"My only tiny little complaint was pain meds. My surgery was at 8 in the morning, by the time I was in my room it was probably noon or 1. I had the Morphine PCA and I used it (allowed every 12 minutes) as needed. At 5 am the next morning the morphine ran out. I asked for additional pain meds, even though I wasn't dying I was pretty uncomfortable. The request was either forgotten or ignored until after a walk I tracked down my overnight nurse who checked and said I was only allowed one PCA thing of morphine. That was fine, I asked for something else for pain...it was like 6 am by this point. I didn't use the 'every 12 minute' dosing...in fact had been several hours throughout the day without any at all. I was never given any pain meds until about discharge time of 6pm!!!! I'm completely not a wimp and don't mind roughing it but I think better attention should be paid to pain meds. I'm a lot tougher with pain than a lot of people."
