What makes me sad about the lack of card catalogs is how much you miss. When you slip one of those narrow drawers out and flip through the cards in search of one book, you're introduced to a hundred others. Not so easy to do that in a computerized system.

"Yeah. But I don't really care somehow."

This was me with Valium.

I don't come out of full anesthesia well. It takes many many hours longer than estimated, and I vomit like crazy while still under. I guess that might be morphine? Whatever, no full anesthesia for me again as I'm likely to code.

The non-full anesthesia Verita or whatever it's called is pretty good, but having watched nurses fuck with people on it (another nurse), I get really twitchy about it. I have things in my head that I never want to say out loud.

Poor DH had to get a gum infection worked on with no pain killers. I have no idea how the dentist survived.

I've never been on an anti-malarial, but I understand they give pretty much everyone nasty hallucinations. I did take the prescriped meds for low oxygen when I went to La Paz, but they made my fingertips sparkle, like they were constantly asleep, so I switched to coca tea - much better, if less legal.

The next time they had to put me under, I told the anesthesiologist about the morphine and I came out of anesthesia in much better shape.

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Pretty much every pain med I've ever taken has just put me to sleep. Well, except for Daypro, which gave me the most severe back pain I can ever remember having. Not quite sure why it did what it did, but it made it so that I could barely move my back. The days that I made it to school, I had to go to the nurse's office every other period to lie down. Then there were days I couldn't make it because I couldn't bend my back and shoulders enough to get dressed.

Oh. And there was one med that made my skin turn orange, made me feel nauseated at the sight of food, and made me itch anytime I went in the sun. Also did something to screw up the light sensitivity in my eyes, so that I had to wear sunglasses whenever I went outside. Azulfadine, I think that was. Horrible stuff.

when i started having all of my endometriosis pain and the doctors had no idea what it was, my general practitioner gave me a drug called Ultram. generic name is Tramadol. it was the most wonderful stuff i'd ever had. i could never quite comprehend people getting addicted to pain meds until this pill. it had such a wonderful effect on me. just made me extremely easy-going and apathetic.

Percocet made me sicker than a sicker thing, but it and Meperedine (generic of Mepergan) ended up being my best friends before and after the surgery. of course, with those i had the lovely combo of Phenergan as well.

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That's cool, flea!

When I had my gall bladder out yonks ago, the nurses in pre-op couldn't get a vein to give me the sedative before wheeling me in. I guess it was supposed to be something like the topical the dentist gives before shooting the novacaine. At any rate, I went in stone cold sober, and the anesthesiologist had to smack my arm to give me the Valium, which burned like hell. I do remember telling him that he looked like an egg before I went completely under.

I've only had general twice, and both times recovery was bleary and blah, but no vomiting. I guess my body likes opiates and their cousins. I was very emotional for a few days after the gall bladder surgery, though, and my mom said that was a common side effect of general.

ION, I'm eating popcorn topped with nutritional yeast. Totally didn't expect to like this, but it's pretty good. (I'm trying to avoid butter and sugar for a little while.)

I'm afraid of your toxic spill, Ginger. Try not to breath near it, okay?

I've never been on an anti-malarial, but I understand they give pretty much everyone nasty hallucinations.

It depends on which region you're taking them for (because the local mosquitoes affect the strain of malaria they carry) -- the ones they give you for India are much less hallucinatory than the ones they give you for Africa. (The antimalarials we were given in India were actually a very close cousin of what I was already on for lupus.)

I don't remember the drugs I was on when I had surgery at age 8, but when I had my appendix out I was given a cocktail of Demerol and two other things that made me babble like a crazy person until the sedative kicked in and I fell asleep. I may have still been in pain, but my brain wasn't processing it anymore.