Readyforchange1111
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Hi guys this is gonna probably be boring but I feel all out of sorts because of what I’ve been pumped with and need a bit of advice.(zero opiate tolerance before this)
So to start off for the past week or so I been taking cocodamol 4tabs OTC from the uk so 8mg 4x daily (in one go, at night so can sleep) for
severe wisdom tooth infection while waiting on extraction.
went for extraction (first time EVER having any dental work btw) at dentist under local anaesthetic on Friday. Started off ok was all numb then after an hour of gum cutting, drilling, and pulling the dentist said he had to break the tooth to get it out. So he did. And OH MY GOD. the pain was worse than childbirth x100. One of The broken parts of the tooth got wedged into that main nerve that runs along the jaw and I was in agony. No amount of extra injections fully eased it. He x rayed me again to see what was going on and said he has to send me to the hospital immediately to be put under general anaesthetic to get it out without hurting me because of where the nerve was laying (closer than normal peoples apparently first time in 30 years he’s seen this happen).
So off i went. He called ahead and sent me with a note saying how urgent it is because was an open surgery site. After a 5hour wait it’s now midnight and the anaesthetic has worn off and with my drilled, cut and broken infected tooth I’m in the worst pain of my life to be told no surgeons in till morning and to go home. They gave me 30mg dihydrocodeine. Said to take 1 I took two , took 4 all together in a 6hour window. no sleep all night, sat on sofa and cried until sun came up then straight back to hosp. This is where it gets bad for me.
I don’t know wtf they were doing to me mixing all this. started the morning with oramorph at 6am. Couple hours later an IM Morphine injection, still in pain but drowsy. Then IV morphine twice AND codeine tablet again. Went for surgery at 3pm FINALLY. Then I woke up in recovery with a sore jaw but only like 3/10 pain, I told them this when asked,but the recovery nurse is putting what I found out to be fentanyl in my cannula as I’m talking to her!? It was nice tho so let her keep putting it in till the syringe was empty as was so tired due to no sleep and relaxed from it. Slept a bit. Then woke up to More morphine Iv! Then a few hours later dihydrocodeine again and paracetamol. I feel sick to my stomach hadn’t eaten for two days at this point.
Anyway so last night I was sent home with more dihydrocodeine and antibiotics and slept fine (obviously). today woken up decided to avoid pain meds because of how bad my stomach felt due to the strong antibiotics and all the shit they put in me. Can’t go toilet, can’t eat cause of surgery, feel sick, in pain this evening and taken another dihydrocodeine. I really don’t wanna take any more of this shit .
If I stop completely soon as post surgery pain is gone or taper off over next couple days will i have any kind of WD’s? I know it’s a slippery slope and I feel loads better mentally for having that rotten tooth out but my body feels battered. And I don’t wanna become an addict to anything ever again I climbed out the pits of hell with a coke habit last year... I Can’t and wouldn’t at this point even consider looking for any street drugs and am needle phobic but like I said. I know it starts this way for a lot of opiate addicts.
Any advice on how to get out while I still can without feeling like utter shite ?! .. thinkin I should start by chucking the codeine pills out tomorrow and switching to paracetamol and ibuprofen and just dealing with pain??
They’re a stitch up these pharma companies. Tell u not to take more than 3 days but give u a box of 32 pills !
The dentist I was at was a holistic dentist I had a vitamin C drip in and he was gonna give me olive leaf extract and some clean vitamin c and d3/k2 and other natural stuff for recovery.do a surgical clean and put my stem cells from plasma in extraction site. Gotta wait till weds to see him again for him to do that. he feels so bad about what happened bless him and I’m feeling like shit myself now. Doing iodine and salt water rinses all day long too. Just feelin really anxious and on edge atm.
So to start off for the past week or so I been taking cocodamol 4tabs OTC from the uk so 8mg 4x daily (in one go, at night so can sleep) for
severe wisdom tooth infection while waiting on extraction.
went for extraction (first time EVER having any dental work btw) at dentist under local anaesthetic on Friday. Started off ok was all numb then after an hour of gum cutting, drilling, and pulling the dentist said he had to break the tooth to get it out. So he did. And OH MY GOD. the pain was worse than childbirth x100. One of The broken parts of the tooth got wedged into that main nerve that runs along the jaw and I was in agony. No amount of extra injections fully eased it. He x rayed me again to see what was going on and said he has to send me to the hospital immediately to be put under general anaesthetic to get it out without hurting me because of where the nerve was laying (closer than normal peoples apparently first time in 30 years he’s seen this happen).
So off i went. He called ahead and sent me with a note saying how urgent it is because was an open surgery site. After a 5hour wait it’s now midnight and the anaesthetic has worn off and with my drilled, cut and broken infected tooth I’m in the worst pain of my life to be told no surgeons in till morning and to go home. They gave me 30mg dihydrocodeine. Said to take 1 I took two , took 4 all together in a 6hour window. no sleep all night, sat on sofa and cried until sun came up then straight back to hosp. This is where it gets bad for me.
I don’t know wtf they were doing to me mixing all this. started the morning with oramorph at 6am. Couple hours later an IM Morphine injection, still in pain but drowsy. Then IV morphine twice AND codeine tablet again. Went for surgery at 3pm FINALLY. Then I woke up in recovery with a sore jaw but only like 3/10 pain, I told them this when asked,but the recovery nurse is putting what I found out to be fentanyl in my cannula as I’m talking to her!? It was nice tho so let her keep putting it in till the syringe was empty as was so tired due to no sleep and relaxed from it. Slept a bit. Then woke up to More morphine Iv! Then a few hours later dihydrocodeine again and paracetamol. I feel sick to my stomach hadn’t eaten for two days at this point.
Anyway so last night I was sent home with more dihydrocodeine and antibiotics and slept fine (obviously). today woken up decided to avoid pain meds because of how bad my stomach felt due to the strong antibiotics and all the shit they put in me. Can’t go toilet, can’t eat cause of surgery, feel sick, in pain this evening and taken another dihydrocodeine. I really don’t wanna take any more of this shit .
If I stop completely soon as post surgery pain is gone or taper off over next couple days will i have any kind of WD’s? I know it’s a slippery slope and I feel loads better mentally for having that rotten tooth out but my body feels battered. And I don’t wanna become an addict to anything ever again I climbed out the pits of hell with a coke habit last year... I Can’t and wouldn’t at this point even consider looking for any street drugs and am needle phobic but like I said. I know it starts this way for a lot of opiate addicts.
Any advice on how to get out while I still can without feeling like utter shite ?! .. thinkin I should start by chucking the codeine pills out tomorrow and switching to paracetamol and ibuprofen and just dealing with pain??
They’re a stitch up these pharma companies. Tell u not to take more than 3 days but give u a box of 32 pills !
The dentist I was at was a holistic dentist I had a vitamin C drip in and he was gonna give me olive leaf extract and some clean vitamin c and d3/k2 and other natural stuff for recovery.do a surgical clean and put my stem cells from plasma in extraction site. Gotta wait till weds to see him again for him to do that. he feels so bad about what happened bless him and I’m feeling like shit myself now. Doing iodine and salt water rinses all day long too. Just feelin really anxious and on edge atm.
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