"Darvocets: do they really suck that bad?" - Yes.
Yes, they do, they really suck that bad and even worse, they will NOT alleviate real pain, and THEN if you're at all sensitive to massive assaults of acetominophen upon your stomach & liver, you'll even get a bonus bullshit effect - major fuckin' nausea, and a thick, ugly overall body malaise feeling which will dog you throughout the 2-4 hours that crap remains coursing through your system. Utter horseshit, that drug. I'd love, love a private word or two with the crackie chimpanzees who decided to put this farce of a medical product out here. And I'll (imaginarily) punch any smarmy shitheel doctor in his beady little eye-hole if he or she EVer tries to shuff off a Darvocet script to me, when I'm in severe pain.
FUCK Darvocet! Seriously, Advil and/or even Aspirin Back & Body (no tylenol in it, shitloads of caffeine & aspirin) are far superior drugs, Darvocet shouldn't even be on the damn market, never mind a controlled drug. It's fucking worthless shite. I loathe Darvocet. If you want both to cure your pain and feel wonderfully fuzzy, steer clear of propoxyphene and keep the side-eye on the milligrams-levels of acetaminophen in any pill you pop.
In lieu of pussy-ass useless Darvocet, I'd personally rec. Percodan, Oxycontin, Lortab or Vicoprofen, and a little at a time will do the trick with these genuine, no-bullshit old-school opiates so don't go berzerk off the bat. But Darvocets, you cannot take more than 4 at a time without suffering major sickie nausea allllll damn day afterward, and you will still NOT get a buzz, or if you do it'll be completely drowned out by the nagging nausea from 2,400+ Mgs of poisonous Tylenol slugging through your exhausted liver.
Anyway...