Elms said. “Their number one concern is pain control. “I see patients in my practice that come specifically because they are concerned about being exposed to opioids,” Dr. Luke Elms, a general surgeon at Orlando Health Dr. I would have rather been in pain, but the good news is I ended up not being in pain. “I’ve seen firsthand what they can do, how quickly people can become addicted and end up losing their jobs, losing their marriages, losing all sorts of things in their lives up to and including their lives," Herr said. When Andria Herr developed a gallstone and needed to have surgery to have her gall bladder removed, she said she knew one thing right away. Opioids are continuing to be the driving cause of drug overdoses, with numbers that are continuing to rise throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. But one central Florida surgeon is changing up the typical way patients recover after surgery in an effort to safely cut down on opioid use - and it's helping patients. Luke Elms uses a pain control method that involve over-the-counter medications An Orlando surgeon is changing up the way patients recover after surgery to cut down on opioid use.
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