Posted on 02/16/2023 9:00:24 PM PST by anthropocene_x
I fractured the tibia in my right knee about a year ago. My knee went out on me while I was putting my old iMac in the back seat of the car. Thankfully I'd made it down three flights of stairs, and got it into the car before it gave out. I got in the car, and despite the pain I drove to the computer shop, then remembered I had an old cane in my trunk. I managed to get up the stairs to the shop, and asked them if they could bring the computer in for me. By the time I got home, my knee had swelled up like a balloon...just not a Chinese balloon. It was worse pain than any surgery I'd had. I didn't know it was fractured until about 3 weeks later when I was finally able to see an orthopedic specialist. I took nothing then either, not even Tylenol. I have to take so many other medications for my health problems, that I hate taking any additional pills.
I took opioids after my hip replacement.
Opiates are safer (if you’re not allergic) than Tylenol. And it’s now found tons dangerous to the brains of the unborn, when for 30 years pregnant women were told it was the only safe pain reliever to take in pregnancy
There is no reason to blindly trust doctors.
Vicodin is hydrocodone combined with acetaminophen. Long-term use can cause dependency and really mess up your liver.
Acetaminophen doesn’t do squat for me. For bad pain ibuprofen at 800mg works for the most part but I hate taking that much.
Vicodin doesn’t do anything for pain either
That’s why they have oxycodone with no Tylenol. Basically, Percocet with out the Tylenol That’s what they gave me during cancer treatment. I couldn’t take ibuprofen as it thins the blood and my platelets were dangerously low, needing platelet transfusions. And it wasn’t healthy to take that much Tylenol everyday.
They destroy your liver so you won’t get hooked on painkillers.🙄
It often comes with codeine over the counter or did in the 80s
8mg codeine and 500mg Tylenol
Jamaica etc too
Why did they stop using aspirin and oxycodone in percodan
And now Tylenol instead in Percocet
Aspirin far better synergistic efficacy
A large man will likely have liver emergency or Tylenol toxicity from Tylenol in huge doses from too many percocets in a day than the opiate itself
I could easily survive 250mg of oxycodone over 24 hours at 240 pounds and mild acclimation
I’ve taken 160mg after open heart and sternal resection which ain’t for sissies
A procedure more than usual open heart
25 percs is 12,500 mg of Tylenol which is 1.7 times toxic dose benchmark
Our govt so screws up pain meds for an aging pop
They were not in our kool aid when I was young except for recreational drugs
They couch it in good intentions but it’s all about the cash flow to the states to enforce it
The VA won’t give anything, especially if you are over 65.
I watched some buddies downing Tylenol by the handful to relieve hangovers. I tried to explain why this was probably a really bad idea.
Aspirin was found to rarely cause a condition called Reyes syndrome in children, so it has almost disappeared from pharmacopoeia, sadly. Younger health professionals look at you like you’re from Mars if you ask for it.
This article authors apparently believe we have no knowledge that Rx strength Tylenol for major pain has indeed been a thing for quote some time (Tylenol 3 anyone?) and Rx strength Tylenol (acetaminophen) was and is normally pared with the opioids in those pills - it was discussed whether or not one may be relieving the pain more than the other. Opioids are only for short term use and breakthrough pain.
Thank you all, there were some sage words written here tonight.
Tylenol alone worked fine for me after every major surgery... except one. I screamed in pain for the opioid after that one.
Hospital started me on fentanyl which didn’t work, and then put me on oxycodone which definitely relieved the pain but made me have big time hallucinations.
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My wife had exact opposites of your experience, Fentanyl patches gave her extreme paranoia and hallucinations and opiates gave her some relief from pain while in physical rehab.
Ask for Norco and gabapentin. Better than Tylenol alone. Nanny state interference in the medical treatment of pain has become downright criminal. We can be sure these SOBs have no intention of having them own pain managed in their last days with Tylenol alone.
THEIR own pain
After emergency abdominal surgery I was given a grand total of six ‘loritab’ pills when I was discharged. The doctors would not renew the prescription. Six tablets is two days. One does not recover from the pain of emergency invasive abdominal surgery in two days. They are indeed paralyzed by the media driven scare of “opioid crisis.”
Try a middle ear infection or post hernia surgery on Tylenol. Thankfully in both incidents I was given Vicodin and I never became addicted.
My doctor of 20+ years will give me Hydrocodone if I ask for it to have on hand “just in case”. I just got some last month, but I see that my last bottle of 15 tablets was from 2020.
I use to take it like candy 30 years ago for an issue and it helped with the pain and no goofy stuff (I still worked, etc.)
Now it helps with the pain but I get really bad nightmares (I only take it at bedtime now). The nightmares really limit how much I want to take it anymore, I’d rather have the pain. Thankfully it isn’t for anything too chronic.
I had them remove my pain pump immediately after major surgery and give me IV Tylenol.
I don’t do opioids well. They are like taking speed.
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