HOLY COW, this is my first experience with vicoden

[Blue Diadem]

Instant pain relief..

I was finally able to eat something for the first time today..although I keep having to correct my typos and my arms kinda feel like jelly.

WooHoo :woohoo: I'll be able to sleep tonight..I'll be able to sleep tonight. :woohoo:

[xchrom]

1. ya know -- i get nothing -- nothing from vicoden.

well, i puked on it once.

give me percocet.

[LostinVA]

2. My sister and I become psychotic on opiates

And, I mean that literally: it causes psychotic state in us. So, no pain meds unless, basically, we're in restraints in the hospital.

Thank the gods I have a high pain tolerance.

[Blue Diadem]

4. Oh, that's kinda scary isn't it? n/t

[LostinVA]

5. Yes -- it happened to me when I took Vicoden when I was 22

It's why I understand -- if only a little -- what someone like Andrea Yates went through.

I was in my apartment after having my wisdom teeth out, and there was an invisible man in the apartment, walking around, whispering to himself, pulling a knife in and out of a sheath -- I could hear it. I could feel him brush by me, hear his footsteps, see him sit on the couch. It was horrible. It was REALITY, not a drug hallucination where you know it's just a really bad trip. After who knows how long -- and hour, five, I called my mom who said, "I'm calling your doctor NOW."

[Blue Diadem]

7. OMG that would be frightening

Your story reminds me of something my Mom told me..once when she was given pain meds in the hospital, she saw the entire room become filled with snakes. She said even the Dr. had snakes on him. At least she was in the hospital where it could be taken care of, but my goodness, in your situation that put you at tremendous risk.

[LostinVA]

12. It truly sucked

That's why, when people uneducated about psychosis spout off about Andrea Yates, I always jump right in there. I had just a teeny tiny example of what she went through for a very long time.

Needless to say, my mom called back and said to flush the drugs ASAP, and that a friend of mine was on the way over... my parents lived about 200 miles away then. My friend had seen me really messed up before (drunk and drugs), and she said the sight of me scared her to death.

Ugh.

[Patiod]

47. Our friend had HORRIBLE hallucinations on morphine

On the funny side, she asked us "did you two come in here this afternoon with The Little Rascals? No? I told them they didn't know you!"

On the scarier side, she called us at home at 1am a few nights later, after ripping out her lines, crying hysterically. "There's something evil walking the hallways!! And I think I might have just pulled out my lines, because I'm bleeding!!!" We rushed over, and got the night crew to help her (they were busy with a dying patient on the floor) My SO told her he was going to "take care" of the Thing that was walking the halls - that it wouldn't dare mess with him.

The nurses told us that a lot of cancer patients (stem-cell TP patients in particular) have psychotic breaks from the morphine and the infection-preventative enforced isolation.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

8. Jesus--I am so happy that doesn't happen to me.

[LostinVA]

14. I know, then how would you get rid of your "headaches"?

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

15. It would totally suck.

[LostinVA]

17. Even Democracy can't get rid of headaches

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

19. Nope. The pills will probably be coming out later since my ovaries are

trying to escape currently. It's not fun.

[LostinVA]

22. Poor little Punkmallow

If I were there I'd feed you Peskyterian marshmallows and tell you stories about my trail running until you felt better.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

24. Okay, as long as the marshmallows were made from real marshes.

:rofl:

[LostinVA]

27. They will be, sweetpea, I promise

From reeds, and cattails, and stuff like that... they are REAL marshmallows, just like we make them in the Mid-Atlantic states.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

28. You are in the SOUTH!

[LostinVA]

29. Foolish Peskyterian...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

30. Misguided former mid-atlantican.

[LostinVA]

42. Current Mid-Atlanticer

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

44. Captain Obvious strikes again!

[xchrom]

11. sigh -- i have a high tolerance for drugs.

[Blue Diadem]

3. I didn't expect it to work

Years ago I chipped a bone in my nose and was given tylenol 3 with codeine. It didn't do a darn thing for the pain, it just made me so goofy that I didn't care that my nose throbbed and my head hurt.

I've never had percocet.

[xchrom]

18. oh percocet is yummy.

if you have some bad pain again -- see if you can request it.

[Jamastiene]

6. Wheeeeeee!!!!

Aren't good pain relievers just the best? When you suffer from any sort of pain, having good pain relief is truly priceless, but if it's back pain or migraines, it's beyond priceless if you can find something that works. That's the deal with me. I rarely get good pain relief.

Let's sit across from each other and use a spoon to thump pills toward each other. For each time one of us can ring the other one's mouth, we both drink. For each time we don't, we drink anyhow. That sounds like a fun game. I'm not even loaded and I think like this. Imagine what I'd be like loaded? :evilgrin:

Glad you got some pain relief, btw. :pals:

[Blue Diadem]

10. This is the first time in a long time I have absolutely no pain

anywhere. It's absolutely wonderful.

I hope you're able to find something that works when you have pain. I normally live with back pain..not every day but more days with it than without. Old injuries, accidents etc have taken their toll. This tooth thing last night and today though was the worst.


I'd be awful with the spoon thumping. Could I use my dog to thump the spoon instead..he's really good at it..especially if it's on a plate.

[Jamastiene]

26. That'll do.

We'll thump food at each other. I like to play the game with food too. :P

[Taverner]

9. I love vicodin

It could become very easy for me to be an opiate addict.

I just love that warm safe feeling the stuf gives me.

[Blue Diadem]

13. I can see how people can become addicted to this stuff

It would be easy..

[LostinVA]

16. I understand how people become addicted to nitrous oxide

I LOVE when the dentist gives it to me. I'm like, "Getting my teeth cleaned stresses me out -- can I have nitrous?" No, not really... but I lurve it! Like a really good, clean weed high.

[Blue Diadem]

20. I've never had nitrous oxide

They usually have to give me extra shots cause I'm hard to numb. Is Nitrous oxide something you can request?

[LostinVA]

23. I have for things that make me REALLY nervous

My first dentist (three years old) was literally a bit of a sociopath... so, I'm petrified of dentists to this day. They still shoot you up, but trust me, they could come in and pull out all your teeth and, if you were on nitrous, you'd just sing and giggle.

Then -- BAM. They put oxygen in your airway and you're sober.

[Patiod]

48. NO gives me a headache, but my dentist insists

ever since I bit him once.

Best Dentist in America, bar none. God bless him that he still treats me, even if he does insist that I'm drugged.

[ellisonz]

40. You can't become "addicted" to nitrous oxide...

However, you can buy it commercially along with the neccessary items to ingest...good buys.

[LostinVA]

43. You can become "addcited" to nitrous

[AllegroRondo]

46. I'm allergic to novacaine, I get nitrous all the time

it doesnt stop the pain so much as make you not care about it.

[mark414]

21. it is pretty awesome...too bad my damn doctor won't give it to me anymore

though even before the vicodin they were giving me percocet...which is much better

but now i get neither :cry:

it takes at least a couple months of taking it to get addicted though...

[ncrainbowgrrl]

32. vicodin makes me break out with MAJOR acne and hives.

Yuck. I didn't break out as a teenager- all of a sudden, my face was zit-central!

[ScreamingMeemie]

38. It depends on the personality... I've been on a standing sript for

about 3 years...and sometimes it just sits and rots in the cupboard.

[Shine]

25. I could do a commercial for it, seriously.

make sure you drink lots and lots of water, though, because it can cause MAJOR constipation. Trust me, I know.... :hurts:

:D

[ncrainbowgrrl]

31. I will second this very wise advice!

Keep it up with the fluids.

On that note, I'm going to down another glass of water- I'm still on percocet and muscle relaxers due to a car accident. . .

[Blue Diadem]

34. I hope you feel better soon. n/t

[Blue Diadem]

33. Oh my..thanks for that advice..

The last thing I'd need are my hemorrhoids to flare up from that!

[ScreamingMeemie]

36. It will also dry out your mouth and cause cavities rather quickly.

I'm on a standing script (and wish it gave me the happiness it gives others) and I can't keep up with the cavities anymore.

[REP]

41. I Wish.

What exactly is this "constipation"? I was having to take 20mg of hydorcodone every 2 hours for a toothache a few days ago, and I STILL had to take Lomotil. Hydrocodone doesn't make me sleepy, either; just the opposite, so I can't take it before bedtime (if I want to sleep, that is).

[Scout1071]

35. I was once given something really powerful in an ER.

My mom, Patty, was with me and I said "Hey Fatty, I think the Kain Pillers are kicking in."

[ScreamingMeemie]

37. Hahahahaha....

I bet it was Vercet (sp)...I become a total goof on that... The whole world is wonderful... and I need to grab MrG's hand and tell him how much I love him...and how everything is going to be just FINE FINE FINE...

I totally embarass the hell out of my family when I'm in the hospital. One time I woke up, saw a flower arrangement and truly thought I was dead. :hi:

[Patiod]

49. Oh God, I'm glad Versaid isn't available on the street

Best. Drug. Ever.

Damn, the world looks so good --- right before you're pretty much out like a light.

[Blue Diadem]

39. .

:rofl:

[MissMillie]

45. If I eat after taking vicoden

I usually :puke: I also fall down--lose all sense of balance.

I have to stick w/ percocet.