Percocet, it's a good thing....

crazycoffey · 11-29-2007, 10:18 AM

Howdy all,

Ok, so on thanksgiving I started having some bad tooth pain. I called my Dentist in St. Louis (I was visiting my boys in Dallas at the time) and leave a message about being in pain and needing some drugs to help until I can come see him. He never calls back and I'm stuck only taking over the counter Motrin, 200 mg tablets (turns out - as he tells me later - that he gets alot of "druggie" calls over the holidays and he thought I was just another one of those calls). I gulp a few handfulls a day to get through the weekend but the pain gets worse and worse and the amount of pills I need grow more and more every couple of hours.

On the drive home Sunday I was gulping a goo 16-20 tablets every hour to hour and a half. Yeah, insane amount of these little tablets and I'm sure there's a nice little kidney stone being formed right now, as my reward.

I see the dentist on Monday afternoon (I had two Vicoden left over from a Vaso-reversal the helped on monday), he says I need a root canal and gives me prescription for more Vicoden, but as the pain continue to get worse over Monday night, I was popping two of them bad boys every two hours and still in pretty good pain.

I see the Endodontist Tuesday after work. I'm there from 4 to 7 pm getting a root canal. I'm so numb from the stuff he shot me up with that my ear is numb, the bones of the eye socket around my right eye is numb, yet after he drills out my rotting root nerves I can feel the drill hit the tendon in my jaw. I wince, he's suprised I felt it, decides to do some experiments, and uses some wire to tap dance on that tendon. I did the only thing I could do, shoot him with some evil eyes. Yeah - you know he wasn't scared.

He can't finish the job because it was too infected still so I leave with a temp filling and an appointment to go back in two weeks so he can finish the root canal. He says the entire nerve was dead already and would guess that on a scale of 1 to 10 I probably felt like the pain was a 9 or 10. I tell him he's wrong because I'd rate it more like an 11 or 12.

I guess he felt sorry for me, because he gave me a big 'ol prescription of Percocet. I'm taken 4-6 of them a day, every four or five hours and I now understand the concept of addiction to pain meds. This stuff is awesome. I'm a little loopie, but oh well, small price to pay to be able to walk and talk like nothing has happened. It's more than just good on my tooth, I mean - my knees feel great, my back feels great, my ankle feels great. All those parts that usually yell at me through out the day all feel young and new again.

That is all, bet it ain't a I have nothing to add, biatches.
oh - and I don't care if you "discuss" it or not. I just thought I'd share.

ChiefsFan4Life · 11-29-2007, 10:27 AM

I had basically the EXACT same thing happen to me last year, over the holdays (new years). I had nothing but advil to try to get me through everything and my story was exactly like yours. Too infected so I had to get a temp and after everything got a shit ton of percocet and vicatin. And like you, I could totally understand how people can get addicted to these things.

crazycoffey · 11-29-2007, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by ChiefsFan4Life

I had basically the EXACT same thing happen to me last year, over the holdays (new years). I had nothing but advil to try to get me through everything and my story was exactly like yours. Too infected so I had to get a temp and after everything got a shit ton of percocet and vicatin. And like you, I could totally understand how people can get addicted to these things.

Yeah, Life is great. I even love carl right now.....

ChiefsFan4Life · 11-29-2007, 10:56 AM

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Originally Posted by CrazyCoffey

Yeah, Life is great. I even love carl right now.....

Then you've clearly taken too much

crazycoffey · 11-29-2007, 11:39 AM

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Originally Posted by ChiefsFan4Life

Then you've clearly taken too much

he he

**penguinz** · 11-29-2007, 10:32 AM

Percocet barely takes the edge off of my backpain.

StcChief · 11-29-2007, 10:32 AM

Percoset kicks butt.

JBucc · 11-29-2007, 10:35 AM

Drink a lot of water.

crazycoffey · 11-29-2007, 10:37 AM

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Originally Posted by JBucc

Drink a lot of water.

I'm doing that too, very dehydrated. But feeling grand.

**Easy 6** · 11-29-2007, 10:38 AM

Agreed CC, the song "Comfortably Numb" comes to mind.

dtebbe · 11-29-2007, 10:50 AM

I can't take any of that crap. The nausea it gives me ends up bothering me more than the pain. Demarol, on the other hand.....

DT

Fish · 11-29-2007, 11:02 AM

Without sounding like a preaching PSA..... be careful with those...

I have someone very very close to me that has been abusing painkillers for some time now, and can't kick it. It actually got to the point that she was caught trying to write her own prescriptions for it. A large part of that is self-esteem and strength of will, but I've seen some people who I would have never worried about get hooked on that and have all sorts of problems.

Personally, pain meds and I don't play well together. I hate the woozy nauseas feeling and would rather deal with pain...

**Bugeater** · 11-29-2007, 10:44 AM

Painkillers rule, I have a pinched nerve in a disc in my neck and I've been popping Oxycodone for the last month and a half. It's also helpful in getting thru the Chiefs games. Too bad my 'script is about to run out...

**sd4chiefs** · 11-29-2007, 10:53 AM

I need some percoset to get through this painful Chiefs season.

**penguinz** · 11-29-2007, 10:57 AM

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Originally Posted by Bugeater

Painkillers rule, I have a pinched nerve in a disc in my neck and I've been popping Oxycodone for the last month and a half. It's also helpful in getting thru the Chiefs games. Too bad my 'script is about to run out...

Percocet is Oxycodone.

11-29-2007, 10:18 AM	Topic Starter
crazycoffey .......... Join Date: Dec 2006 Casino cash: $5207901	Percocet, it's a good thing.... Howdy all, Ok, so on thanksgiving I started having some bad tooth pain. I called my Dentist in St. Louis (I was visiting my boys in Dallas at the time) and leave a message about being in pain and needing some drugs to help until I can come see him. He never calls back and I'm stuck only taking over the counter Motrin, 200 mg tablets (turns out - as he tells me later - that he gets alot of "druggie" calls over the holidays and he thought I was just another one of those calls). I gulp a few handfulls a day to get through the weekend but the pain gets worse and worse and the amount of pills I need grow more and more every couple of hours. On the drive home Sunday I was gulping a goo 16-20 tablets every hour to hour and a half. Yeah, insane amount of these little tablets and I'm sure there's a nice little kidney stone being formed right now, as my reward. I see the dentist on Monday afternoon (I had two Vicoden left over from a Vaso-reversal the helped on monday), he says I need a root canal and gives me prescription for more Vicoden, but as the pain continue to get worse over Monday night, I was popping two of them bad boys every two hours and still in pretty good pain. I see the Endodontist Tuesday after work. I'm there from 4 to 7 pm getting a root canal. I'm so numb from the stuff he shot me up with that my ear is numb, the bones of the eye socket around my right eye is numb, yet after he drills out my rotting root nerves I can feel the drill hit the tendon in my jaw. I wince, he's suprised I felt it, decides to do some experiments, and uses some wire to tap dance on that tendon. I did the only thing I could do, shoot him with some evil eyes. Yeah - you know he wasn't scared. He can't finish the job because it was too infected still so I leave with a temp filling and an appointment to go back in two weeks so he can finish the root canal. He says the entire nerve was dead already and would guess that on a scale of 1 to 10 I probably felt like the pain was a 9 or 10. I tell him he's wrong because I'd rate it more like an 11 or 12. I guess he felt sorry for me, because he gave me a big 'ol prescription of Percocet. I'm taken 4-6 of them a day, every four or five hours and I now understand the concept of addiction to pain meds. This stuff is awesome. I'm a little loopie, but oh well, small price to pay to be able to walk and talk like nothing has happened. It's more than just good on my tooth, I mean - my knees feel great, my back feels great, my ankle feels great. All those parts that usually yell at me through out the day all feel young and new again. That is all, bet it ain't a I have nothing to add, biatches. oh - and I don't care if you "discuss" it or not. I just thought I'd share.
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11-29-2007, 10:27 AM	#2
ChiefsFan4Life DT: HOF Class of 2009 Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: House Springs, MO Casino cash: $10004900	I had basically the EXACT same thing happen to me last year, over the holdays (new years). I had nothing but advil to try to get me through everything and my story was exactly like yours. Too infected so I had to get a temp and after everything got a shit ton of percocet and vicatin. And like you, I could totally understand how people can get addicted to these things.
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11-29-2007, 10:32 AM	#6
penguinz Supporter Join Date: Mar 2003 Casino cash: $3127626	Percocet barely takes the edge off of my backpain. __________________
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11-29-2007, 10:32 AM	#7
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11-29-2007, 10:35 AM	#8
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11-29-2007, 10:38 AM	#10
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11-29-2007, 10:50 AM	#11
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11-29-2007, 11:02 AM	#12
Fish Ain't no relax! Join Date: Sep 2005 Casino cash: $2318919	Without sounding like a preaching PSA..... be careful with those... I have someone very very close to me that has been abusing painkillers for some time now, and can't kick it. It actually got to the point that she was caught trying to write her own prescriptions for it. A large part of that is self-esteem and strength of will, but I've seen some people who I would have never worried about get hooked on that and have all sorts of problems. Personally, pain meds and I don't play well together. I hate the woozy nauseas feeling and would rather deal with pain... __________________
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11-29-2007, 10:44 AM	#13
Bugeater The Maintenance Guy Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Renovated Bugeater Estate Casino cash: $6252680	Painkillers rule, I have a pinched nerve in a disc in my neck and I've been popping Oxycodone for the last month and a half. It's also helpful in getting thru the Chiefs games. Too bad my 'script is about to run out...
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11-29-2007, 10:53 AM	#14
sd4chiefs error 404 Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Bizarro World Casino cash: $8830445	I need some percoset to get through this painful Chiefs season. __________________ “It's Easier to Fool People Than It Is to Convince Them That They Have Been Fooled.” – Mark Twain.
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