Sad, yes, but there is a SUREFIRE WAY to not get addicted to opiates.
I’ve had two major brain surgeries and four c sections. Especially after the brain surgeries, you needed opiates. I wouldn’t have wanted to live without them. Thank Gd for the Poppy plant. Some pain you wouldn’t want your worst enemy to feel. Well, maybe your worst enemy!
Anyway, here is the surefire way to know when to stop the pain pills. The time when you say, I’m going to take one now, for the pain that will probably happen later. BOOM. This feeling always happens when you’ve been on opiates for a couple days. Your brain tells you, take one now... for later... and you need to step in RIGHT THEN and not take one. The next day will be easy to pass them up. It always works for me.
But yes, I understand the pull of them. After my first surgery, they had been shooting me up with morphine in my front thighs (I was in another country) every time I said the word for pain. They sent me home after a week of this, with some low dose opiate pill. The first day in my own bed I lay there with tears streaming down my cheeks in bed while every rustle in the next room was like a cacophony. I couldn’t even sleep, I just lay there in some kind of hell that was beyond pain. But it passed.
My last two c sections, after recovery I refused the Demerol shots that were offered. I wanted to be alert for the baby. No one needs to be a hero, but a little pain in life won’t kill ya.