To bad we don't have 2 livers if one gets shot.

For real!

Took a bunch after some dental work. Didn't feel a thing.

Only had them 2-3 times & they didnt seem to help at all.

Oxycontin on the other hand...i was given two 3-4 years ago while having a bad day at work...its easy for me to see how Favre, Limbaugh etc. got hooked on them...floating around on air, quite high, but every thought was crystal clear, no stumbly stuff, i didnt feel at all 'drugged'. It passed easily in a professional environment & actually helped my work attitude.

Morphine makes kidney stones fun.

Word to the wise - long term vicodin use? Buy some OTC stool softeners. Or you'll be like the accountant with a broken calculator...you'll have to sit down and work things out with a pencil.

My right leg would go numb, but I felt tingling in both.

It's kinda ironic, everyone told me to only have surgery as a last resort but now that I have had it, I wish I would have done it a lot sooner. I feel about 80% better.

Doctors have me on Vicodin and Flexeril for a strained muscle. Was constipated for 4 days and finally just pooped. Felt good to poop again.

The vicodins really help my pain. I only need to take 1.

Pain meds ? Never heard of them.:rolleyes:

I need the following surgeries, you tell me what you think I'm on ?
Back L-5
Both knee
Rotator cuff
Bone spurs on both feet

Plus arthritis in every joint
Severe Veracious veins in the legs & feet
Kidney stones, again......

Between the wife and I our house resembles a warehouse for all the local pharmacies.

You keep taking them... you'll need more than 1.

Double or triple flush? Or did you need the plunger?

I've been on oxycodone for a long time now. Being dependent on them really sucks. A couple months ago some turd burglar stole a bunch of my pills. I had to go a week or more without anything and it really wasn't any fun. It's like having the flu sorta but not being able to sleep, being depressed as all hell, and not having the energy or mindset to do a damn thing.

Oh snap, no freaking way I could do that. I would have to make a trip to the ER nightly to get to sleep, working during the day would be a major, major issue.

Living on 4 - 10 mgs oxycodone & 4 - 800 Nuerotin isn't enough to kill the pain, going without anything would be suicide for me. Too much pain in so many areas t combat without some type of help.

Are you serious?

Very intense pain. It is more than necessary.

my dad has to take pain meds for his legs, cause he's diabetic, he's always saying his legs hurt, but now he smokes weed and he says it takes the pain completely away. its a good thing, because he was hurting bad.

Damn this is pretty funny. I had tendonitis in my foot and they gave me Vicodin. It didnt work for shit. I took upped my dosage to 3 pills, still nothing. They've always been worthless to me.

Flexeril are ****ing worthless. Seriously.

Yes

True


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Asshole probably ended up having to call maintenance.

No it does not. But a less potent narcotic tramadol does a lot for me. Its just how my body metabolizes them. Oxycontin and Tramadol are similar for me.

You're lucky, because tramadol possesses a fraction of the addictive potential of true opiates (as you probably know).

be careful. opiates and alcohol have a synergistic effect and the acetaminophen and alcohol combination is very hard on your liver.

edit: nevermind this has all been covered

Interesting and very timely subject for me.

I jacked up my knee a month ago and I am going to need surgery. The thing that scares me the most is hAving to take pain pills. I have never taken anything stronger than plain ol tylenol or Motrin. I've had my wisdom teeth pulled and some of my female parts taken and I did not take pain pills after those surgeries. I'm gathering howeve, after a full ACL replacement and miniscus clean up, I'm going to need pain pills. Vicodeine is what my doctor told me he was going to subscribe.

I'm even looking into medical marijuana as an alternative. I really don't want to take pain pills. Shit makes me nervous. I don't want to get sick cuz that would suck right after knee surgery, and I don't want to fall in love with them either. I have an addictive personality.

The whole idea just sucks....

I read that tramadol has some seriously ****ed up side effects. Scared me.

When my dr gave me pain killers for temp back condition he told me that
if the pain pills bother your stomach you don't need them anymore and he was right.
When in agony you don't notice the upset stomach.
I have an addictive personality too but that guide line made it easy to know when to stop.
Weed and vicodin = Win
The weed will take the edge off the stomach discomfort.
Not either but both.

Same here. 3 times and never did they work or make me drowsy. I'm pretty sure I still have all 3 bottles somewhere...almost filled to the topo.

Really? I'd be curious to see that information. Everything I know about it is that it's a safer, preferred alternative to opiates. The problem is that it's not nearly strong enough for a lot of people suffering from chronic pain. I have two different relatives who take it fairly regularly, though, so I'd be interested in seeing these side effects. Most sources say that it has few side effects, and that they're rare.

Vicodin + 800mg Ibuprofen should help but ask your Doc


10 mg hydro works for me

I have an addictive personality and after my knee surgery I was prescribed oxys. What I found is, only use these pills when you're in dire need of the pain relief. Your mind can occasionally "flare up" the pain insisting that you take more pills, but just self evaluate and be certain that you need that pill.

By keeping it in check that way I always felt that I was in control of the med, not the other way around, so when it came time to stop I had no issues.

Good luck on your surgery. :thumb:

I don't think you need to worry about it. If you have legitimate, short-term pain like you'll have after a surgery, you won't get addicted to the pain killers unless you want to. Just take them until the pain gets to a tolerable level and then switch to over-the-counter meds or nothing at all.

Vicodin does nothing for me. Works for some people. Just keeps me awake with the pain. Threw my leftovers down the toilet. Now Percs, those work.

Fortunately for all that ails me, I must wait till something blows out to get it repaired or wait until ObamaCare kicks in. My doctor advised me its going to be a long time before I will get the surgeries done to stop the pain.

In the meantime, they ( ObamaCare ) want me to scale down and live in more pain. No crap, we will be looking for alternative ways ( which is good for the body ) to combat the pain, but that I will have to live in more pain than I do now by taking less narcotics.

They want to do this with my wife, a bed ridden woman terminally ill on 2 x 80 mg of oxcycotin daily,4 x 10mg oxcycodone, 3 x 800mg nuerotin. This is what piss's me off about the ObamaCare crap.

They need to get their crap together. We both have to go in for a narcotic examination, a $ 250.00 mandatory evaluation to continue getting our medication this month.


$ 500.00 from a poor middle class family that I do not have the funds in these tough times. If we miss the appointments, they cut us off,if we can't pay, they cut us off.

What was that CRAP about HEALTH PANELS ?

That's QUALITY HEALTH CARE at it's finest, it's OBAMACARE FOR AMERICANS.

Vicodin works great for me. Was on it for about a month because of 2nd almost 3rd degree burns. Quit cold turkey with no problems.

Vicodin is minor league. I took that stuff for back pain once and it did nothing.

What was first thought to be a super severe toothache and turned out to be Trigeminal Neuralgia it worked for a few hours but I had to pop two.

I did notice it made my sex drive go sky high which is bad since I want it multiple times a day anyway. I even ended up calling up a psychologist since it was starting to cause problems in my relationship not knowing that it was a side effect of the drug and using them on a daily basis.

Now I'm a freak when it comes to pills. I don't like the idea at all. Heres what I read...

http://www.drugs.com/sfx/tramadol-side-effects.html

Vics work OK for me. Percs = much better.

Really? Increased your sex drive? That's interesting...

Pain Meds effect people differently.
For some, they act as an upper and for others a downer.

For instance; Tramadol is considered a very moderate pain reliever even sold over the counter in other parts of the world. To a lot of people it may not even be felt, but for some reason my body reacts VERY nicely to it.

I'm currently using it with Tylenol for a knee replacement I just had. Nothing else would touch the pain. This stuff works great!

really sucks when you are allergic to all these great meds you guys have brought up!!!!

Guess I'll take my green death flavor Nyquil for everything!

Be careful mixing vicodin and tylenol. Vicodin already has tylenol in it so you've got to account for that double dosing.

Does it just make you itch or is it a more severe reaction?

No way worse. I shattered my right arm in 14 places and they gave me Codiene when I got to the hospital.

Throat swelled up, couldn't breathe, hives.. pretty scary..

I don't take pain meds.
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Yikes

Yeah, I was throwing a football (right handed) the oncoming defender put up his hands and pushed my elbow the opposite direction...

snap, crackle, pop... arm dangled.. bicep went forward while my elbow went backwards... talk about some PAIN.... :eek:

Picked up my arm with my left and said "I gotta go".....

It was tough, no doubt, but a lot of it is mental. Like I think when I'm out of meds my brain makes the pain seem more than it is just because I'm out of the meds. As far as the withdrawals, that's mostly just mental too. See I'm not a big fan of the pills so part of me was kinda refreshed to be off of them for a while.

THIS

Overdosing Tylenol will mess your liver up

Endorphin increase = Increased sex drive.

I would love to be able to stop taking them, I have no pain tolerance in my later years. When I was younger I could go without it, just too weak now having been on them for 17 years.

With no insurance, I hope this ObamaCare is as good as the Obots are harping about. With all of the pre-exsisting conditions I have, I could be a case study for a group of young doctors.

That's what I use to say. Then they cut a 9" path down the center of my chest and replaced my arotic valve with a mechanical one.

When I woke about 4-5 hours later and for the next 5 months I was begging for anything they would give me.

I was only 46 years old and the Dr. told the nurses, you have to remember most of the patients we do open heart surgery on the days their nerves in their chest are already dead and have no feeling (Thanks) this guy is young enough, he is still feeling everything. Give him more TLC.

Bleh feeling depressed. Been on Vicodin + Flexiril for 3 days. I'm not taking anymore starting tomorrow.

Go get a real doc. If you still have pain pills are not the answer. Go to Orthopedic Institute in OP.

booze and Viocodin, give a buddy bail money