Dr. Google/ChatGPT explain the over-the-counter pain relief medications and the big guns like opioids the latter instilling, perhaps rightly so, terror of opioids.
I am sure you have your personal perceptions of the evils of opioids. On a scale of 1-10 my view is I’ll take post hospital when my pain scale is a 12/10. I had two doses of 2 mg Hydromorphone in the surgical recovery unit. They worked their wonder. I was asked if I wanted a third dose and declined. Two were the perfect remedy and a little light bulb popped in my head “warning me” another dose might take me a place I have never been before. I am uncertain what this meant but it was a warning.
I walked away from the hospital with 10 days of “over the counter” pain meds and some Hydromorphone. I took the entirety of the over counter pain meds and for the most part they effectively kept the pain at a 4/5 but one bad day at 8/10 all day long and at three in the morning it was tempting to crack open the Hydromorphone vial.
The terror of anticipated pain and of its remedy.
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