Pharm Frog
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When I had shoulder surgery they gave me oxy. It made me sick to my stomach. So they gave me a pill for that. It also caused insomnia. So they gave me a pill for that. It also constipates. More medicine. I realized then and there that the pain was better than the pain meds.
What you are describing is the efficacy-limiting side effects of narcotic analgesics. It’s been almost 20 years now but UTSW researchers studied pre/peri/post operative use of platelet-sparing NSAIDs against narcotic analgesics. The NSAID regimen beat the narcotics in almost every endpoint (stat sig) and one of the reasons advanced was because of dose-limiting side-effects of the narcotics.