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I don't know the details of your surgery but I've been prescribed narcotics three times post-surgery and have always halved my prescribed dosage after day 2 and

I don't know the details of your surgery but I've been prescribed narcotics three times post-surgery and have always halved my prescribed dosage after day 2 and stopped completely by day 5. Then we bring the extras To get destroyed at a drug drop off (local pharmacies offer this here)

_iyig 6y ago
I was also very cautious when given opioids after my wisdom teeth extraction. As it turned out they gave me painful, uncontrollable hiccups that persisted for days and days. The experience was extremely unpleasant, but also a bit of a relief, as I knew there was no chance I'd keep taking those pills post-recovery. I learned later that opioid-induced hiccups are rare, but not totally unheard of: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10202603/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10202603/
valuearb 6y ago
My experience is a weird reverse. I took one after the anesthesia wore off day 1, from then on only took Tylenol because the pain wasn’t that bad and I didn’t want the nausea. Unfortunately night of day 3 pain was worse so I tried the Oxycodone again (it’s mixed with Tylenol so have to choose one or other). No nausea and an impressive night of sleep convinced me to start taking the opioid at nights and Tylenol for working hours. But now it’s the night of day 5 and two hours after taking OxyCodone has barely kicked in and not enough to sleep. I don’t know if it’s having an interaction with something I ate it my other medication (taken minutes before). But I can see why people up their dosages.
- jjeaff 6y ago
  Some studies have shown that taking tylenol and ibuprofen together has equivalent pain reduction to oxy.
- tekstar 6y ago
  > But I can see why people up their dosages. I would suggest you REALLY self assess carefully - are you not sleeping because of actual fresh pain? Or are you not sleeping because your body wants a nice fuzzy cloud of opioids to crash on? Your first night of sober sleep is going to be a bit tougher no matter what, I suggest you try acedominophen and ibuprofen alternating to cut the surgical pain but you'll still need to get through the lack of narcotics
  - valuearb 6y ago
    It was the pain, finally fell asleep 3 hours in without taking another. Took one after 4 hours of sleep to help me sleep more but switching to Tylenol in an hour when it expires.

_iyig 6y ago

I was also very cautious when given opioids after my wisdom teeth extraction. As it turned out they gave me painful, uncontrollable hiccups that persisted for days and days. The experience was extremely unpleasant, but also a bit of a relief, as I knew there was no chance I'd keep taking those pills post-recovery. I learned later that opioid-induced hiccups are rare, but not totally unheard of: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10202603/ https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/10202603/

valuearb 6y ago

My experience is a weird reverse. I took one after the anesthesia wore off day 1, from then on only took Tylenol because the pain wasn’t that bad and I didn’t want the nausea. Unfortunately night of day 3 pain was worse so I tried the Oxycodone again (it’s mixed with Tylenol so have to choose one or other). No nausea and an impressive night of sleep convinced me to start taking the opioid at nights and Tylenol for working hours. But now it’s the night of day 5 and two hours after taking OxyCodone has barely kicked in and not enough to sleep. I don’t know if it’s having an interaction with something I ate it my other medication (taken minutes before). But I can see why people up their dosages.

jjeaff 6y ago
Some studies have shown that taking tylenol and ibuprofen together has equivalent pain reduction to oxy.
tekstar 6y ago
> But I can see why people up their dosages. I would suggest you REALLY self assess carefully - are you not sleeping because of actual fresh pain? Or are you not sleeping because your body wants a nice fuzzy cloud of opioids to crash on? Your first night of sober sleep is going to be a bit tougher no matter what, I suggest you try acedominophen and ibuprofen alternating to cut the surgical pain but you'll still need to get through the lack of narcotics
- valuearb 6y ago
  It was the pain, finally fell asleep 3 hours in without taking another. Took one after 4 hours of sleep to help me sleep more but switching to Tylenol in an hour when it expires.