This is stupid. I have been on many of those painkillers over the years and was always able to stop taking them.
This is stupid. I have been on many of those painkillers over the years and was always able to stop taking them.
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Same here. I’m prescribed five 10Mg Vicodin per day, some days I take them, some days I don’t. When the pain gets really bad, I take them.
“This is stupid. I have been on many of those painkillers over the years and was always able to stop taking them.”
Same here. No addition about it.
I’m almost 70. I’ve had two neck fusions, rotator cuff repair, and the re-attachment of four severed tendons in my right hand. (My surgeons agree that I have an active lifestyle.) The severed tendons were, by far, the most painful. Even then, I was off the opioids within a week. I was off the painkillers, other than Tylenol, within 48 hours.
In each surgery, I was usually given a prescription for 60 opioids with two or three renewals. I do think that is over prescribing, but it is a matter of personal discipline too. Problem is, doctors prescribe a pill every four/six hours and give patients enough pills to last several weeks. Patients believe they should follow this instructions so they take the pills for weeks on end. Now we wonder why people become addicted.
So have I. The last surgery I had, I wasn’t given pain killers after I left the hospital. The doc had been in trouble for prescribing too many painkillers was the excuse. It was one of the worst weeks of my life. Consequently, I have put off having surgery that I need out of fear of the recovery period after I leave the hospital. The others procedures I have had prior to that last one, were no big deal thanks to period an, Vicodin, and the like. Shame on the abusers and the idiotic bureaucrats that make the rest of our lives miserable.