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"Hydrocodone changes you from what you are"

...I am taking it for a pinched nerve in my neck. It is prescribed to take two at a time up to four times a day and I take them at most two pills a day. Only when the pain reaches a point just short of being intolerable. You are right, it changes me from what I am - hurting - to being relatively pain free for a few hours.
...When my colon ruptured I was in the hospital for eight days and had a morphine "drip" it is on a timer where you can give yourself a dose after a certain period of time. I got to where I REALLY looked forward to my next "hit"
...Pain killing chemicals have a useful purpose but I agree there is a fine line between using them and abusing them.

I should have stated, "they don't work properly for everyone". I'm glad they're helping you, Graybeard58. I just had too many contraindications for any of that stuff. The doctors just don't know or care what they perscribe for who. And they know little of addiction. I used to be one of those people who believed if a doctor said it, it must be gospel. Especially if it numbs you for a bit.