Meds Question

[mbg98]

I am having some "cosmetic" surgery coming up and had a question. I am a little nervous about the whole thing in general but especially when it comes to the meds that they will be administering. I am given percocet for pain which i have found is fine and an antibiotic called Keflex that I can't find any info on, does anyone know about this? I will also be put under local anesthesia and sedation and the part I am really concerned about is they install a pain pump and i am still trying to find out what meds are in that. At least meds that you swallow you can choose to take or not if they make you sick but a pain pump automatically administers the meds. The last thing I need while recovering is stomach/D issues! Any advice or comments?

[flagbabyds]

anesthesia is fine, I have been through many surgeries and pain pumps for me have usually been morphine and they are self-administering where you punch the button when you want the meds and only when you want the meds.

IV meds are almost always free of gluten and they are directly into the blood stream so they don't go into your intestine and I have always been fine with IV meds before

[mbg98]

anesthesia is fine, I have been through many surgeries and pain pumps for me have usually been morphine and they are self-administering where you punch the button when you want the meds and only when you want the meds.

IV meds are almost always free of gluten and they are directly into the blood stream so they don't go into your intestine and I have always been fine with IV meds before

Thanks for the reply, I didn't think about it not going into the intestines therefore not an issue, Thanks! Unfortunatly mine is not a self medicating pump, the way I understand it it works similar to a drain, and i will only have it for a few days. Thanks again for the info, very helpful and reasurring!

[flagbabyds]

i've never heard of gluten in a IV anyway and I've never heard of that kind of pump, when I had cosmetic surgery mine was self-admisistering pump so i don't know about that, when exactly is your surgery, you should talk to the doctor before and ask about all the meds they will use, then ask for the brands and the phone numbers for the companies and call them if you have time beofre the surgery.

[mbg98]

i've never heard of gluten in a IV anyway and I've never heard of that kind of pump, when I had cosmetic surgery mine was self-admisistering pump so i don't know about that, when exactly is your surgery, you should talk to the doctor before and ask about all the meds they will use, then ask for the brands and the phone numbers for the companies and call them if you have time beofre the surgery.

This type of pump is something new that goes right to the area of surgery and I guess just kind of numbs it. My surgery is the middle of March and as far as the other meds it's this antibiotic Keflex i need to get info on.

[gabby]

Hi,

Keflex is more commonly known as Ceporex, and it falls under the category of cephalosporin antiobiotics.

You should be able to look up these other names on the internet. It is important to know which brand you will be using because each brand will have different ingredients. If you don't know the brand, be sure to tell your pharmacist that you need to have the kind that doesn't contain gluten. They might be able to use a generic brand if it works better for you. Otherwise, ask the prescribing doctor if he can substitute another antibiotic that is safe for you.

Hope this helps,

[jerseyangel]

If the hospital will supplying the Keflex, they should be able to tell you whether or not it's gluten-free.

I was in the hospital recently, and the nurse would call down to the hospital pharmacy and ask.

I didn't worry about any meds until I began to take things by mouth. At that point, they checked everything for me. They also had "gluten intolerant" on my chart and my bracelet.

If it's a prescription you fill yourself, you can get the manufacturer's name from the pharmacist and call them.

[lovegrov]

Although I can't address your specific meds, you are in much more danger from hospital food than from meds.

richard

[2kids4me]

For those with Egg and Soy allergies. Let your anesthesiologist know. Reason is that one of the main drugs we use is called Propofol (fabulous for endoscopy sedation). It is a drug that is used for sedation procedures, but also is used to induce a state of anesthesia for total anesthesia. Propofol is delivered in a lecithin and soybean oil suspension. There are substitutes, we just need to know.

This is from a post by RKB MD under a thread called: celiac sprue and doctor too

[Fiddle-Faddle]

I had terrible reactions to endocet (generic percocet)--dizziness, shakiness, severe nausea, vomiting, dry heaves, and chest pain--that landed me in the hospital for a full day of cardiac tests (NOT a good way to recover from surgery!).

I did an admittedly unscientific survey of everyone I knew who had undergone a surgical procedure and been given percocet or endocet.

Out of 23 people, 5 said that the percocet worked well for them. 3 of those 5 specifically said they actually liked the loopy feeling it gave them! The other 18 had reactions similar to mine.

My surgery was a repair of a torn tendon in the shoulder. I had been told by the nurse to be sure and take the endocet before the nerve block wore off, and before the pain got bad. I didn't realize that the endocet was doing little or nothing for the pain, until I stopped taking it for a full day-and the pain level was totally unchanged! I then took over-the-counter ibuprofen, which completely eliminated the pain. 8 hours later, I tried Tylenol--same result (complete pain relief).

I can't predict how percocet will affect you--but I am pretty sure that my survey--although admittedly unscientific--shows some pretty dismal odds.

You might want to have either Tylenol or Ibuprofen ready as a backup, just in case. Either way, good luck with your procedure.

[Fiddle-Faddle]

Although I can't address your specific meds, you are in much more danger from hospital food than from meds.

richard

You're probably right about that! However, most procedures involving IV sedation are done on an outpatient basis.

[flagbabyds]

if she is having a pain pump put in then she will probably be in the hospital cause that is not an outpatient procedure.

[mbg98]

Thanks for all the replies! I am having my surgery as an outpatient, so no worries about hospital food only my husbands cooking! The percocet I took before when I had my gallbladder out and the only reaction i had was it made me very itchy so i had to chase it with benadryl. Which i am not sure, is Benadryl Gluten free? The sedation and anesthesia should be fine, as it was pointed out that that goes into my blood stream and I am not ingesting them. I am still working on finding out about this antibiotic, Keflex. I have researched it and found all the different generic forms but can't find if any are Gluten free. I will call a pharmacist this week and hopefully find out. My procedure is being done at a surgical center so no hospital will be involved and my Doc has pretty much left everything up to me in finding out if i can take the meds he is prescribing.

[Fiddle-Faddle]

The sedation and anesthesia should be fine, as it was pointed out that that goes into my blood stream and I am not ingesting them.

I am sorry I don't have time to research this right now, but this doesn't sound right to me at all. I thought the whole problem with gluten is that it goes through the leaky gut INTO the bloodstream, and that's where the autoimmune problems start.

Can anyone address this?

Also, if percocet makes you itchy, that sounds like a red flag to me. That was my son's first reaction to meds he turned out to be allergic to.