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Originally Posted by oldman
I had a similar injury several years ago. Oxy wasn't widely available until later, so they kept trying to push the Tylenol 3s on me. No thanks, I'll just use ibuprofen. I took 800 mg 3 times a day until the boot came off and then slowly worked down to 400 once a day. I've just seen too many people get dependent on that stuff. I don't think it's weakness on the part of those that get hooked, it's a physical addiction that Purude Pharma is all too glad to supply.
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They actually started me on Tylenol 3, then 4, before being bumped to hydrocodone 5, 7.5, and ultimately the 10s. Even though the opiate dosage is higher in the hydrocodone, I felt substantially more lethargic on the codeine