Vicodin

[packinpatland]

I had knee surgery a couple days ago, would someone please tell be how vicodin can be an addictive drug? All it does is put me to sleep.

[MJZiggy]

Insomniacs?

[LL2]

Ask Favre. He was addicted to it years ago.

[packinpatland]

That 's the reason I'm asking. Apparently it must affect people differently.

[MJZiggy]

Well, have you barfed on the sidelines yet or are you waiting for the PR game to do that? If you haven't, I'd say you're good.

[packinpatland]

[Merlin]

Vicodin never did anything for me, neither did Codene.

They have non-narcotic pain killers available, those didn't work for me either.

[packinpatland]

I hope you are a 'silent sufferer' then.
Kidding aside, that really sucks.

[Bretsky]

Re: Vicodin

I had knee surgery a couple days ago, would someone please tell be how vicodin can be an addictive drug? All it does is put me to sleep.

I hope your knee is doing well, and I hope it was not a torn ACL. I had that surgery four years ago and it was the most painful experience and rehab I ever experienced. When I woke up out of surgery it felt like somebody stuck a pitchfork in my knee and was twisting it.

Lots of Vicodin those days

[packinpatland]

I'm going to be just fine. I tore the meniscus tendon. Nowdays, the surgery is prettty low-key, thank goodness nothing like you had with an ACL.

Funny side note, Dr. recommends strengthening type exercise, low-impact, like swimming. We opened the pool early this year in anticipation of this surgery, (weather is not cooperating tho), went out Sat. morning and found a pair of ducks in the pool! They were back again this a.m.
We've had the darn pool 17 years, never had this problem!

[Zool]

Re: Vicodin

I had knee surgery a couple days ago, would someone please tell be how vicodin can be an addictive drug? All it does is put me to sleep.

I hope your knee is doing well, and I hope it was not a torn ACL. I had that surgery four years ago and it was the most painful experience and rehab I ever experienced. When I woke up out of surgery it felt like somebody stuck a pitchfork in my knee and was twisting it.

Lots of Vicodin those days

Had the same thing 5 years ago. Have the scope pictures framed. My ACL looked like some sort of sea plantlife. 100% torn. Good times.

[swede]

Re: Vicodin

I had knee surgery a couple days ago, would someone please tell be how vicodin can be an addictive drug? All it does is put me to sleep.

Well, if you're sleeping it must be working.

Not everyone has the psychological and physiological predispositions that combine to create an addiction.

The addictive personality has a much stronger attachment to the drowsy sensation of narcotic pain relievers. (I myself feel intermittent electrical rushes down the neural pathways that are quite enchanting whenever I take vicodin or oxycontin. I can easily see the appeal, but rational thought drives me back from the abyss.) The physical sensations are only one link in the complex web of behaviors and urges that are at work in the chemically dependent.

The crazy thing is that many doctors keep their patients in unecessary pain by underprescribing pain medication. They are almost obsessively fearful of creating addictions in their patients and so my poor 80 year old mother in law has a double knee replacement and gets a three day supply of vicodin tablets. After that ibuprofen was all she could use.

On the bright side, she hasn't knocked over any mini-marts to fuel her raging addiction.

[packinpatland]

I've never heard the description 'enchanting' used before.
I'd gladly send your mother-in-law my unused drugs.

[oregonpackfan]

I had pretty invasive foot surgery a few years ago(neuroma on the ball of the foot)

My podiatrist prescribed taking vicodin BEFORE I experienced any pain from the surgery, or before the anesthesia wore off. She insisted I maintain the regular dosage of medication even if I did not feel any strong pain.

Her reasoning was the body will maintain a certain level of pain-numbing medication.

I did follow her instructions to the letter and was able to break off the Vicodin within 4 days of the surgery without any withdrawal or side effects.

[packinpatland]

I had pretty invasive foot surgery a few years ago(neuroma on the ball of the foot)

My podiatrist prescribed taking vicodin BEFORE I experienced any pain from the surgery, or before the anesthesia wore off. She insisted I maintain the regular dosage of medication even if I did not feel any strong pain.

Her reasoning was the body will maintain a certain level of pain-numbing medication.

I did follow her instructions to the letter and was able to break off the Vicodin within 4 days of the surgery without any withdrawal or side effects.

Hope all is ok now.