I have chronic, severe pain from an autoimmune disease. I have been on an opioid pain relief protocol for 10 years now. As long as I am careful to follow my doctor's instructions, my pain becomes manageable and I do not get high. If you're that high, you've been prescribed too much. This might not be true in every case, but a well-balanced, precise program can make life livable without making me not care about life.
@esthermcafee5293
3 ай бұрын
Yeah, this was one time where I didn’t agree with how he worded things. Properly dosed pain meds don’t leave you feeling high! Not unless you call that feeling of relief after you’ve gotten your hand out of the car door that it was slammed in ‘being high as a kite’. Am I happy I’m not in agony? Yep! Am I high and drooling? I am not.
@leelee7731
3 ай бұрын
I never felt high and was on pain management for spine trauma
@essiebessie661
3 ай бұрын
You are wrong here. When properly prescribed and taken, you don’t get high. You get relieved of suffering that consumes your thoughts/feelings and ruins your life. You become functional.
@Irisarc1
3 ай бұрын
@@essiebessie661 I'm a little confused here. Are you disagreeing with me?
@BedStuyDOD62
2 ай бұрын
Gave me flashbacks to my first ED job…I didn’t understand why they tied the blue patient down first until, HE TURNED INTO THE INCREDIBLE HULK😮
@melissafields3376
3 ай бұрын
My Walmart has finally started to sell Narcan! 😊. Also we have it in 2 of our emergency kits. Plus a defibrillator! A lot of Associates volunteered to learn how to properly use these. I was able to get the Red Cross to donate mouth guards for all of our kits. That was years ago (they still replace them regularly). Next is trying to get bagging kits; they're much better than doing mouth to mouth resuscitation
@tiffc105
3 ай бұрын
I was prescribed oxy after a surgery. But i didnt feel like it helped me that much with the pain, and I didnt feel any high. It just made me constipated. I ended up taking extra strength tylenol instead.
@mom.left.me.at.michaels9951
3 ай бұрын
I've been prescribed Oxy once and NEVER again for me. 😅 Honestly I still felt the pain AND I was so high all I could do was grip the bed as the room spun trying not to throw up. I'll just take Tylenol thanks 👍 Even if some of the pain still cuts through at least I don't feel like puking at the same time. 😂 (This is just me and my super low tolerance ass, if it helps you great I support you. If you struggle with it, I'm sorry you don't deserve to be dependent on something and encourage you to do the best you can with the available resources, I also support you!)
@alexacarrillo4339
3 ай бұрын
Fentanyl made my pain much worse but made me very alert so I could use all my pain management techniques from my chronic migraines and they kept giving it to me to the point they worried I was going to OD. It is on all my do not give lists with the Drs and local hospital because ovarian torsion pain being worse isn’t something I would wish on anyone. I think it would have broken me if I didn’t already have pretty catastrophic migraines.
@bettyboop3353
3 ай бұрын
1 -500 mg Tylenol taken with 3-20 mg ibuprofen will help pain better than either taken separately. This does has been recommended by my dentist,pain control specialist and primary physician. It works.
@BobDeGuerre
3 ай бұрын
I really wish it was that simple for everyone. As much as I would love to take such a convenient & inexpensive combo, that just won't work for some people bcz of genetics &/or auto-immune issues. I've been given tylenol repeatedly since 1977 & it has never once lowered a fever, nor reduced pain levels one iota, not even with up to quintuple the dosage. This also true for my father, my full-sister & my youngest son too. Then, after 2 injections in 2021 (& thank science for them bcz they've kept me alive& working) I've been going into kidney failure after even 1 ibuprophen tablet, altho I've recovered within 6 months each time. (I'll leave out the horrific effects on my heart after #2 & each booster, bcz having to stop to catch my breath & let my heart rate fall from 140+ every 20-30 feet for the next 6 months is still better than being dead imo) So CBD ointments, sativa gummies, cyclobenz-etcs., & pure spite have been keeping this almost 59yr old w/ 7 herniated discs, spinal stenosis, disc degenerative disease, generalized osteoporosis, & osteoarthritis in c2 & c3 (all diag by mri in 1998) lifting 2+ tons per week for my grocery store job (held since 09). I thank my fellow voters in Illinois for legalization bcz that is the Only thing btwn me & a life of joblessness /homelessness/ constant arthritic-spine agony. And yes, I'm aware of the link btw cannabis & stroke/ heart related issues, but my drs agree the stress of living in constant agony on the streets is much more likely to k*ll me. But yeah- it'd be nice if otc pills worked for everyone.
@KayPrescesky
3 ай бұрын
It does not work on me for long and I literally laughed when they suggested that because I'd been doing that for months to little to no effect. They're fucking insane if that's going to become the SOC instead of opioids.
@bettyboop3353
3 ай бұрын
@@KayPrescesky that is all ready SOC for dentistry according to my dentist.
@HelenCamile63
3 ай бұрын
😆 I wish! Bless your heart.
@amandah2866
2 ай бұрын
I was prescribed a mix of fentanyl and ketamine after open-heart surgery. I ended up in that not-so-sweet spot of mostly pain-free but paranoid as all fuck. It turns out if you stop using oxygen after open heart surgery while on such painkillers because you're "onto them" your O2 drops down to the high 80s and low 90s. 😂😂 Once I was switched on to prolonged-release oxycontin and high-flow oxygen I was back into the high 90s and no longer paranoid enough to take off my oxygen. I actually don't like the fuzzy soupy feeling the medication gave me, after 9 days I was taking paracetamol on top of my Gabapentin and that was it. If I was having a really bad day with pain I'd take an ibuprofen as well. I hope I never have to take such strong medication again.
@eas2252
3 ай бұрын
My department issues us narcan and AEDs. Haven't used either yet, surprisingly. Did chest compressions once before I got my narcan. We are usually able to rouse them enough to be semi conscious by the time Fire gets on scene. Chest compressions are my jam, though.
@amgoudman
3 ай бұрын
I teach nursing and tell my students to stand back when you give Narcan. When I was a student on my final practicum, a fellow student at the same facility gave a patient Narcan and he promptly kicked her in the head 😬
@logangoodwin8941
3 ай бұрын
It's a wonderful drug but it also can be misused.
@haggielady
3 ай бұрын
Steve, the correct dose of opioids does not make you high or slobber on your pillow. It may make for a good video but please stick to the facts on TFTER.
@amandah2866
2 ай бұрын
Not true. Depending on other medications someone is taking, degree of injury and tolerance to sedative medications even the lowest dose can and does knock that person out cold. I'm quite sensitive to sedatives and after surgery, I've had 4 of different degrees of invasiveness, I'm out cold for a good hour or two after being given an injection. I'll be asleep for an hour about 20 minutes after taking a tablet with codeine in it.
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