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general anesthesia on pain pill addicted patients

I am having surgery and wil have general anesthesia.  I have a addition problen with pain meds and am wordering if there will be a problem during the surgery..
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Just tell the anesthesiatist you have a low pain tolerance due to whatever, you may need more, get to the solution, good luck
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you may require higher doses of drugs during surgery to reach the proper anesthesia - are you planning to tell the doctors about you problem with pain meds?  What is your problem with them?
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