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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:01 AM
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Have you ever taken the drug Percocet?
Edited on Fri Mar-17-06 12:02 AM by Blue_Roses
I had some surgery yesterday and they gave me this for pain. I'm not sure if this is the best pain medicine the doctor could have given me. :crazy:

What's been your experience with it if you've ever taken it. I'm wondering if I may be allergic to it or something. It feels like my head is floating. I need to give the doctor a call tomorrow.
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Spider Jerusalem Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:05 AM
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1. You feel like your head is floating...
because Percocet is a narcotic, and if you don't have any tolerance to opiates, they make you feel floaty. Don't worry, it's doing what it's supposed to do--and any other effective pain medication you were prescribed, like Vicodin (also a narcotic), would have the same effect.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:06 AM
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2. I take it every month for my cramps
Feeling like your head is floating is not a sign of allergy--it means you're stoned. That's a pretty normal reaction to opiate painkillers. A sign of allergic reaction would be more like rash, extreme itching, trouble breathing and the like. Just be sure you don't drive, operate any machinery that could injure you (or anybody else), or do anything that you need full concentration for while you are feeling the way you are.
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:11 AM
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3. the thing is
while my head is "floaty" I still feel the pain of my incisions from surgery.
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 01:48 AM
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16. It may not kill the pain 100% unfortunately
You can always ask the doc if you can take a higher dose, or do what I do, which is take some Ibuprofen along with it. Sometimes what you're prescribed just isn't enough for the amount of pain you are suffering.
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Kathryn STone Donating Member (229 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 01:10 AM
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14. I'll be shocked if you say you live in TX
I have had major back surgery here and it's like oh ok back to the tylenol. I think TX is one of the worst states in the country for health care. Anyone?
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NMMNG Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 01:50 AM
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18. Aaaack, no
No offense to anyone in TX, but I wouldn't go near there--I've heard too many horror stories. I'm in MD myself (though it's not what I'd call the best state in the Union either).
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Jamastiene Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:12 AM
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4. I had surgery last summer. It did that to me too... at first.
and made me nauseated. After a couple of days, I was looking forward to taking it again... and again. It's a bit habit forming. My aunt has had a killer backache for the last couple of days. She could use on of those about now. Count yourself lucky. Enjoy!
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0007 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:24 AM
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5. Yes, and I didn't like it!
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:27 AM
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6. I don't like it either
I'm calling the doctor tomorrow to see if there's anything else he can give me.
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Heidi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:29 AM
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7. When I was 15, a doctor gave me a Perocet prescription
for menstrual cramps. Bad, bad experience for me. My mom nixed nixed and flushed _that_ idea right away, as she should have.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:40 AM
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8. It's basically the only pain medication I can use.
I have a nasty codeine allergy, so hydrocodone (Vicodin and all generic equivalents for it) are out. Otherwise I will puke like Reagan in "The Exorcist."

I mean, obviously they're not going to give you Percocet for everything, but after the few surgeries I've had, I always insist on it because all the other commonly offered alternatives either make me vomit or aren't effective. Sounds like you have it the other way around, though.
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:49 AM
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11. I've had Darvocet for pain before and I think it does much better.
Definitely a call will be in order for the doctor tomorrow.
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ncrainbowgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 01:58 AM
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19. I also have a nasty vicodin allergy.
Hives. Everywhere.
Yuck.
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BlueIris Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 02:38 AM
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20. Isn't that just the worst?
I hate it. My life would be so much easier if I could take the most commonly prescribed pain killer in America--but I can't. Sucks.
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ncrainbowgrrl Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 03:05 AM
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21. My face was so broken out- I looked like a 12-13 year old.
Had to ask for acne cream also! It was embarrassing!
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specimenfred1984 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:44 AM
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9. Oxycontin Gets Rid of Pain
Serious pain. It's also seriously addictive for many people. It doesn't make your head feel as "floating" but it does pretty much wipe out any thoughts or thinking at all if you take too much.

A doctor might prescribe just a few, like he did for me for serious back spasms.
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:50 AM
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12. oh, gawd..isn't this the "Rush Limbaugh" drug?
no wonder he's such a ditz:crazy:
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FredStembottom Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:46 AM
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10. I've had PercoDAN and experienced absolute bliss
like never before or since!
My dentist gave it to me after root canal. He is also an old friend from high school - the euphoria was sooooooo pronounced that I made him promise to never give it to me again. Too dangerous!

But.....I don't know how different 'dan is from 'cet.:shrug:
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Katherine Brengle Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 12:51 AM
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13. I had it in the hospital after my daughter was born--it is useless, imho--
I got better relief from the Advil they gave me when the percs were's working.
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Missy Vixen Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 01:25 AM
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15. Ahhhh. Percocet.
>What's been your experience with it if you've ever taken it.<

It was the only thing that worked when I had my gall bladder out. :scared: I have to be dying before I'll take an aspirin, but that stuff -- ahhhhhh. ;-)

The doc probably prescribed it because he or she wants you to sleep. If you're not sure, you might want to call in the morning and talk to them about it.

Julie
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Mar-17-06 01:50 AM
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17. Percocet makes me nauseated.
But am very sensitive to so many Rx painkillers.

It will make you very sleepy.

Sorry you had to have surgery :hug:
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