Given the multiple diagnoses my kid has, we've seen a lot of the opiates. However, she only keeps T3s on hand at home now, and uses with Advil. When the T3s are not enough to deal with the pain from Ank/Spond and Trigeminal Neuralgia, she will go in to receive more appropriate pain management. She tries very hard to tough her way through most pain because of the addictive nature of opioids and because of the stigma surrounding the use of them. She's going to speak with her rheumatologist about Naproxyn over the Advil. If she goes in for pain management, the usual "cocktail" the docs prescribe is Morphine IV/Toradol IV/Zofran. During hospitalizations for both the Ank/Spond and Trigeminal Neuralgia, they have used Fentanyl but she hated that so much she has refused it when a doc has said they would like to use that.
When my husband had his ACL repair done, he found that the opiates didn't help him in the slightest, so they did IV Toradol in the hospital and sent him home with a script for Perc and Toradol. He only filled the Toradol script and it was sufficient.
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