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[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 day ago (4 children)

Do they still give you an almost 2 week script of hydrocodone after? I remember watching a lot of magic school bus high as fuck when I was younger for a few days after.

[–] [email protected] 21 points 1 day ago (1 children)

You mean the dentist who, when seeing me, told me immediately they don't prescribe narcotics at that office and then immediately looked guilty when I said that's fine, I just wanted a scrip for the big ibuprofen because taking 4 of the small ones at a time made my stomach sick?

No. No they did not.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 18 hours ago* (last edited 18 hours ago) (1 children)

Ugh, I hate that presumption among healthcare professionals. We're not really in pain, we're all just dRuG sEeKiNg.

I mean, I came to you with a medical problem, which is often solved by or improved by medication, so I guess technically, yes?

And if I'm in such pain that I require narcotics, wouldn't you rather I see a doctor and take it with their supervision, or that I go find a dealer on the street?

I understand there are some people with addiction issues, but allowing a patient (especially one with no drug abuse history) to suffer, on the off chance they might use pain killers for fun, is so fucked up. I already have to jump through hoops to get ADHD medication for the same reason. It seems that in the US, you're assumed to be addicted by default.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 13 hours ago

I get treated like a drug seeker even when I'm openly allergic to opiates. And yeah the adhd meds are such a pain in the ass to the point of counterproductivity

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

The dentist slipped when pulling one of my non-impacted teeth and hit me in the back of the throat with his whole body weight. He prescribed me 10 days of hydrocodone and when I called back and said the default dose still left me with a sore throat he called me in another 10 days of a higher dose.

Needless to say, my throat didn't hurt anymore and I played WoW a lot (~2007)

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Good ole days haha. Doctors totally overestimate the addiction potential of a short term prescription and underprescribe now.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I was told I could go to school the day after my wisdom teeth were taken. I took my dose of hydrocodone before heading to school and have no memory of that day at all. I never took the rest. Somehow I had no pain whatsoever after my wisdom teeth were removed and it was almost as if it never happened. Other people I know needed to take a week off.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Same. I barely even took Tylenol and was fine

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

When I got all 4 out at once, they gave me 4 pills, each is supposed to last about 12 hours. I had to do the math on how to efficiently take them on a longer schedule than once every 12 hours to minimize the pain spike when I switched to ibruprofin.