Jake Knott-- Updates
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My dentist gives them away like he's throwing candy in a parade
If only there were less addictive, yet potent pain medications....
You must be high if you think anything like that exists.
I'm sitting next to a bottle of 120 oxycdone 5mgs but I did just have a hip replacement last Monday. Luckily I've never found the allure or want to know how to take them recreationally. I take them until the pain is bearable then done. I truly feel badly for those stuck with the long-term pain management issues and the potential consequences.
Brain chemistry is crazy complex on who does or does not get hooked.
I had a severely scratched cornea a couple of years ago and urgent care gave me a ton without thinking about it. I did need it but am now hoarding it because I know how great they are.
In Florida they give you 3 per refill now. And this is to an elderly lady with chronic foot, knee, and neck pain.
I’m glad to hear that he’s getting better, yes he did great things for ISU, but what’s most important is his health physically and mentally.
Pharmacogenomic testing (relatively new - within the last decade or so, I think) is fascinating. The hospital I work for recently started trialing it on some patients. Essentially, they take a cheek swab to get a genetic sample and send it to a lab where they run it through some tests that identify the thousands of gene expressions in an individual, and compare them against pharmaceuticals on the market. The doctor gets a nice little packet for each patient listing which drugs they are likely to have minimal, moderate, or major gene-drug interactions to and whether those interactions are considered good or bad (i.e., a severe weight gain on an antidepressant is bad - not the end of the world, but if there's an antidepressant that gives the same effects w/o the weight gain, they can go that route. The next person may have a terrible reaction to ad #2, and have zero weight gain on ad #1. Or blood pressure med 1 is shown to be highly effective (yay!) for person #1, while person #2 if prescribed the same BP med could have adverse reactions). Not sure if they can test for addictiveness yet...but I won't be surprised if it's not too far off in the future.
Edit to add a bonus I just remembered: Anyone can get this done. Some insurance plans cover it (idk which ones - not privy to that info). You can get it done without having to go through a doctor...and the results are good for life (with the caveat that more drugs will be added in the future; currently I think around 350 are tested) since your genes don't change. We've had patients come to the hospital and give their results - obtained previously - of this testing directly to their pharmacist.
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Oral surgeon prescribed Vicodin for three of my kids who had wisdom teeth removed as teenagers. I found it fairly disturbing, but filled the prescription each time in case one of them encountered much pain. We talked to them about the addiction issue and they all just wanted normal Advil and see how it went. One of them woke at night in more pain and took one pill of the Vicodin, then was better next day, so we wound up taking all but one pill back to pharmacy for disposal.
demoncore1031
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I'm not gonna lie, I like taking pain pills and feeling all goofy. But I don't get addicted to them. Guess I'm pretty lucky there. I have tried pretty much every drug known to man and never formed an addiction, even to the ones I liked. Got some crazy stories that are not appropriate for this site from my younger days. Nowadays it's nothing but green and a little booze here and there. I consider myself fortunate because I have had a lot of friends that did get addicted to different things and it's not pretty. Hard drugs can turn the greatest person into a piece of spam. It's so sad to see and experience and the worst part is that most of the time there is no reasoning with addicts. No matter how close you are to the person, they just won't listen.
RIP Kory!
RIP Kory!
