Wisdom teeth removed
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Originally Posted by tritium_pie,Aug 27 2004, 10:59 PM
words of wisdom.
the VERY FIRST drug I EVER abused was Demerol, which was given to me after my wisdom teeth were removed (bottom 2 were impacted, pushing my teeth forward. Demerol is an opiate, taken orally.)
at the time, I used to get really horrible migrane headaches so I thought to myself, "If I just tolerate a little bit of this jaw pain..." (which, bad as it is, is not nearly as bad as a full-blown migrane) "... I can use this Demerol for the next migrane I have."
well I did, and the next migrane I took some. I was stoned and wrote something in my personal journal along the lines of, "If this is what it's like to get high, HELLOOOOOO MARIJUANA." which was a gateway to many wasted years and dollars of drug experimentation.
fortunately (VERY FORTUNATELY), I have since left it all behind and don't miss any of it one bit. I am one of the fortunate ones, because I've seen more than a few highly gifted and motivated friends who also began experimenting around the time I did, and they squandered away all their excellent potential to live rich, full lives. I'm sure many are still caught in the grip of drug abuse.
Certainly there are many who are able to keep it under control. And a good number (such as myself), who are able to free ourselves from it before we were too badly damaged. But a sad number of lives are lost to it.
And to think, it all started with me innocently deciding to save some of my wisdom teeth pain medicine for my next migrane headache...
the VERY FIRST drug I EVER abused was Demerol, which was given to me after my wisdom teeth were removed (bottom 2 were impacted, pushing my teeth forward. Demerol is an opiate, taken orally.)
at the time, I used to get really horrible migrane headaches so I thought to myself, "If I just tolerate a little bit of this jaw pain..." (which, bad as it is, is not nearly as bad as a full-blown migrane) "... I can use this Demerol for the next migrane I have."
well I did, and the next migrane I took some. I was stoned and wrote something in my personal journal along the lines of, "If this is what it's like to get high, HELLOOOOOO MARIJUANA." which was a gateway to many wasted years and dollars of drug experimentation.
fortunately (VERY FORTUNATELY), I have since left it all behind and don't miss any of it one bit. I am one of the fortunate ones, because I've seen more than a few highly gifted and motivated friends who also began experimenting around the time I did, and they squandered away all their excellent potential to live rich, full lives. I'm sure many are still caught in the grip of drug abuse.
Certainly there are many who are able to keep it under control. And a good number (such as myself), who are able to free ourselves from it before we were too badly damaged. But a sad number of lives are lost to it.
And to think, it all started with me innocently deciding to save some of my wisdom teeth pain medicine for my next migrane headache...
Whoa, I just looked in the mirror, and my face was covered in chocolate pudding. Being my lower lip is still pretty numb from the lidocane, so I guess i didn't even notice that I drooled pudding all down my face.
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OMG you reminded me of dry sockets!! NOOOOOOOOOOO... hey do a google search on dry sockets and you will hear horror storries... im so glad i didnt get it, even though i used a straw the first day without reading the guidelines the doctor had given me *DOH*
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Originally Posted by S2KANDRE,Aug 27 2004, 11:42 PM
OMG you reminded me of dry sockets!! NOOOOOOOOOOO... hey do a google search on dry sockets and you will hear horror storries... im so glad i didnt get it, even though i used a straw the first day without reading the guidelines the doctor had given me *DOH*
I wish I didn't nap so much today, I'm never going to fall asleet at this point.
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Originally Posted by S2KANDRE,Aug 28 2004, 12:20 AM
hows the pain? ... after the pain killers died off i wanted someone to just shoot me in the mouth! Hang in there... its only the first two days that are a Bitch!
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Damn, I was stuck inside all day today and s2ki.com was down! The boredom of the day was made even longer without access to the site.
Anyway, no pain at all today. I took maybe 4 Advil throughout the day, but no percoset. Still have bad swelling and a little bleeding, though. My whole bottom jaw is numb as hell too. It's driving me nuts that I can't eat solid food, though. Protein shakes and pudding is getting a little old. Oh well, at least the Olympics were on all day!
Anyway, no pain at all today. I took maybe 4 Advil throughout the day, but no percoset. Still have bad swelling and a little bleeding, though. My whole bottom jaw is numb as hell too. It's driving me nuts that I can't eat solid food, though. Protein shakes and pudding is getting a little old. Oh well, at least the Olympics were on all day!
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Originally Posted by mingster,Aug 27 2004, 05:49 PM
dude, i thought valium was fun - sounds like percoset is the way to go 
and Hydrocodone is Lortab or Vicodin.
People who praise drugs (and mispell the name) kinda irritate me. It's hard enough dealing with everyday stress then to see some one glorifying the use of something that can kill you, and has done a lot of damage to me.
My addiction was so bad, I had morphine and my body still hurt from a kidney stone, they had to give me another dose of morphine because i was so immune to the painkillers. I could not function without 2 when i woke up, 2 about an hour later, maybe 4 more 2 hours after that, another 4 an hour or two after that, maybe 4 or 3 more 2 hours after that, no eating while taking my meds because it brings the high down, I lost 40 pounds. This went on for a year, using anywhere from 15 - 25 a day, some days I just wanted 6 or 10, but most days i was in a narcotic stupor all day. Rational decisions were an impossible, work, homelife, everything suffered. I put my car at risk when i got into the accident (poor S) because i was so messed up on pills i couldn't pay attention.
Now i'm shaking from withdrawl
so, I'm heading offline for a day or two, because I can't talk about them or be near them or hear about them.23 days clean today.
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wow Evil, I know how you feel about addiction.
When I started out on Percocet, it didn't work. Then it was supplemented with Fentanyl. Eventually, I changed over to oxy from percocet because of the possiblitiy of liver damage from too much acetominaphin (that's what's in Percocet, Percodan is the same but with aspirin). I've also been on venous demerol and morphine, and big doses at that.
Let me tell you, I know exactly how people get addicted to drugs. I still remember and mentally long for the feeling of morphine as it enters your blood. It is very pleasant and thinking about it releases endorphins. I guess I am genetically predisposed to addiction resistance as I got off all of that stuff with little or no withdrawal. I'm better to the point that I "only" take 40mg of Methodone a day.
happs, I am doing better. I was a train wreck before; 75% of my blood was dead sludge, so I was critically anemic, yet still able to exercise and everything. The docs said that I was unnaturally tough
How does neuropathy feel? Well, imagine every sensory nerve (hot/cold/sharp/ache/other) all going off at once in both legs all the time. It's kinda like when Luke was electrocuted by the Emperor...just writhing pain that makes you scream continuously. It's just horrid and I'm glad I'm better than that. I still have no working kidneys so I'm on dialysis, but work full time.
I'd say, from weakest to strongest of the drugs I've taken
Darvocet
Lortab
Percocet
Oxycodone
Methodone
Valium (not as much a pain releiver, but it helps in that you are relaxed)
Morphine (venous)
Demorol (venous)
When I started out on Percocet, it didn't work. Then it was supplemented with Fentanyl. Eventually, I changed over to oxy from percocet because of the possiblitiy of liver damage from too much acetominaphin (that's what's in Percocet, Percodan is the same but with aspirin). I've also been on venous demerol and morphine, and big doses at that.
Let me tell you, I know exactly how people get addicted to drugs. I still remember and mentally long for the feeling of morphine as it enters your blood. It is very pleasant and thinking about it releases endorphins. I guess I am genetically predisposed to addiction resistance as I got off all of that stuff with little or no withdrawal. I'm better to the point that I "only" take 40mg of Methodone a day.
happs, I am doing better. I was a train wreck before; 75% of my blood was dead sludge, so I was critically anemic, yet still able to exercise and everything. The docs said that I was unnaturally tough
How does neuropathy feel? Well, imagine every sensory nerve (hot/cold/sharp/ache/other) all going off at once in both legs all the time. It's kinda like when Luke was electrocuted by the Emperor...just writhing pain that makes you scream continuously. It's just horrid and I'm glad I'm better than that. I still have no working kidneys so I'm on dialysis, but work full time.I'd say, from weakest to strongest of the drugs I've taken
Darvocet
Lortab
Percocet
Oxycodone
Methodone
Valium (not as much a pain releiver, but it helps in that you are relaxed)
Morphine (venous)
Demorol (venous)
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