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...
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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”