“Will anesthesia also reduce my post operative pain?”
Will the anesthesia given during my operation also help to reduce my post-op pain?
3 Answers
Anesthesiologists routinely administer pain-controlling medicine during surgery to allow a comfortable postoperative course for the patient.
Yes it will. During surgery your anesthesiologist has a tool box filled with medications that will reduce your pain post operatively.
The anesthetics delivered during surgery will reduce your post operative pain but only for a short time. After surgery longer acting but lower potency medications are used to control your pain. If you are ambulatory you likely will get a prescription for a shout course of narcotics, if you are going to stay then you may be on oral medications, iv pump medications, epidurals etc. Now there is one instance that the operative narcotic may continue and thats if you have a spinal with a narcotic mixed in, then yo will have post op relief for about a day, longer if specific nerve blocks are used.
