Naproxen is my go to for the long-lastingness, but for breakout pain that that doesn't touch, I find Tylenol more immediately effective. Once I remember that there are things you can take for pain, which usually takes me a while.

I find Tylenol more immediately effective

Lies! They are evil placebos!

Seriously, I think it's interesting how different people respond to different meds. I find that shit fascinating.

I generally take Naproxen for pain of all types because I have it handy to ward off incoming migraines. Never touch Tylenol these days because it doesn't help avert them, only numbs the pain a bit once they hit (and if I'm going to slowly kill my liver, it's at least going to be with something that leaves me migraine-free).

My doctor told me to take Ibuprofen for tendon and joint pain, but it never seems to occur to me that I can actually do that when there's a bottle handy nearby. Happy to say tendonitis in my ankle has stopped bothering me since I lost some weight though. (The one thing an episode of depression is good for!)

See, tendinitis is another thing it never occurs to me that I could take ibuprofin (or anything else) for. I'm just all, well, that hurts a lot, guess I should get used to it.

I'm just all, well, that hurts a lot, guess I should get used to it.

Not me. First twinge and I'm reaching for the ibuprofen bottle. Considering how much I downed in my 20s it's amazing I even have kidneys left.

Hey, Megyn Kelly has learned that blackface is wrong and she feels really bad and cried about it so the world has been fixed.

I just opened an article to edit, and it is, for real, on the use of a restrictive opioid prescribing protocol after OB/GYN and abdominal surgery. Coincidence or spooky shit? You be the judge.

What percentage of your articles are about opioid protocols at this point? I would imagine more than 10 years ago, at least.

Man, I was just re-reading stuff written by my PITA ex-staff member, and I am SO GLAD she's in law school now! It's got to be the right place for her. So litigious all the time.

What percentage of your articles are about opioid protocols at this point? I would imagine more than 10 years ago, at least.

Definitely more than 10 years ago, but still fewer than you might think (just because there's so much other medical stuff getting published, so the percentage is diluted).

Lol, Jesse, I suppose that's good! But yay not having to deal anymore. One of the reasons I'm not looking forward to going back to work is my project manager I work closely with is a dude I really like, but he's gotten a new job in the company and is leaving. His replacement is someone I worked with briefly before, who I recall as being ok, but not great.

Steph, how many opioids did they say to give people post surgery? Or what's the restrictive part? I didn't take any at all yesterday and was fine (well, possibly shitty-feeling from withdrawal? I took four on Monday because I was in a lot of pain). Today I just took half of one, a bit ago, because I'm having these stabbing pains in my heel. Not sure if that's "yay the blood is flowing to there and shit is healing" or a sign of "oops the screws or pins have slipped or are infected" or what, but it's making me crazy. Hoping the oxy will help.

Normally I go for naproxen because my migraine doc told me to take it, but sometimes I really feel like aspirin does the trick, even though I feel like nobody takes it these days.