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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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You’re being a bit dramatic and some of what you’re posting just seem… generally uneducated?
For one, percocet isn’t heroin, they aren’t the same thing, they are similar in the way any opioid is similar and if you took your percocet you would not be in danger of enjoying Pink Floyd any more or any less.
Two, 12 percocet isn’t going to ruin your life. That’s absurd. Do you honestly think a doctor should sit down and say “well, another side effect is that if I keep prescribing these for long enough, eventually you might get addicted, and maybe instead of dealing with withdrawal symptoms you’ll throw your life away for the next fix, who knows!” Come on, man.
Three, suggesting alcohol which is a terrible choice post-surgery or CBD which is little more than naturopathic nonsense (and even THC, which is readily available for anyone and could absolutely act as an introduction to a drug dependency people did not previously have due to ease of access, even if less harmful).
Your situation was not one of over-prescribing opioids, nor were any of your alternative suggestions at all realistic.