Many people who are given opioid painkillers are under the mistaken impression that they will totally alleviate the pain.
They don’t. The medical profession needs to make this clear so as to set the patient’s expectations.
I never said that I was under the impression that opioids (or anything else for that matter) would totally alleviate pain. I merely stated my perception regarding the effectiveness of dilaudid for that specific issue at that time. The pain level was made tolerable, and it got me over the hump of intense acute pain so I could ride out the gall bladder attack without wanting to just be dead.
I’ll agree that many doctors or other medical professionals are not explaining things of this nature well enough. Many people do not do any research into their own conditions and treatments for them either.