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Ask A Doctor

• If you are to be intubated, request that you wear a soft neck collar and that neck hyperextension be minimized.
  
• Ask to be administered a pre-op opioid pain medication, about 1-1/2 hours before surgery. Opioids are morphine or morphine-related drugs. The reason for pre-op use is to minimize central sensitization as this inevitably worsens the widespread pain that you are already experiencing.
  
• As a fibromyalgia patient you will need more, and usually a longer-acting, post-op pain medication. In most cases this medication should be given on a timely schedule or self-administered with a PCA (patient controlled analgesia) pump.
  
• Ask to have a long-acting local anesthetic infiltrated into your incision. Even though you are under sedation, this can minimize pain impulses reaching the spinal cord and brain.
  
• Request that your arm with the IV line be kept close to your body, not away and not over your head.
  
• Most fibromyalgia patients require a longer duration of post-op convalescence, which may include physical therapy in many cases.

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