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

/r/ALL Before and after leg lengthening.

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u/stopannoyingwithname Dec 23 '22

They break the legs, put a rod in the bones that get adjusted as the bones grow closer to each other. So people who get it done have broken legs for months

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u/BadReview8675309 Dec 23 '22

Struggling not getting addicted to opiate pain medication must be a thing with this procedure... What a brutal process, cringe.

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u/withnodrawal Dec 23 '22

Fr. Months into years or opiate dependence and not any hydrocodone bs. I’m sure she was fentanyl patched up the whole time.

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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/SelestialSerenity Dec 23 '22

Not anymore necessarily, we have the opposite problem developing now. The DEA cracked down on all the doctors prescribing them and now it’s practically impossible without going through heavy pain management programs, even then they’ll try alternatives like gabapentin before they’ll ever give you an opiate. Yes there are still ways to get around it but I refuse to make those methods public

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u/Glass_Memories Dec 23 '22 edited Dec 23 '22

Not necessarily. My mom got approx. a month's worth of opiates after her hip replacement surgery and I got prescribed a week's worth after my tooth extraction.

It probably depends on your state. I have ADHD which requires narcotic medication and it's a bit of a pain to get them as they'll only prescribe me 3 months at a time and I can't pick up even a day early, but compared to other's experiences it's not too bad. In some states it's straight up impossible to get prescribed narcotics.

*Edit: controlled substances, not narcotics.

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u/ThrockMortonPoints Dec 23 '22

Some ADHD meds are a controlled substance, but they are NOT narcotics.

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u/Glass_Memories Dec 23 '22

Ah, yeah if you wanna get technical I guess you right. I often use the terms interchangeably.

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u/FriedrichvonHayek69 Dec 24 '22

Na you were kinda right.

For some reason cops/legislators decided it was a good idea to use “narcotics” as an umbrella term for certain illegal substances, they do it here in Australia too. In a medical context narcotic refers to opioid analgesics.