jeebus, I started my period today too. 9 days late. I swear, and I'm actually not joking, that I am thisclose to calling my gyn and saying "Fuck it, take out the whole shooting match, it's only 15 years until I need estrogen anyway and I'm not having kids and I have 1 ovary and the whole mess is craxier than evah."

She cut my rx for pain pills, too. 10 Tylenol-3's. I'm all like "Dude. My periods last 7 to 9 DAYS. I am chubby. I have to take two to even FEEL any relief. 10 wee Tylenol-3 WILL.NOT.DO."

I'm thinking about asking her to re-up the Vic. Sure, it made me itch, but that shit made me pain-free. And I don't need brains anyway; I'm all feckless and unemployed right now.

Flexoril saves my life the first two nights of my period, Erin. (I can only take it at night, makes me too stoopid and loopy during the day)

Muscle relaxers, man. Love 'em.

Hmm. I will ask my gyno about it. I don't think I've ever tried muscle relaxers that much. I don't mind loopy at night -- actually a combo of Ty-3 in the day so I can function and utter pain-free stupidity at night is a good deal.

I have to call her anyway to get poked and scanned and...jesus mary, I've had more things up my cooch in the last 6 months than a Thai hooker. I'm really kinda sick of it.

::envies those who can take pain pills::

I mean, I can take them, but only at night because they make me completely stupid. Actually, one Tylenol PM makes me completely stupid. It's a running joke. Flexoril is wonderful as a muscle relaxer, but I only take it very, very rarely since it has the disconcerting habit of making me very weepy and emotional for two days after.

One flexoril. It's pathetic.

I'm thinking about asking her to re-up the Vic. Sure, it made me itch, but that shit made me pain-free.

How do you react to Perc? I get spinny and itchy on the Vic, but Perc just makes me stoned as fuck. As Tep once said, "Duuuuuuuuuuuuuuuude."

I'll trade you, Barb. I've got a ginormous drug tolerance. (Thanks, college!)

I have to take 2 Ambien anymore for them to work, 5 tylenol for a regular headache...but those are all medications I've been taking for years.

My morphine pump after surgery looped me the hell out, which was great since I had a 7 inch gash stapled from hip to hip.

OTOH, if my delicate baby system has caffiene after 1 p.m., she can't sleep without a pill. Stupid legal drug sensitivty.

I'll trade you, Barb. I've got a ginormous drug tolerance.

I am Erin, though it varies by drug. Ambien knocks me out, but nothing else does. Most pain meds don't help me much. Morphine did very little for me during the ruptured cyst ER incident, and Vicoden barely touched the recovery pain.

I'm told there are other classes of pain meds that would probably work better, and I hope that's true if I ever need them again.

I've never taken Percocet. Does it just make you stoned, or does it affect pain? Vic has only made me itch a couple of times, but it makes me stoned AND is great with pain.

Ty-3...well, like I said...I've taken 4 within a 3 hour period (NPI) and still had back and cramping pain. And I feel like I could be sensible and drive and talk to people.

If it doesn't make me droolingly stupid, the painkiller isn't effective.

Kristen, did you just take the rec dosage? I always am prescribed the 1 pill, every 4-6 hours as needed, and I've learned to ignore it with certain pills and just take two, three if it's before bed.

But I'm always very cautious with new drugs. Which was a pain in the ass learning curve with this Ty-3, cause, dude...not so great.

I've never taken Percocet. Does it just make you stoned, or does it affect pain? Vic has only made me itch a couple of times, but it makes me stoned AND is great with pain.

Percocet's stil a -codone, it's just oxycodone insted of hydrocodone (Vicodin). For whatever reason, that formulation works better for me. (Vic makes me itchy, spinny, pukey, etc. No amount of pain-stoppage is worth that.)

(FWIW, and I would nevereverever advise this, I've stopped the worst of my pain by taking a Perc and having a shot of Fernet. Stopped that motherfucker in its TRACKS. Seriously, it was like an iron wall slamming down and the pain couldn't get through.)