most prescription pain meds' side effects are worse for me than the pain.
I have horrible side effects with morphine. The only good thing is that it also knocks me out cold, so I only experience the side effects for about 20 minutes. But, those 20 minutes suck.
Demoral (sp?) on the other hand is quite lovely.
Vicodin doesn't do much for me. Valium is nicely relaxing.
Despite what I just wrote, I don't take painkillers (beyond regular Tylenol) that often. I still have some vicodin from my root canal 2 years ago.
Demerol! That's the one that doesn't play nice with my brain.
Aren't bodies just so weird...
Demoral makes me sick like a sick thing.
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Demerol! That's the one that doesn't play nice with my brain.
I think my exact words to the nurse who gave me demerol was, "Demerol is my new best friend." It was so lovely.
Morphine made me EXTEMELY paranoid. Like whoa paranoid. Not. Fun.
Aren't bodies just so weird...
Yes. And, if I remember correctly, can be a lot of fun, too, but that's been a while and I could be wrong.
I believe that Demorol was the only pain med they gave me when I had K-Bug. I remember feeling the pain, but not caring about it. As in "Wow, another contraction. Gosh, that really hurts" all said in a level voice.
Yeah, my first reaction when they asked me if I still hurt post-Demerol injection was, "Yeah. But I don't really care somehow." The paranoia came later. Didn't take long though. Well, I don't think so. Time stopped being exactly linear.
Pain management is tricksy.
Cass, that probably explains my roommate's reaction in the hospital. Demerol is all the Navy hospital gives and she was talking about how much it messed her up. I had forgotten about that and was young enough at the time that I didn't realize how differently some folks can react to the same meds.
Morphine makes me itch.
Injected Demerol gives my husband hallucinations and convulsions. That was fun to watch. He's a fan of Percoset.
When I was in labor with Ben, they gave me a shot of something, before I ended up taking the epidural. I want to say it was something like Fenergan? I don't think I got nubain, but I can't remember. It took the edge off, but it seems to me that it more made me not care about the pain than not feel it.
The house is all but de-Christmassed. Dh is vacuuming. I found one ornament after all the others were packed away, in the attic. It was cute, but had no sentimental value, so tossed it out.
Dh just found a piece of our nativity set (the manger and all the figurines are unpainted wood. Mary, the baby Jesus, and the Kings are pretty obvious. It's harder to tell if this was a shepherd or Joseph). Fortunately, that box wasn't away, yet.
I'm waiting to find a gajillion forgotten items, tomorrow. If any forgotten items are not sentimental, and provided I can do so without being caught and guilt-tripped, they'll go in the trash, too.
