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painkillers - which do you prefer

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I've had a script for Percocet once in my life, when I broke a tooth. Made me feel good. Too good. Haven't touched anything similar in more than twenty years. I'm OK with that.
 
Advil (ibuprofen) in 800mg doses. I had vicodin once when I got my wisdom teeth removed but didn't even use up the full prescription.
 
I mentioned in another thread that I live in a university town. I have a few friends who are half my age or less. Some of them like their pills.

In the past three years, I lost one close friend to the combination of booze and pills, and knew three other people who died similarly. My friend went back home for a high school reunion, went out drinking with his old buddies. They found him cold and unresponsive in an alley just after the bars closed. The others went to bed and never woke up.
 
Vicodin works best for me.

Unfortunately any pain-reliever I take seems to require a relatively high dose to have any effect.
 
when i had brain surgery, morphine and vicodin did absolutely nothing for pain, but percocet worked like a charm!

i still get terrible headaches once every few months and they won't let me have any more percocet, so i have to settle for the following:

4 ibuprofen + 2 tylenol + 1 mt dew every 6 hours until the headache is gone

sometimes that can take a day or two 🙁
 
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TheVrolok said:
With some significant caveats which also carried weight in reducing the OTC dose.
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Mom was an anesthesiologist. Weight matters big time.

She said OxyContin was the wonder drug for pain and it was terrible what happened to it. She compared it to aspirin in terms of breakthrough drug.

When my buddy was on hopeless life support and his wife had to make the call I looked at what they were dripping him. Fentanyl and anti anxiety. I assured her he was in no pain and high as a kite feeling great. That made her feel better and laugh. He gave me a thumbs up, barely but it was there.
 
spidey07 said:
Mom was an anesthesiologist. Weight matters big time.

She said OxyContin was the wonder drug for pain and it was terrible what happened to it. She compared it to aspirin in terms of breakthrough drug.

When my buddy was on hopeless life support and his wife had to make the call I looked at what they were dripping him. Fentanyl and anti anxiety. I assured her he was in no pain and high as a kite feeling great. That made her feel better and laugh. He gave me a thumbs up, barely but it was there.
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What happened was when Perdue Pharma came out with oxycontin timed-released version of oxycodone and for chronic pain sufferers it was a wonder drug, no more having to take 5-6 perc's a day but they told the sales rep's to market it to doctors as an "all-around" pain drug and it started getting prescribed for conditions which it never should have, then folks found out you could crush it up and snort, smoke or shoot it which earned it the nick "hillbilly heroin", in the end they changed the way it's made ( I think it's like plastic now) so it was very tamper-resistant and they agreed to pay the Fed's a whopping $650 million fine for telling sales reps to market it to Dr's the wrong way.
 
spidey07 said:
When my buddy was on hopeless life support and his wife had to make the call I looked at what they were dripping him. Fentanyl and anti anxiety. I assured her he was in no pain and high as a kite feeling great. That made her feel better and laugh. He gave me a thumbs up, barely but it was there.
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wait, so they were gonna pull the plug on him, and he was able to give a thumbs up?
 
brianmanahan said:
wait, so they were gonna pull the plug on him, and he was able to give a thumbs up?
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What don't you get, he had a illness that was at the "end-stage", there was no more that could be done except try and keep him alive with machines and his wife made a decision that the man probably would not want to prolong the situation any longer, I hope someone would do that for me as well in that scenario, at least he had the comfort of knowing that his family and friend were there with him until the end, I usually don't see eye to eye with Spidey on many things but I'll have to give him a big :thumbsup: for being there, I've was in a similar situation with my father in law back in '05 it's among the toughest things to do, many people back out of it because of the heartbreaking memory's it creates.
 
brianmanahan said:
wait, so they were gonna pull the plug on him, and he was able to give a thumbs up?
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Yes. He was not going to live without full life support. His basic body functions would not work without it. Things like breathing, heart, blood pressure regulation. It's what he wanted and she had full power of attorney. They arranged before the time came.
 
brianmanahan said:
when i had brain surgery, morphine and vicodin did absolutely nothing for pain, but percocet worked like a charm!

i still get terrible headaches once every few months and they won't let me have any more percocet, so i have to settle for the following:

4 ibuprofen + 2 tylenol + 1 mt dew every 6 hours until the headache is gone

sometimes that can take a day or two 🙁
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Have you tried Excedrin? Aspirin, acetaminophen, (Tylenol) and caffeine. That's about the only thing that works on my headaches.


lxskllr said:
I don't take anything. I deal with the pain until it's gone.
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Pain is just weakness leaving the body...right? :thumbsup:
 
lxskllr said:
I don't take anything. I deal with the pain until it's gone.
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You've never had horrible back pain then. When you have to work and can't because of the crippling back pain, you need a drug to numb it so you can function. I couldn't even drive my truck I was in such pain sitting down, standing, you name it. I can take a healthy dose of pain, but this was a 9/10. Only way I had any sort of relief was laying on a heat pad on my side. It felt like a hot poker was being jabbed into my hip/leg and twisted.
 
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