[z3n]

Possibly Tylenol 3 with codeine.

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I believe codeine is an opiate derivative or whatever.

It was probably just a mega dose of acitominaphen. That’s my guess anyway.

I once told my dentist that I didn’t like how codeine made me feel, not allergic, but he gave me a 1000mg dose of ibuprofen. I had to laugh. Why can I just take 5 of the regular pills?

[Hootowl99]

Megadose of acetaminophen can suppress pain but typically can only be tolerated for a short period because it tends to cause stomach ulcers. Basically if a person is megadosing and begins to get an upset stomach, that is a red flag to immediately discontinue acetaminophen to avoid injury. Look up acetaminophen on the web to get a better description of this. I’m not a doc.

Maybe 30 years ago, I had severe whiplash from an automobile injury. Initial pain relief was by Tylenol with codeine. Totally zombiefied goofy. Told pain doc I needed my brain back so switched to acetaminophen megadose.

In my case, the acetaminophen reduced inflammation that thus reduced pressure on nerves at the points of disk damage. Doc advised on the risk and I only tolerated acetaminophen megadose for a few weeks.

Doc switched me to a then new drug that for the life of me I can't recall the name of. Non opiate, non habit forming, rarely prescribed, very expensive, worked well for my goals. My goals were tolerable pain with a functioning brain.

Every pain doc visit, the doc would load me up with physicians samples but even so, the insurance company freaked out. For that matter, the health insurance company was freaked out about everything going on. I'm leaving out details.

I ended up having to get real belligerent with the health insurance company in a legal way. Finally found the magic tactic (caught them in an illegal business practice in my state) that got the health insurance company to suck it up and to quit whining and interfering.