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Oct. 10th, 2011 04:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
shingaPainkillers and I are... let's just say "it's complicated"?
Things like Ibuprofen and Advil work just fine for headaches and cramps. They don't even kind of touch my chronic hip/leg issues though... which is all right, I've gotten used to it.
~Hardcore~ painkillers though?
Either they do Jack and Shit or I have weird reactions.
Tramadol... oh god, never touching that shit again. Made the pain 10x worse and I could barely move.
Some painkiller I forgot what it was... was told it would knock me the hell out and I'd feel nothing and it'd be awesome. Had absolutely no reaction to it. None. Pain was the same and I didn't get knocked out or anything.
Now Hydrocodone... it doesn't do much for the regular amount of pain. That still stuck around. I've only taken it when the pain is worse than usual. First time I took it, nothing. Absolutely nothing. Second time... well I got sleepy and a weird buzz off of it but the pain didn't do much. Third time no buzz, the pain lessened a bit, and I was WIDE FUCKING AWAKE. This was last night. I was physically tired and knew I needed the sleep but I was wide awake until, like, 6am.
This is why I hesitate to ask the VA to try anything new as far as painkillers. It's why I tend to just shrug off the idea of them altogether. My body is fucking weird and unpredictable.
At least as far as my hips go a hot bath will calm the pain down a little bit on the bad days. Sometimes. :)
Things like Ibuprofen and Advil work just fine for headaches and cramps. They don't even kind of touch my chronic hip/leg issues though... which is all right, I've gotten used to it.
~Hardcore~ painkillers though?
Either they do Jack and Shit or I have weird reactions.
Tramadol... oh god, never touching that shit again. Made the pain 10x worse and I could barely move.
Some painkiller I forgot what it was... was told it would knock me the hell out and I'd feel nothing and it'd be awesome. Had absolutely no reaction to it. None. Pain was the same and I didn't get knocked out or anything.
Now Hydrocodone... it doesn't do much for the regular amount of pain. That still stuck around. I've only taken it when the pain is worse than usual. First time I took it, nothing. Absolutely nothing. Second time... well I got sleepy and a weird buzz off of it but the pain didn't do much. Third time no buzz, the pain lessened a bit, and I was WIDE FUCKING AWAKE. This was last night. I was physically tired and knew I needed the sleep but I was wide awake until, like, 6am.
This is why I hesitate to ask the VA to try anything new as far as painkillers. It's why I tend to just shrug off the idea of them altogether. My body is fucking weird and unpredictable.
At least as far as my hips go a hot bath will calm the pain down a little bit on the bad days. Sometimes. :)