Oh, good question! I don’t recall exactly what I was prescribed the first time. I believe it was either oxycodone or hydrocodone. I’m 99% sure that hydrocodone is what I took when I felt that euphoria.
I personally have never found Tylenol to be useful at all except for fever reduction, and perhaps the very mildest of headaches. NSAIDS work wonderfully, but they eat my stomach, and I’m told there are no meds that effectively replace NSAIDS. I will take a couple of naproxen for things that really hurt like the TMJ that lasts for days and makes the entire side of my head hurt, but I don’t dare do it very often.
They gave me 10 lortabs when I had my gallbladder out last month. I’m saving them for something that really hurts.
One doc prescribed me tramadol, but it just seemed to make me nauseated and shut down peristalsis while leaving the pain untouched. The bottle has been in my nightstand for four years.