Severe Pain Relief

Morphine! but dont take too much you will get addicted.

Morphine! but dont take too much you will get addicted.

Came out of hospital after surgery, in a LOT f pain. They gave me cocodamol (codeine/paracetamol 30/500mg) and told me that taking 2 tablets every few hours would be sufficient.

I've found that they haven't really been that helpful at all, so I was wondering if it was possible to combine these tablets with codeine-ibuprofen tablets (10/200mg), so that my total dose of codeine would be 80mg?

NO

Edit: Can everyone without a medical degree stop recommending adding in extra medication? Unless you know there won't be an adverse reaction or a conflict of medicine, please shut the hell up and tell them to talk to a doctor.

You can take an NSAID with codeine and paracetamol. I see it all the time.
Also if you read mine and Jenny's posts (obviously disregard the people on about morphine because that's a plain stupid suggestion) we were saying what we would do personally to ourselves. And I recommended they talk to the pharmacist ... but oh no I guess the pharmacist doesn't have medical degree so they shouldn't recommend on medicine!!! People who think doctors are the only professionals who know about drugs really grind my gears!

A pharmacist may know which drugs will work together/conflict but they certainly won't know the patient's medical history, so its advisable he/she talks to the doctors who are currently treating them.

People that recommend changing the doses of someone's prescription without seeing a patient really grind mine... You don't know the type of surgery this person has undergone, their state at the minute or what other medication they might be taking, telling them to take another painkiller without asking the doctor who prescribed the cocodomol is reckless. Just because you have combined the two in the past does not mean that this person has the identical health status that you did at the time.

A pharmacist may know which drugs will work together/conflict but they certainly won't know the patient's medical history, so its advisable he/she talks to the doctors who are currently treating them.

Firstly, I haven't told them to do anything. I've said what I'd do (knowing my health status ).

Secondly, I advised them to talk to a pharmacist who probably would question them about their health status and the type of surgery they had etc and they would only recommend adding something in if they were certain of being okay. Generally you'll find pharmacists are pretty good at this and doctors often ask their advice on medicines.

Thirdly, now you're saying that only the doctors who treated him should add medication in where as in your previous post anyone with a medical degree was okay?

1. Doesn't seem to have the caviat 'I would use...' or 'In my case i would...'. Seems to be fairly definitive advice.

2. A pharmacist would probably do the job, but in my experience when you are discharged from a hospital you are generally given the contact details of the staff who have treated you for just this kind of situation. It would be silly not to use them.

3. I actually said that people without medical degrees should stop giving him advice about what he can take on top of his prescribed medication, i didn't say that he could talk to anyone with a medical degree and get sound advice, i said that he should talk to a doctor (and also mentioned contacting the hospital where he was treated). Sorry to correct you.

1. I'm sorry to correct you but what you quoted wasn't from any of my posts.

2. That's fine. But it also wouldn't hurt to ask a pharmacist their opinion in the mean time.

3. Which implies you think people with pharmacy degrees shouldn't give advice about medication.

When I had an operation I was given co-codomal and told that it would be enough; there was no way it was! They changed me onto tramadol which was way better. Anyway...my point is, if you can get to see you doctor or pharmacist and explain that what you are on isnt strong enough they should be able to prescribe/sell you something better. There is no point you being in pain when something can be done to sort it.

Came out of hospital after surgery, in a LOT f pain. They gave me cocodamol (codeine/paracetamol 30/500mg) and told me that taking 2 tablets every few hours would be sufficient.

I've found that they haven't really been that helpful at all, so I was wondering if it was possible to combine these tablets with codeine-ibuprofen tablets (10/200mg), so that my total dose of codeine would be 80mg?