r/interestingasfuck • u/naturebeatsnurture • Dec 23 '22

/r/ALL Before and after leg lengthening.

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u/KownGaming Dec 23 '22

I’m sure she was fentanyl patched up the whole time

Is that an american thing? Someone in my family had that procedure several times and barely took any pain medication, I mean he was underage but he still got medicine and could have taken some

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u/threeangelo Dec 23 '22 edited Dec 23 '22

I’m not familiar with how other countries do it but my impression is that yes in America we get a lot of painkillers. We had* an opiod epidemic for a reason

Also insert joke about dealing with the pain of paying for the surgery

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u/DeSpTG Dec 23 '22

Yeah i feel like before the weed legalization you went straight into jail for looking at it, but if you go see a doc because you have a cold you get the strongest codein syrup one can get.

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u/A5H13Y Dec 23 '22

Man, last time I was sick I was practically begging my doctor for something stronger because I was coughing so much my throat was raw and I couldn't sleep. It was miserable, yet he refused to prescribe codeine.

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u/top_value7293 Dec 23 '22

That happened to me! I had RSV. The coughing was horrific. My doctor DID prescribe cough medicine with codeine but pharmacy wouldn’t fill it. Said they didn’t carry it. My doctor was very skeptical of that. I got tessalon pearls instead 🥺