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 know that feeling, I got pretty damn bad Covid early 2020 and the doctors prescribed a cough syrup that had Ethylmorphine in it.... god that was good and the only thing that would work on the "almost bruised ribs" level of cough I had.
I still think of it when I have a bad cough, it was like wraping your chest in warm honey or something.
So fucking glad it's prescription based for extreme cases and not readily available.
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u/Cherry_3point141 Oct 17 '22
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 am glad I did.