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Managing Pain and Nausea

It’s important that your pain and nausea are managed after surgery to help you:

breath and move more easily
eat better and sleep better

Along with taking pills, you may also get medicine by injection, IV, or epidural.

Follow the pain and nausea medicine schedule your doctor gave you, and tell your healthcare team early when you feel pain or nausea. After pain or nausea starts, you need more medicine to manage it than if you take medicine ahead of time.

After surgery, you'll be asked to record in your log book how much pain and nausea you have in the hospital. Your nurse will ask you to rate your pain and nausea from 0 (no pain) to 10 (the worst pain you can imagine).

Tell your nurse if your pain reaches 4/10 or your nausea reaches 2/10. The pain medicine or epidural will be adjusted as needed.

Current as of: April 23, 2014

Author: AHS ERAS

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