My wife is scheduled for knee replacement in October and they are using Journavx in place of opioids for pain management. I wanted to know if anyone here has had experience with it. Seems it has only been around for about a year. Her not knowing anyone who has taken it is not helping with her apprehension about the whole thing.

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Journavx

Following. I cant take opioids because of reactions.

There should be a law that requires docs to disclose Rx recommendations based on data or financial benefits. Or at least if the doc is deriving any financial benefit from an Rx.

I'd be suspicious too if the drug has only been around a year.

I have had both my knees replaced in the last few years.
I would advise that pain management and "new" pain meds is not an experiment that should be applied to the patient unless there are factors that preclude the use of the normal prescribed and effective pain management drugs.
I would tell the Doctor "NO THANKS"!
They are basically cutting off your leg and stitching it back on.

Yes, after achilles surgery I switched to Journavx after 4 days of vicodin. It was very good with pain, I was clear headed, and it didn't put my colon to sleep.

Frankly wish I had started on it instead of vicodin.

I've heard that it was very expensive, but my surgery was worker's comp and never saw the bill.

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Originally posted by konata88:
There should be a law that requires docs to disclose Rx recommendations based on data or financial benefits. Or at least if the doc is deriving any financial benefit from an Rx.

I'd be suspicious too if the drug has only been around a year.

I can tell you a few things right now:
To dispel a rumor circling for a long time and elevating to fever pitch
MEDICAL PRACTITIONERS DO NOT GET KICKBACKS OR INCENTIVES FOR PRESCRIBING SPECIFIC DRUGS
This BS needs to die immediately

How do you learn how something works and any possible pitfalls? By using it.
If no one ever bought and shot and tested a glock how would we know if it was functional?

I just last week attended a medical conference which included discussion of this drug. From everything I have researched, a great option to avoid the many pitfalls of opioids

Working in orthopedics myself I prescribe a lot of pain medication, when appropriate ( when dealing with joint replacements and fractures this occurs daily.)

The nausea, constipation ( the older patients typically getting total joints are predisposed to constipation already) the. There is the hassle and multi step process we have to go through for every narcotic RX.
If we have an alternative that works, using it makes sense.

However, ( I suspect we will start using this new drug soon in my practice) it would be accompanied by an RX for traditional narcotics in the event it didn’t work for someone

Yes it works very well - I had a knee replacement in April. They prescribed the Journavx for 10 days and Tramadol as needed.
It definitely works - I only took the Tramadol a few times during the first few days post surgery.

Thanks for all the replies. It is good to hear that those who have taken it found it to be effective.

Suzetrigine has essentially the same mechanism of action as lidocaine (local anesthetic). They both block the same receptors. We've been giving low dose IV lidocaine for post-operative pain for years...with not much success in my experience. While it can take the edge off for some people, it is no panacea. Nor, I suspect, is this new drug. Everyone is different and we all have different pain tolerances, so some peoples' experience with it may be much different than others'.

I'm old school. Opiates have been used very effectively to treat pain for a couple hundred (actually a couple thousand) years. Dosed properly, they are wonderful drugs and will work better than anything (except a nerve block which is temporary).

As was stated by captain127, be sure to get prescriptions for both and try it out. You may have adequate relief from it. If not, it'd be good to have some oxycodone in the medicine cabinet.