be easily available in the country of destination. Maybe I ask prescription to an orthopedic doctor before travel, altough it's probably impossible to take opioides as "last resource". (But also ask him, as far as he knows, if the prescribed painkillers don't compromise bone healing).