Least Painful Nail on the market 2022-2023?

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Quote from: SpeedDialer on November 21, 2022, 09:17:29 PMHm... I'm jealous, I didn't get a muscle relaxer in Athens for gnail femurs, I wonder if I should ask about it. Alot of mornings I sort of have to fight against stiffness (sometimes massage gun to wake my muscles up, and then I go to the pedal machine to move a bit to fight the stiffness, it takes some time). Also jealous, I only got PT 4 times a week, not 5

I do feel like with big soft ice pads, pain becomes quite manageable

What was the name of the muscle relaxer they prescribed?

It's better to suffer than taking these meds. They have side effects and overall bad for your body.

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Quote from: stretched on November 20, 2022, 06:37:42 PMInteresting, was it still 10/10 pain with the intravenous pain meds? I know pain levels vary through out different patients but high/low pain tolerance shouldn't be the difference between a 2/10 (annoying) pain and 10/10 (torture) pain, right?

I had a lot of issues with the pain meds, taken as prescribed I got very sick when I tried to taper off. 3 months to 7.8cm but about 2 months of nausea and vomiting, doctors couldn’t figure out what it was and basically attributed it to post acute withdraw from Percocet. I went to Dr. mahboubian out in LA. What’s absolutely crazy is there’s people who take to the surgery very well and have full ROM after a week, then there’s people like me who could only get to 80-90 degrees 4 months post op.

To answer your question - even with pain meds I’d expect a 6-7/10 in pain. However it’s different for everybody. I was very active before this surgery, I’d lift weights about 4x a week and ju jitsu in the mornings 5x a week.

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Quote from: overandover on November 22, 2022, 05:39:07 AMIt's better to suffer than taking these meds. They have side effects and overall bad for your body.

Oh interesting, Diazepam and Percocet have bad long term effects?

I sort of wonder about the USA sometimes -> they don't have clicking nails (I guess they have fitbone technically but who would ever use it given the alternatives) and they use stronger painkillers compared to Europe?

I guess it won't affect me probably.. because if I go back to Athens for tibias then I imagine that Dr. Giotikas will just put me on the same paracetmol/tramadol plan.

And I actually wonder for precise tibias if I will really need painkillers, it sort of feels like the worst pain is from the achilles tendon and I wonder if soft ice pads will just squash that pain?