Some thoughts about opiates

[violachic]

1) While I totally understand why pharmacies need the person for whom the prescription is written to pick it up and show ID, it does seem sort of contrary to why a person would be prescribed such drugs in the first place. Meaning that if I'm in enough pain to have been prescribed this to begin with, it seems silly to have to drag my ass out of the house in order to get the pills that will make the pain go away.

2) They told me at the doctor's on Tuesday that since two pills totally knock me out, to try only taking one, and seeing if that minimizes the pain without knocking me out. Guess what- nope! I'm about to fall off my chair. Can't believe I can still type.

3) They give me weird dreams, so I have to manage what I read/see/talk about right before I fall asleep, or less-than-benign things will cause my dreams to get really twisted. To help combat this, I've taken to reading the most benign children's book I own- about three orphan girls who go to ballet and stage school, in 1930s London- as I'm falling asleep. So far, it seems to have done the trick. Sci-fi=BAD, as do most movies.

4) How come it still hurts where the cat scratched and bit me about an hour ago? They should put a disclaimer on the bottle, right next to the one about operating heavy machinery, that says something like "don't play 'poke the cat' under the influence of this drug, because YOU WILL LOSE!"

Comments

[fille-de-livre.livejournal.com]

Funny about Canada, Tylenol and Cough Syrup with Codeine are OTC. Gotta love those wacky Canadians.

[fille-de-livre.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, I forgot to comment on comment 3 and 4. When I was on vicodin, for a broken rib. I spent my Shakespeare class playing "kill the imaginary spiders", so I know what you mean about the weird dreams. And I just found Ballet Shoes while I was cleaning and re-read it. I love that book.

[robling-t.livejournal.com]

I know the book you mean, and believe me, that would give me nightmares too, I'm so suggestible... :)

[magp.livejournal.com]

Be sure to save me one of those... ;)

[bethypooh95.livejournal.com]

when my mom reacted like this to darvocet, they took her off immediately and told her she was allergic to it. you may want to ask your dr. about that. i dont know what category darvocet(darvan) is in.

[whereisjoy.livejournal.com]

When I got my wisdom teeth out, I was on a neutrotic that didn't agree with me. I also tried to watch some movies after I got home. My mom told me to rent movies that only I would want to watch. So I chose JFK, Malcolm X, and Mandela. I don't recomend that.

[iniswitryn.livejournal.com]

While I totally understand why pharmacies need the person for whom the prescription is written to pick it up and show ID, it does seem sort of contrary to why a person would be prescribed such drugs in the first place.

Wow, that's messed up. They don't deliver, AND they don't let a relative pick up? What if they have handicapped or bedridden customers?

As for the opiate-related dizziness/wooziness/perceptual oddness, I had that with Percocet - so bad that I fell out of bed in the hospital. The doc took me off it and switched to Darvocet, and I was fine. So maybe you need to be switched to some variant on the theme.

[dust-wind-dude.livejournal.com]

drugs = deh funz!