I hate opioids. They do not work on me and just mess up my head. Xylocaine doesn’t even work. When I have to get stitches, they shoot me up which take some of the pain away and I just grit my teeth and bear it.
This really takes me back . . . When I was in college I had my wisdom teeth removed. The dentist gave me 11 shots of novocaine in the roof of my mouth and 11 in the lower jaw, in an attempt to numb me up enough to remove the wisdom teeth. I still felt everything, starting with the scalpel going in. He got tired of waiting, so he just proceeded with the surgery despite my pain. It was a long time before I went back to a dentist after that, and I never returned to his office. I never made the connection between that and my poor response to other opioids.