For what it's worth, it's not that they don't suppress pain when I take them. They do, quite effectively; it's just that I don't find anything else about the ex

For what it's worth, it's not that they don't suppress pain when I take them. They do, quite effectively; it's just that I don't find anything else about the experience to be at all pleasant. To your point about genetic variation, I'm told I have an unusually high pain tolerance; at that same ER visit, when the doctor came in to discuss the CT results showing the size of the stone, she expressed some surprise that I hadn't done any screaming. My mother tells me that she's the same way. So maybe it's something to do with that? I really don't know. In any case, it's clear from the responses I've gotten that to generalize from my own experience here is unwise, and I won't repeat the error.