, and the like. Depending on the procedure, you could be in for an uncomfortable couple of days. Up until recently, many plastic surgeons didn’t give as much thought to prescribing narcotics like Vicodin, Percocet, and oxycodone to address the issue and maintain a level of comfort for patients. But as the country grapples with an opioid epidemic that claimed tens of thousands of lives last year alone, doctors who perform cosmetic procedures are taking a closer look at pain management.
"Ten years ago, when I was doing liposuction, I would send a patient home with a prescription for 10 Percocet," says Cheryl Karcher, a New York City dermatologist. "And that was considered a little bit by most doctors’ standards then." But in the past six years, Karcher has not prescribed a single narcotic for. “I use so much local anesthetic during the procedure, and then Tylenol is plenty [after that]," she says.
In Karcher’s opinion, writing that Percocet prescription just isn’t worth the risk. "You never know who has that genetic predisposition for addiction. If there’s a family history, there’s a larger chance of the patient having the genes for addiction," she says. “You can give opioids to plenty of patients that take them, it kills the pain, and then they never take them again. But [some] are going to take them and say, ‘Oh, my God, this makes me feel so much better.
About 10 years ago, Karcher became addicted to opioids after they were prescribed to her following several orthopedic surgeries. She has been in recovery since 2010 . While Karcher is passionate about not prescribing narcotics to her patients, she recognizes that, as a dermatologist, the recovery from the procedures she does is less intense than more invasive procedures that plastic surgeons perform. In that field, narcotics are often prescribed for controlling pain after major operations like large-volume
Millions with disabling diseases and injuries and even terminal illness have been stripped of appropriate opioid pain care by legislation, DEA and CDC action that induces fear in our doctors to prescribe opioids at all without having their licenses taken away.
the addiction crisis, it was most often through stealing a family member or friend's prescription, with an underlying addiction issue already in place. What IS happening is an erosion of proper pain care for chronic and acute pain.
If you're going to write about the addiction crisis, noting it is illicit street drugs that have been the drivers for several years (per federal and many state statistics) would be an accurate picture. So would addressing that when prescription opioids were a substanant part of
As a person with Ehlers-danlos it is horrible and reckless writing. It has made it next to impossible to get my pain medication now. The the suicide rate is up with ehlers-danlos due to not having proper pain management now.
CTCodinha your disinformation is truly astounding.
The author is either absolutely ignorant or willfully ignorant, neither an excuse. Nowhere in her poorly researched article did she mention that heroin and illicit fentanyl are why OD's are on the rise, NOT legally prescribed pain meds. I'd be embarrassed if I were her. GTH.
Another idiotic article that again blames prescribed opioids, not the fentenyl laced heroin thats really killing people out there
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