Same here. It’s the only cough syrup that ever actually seemed to do anything. Months later, I tried to refill the prescription for another bad cough I had, but it turns out my doctor was apparently over-prescribing opiates and had his medical license yanked.
Oh well. I just ended up buying some OTC medicine that didn’t do a damned thing.
Does it affect people different ways? I also remember getting oxycodone (I think it was Percocet) after I had a wisdom tooth pulled. I was a little excited to have access to a legal “high”, but it didn’t do much for me beyond what an Excedrin would. At least, I didn’t get any sort of insight into why people would get addicted to it. I never ended up even finishing the bottle and just trashed the leftovers.
Opiates are often not the best choice to treat many pains. Dextromorphan and codeine cough syrups I can live with, and 222s or Tylenol 1s. I don’t think many opioids or high dose opioids should be available for home use, if this means no doctor, no discussion, no prescription.
I am one of those “chronic pain” patients screwed by the recent DEA witch hunt re. opioids.
I WAS on Mirtazapine, one of the tricyclic antidepressants.
I looked it up - it and all other anti-depressants work by interfering with the chemistry involved in the function of brain synapses.
I quit taking it - and it had no effect on the pain. If anyone can get pain relief from the stuff, they are blessed.
My future is not looking real good these days, BUT
Whatever comes along, I want my brain working as intended. Except for morphine, which has virtually no psychosomatic effects on me.
In the 11 years I have been using various opioids for pain, there have been exactly ten episodes of psychosomatic side-effects.
I have nothing but sympathy (and a bit of contempt*) for those who find “downers” ('ludes, morphine, etc). I cannot see the attraction.
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- it is these idiots who are the cause of DEA’s witch hunt.
Note - pain is not well understood - any time you need to screw with brain chemistry to fix a problem, you are admitting you don’t really understand it.
For now, pain is assessed as either “nerve” or “bone” pain - I was once referred to an intern (who hadn’t slept in 48 hours) and he and I were shown to an unused OFFICE - NOT an exam room - with instruction to him to determine if my pain was “nerve” or “bone”.
There is a very cute drug for nerve pain (it also works for itching, a special-case version of pain) called Gabapentin. Three doctors used gaba as a “Hail Mary” drug in the hope that it would control my bone pain.
When my kidney failure started causing pruritus, WebMD (a wonderful site) steered me to gaba - which I had on hand.
It still does nothing for pain, but it nailed the itch.