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Originally Posted by otatop
30-60 Vicodin is like the standard "hey thanks for letting us extract your wisdom teeth" prescription.
I have only needed pain pills twice in my life. Once when I broke my finger and it swelled up and hurt like a mofo for a few days. some vicodin was helpful but I didnt need anything stronger. this was recently and they asked me a bunch of questions and were very reticent to give me any. ended up getting 10 pills.
needed surgery on the finger but that was fairly pain free.
played sports and had tons of injuries. bad ankle sprains. broken ankle. bone chips in the ankle. broken elbow. pulled muscles. foot pain. never took any pills for it.
only other time I was prescribed pain pills was after acl surgery. this was over 10 years ago. the injury itself wasnt too bad. but post surgery was a ton of pain. the drs were pretty surprised when I woke up in a lot of pain bc they had a nerve block.
they gave me a script for 50 vics. they were useless. and when the nerve block wore off some hrs later it was pure hell. they upped me to percocet. still pretty useless. I did realize if I took a ton of pills I would sleep which was better than being awake and in pain.
I ended up going thru 50 vics and 40 percs that first week. I think I did 40 more percs the next week.
after 2 weeks I was fine. doc asked if I need more pain pills and I declined. but every time I saw him he straight up asked me if I wanted pain pills. even a year later, after declining pills every single previous time, he still asked. there is no doubt that I would have been hopelessly addicted to vic or perc and had easy access without even trying.
but what really makes me mad is that when I was in true pain, they were not willing to give me the good stuff. instead I was forced to pile on tons of the weaker drugs in hopes of minor relief. and after that there were no qualms about providing opiates to me for months on end.
my friends were incredulous that I wasnt taking him up on the scripts. "you can sell it if you dont want it." "hey just give it to me." the truth is, after those first 2 weeks, I was quite scared to continue taking opiates and saying no to the doc was very hard. ultimately, I didnt trust myself. the first week was no doubt for pain relief but sometime after 10-12 days it had bled into seeking the euphoria.
so I can totally see how ppl go in for surgery and come out as junkies a few months later. now this was over 10 yrs ago. and I think this doc was just a kinda clueless older guy who just wasnt aware of the dangers and not some nefarious part of the big pharma plot. I mean, it was just low dose vic, but that has proved to be quite dangerous in and of itself or as a gateway.
and I think there were a ton of docs just like this guy. combine that with those complicit with Purdue and for many years a ton of addicts were created. pretty sad.