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Originally Posted by GreenLantern2814
My “cocktail” wasn’t even everything I listed.
It was Advil.
And full disclosure - I’m not tough. I don’t like pain. I actively avoid it. For the sake of this discussion, I’d go so far as to call myself a bitch.
And I didn’t need 12 goddamn Percocet - a 45 minute abdominal surgery doesn’t require enough heroin to definitively rank the entire Pink Floyd discography.
My doctors mentioned on three separate occasions that they, as a private clinic, were superior and more efficient than public health care.
They spent maybe 30 seconds on the Percocet, and almost none of those on the capacity of Percocet to ruin my life.
No reasonable person would suggest not giving pain medication to the people who need it.
But why do people need to start off on mega-opiates when they could start with some THC/CBD gummies with Tylenol, and spend a day or two figuring out if what they needed was a distraction or HEROIN.
What’s the worst that can happen? You’re uncomfortable for an extra couple days.
Upshot is, you don’t die of a fentanyl overdose.
That graph on the previous page clearly demonstrates an overprescribing problem, because there’s simply no way EVERYONE who gets opiates needs them.
Send that to the Mayo clinic for me.
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Yeah, it seems to me as though it would make more sense to start lower rather than hauling out the big guns immediately.
It just seems like the line the line of thinking operates "well this lower painkiller 'might' work but I know this one 'will' work even if its overkill, and I dont want to see this guy again so...."
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