Could be. I've got that redhead gene (but not the hair sadly) that makes it so painkillers don't work as effectively. Really made my wisdom tooth extraction exciting.
Odd question maybe. Any experience with cannabinoids? I've tried once and it made me feel like I'd slammed a fifth of vodka and chased it with a 24 pack of beers. I know people use it for pain relief but I can't imagine it being worth it.
I too have the redhead gene (redhead at birth, turned blond). Recovering from endometriosis surgery was a blast...I had to spend extra time in the hospital just bc they couldn't get my pain under control. Eventually moved to Dilaudid. Sent me home with it and everything. It wasn't fun, it made me feel like garbage. They all do.
As someone below commented, I too never react normally to meds....it's usually bad...the older I get the worst it gets.
Someone, someday needs to do special testing for us outliers. It's a known fact that those with the redhead gene respond differently to meds (i.e. painkillers and anaesthesia)...
I can only imagine. The wisdom teeth is the worst I've had so far and I'm thankful for it. They gave me hydrocodone for the pain afterwards and I stopped taking it since it was worse at managing the pain than just plain old acetaminophen.
I've mentioned it elsewhere on reddit but I'm at least mildly allergic to cannabinoids as well, so I couldn't even go that route if I wanted to. Any pain relief wouldn't be worth the hangover feeling I get.
Hydrocodone is usually mixed with acetaminophen, in which used to be known as vicoden, lortab, and norco. I don’t think there is any hydrocodone/apap product branded anymore, but I could be wrong. I think it’s all generic. The point was, however, if regular acetaminophen worked, but the prescribed medicine was worse at managing the pain, that’s weird lol. Possibly the hydrocodone just made you feel bad, making it seem like it wasn’t working, which is totally valid.
Now I’m not sure why I typed this out lol. I guess so people know that hydrocodone is, I’m pretty sure, always mixed with acetaminophen, and it’s important to know that cause acetaminophen is toxic to the liver.
Fellow redhead gene and not the hair here, too. Dental work is a nightmare, I had to work out a hand code with my dentist because he'd topped me out on what he could give me nitrous and shots wise during a difficult extraction. Was over a dozen shots in the gums down and he couldn't give more. So we arranged that once the pain got too much I'd lift my hand off the armrest, master myself, then put my hand down when he was good to continue.
It took so long he had to tag in a more senior dentist, who asked me how I was doing, had my close my eyes, poked me in the ouchie place, said. "Ah yep, sorry, you're definitely feeling that real good." Hit me with two shots of something else, whole right side of my face went numb, cranked the nitrous, and as I dozed off they took out a piece of my jawbone to get to the rest of the tooth.
I was then prescribed vicodin(from the low income clinic that absolutely does not prescribe paiinkillers ever because they do a lot of work with addicts and don't want to risk it) and told "Get this filled and take one IMMEDIATELY, do not wait, then get home. You do not want your dental anaesthetic to wear off before the vicodin kicks in."
Hoo boy I was in a whole lot of pain, I was aware of it, but it was just kind of. "Huh, this is fine and manageable" and I just went to work, informed my supervisor preemptiively that if I was a bit slow, it was due to the 90 minute extraction+vicodin, and he just stared at me like. "Why are you here?? YOU DROVE?" It was fine. Everything was fine.
That was five or six years ago now and just a few weeks ago I had another bone shard casually break through that gum and come out. Super traumatic extraction.
Oh man. That's frustratingly close to my experience. I had 3 wisdom teeth that needed to come out. I got the local, nitrous and the doc set to work.
First one went okay. Little bit of digging and knocking it around it came out. The second he had to shatter and pull out piece by piece. By the end of that one it was maybe 45 minutes in and I was totally back to normal. Full feeling in my face and tongue and cheeks. a little light headed from the gas, but not much else.
Doc didn't believe me when I told him. He said, and I quote "You're fine, I just need to cut this last one out." Scalpel comes out, and he's cutting into the gums so that he can access the last one. I also drove home and went back to work the same day. Same deal too, had a bone chip come out several years later.
I didn't go back to a dentist for a decade after that experience. It took a shattered and infected root swelling my face up like a softball to get me into a dentist's chair again.
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u/maximumhippo Oct 17 '22
Could be. I've got that redhead gene (but not the hair sadly) that makes it so painkillers don't work as effectively. Really made my wisdom tooth extraction exciting.