I agree ! I had a tooth pulled years ago - and they gave me a week's worth of hydrocodone, with instructions to take two as needed for pain.
Knowing how I react to drugs, I took ONE THIRD of ONE caplet .

I was spaced out for the next at least 24hrs ! I felt no pain. I felt no anything - just spacey and mostly useless, till it wore off. Didn't take anymore.

But yeah - it was real easy to see how anyone who wishes to vacate reality just needs some of this stuff , and then they may not want return ...

I have painful neuropathy and because of all the opioid addiction they will not give me anything for the pain that actually works. Instead they have given me a bunch of designer drugs meant for something else that all have mean side effects. Cymbalta was the worse. Nothing helps of course, so I live with the pain.

A while back my gf stepdad got skin cancer. Her mom could be quite a scatterbrain and missed his morphine prescription one time. Now I knew he had a bad history with his son when he did heroin in the 70s. The dad was very old school on drugs and disowned his boy for a long while. They never got close again even when his son got clean. My gf and I made the point of telling him that this is what his lad went through all those years ago. The final understanding/forgiveness in his eyes was something I was glad to tell his son about at the funeral.

I know what you mean. Years ago, I was surf fishing and stepped on a catfish someone had thrown away on the beach. The fin went all the way through my shoe and foot and broke off. The trauma and the bacteria, slime from the fish caused a great deal of pain. My buddies took me to the emergency room. There they extracted the fin and gave me a shot of morphine. It didn't really stop the pain, but left me floating a cloud and thinking: "Gee, my foot hurts. Isn't that funny!" The pain simply did not matter.

Fortunately, I have never needed to use opioids and don't care to recreationally. I hurt my leg in 2018 and was given a prescription for 12 of them, but didn't need it so did not even open the container. I returned them to the drop-off box at the hospital.

The closest I ever came to what I guess it is like was when I was 21 or 22 and in the Air Force. I needed my wisdom teeth removed, and they gave me liquid valium. As the dental surgeon depressed the plunger, I could feel the sensation work up my arm. It came to my neck and I could somewhat feel a sensation in my chest, but oh when it hit my head. Oh my. I can remember thinking clearly: THIS is why people use (hard) drugs. This is wonderful.

I can sadly imagine how difficult such a habit is to break, especially for someone from a disadvantaged background, mental health issues, ill-health, or some other co-morbidity.

It is very dangerous to use frequently and a major problem

I always ask for plain Oxycodone. It is kinder to my body. I had my gall bladder removed, and I was given 90, Oxy 5mg!! 1 week later I had 80 tablets left. By then Ibuprofin was working when needed.

I broke my right leg last year, and there was no pain initially. As I waited in the ED to have my bones "set" they gave me one pill which I now recognize as oxycodone. (It happened during an ice storm so there were victims of traffic accidents ahead of me.) There was no pain while the set my 2 broken bones.

I had a steady supply for weeks, but I stopped taking them after a couple of days because they made it hard for me to get to the bathroom on those crutches. It's good to have some extras for emergencies.

Wear a helmet!! I learned quick when I started riding after a car turned in front of me and I hit it. Thank goodness I did, because I had another accident later where I skidded head first into a parked car. My brains would have been MUSH!

they honestly don't really effect me. I never take opioid for that reason. Theyre like a placebo to me. But I also have an amazingly high pain threshold

Wear a helmet!! I learned quick when I started riding after a car turned in front of me and I hit it. Thank goodness I did, because I had another accident later where I skidded head first into a parked car. My brains would have been MUSH!

I am sorry to hear about your accident, and I am delighted to hear of your recovery.

I have a great fear of all such addictions. Curiously enough, I am allergic to one opioid (tapentadol) and it does nothing by way of pain relief for me - I find ibuprofen to be far more effective.

You are right. You should be extremely careful about taking such drugs. It is very easy to become addicted. Some people don't even realize the shortcut from dabbling to addiction. You probably know that seriously ill people take certain drugs to relieve unbearable pain. In turn, addicts relieve mental pain by ruining their physical health. As a teenager, I got involved with a bad group of guys who abused drugs. Thank God, I realized in time that I was in the wrong place. As far as I know, many of them went through drug rehab in California and quit drugs. I wish everyone never tried drugs and lived a healthy life.

I think the most difficult is to realize that drugs heal the physical pain, not the psychical one. You won't get addicted because they will give you the right dose, just enough to cope with the pain. However, many patients get that addictions and deny it for years. When I have worked at harmonyretreat.co.za, I have seen so many patients after car crushes who continue to take the pills, who lye about some non existing pains just to get those pills. Strange yeah? Like those pills would treat your soul. You get poisoned but your problems are still there. They are not gone. You just create yourself even more troubles.

Yeah bra, don't get hooked. And I wish you a speedy recovery!

Thankfully I'm allergic to all of it.

I was on opioids longer than 2 years. morphine, oxycodone, hydrocodone and fentanyl. the VA took a year weaning me off. i have no addiction, nor am i running the streets for more and i didn't turn to herion either.

good stuff...

Yup it's good for when you truly need it.

I have chronic pain. I have taken opioids and non-opioids to control my condition for decades and fortunately never been addicted. (Though if you've been on something for years they now INSIST on tapering you).

I now take a non-opioid that does wonders without making me out of it. (Yay!).

Opioids are fantastic when you've really hurt yourself or had surgery - but long term? They suck. Dry mouth etc etc.... itchy skin - for some constipation. You just don't want to go there.

Hope you feel better soon!

I get it. In the early '70s I had an ounce of opiated hash, a couple of friends and I smoked it over a week. I now have a clear aversion to opium because I know I find it addicting. Haven't felt anything like it since even from common opioid pain killers. Of course I was always in extreme pain when I took them so that could have modulated the response.

Just a one time dose of hydrocodone?

I get t, but pain pills of any kind have never worked for me.

All they do is knock me out and I don't ever feel the pain like that anyway. Glad it helped you.

May your recovery be quick and painless.