Table 2.
Mean±SD number of analgesics taken by patients and the reported VAS pain scores within 7 days of surgery in the two groups
| Variable | Day |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
| Number of analgesics taken | |||||||
| AM group | 2.80±0.41 | 2.40±0.91 | 1.93±1.03 | 1.67±1.29 | 1.27±1.11 | 1.27±1.11 | 0.13±0.52 |
| Control group | 2.67±0.99 | 2.50±1.45 | 2.25±1.42 | 2.17±1.34 | 1.25±1.66 | 1.17±1.85 | 0.00±0.00 |
| p value | 0.90 | 0.49 | 0.40 | 0.35 | 0.61 | 0.37 | 0.79 |
| Visual analog scale pain scores | |||||||
| AM group | 6.73±2.94 | 5.07±2.46 | 4.00±2.30 | 3.80±2.24 | 3.07±2.25 | 2.80±2.54 | 2.00±2.39 |
| Control group | 7.33±2.67 | 6.83±2.55 | 5.83±2.35 | 4.67±2.64 | 4.25±2.53 | 4.17±3.13 | 1.83±2.55 |
| p value | 0.68 | 0.08 | 0.24 | 0.22 | 0.14 | 0.26 | 0.78 |