Blargh

[mousme]

Okay, the codeine did NOT agree with me today. There was some unpleasantness today —I shall spare you the details— and as a result I am home early from work. I am now going to have a nap.

Blech.

I can't believe people become addicted to this. Who would want this?

Comments

[threnodythefop.livejournal.com]

Ergh.

Had a migraine once. My grandmother gave me some codeine-based painkillers for it. Seemed like a good idea at the time. Took them like I would regular tylenol pills and went to work.


At lunchtime my boss sent me home because I was swaying, visibly as high as a kite, and extraordinarily drowsy...hence, I guess, the swaying. It wasn't a terribly good day. Still can't quite believe that people take that stuff recreationally.

[chasingthenuns.livejournal.com]

I will never understand it either.

[ai731.livejournal.com]

I believe people become addicted to codeine not because they are taking them for fun, but because they are taking them for pain relief for long enough that they become dependent on them. That was the experience of a friend of mine, anyway: she was prescribed them for pain relief post-operatively, the operation turned out to have gone badly, and she needed to keep taking the codeine so that she could function well enough to care for her baby. By the time the injury / surgical complications had healed enough that she could cope without the codeine, she was addicted to it.

[sparrowinsky.livejournal.com]

It might also be that drugs do different things to different people. I guess it might make some people feel good?

This is my theory, mainly because codeine reacts oddly with me. I'm pretty sure it's not supposed to make you go to sleep for a few hours and then wake up in the middle of a hardcore adrenaline rush... which does not feel good, so that might screw up my theory a little.

Oh well. Drugs are weird. Do not like.

[longpig.livejournal.com]

I suspect the codeine experience varies from person to person... I take Tylenol 1s for my migraines and it's never made me sick, just a bit floaty. The Imitrex was muuuch worse (although very effective).

[taxlady.livejournal.com]

Codeine does not affect me that way. With the strong ones, I get a bit floaty and I wouldn't want to operate heavy machinery.

I don't usually take anything for pain if ASA is enough. Acetaminophen and ibuprofen don't do anything for me, in terms of pain relief. So, I always have AC&C (and it has to be the kind with ASA, the other ones don't work) at home.

I can understand getting addicted. I find the relief from nagging pain pleasurable.

[sassy-fae.livejournal.com]

Codeine doesn't affect me the same way, it just makes me drowsy and dulls the pain. If you had to be on it for a long while, being not in pain when on it and feeling withdrawal on having to stop taking it would definitely cause people to want to stay on it!

[mousme.livejournal.com]

I guess so, if you're not getting all these nasty side-effects. I haven't felt so sick in *years*. It was vastly unpleasant.

[kiwano.livejournal.com]

Some people don't get those side-effects. I also hear that withdrawal from a long run on opiates (even in the absence of pain for it to relieve) tends to range somewhere between hours of relentless, severe itching, and hours of causeless, excruciating pain.