I had surgery earlier today, and my doctor wrote me a prescription for hydrocodone and told me to take it if I needed it (I think it's 15mg hydrocodone, 700mg acetiminophen every six hours).
How addictive is this stuff? Is it "take it for a couple days while recovering and you'll be fine", or is this "scarily addictive and only take it if you absolutely have to"?
I've never been given prescription painkillers before, so I have no idea how leery I should be. At least I was able to convince them to skip the valium pre-surgery.
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[–] daskapitalist [S] 0 points 5 points 5 points (+5|-0) ago
Thanks, that's what I needed. I really wasn't sure how to translate "as needed" since to me that translates as somewhere around a +7 on a 1-10 pain scale, when the pain was closer to a 4-5 like you mentioned.