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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was prescribed Percocet after my c-section. Do they still do that? I used it for a few days, then switched to Advil. Once my pain decreased, the medication actually made me feel sick; I couldn’t tolerate it.[/quote]

They do I think, or at least I was prescribed it after mine 6 years ago.  I didn’t take it.  Not because I was worried about dependence in that case, but because of the side effects I’d had when taking it after an emergency surgery 2 years prior.  The side effects were definitely worse than the pain, so once I was off the 24 hr IV in the hospital after the c-section I just took OTC stuff for the pain.

I have two chronic conditions whose primary symptom is pain: endometriosis and fibromyalgia.  Opioids do not help the pain with either, and I’m grateful for that as otherwise I’d be very worried I could become dependent or addicted taking them.  The pain from the endometriosis is so bad at times that I feel like I’d do almost anything in the moment to stop it.  I take boatloads of ibuprofen, and wish I didn’t have to, but there’s no alternative if I want to be functional.  For the fibromyalgia I take Cymbalta daily, which helps a fair amount, and ibuprofen as needed (which only helps minimally).

I very much empathize with others who suffer from chronic pain.  Many have it much worse than I do; at least my pain comes and goes. I can definitely see the need to mute the pain just to function sometimes, and I understand the desire to rid oneself of pain when it just a constant, ever-present thing. Chronic pain is very hard to live with.[/quote]

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