Welp, I collapsed like a dead thing after eating a little something post-ER, and slept for about 10 hours. I have to pee in this toilet-bedpan thing, and (UGH) strain my pee until the stone passes. Before coffee -- THERE'S a recipee for disaster!
Just took my first Percoset. We shall see if it makes me sleepy, nauseated or as crazy as a homicidal clown. I'm voting for pain-free and drowsy.
ETA: I just went back and re-read my posts! My typos WERE crazy!! It took me seriously 15 minutes each to write the on-Dilaudid posts!
Strix, I'm so glad you went to the ER. Feel better.
We are stuck in horrible traffic. First stop when we get there is breakfast. 2nd stop Gorey House!
Connie, I worry about you...
Two hours after taking first Perc:
I feel pretty tired and a little loopy, but unlike the Dilaudid, not blurriness of vision, and the pain I woke with abated after about 45 minutes. I thought I could get some work done on a story today, but I think I can only manage a few easy chores. I was planning on mopping the house yesterday, but, well, that obviously didn't done. And it'll wait for a few more days.
I think I can brainstorm for the story, do a little organizing I can do sitting down, maybe do a few easy crafts, and then finally watch Penny Dreadful and eat a little something.
(I feel chatty and a little lonely right now. Sorry about the constant posting.)
Percoset makes my mother itch like a sonofabitch.
Sometimes the crystals you find are pretty colors, but it can be worrisome to discover your body can produce things that are turquoise. (Hubby switched to filtered water soon after, and the majority of his kidney stones went away. The local water is horribly mineralized. )
I drink filtered water, La Croix seltzer and lot of lemon juice in things. I have no idea why I got stones...
No itching so far. Vicodin and morphine make me itchy, though.
Vicodin made me itchy, but percocet doesn't. I assume it's the hydrocodone (in the vicodin) vs the oxycodone (in the percocet).
Percocet is Oxycodone?! I didn't know that. Wow. Oxy is a crazy-strong narcotic, right? My script is 5/325.
So definitely no driving, chopping veg/fruit or going out on this, right?
Percocet is oxy, yeah. I would say for a kidney stone, you don't fuck around with that kind of pain.
5/325 is the lowest dose, I think. My dad has a lot of diabetic nerve pain and neck pain, and he has an Rx for just oxycodone (no acetaminophen in it) -- the pills are 30 mg. And sometimes he takes 2. I'm fairly certain that should kill him. But he's been taking it so long, he's developed a tolerance like unto Hunter S. Thompson.
I won't lie; it does scare me, how much he takes. But he's got a lot of pain, and he's going to do what he wants to do.
