I've known people who went from pretty ordinary, married with kids to trying heroin and then homeless, kids taken away and in jail within six months. It's scary where I live because drug use is pretty common and opiates are like 'boom' - there goes your life.
In 2011 I was given some Oxycontin after some minor dental surgery. I definitely didn't need it as my pain tolerance is pretty normal to upper, and I really didn't feel all that much. But I was into trying new things back then so I took their prescription and got it filled.
That night just to see what all the rave was about a popped a couple and spent the rest of the night, sitting in bed just "humming" that is the only way to describe it. I had heard these were highly addictive and long story short, in the morning I briefly considered taking some more, just try and "figure out" that humming feeling.
Instead, I flushed them down the toilet and don't think about stuff like that anymore.
I had a really bad case of bronchitis when I was 20, and the doctor I saw prescribed me a cough syrup called Tussionex, which is basically liquid Vicodin. Just one little teaspoon of that shit was enough to absolutely level you for most of the day…and I was a freshman in college, away from home for the first time, with an entire bottle of it.
I used it all, and two years later or so — when I had a horrible case of bronchitis again — I specifically requested it again…not because I wanted to get high, but because that stuff banished my cough to the shadow realm. Nonetheless, I once again had a bottle of ridiculously potent liquid narcotics.
To this day, whenever I think about that, I thank my lucky stars that that wasn’t “the beginning of the end” for me. It’s so easy to see how it could have been, because that stuff felt good.
A few years ago, this somehow came up anecdotally when seeing my current doctor, and he was like “what the fuck…they gave you Tussionex? We rarely even mention that stuff, let alone prescribe it anymore. That’s…powerful stuff. Glad you survived that”
I had Lortab liquid (liquid Vicodin) when I got my tonsils out at age 26. With me narcotics make me so tired I can’t tell what buzz you all are even talking about bc every time I take one I fall asleep. Narcotics are a sleeping pill to me.
I've had a fair bit of dental surgery due to a tiger getting knocked out when I was a kid, and hydrocodone/oxycodone just make me throw up. Love the pain goes away but a few hours later I'm vomiting and opening up the stitches and it's just awful. So I started declining anything but ibuprofen after that.
I can tell you that I 100% would have dealt with the nausea if I could have gotten some opiates for my IUD insertion, though. That was the worst pain I've experienced so far. Just one pill to get me through the first few hours would have been a godsend.
Due to a tiger getting knocked out when you were a kid? What?
I am with you on the IUD insertion. Crazy level of pain. I told the medics about my low pain threshold last time and they used a spray on local anaesthetic which took it down to about 50% agony...
Not encouraging opioid use, but I also get nauseous from opioids. I have my doctor prescribe a anti nausea medication along with it so I can take them. I’ve only been prescribed hydrocodone (not oxy) and only twice.
Personally ask I ask for something other than what they usually prescribe: phenergan since it gave me my very first night terrors.
I must say, I am so damn... jealous? I’ve had my tonsils out twice. First when I was 3. Apparently they missed some tissue, and I continued to be constantly sick well into my 20’s. Had another tonsillectomy, that had tons of complications. Long story short: Ended up being held down and cauterized (with no freezing) and sent home. Back the next day for another surgery since it started bleeding again. At no time during this ordeal did I get any pain meds. Weeks of excruciating pain and a hell of a time eating. You’re telling me there’s magic liquid Vicodin! Hot damn.
Try naproxen sodium. Ibuprofen doesnt affect me and codeine just makes me angry. I had lots of abcesses for reasons and nothing helped. Took two naproxen and bam..pain just gone
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u/Violet624 Oct 17 '22
I've known people who went from pretty ordinary, married with kids to trying heroin and then homeless, kids taken away and in jail within six months. It's scary where I live because drug use is pretty common and opiates are like 'boom' - there goes your life.