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Originally Posted by OMG!WTF!
I was pretty excited to get my first prescription for pain killers today but they aren't doing much. Are Tylenol 3's any good? Or did I get the kiddie pool drugs because prescription addicts have ruined the good stuff for the rest of us?
A bonus question worth my entire collection of pogs to anyone who knows what's wrong with the six inch square just below my hip. It makes the shoulder I dislocate once ever five years seem delightfully whimsical. I miss those days when deformity was your first clue in diagnosis. This is wildly painful and for no other reason than I'm too old to sleep in a bed that's softer than my prescribed sleep number. Or doesn't have a remote control. Or an emergency button. Loving 40's.
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T3's are usually sufficient, but for three caveats:
1) Pain is too strong
2) You are not opiate naive and therefore tolerance has weakened is effect
3) You are one of approximately 10-20% of people who do not convert codeine to morphine. Codeine itself does not have any analgesic effect, rather the body metabolizes some (approximately 20%) into morphine which is what provides the analgesia.
Also, hydromorphone is not stronger than heroine