Patient Info

After Your Surgery

Pain relief

By the time you go home you will only require oral analgesia, with or without anti-inflammatory drugs. Depending on you operation you will need regular panadol for up to a week.  More powerful drugs, such as Tramol, Panadeine or Panadeine Forte can be given in panadol with or without anti-inflammatory drugs in not sufficient. One of the side effects of these drugs is constipation.

The usual mistake is that patients stop their pain killing drug too soon.

You need help or advice.

If you have a problem you should initially contact Mr Aitken’s rooms.  More often than not such problems can be sort out over the phone.  Alternatively Mr Aitken will see you in the next 24 hours.  If you need advise out of hours contact the hospital where you were a patient.  In a case of a real emergency go to the nearest Emergency Department.