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Prescription pain meds not working

Jeff7181

Jeff7181

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So I injured my knee over the holidays. They gave me Norco at the ER... I took them for a couple weeks straight and still had constant pain. Eventually they were gone and I was still having the same amount of pain, so I concluded that they didn't have any effect. I told my doctor this at my next doctor visit, so he prescribed Vicodin ES and I started taking that. It didn't seem to change the amount of pain I was feeling, just made me tired.

Now I just had arthroscopic knee surgery Tuesday and mentioned to the nurses there that the Vicodin ES didn't do much besides make me tired, so the surgeon wrote me a 'script for Percocet, which I'm now taking and it still doesn't be effecting the pain.

I've never taken narcotics before, so it's not like I have a tolerance for it. They just don't seem to be doing anything for me. Of course I'm going to discuss it all with my doctor (I'm going for my post-op visit tomorrow) but I was curious if anyone here had any input. Am I expecting these drugs to do too much?
 
I tried Vicodin when I hurt my back a few years ago. Didn't do a thing for me. I think different people do better with different meds. Acetom...umm..The stuff in Tylenol doesn't do anything for me, but Ibuprofin (Advil) works great. Everybody's different. Just tell the doc that it's not doing anything for you.
 
Honestly - how much do you weigh? You may need a bigger dose. But percocet should at least do something to dull it. It won't go away but it should have some affect.
 
Try a prescription anti-inflammatory like Celebrex. Much better for that type of pain.

For narcotics to really kill pain, you have to be VERY doped up. The doses they are giving you are just too low.
 
Originally posted by: JDub02
I tried Vicodin when I hurt my back a few years ago. Didn't do a thing for me. I think different people do better with different meds. Acetom...umm..The stuff in Tylenol doesn't do anything for me, but Ibuprofin (Advil) works great. Everybody's different. Just tell the doc that it's not doing anything for you.
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Ditto... tylenol doesn't even touch a headache for me, ibuprofin gets me "high" so to speak (wakes me up and shit).

Darvacet worked pretty good for me (wee!), percocet made me sick to my stomach.

OP - I bet if you were taking nothing, you'd probably be in a hell of a lot more pain.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Honestly - how much do you weigh? You may need a bigger dose. But percocet should at least do something to dull it. It won't go away but it should have some affect.
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I'm 6 feet tall, about 190 pounds.

The Percocet is 5mg oxycodone/325mg APAP
The Norco was 7.5mg hydrocodone/200mg Ibuprofin
The Vicodin ES is 7.5 mg hydrocodone/750mg APAP
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
Originally posted by: spidey07
Honestly - how much do you weigh? You may need a bigger dose. But percocet should at least do something to dull it. It won't go away but it should have some affect.
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I'm 6 feet tall, about 190 pounds.

The Percocet is 5mg oxycodone/325mg APAP
The Norco was 7.5mg hydrocodone/200mg Ibuprofin
The Vicodin ES is 7.5 mg hydrocodone/750mg APAP
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When I hurt my back (herniated disk), my doc had me on 20mg hydrocodone per dose, every 4 hours.

What a rollercoaster.

 
From my experience with knee surgery, the pain meds don't really do anything for the pain, they just numb you so you don't care if it hurts.

My ortho had me taking oxycontin 3x daily, norco (2 at a time) 4x daily, and valium every 4 hours...I slept for most of the first two weeks..😀

I'm one of the lucky few who is allergic to any form of vicodan/hydrocodone, codeine, etc...(but surprisingly, oxycodone (percodan, oxycontin) doesn't bother me) so I had to take all that crap with benadryl.

The doc told me, "Bullshit...NO ONE is allergic to hydrocodone. Take the dammed things." The next day after the surgery, I was covered in hives, I was having trouble breathing because my throat was trying to close up...so my wife got me a couple of benadryls and called the doc...who still didn't believe us, so we took a drive over to his office.
"Well, I'll be dammed. You ARE allergic to hydrocodone!" Keep taking it with the benadryl, you'll be fine." (fucker...but he was right.) 😀

As soon as I could tolerate the pain, (the day after I stopped using the CPM machine) I quit taking all the dammed "stupid pills." I still have 2 large bottles of oxycontin, 2 bottles of norco, and a handful of valiums left. (valium I like!) 😉
 
are they not working at all or not enough? when I had the tumor removed from my mouth, the stuff they gave me (forget what it was) took most of the pain away, but not completely.
 
Originally posted by: BoomerD


As soon as I could tolerate the pain, (the day after I stopped using the CPM machine) I quit taking all the dammed "stupid pills." I still have 2 large bottles of oxycontin, 2 bottles of norco, and a handful of valiums left. (valium I like!) 😉
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PM for best buddy request sent.
 
Originally posted by: spidey07
Originally posted by: BoomerD


As soon as I could tolerate the pain, (the day after I stopped using the CPM machine) I quit taking all the dammed "stupid pills." I still have 2 large bottles of oxycontin, 2 bottles of norco, and a handful of valiums left. (valium I like!) 😉
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PM for best buddy request sent.
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can i haz?
 
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
So I injured my knee over the holidays. They gave me Norco at the ER... I took them for a couple weeks straight and still had constant pain. Eventually they were gone and I was still having the same amount of pain, so I concluded that they didn't have any effect. I told my doctor this at my next doctor visit, so he prescribed Vicodin ES and I started taking that. It didn't seem to change the amount of pain I was feeling, just made me tired.

Now I just had arthroscopic knee surgery Tuesday and mentioned to the nurses there that the Vicodin ES didn't do much besides make me tired, so the surgeon wrote me a 'script for Percocet, which I'm now taking and it still doesn't be effecting the pain.

I've never taken narcotics before, so it's not like I have a tolerance for it. They just don't seem to be doing anything for me. Of course I'm going to discuss it all with my doctor (I'm going for my post-op visit tomorrow) but I was curious if anyone here had any input. Am I expecting these drugs to do too much?
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Are you a redhead by any chance? We need more pain med than average to get the desired effect, or so they say.
 
When I had abdominal surgery, vicodin didn't do shit. Supplementing it with ibuprofen worked wonders, however.
 
seriously, though.

In rare cases, seemingly innocuous injuries can lead to permanent nerve damage and the ever-dreaded and extremely vague condition of neuralgia. There are more specific forms, but when such pain persists after surgery, and was only present after the specific injury, it would typically be diagnosed as neuralgia. A simple ankle twist of broken foot can lead sever a nerve, and in such cases, it's the type of pain that medicine simply can't trace.

again, this is an extremely rare occurrence; but I'd be suspicious if you had never had this type of persistent pain before the injury that lead to the surgery. Especially if you have had similar injuries, maybe even surgery, without the pain.
 
yeap. my shoulder has been bothering me again and been given another scription of vicoden ES and its not doing shit. i really don't want to ask for anything more. i am worried they will say im a drug seeker.

but hell i can't even scratch my nose!
 
I have a pain management doc who treats my FUBAR'D back, (epidurals and such) and he's always trying to push pain meds on me. I can have just about any dammed thing I want...all I gotta do is ask.
I politely 'splain that I'm going to skool full time and that I'm stoopid enough on my own...I don't need any chemical help. He smiles at me and sez," OK, but if you change your mind, just call."

From the responses and PM's I've received here, I could fucking retire early if I took him up on his offer! 😀
 
Originally posted by: moshquerade
Originally posted by: Jeff7181
So I injured my knee over the holidays. They gave me Norco at the ER... I took them for a couple weeks straight and still had constant pain. Eventually they were gone and I was still having the same amount of pain, so I concluded that they didn't have any effect. I told my doctor this at my next doctor visit, so he prescribed Vicodin ES and I started taking that. It didn't seem to change the amount of pain I was feeling, just made me tired.

Now I just had arthroscopic knee surgery Tuesday and mentioned to the nurses there that the Vicodin ES didn't do much besides make me tired, so the surgeon wrote me a 'script for Percocet, which I'm now taking and it still doesn't be effecting the pain.

I've never taken narcotics before, so it's not like I have a tolerance for it. They just don't seem to be doing anything for me. Of course I'm going to discuss it all with my doctor (I'm going for my post-op visit tomorrow) but I was curious if anyone here had any input. Am I expecting these drugs to do too much?
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Are you a redhead by any chance? We need more pain med than average to get the desired effect, or so they say.
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I'm not... but I am very white. My friends have joked that I'm so white I'm almost transparent. 😀

Originally posted by: Mr Pickles
How'd you hurt it?
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I twisted it getting into my car at work. Basically planted my left foot and lifted my right leg to get into my car. So I had all my weight on my left leg and I think my foot slipped in the snow/ice/slush... I heard of bunch of popping in my knee and I was laying on the ground. I knew it was bad just from the sound... didn't even sound real... was like a broken bone sound effect from a cartoon or something.
 
I'm still saying dosage, those were pretty low for your mass and their effect. Tell your doc. Personally I'd double them. My mom was an anesthesiologist and she would chuckle at the dosages on schedule 2 narcs - "that ain't gonna do shit for pain" she would say.
 
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