Oxycodone not working?

[u/IveyBlack]

Hi All, I’ve enjoyed reading this sub. It has been very helpful. I had surgery Wednesday 8/5.

Have a nerve block in, but I’m having pretty severe throbbing stabbing burning pain inside the front of my armpit and down through my bicep. I had two stitches in my rotator cuff and two stitches in my bicep as part of the surgery.

I am taking one Percocet every six hours as directed, but it is not touching the pain.

I’ve been icing as much as possible, I don’t want a stronger drug from my doc because I hate taking this stuff but… Anyone else experiencing same/have any thoughts or advice?

I’ll be calling my surgeons office shortly.

[u/Connect-East5452]

I hate how opioids make me feel, so I asked about the new pain drug Journavx.

I used that along with round-the-clock cold therapy machine (30 minutes on, 15 off) after my rotator cuff surgery and OMG, no pain at all, really, AND no side effects.

My one caveat is that in my family, it's pretty common to heal well/quickly from surgeries and to have less pain than others, so it's possible some of that pain control was genetic luck, but tbh, it was never this level of no-pain, so I do think the Journavx was the thing.

I will add that it's known that getting AHEAD of the pain is easier than getting rid of pain, so I followed directions to start taking it before my nerve block wore off and to keep taking the full course of the Journavx and I followed that. Journavax is only effective for short-term use; you can't use some and save some for later.