When you have surgery, one of the jobs of your doctor is to make sure that you are comfortable after surgery. Many times, after surgery, patients feel a lot of pain. This is very normal and it shouldn’t be anything to worry about but it does happen. How much pain you feel in the days after a surgery is to be debated but it also depends on the type of surgery. For example, if a woman had a C-Section while having her baby, she will feel a lot of abdominal pain for 3 to 4 days after the surgery. Anything that is felt longer than that, you should tell your doctor because more than a week is too much and is not normal. But it depends on the person and your doctor should be kept up to date on the pain situation.

There is a misconception about surgery, and it is that after surgery you should not feel any pain at all. Not true, 99% of people who have had surgery feel some kind of pain afterwards. The pain is a result of stimulation to the nerve cells in your body that react to heat, cold, light, touch, pressure and pain. After a surgery the signals are sent to your brain from the spinal cord. Medications are often prescribed as a treatment to help with the pain.

Relieving the pain from post surgery is very important in helping you recover so that you can return to your daily activities sooner rather than later. Some pains are so severe that a doctor will prescribe a narcotic drug such as Vicotin or Morphine, but 80% of the time the medications given are Tylenol with Codeine which help out most of the time.

Depending on the surgery will also depend on what type of treatment will be given. Some surgeries will require some type of Physical Therapy. Surgeries such as back, leg, shoulder, elbow or foot will require some type of physical therapy. The therapy will get the bones stronger as well as take away any pain that you feel from the surgery.

If you are having surgery, sit down with your doctor and find out after surgery what to expect. Your doctor may be able to ease your mind before the surgery by letting you know how much pain you may experience and how long the pain maybe. But always remember, everyone is different and what happened to one person will not necessarily happen to you.

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