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I took (53) Oxycodone tablets, 5 mg each, since my surgery on January 13, 24 days ago. Divide 53 by 22, since I quit taking Oxy 2 days ago, you get 2.4 tablets a day. At first I was only taking 1 or 2 day, probably because I was still full of the anesthetics from surgery, but a week later I was up to 3 and then 4 tablets a day. A week after surgery I dropped down to 2 tablets a day.
The instructions on the bottle say
TAKE 1 TO 2 TABLETS BY
MOUTH EVERY 4 TO 6 HOURS
AS NEEDED FOR PAIN
At 2 tablets every 4 hours, my bottle of 40 tablets would only last 3 days.I guess different people have different pain nerves.
Middle of last week I would start feeling cold 6 to 8 hours after I took an Oxy. Found if I took another Oxy the cold went away. Now I am beginning to suspect maybe I should stop the Oxy, so I did, and for two days I couldn't sleep for shit, so I started the Oxy again and two days later, about 9PM, I started feeling cold, colder then I have ever felt, even when I was at winter camp with the Boy Scouts, back in 1963. I spent the night camped out in the recliner in front of the gas fireplace, piled high with blankers. OK, that's it, no more Oxy.
That was two days ago and I am finally starting to feel human.
When I went in for my two week checkup, a week ago, I got a refill script for Oxy. When I was filling in the intake form I selected Walgreens on Cornell as my pharmacy. Well, it's on Cornell, if you forget that Cornell makes two 45 degree bends before it gets to the Walgreens on 10th. So we went to the Walgreens on 10th and Baseline, waited in line at the drive up window for 15 minutes, only to be told we were at the wrong pharmacy.
Huh, here I thought a script was a script. I mean you have to pick up prescriptions for narcotics in person at the doctor's office and then hand carry it to the pharmacy. I'd never seen a script like this, it was printed in color on some fancy paper, it was almost like the title to a car. Great, now we get to drive four miles to the Walgreens on Cornell and dropped off the script.
It was going to be a 20 minute wait so we went and had dinner at the Copper River restaurant. This place has kind of weird layout. The front door opens on to Cornell Road. It's 35 feet away from the curb, so you aren't stepping into traffic. Meanwhile, it's 100 feet from the parking lot. I suspect this is because of the plague of cuteness infecting city planning. Somebody has got the idea that everyone is going to walk everywhere and no one is going to drive cars anymore so we need big fat sidewalks and no parking for automobiles. I'll give them that it's cute, but it's also very stupid.
After dinner we head back to Walgreens to pick up the script, and miracle of miracles, they have all the paperwork in order so all I have to do is identify myself. Did I have to show my driver's license? Don't remember, probably.
There were some times early on when I would get into a very pleasant dream state. I would like to go there again, but not at the risk of feeling cold as ice.
6 comments:
Lol, guess you never got in to recreational drugs
Try Tilidin instead
A year ago I visited family clear across country. My stay was longer than the every month supply of pain Rx. My Dr was able to send the scrip to that location.
Now back at home, the scrip for a one month supply continued going to pharmacy clear across the country. This even though I had notified the Dr office and the Dr himself. This went on for four months running.
No, they couldn't write me a new scrip. The Dr, only the Dr, had to call via telephone - no other electronic means allowed - to cancel the errant scrip, await confirmation, only then write a new scrip. That resulted in a delay of one week, or more, each month.
But wait. The chain pharmacy, CVS, I use wouldn't fill the scrip just yet. They questioned why the change. To clear that up, the Dr, only the Dr, had to confirm the pertinent details and only to the supervising pharmacist. That took about another week.
The med in question is an opiod, a controlled medication. I get that, but you'd think I was up to some real bad skulduggery.
I very much dispise taking a pill. I hate it and the OVs and the whole rigamarole. But writhing in pain, grumpy all the day, not able to sleep isn't preferred either.
I used to praise advanced in medicine. I should still,I suppose. But whatwith chronic pain I'm too deep into it and I have come to see the ugly racket it is.
Opioids were enjoyable when I was a kid, but all they do now is keep me comfortably awake staring at the walls. Sleep is far more important. I took none for either of my hip surgeries. Glad you're off them ASAP.
Wait a minute, you walked across the parking lot to get your opioids and are driving around town in a car? You can't have enough pain to justify them, ya doper.
400-600 mg of ibuprofen taken at the same time as 500 mg acetaminophen (Tylenol) is the equivelent of 5 mg of hydrocodone plus tylenol. It's non addictive, over the counter, and lasts about 6 hours so you can take it 4 times a day.. No scrip, no signature. Check with your doc if you have diminished kidney or liver function, and obviously don't take it forever. The combo has been well studied and the efficacy verified vs Norco (hydrocodone) multiple times. NB: oxycodone (not hydrocodone) is a bit stronger and more addictive.
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