I'm interested in finding out something about alternative pain medicines. From having had surgery last month, I now know there are many kinds of narcotics my system won't handle.

Morphine made my head roar, made me vomit, made me feel like I was in tremendous pain- I wasn't. Then they gave me Vicodin and I literally couldn't sit up. Then they gave me something called something like Tuflux (that can't be it, though)and I spun around so badly it scared them- they told me to just lie down, just let myself go to sleep... Which I did and slept for almost 4 hours.

My surgery wouldn't have been a problem at all, if I had been able to tolerate narcotics. As it was, instead of going home on Wednesday noon, I wasn't able to leave the hospital until Thursday night.

I had informed the surgeon beforehand that 30 years ago, pain medicine had made me upchuck, so that after that all the doctor allowed me to have was plain Tylenol. But she still gave me all these narcotics. I'm bummed, frankly.

Does anyone know of a reliable alternative pain medicine??

Ebbie