As I have mentioned elsewhere, my wife broke her shoulder on Sunday night. She’s currently got it immobilized, and is expected to remain that way for about three weeks.
And she’s taking Percocet for pain management. Two 5-325 pills as needed every 6 hours, it says on the label, although she’s only asking for it twice daily. She’s doing pretty well with it, but she asked me a question today that I don’t have the answer to:
I know that the “cet” portion of any narcotic/NSAID formulation signifies that the NSAID is acetominophen (and that a “dan” would signify aspirin), but where do we get “perc” from when describing oxycodone?
Aside: make sure she get’s physical therapy once the orthopedist clears her for movement. When you don’t move your shoulder for 3-4 weeks, the muscles and tendons around it just kind of constrict and it is difficult, especially if you don’t know what to do, to get your mobility back.
Broke my shoulder three years ago. Had three surgeries. Back to about 98% mobility before the accident.
This may not be a good idea. Ask her doctor, and ask him to speak to her about it.
My Mother (like many of her generation) seemed to feel that taking pain medication was ‘weakness’ and should be avoided, until the pain got overwhelming. We couldn’t change her mind until her doctor told her ‘if you wait until it hurts real bad, it’s already damaging the healing process, so it will take you longer to recover. Take your medication as scheduled, so you can start using the injured part, and get it back working again sooner.’ That convinced her, especially the part about regaining mobility.
That’s more than just a nitpick. As someone that absolutely positively cannot have any NSAIDS. Even getting them via IV causes debilitating heartburn. APAP OTOH, doesn’t bother my GI system at all.
I still want to smack that nurse that pushed a bunch of Torodol into my IV line without telling me what it was even though I asked her a bunch of times. I should have complained about her.
