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.
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Oh, great. Now I'm in lust for yet another piece of furniture I have no practical use for...
eta: I'm not sure about the pipe, Cindy. There is corrosion. I guess I'll clean it off and see if there are any leaks.
Be careful. Open a window, and maybe just use plain water to clean?
Yay on de-Christmasing! I thought we were the only people left with a tree up. Stephen is promising to do it today. We shall see. The lure of football is strong, apparently.
We spent New Year's Day ripping up the carpet in the dining room and hallway, and decided we wanted to keep the tree up through Ephiphany, anyhow. Last weekend we were just too flat out to take it down and put it away. The game he most cares about starts at 4:30, so he's still got a few minutes. He's putting the last set of boxes up in the attic, now. I've got to start supper, but I'm not sure how I'm going to drag them away from the game, to get them to eat. Hmmm. Maybe we'd better talk about that, before I cook for no reason.
Phenergan is just a powerful anti-nausea drug, not a painkiller.
Maybe I didn't get it, or maybe they did give me Nubain or something, then. I only got the shot with Ben's delivery. They were too late, altogether with Chris, to even start my epi, and they started and immediately shut off my epi, with Julia. I loved the shot, whatever it was.
Is Demorol the thing they give you as a shot in the ass, pre-surgery?
(The antimalarials we were given in India were actually a very close cousin of what I was already on for lupus.)
What do you take, Jess, if you don't mind me asking? My mom has been taking Immuran (sp? it's the anti-rejection drug patients get after transplants) for a long time, but they're thinking of switching that. Other that that it's drugs that work more for specific symptoms and side effects than for the lupus itself.
What do you take, Jess, if you don't mind me asking?
I was on Plaquinel for about 6 years, but tapered off about 4 years ago since I'd been asymptomatic for so long. Right now I'm not on anything, but my OB's been doing monthly blood tests just in case.
I forget the name of the antimalarial -- some other relative of quinine. Possibly started with an H.
