Beautiful timing for surgery. (Wisdom teeth removal tomorrow.)

[The Ghost of RubangB]

Ooh, I'll put up the pics in a bit.

@DMeisterJ, Vicodin normally feels great, but they only gave me 5 milligram pills, the bastards, and only 20 of them. But either I'm Wolverine or the dentist was Gandalf, because I'm not in pain and don't need them at all.

I'm surprised I only got this many though. My friend got 3 jars of 50 pills. I get no refills.

They told me to eat a meal, then have a vicodin with a large glass of water, and continue to drink water all day so I don't get constipated.

But I'm not really eating yet. I went 38.5 hours with no solid foods (2 Odwalla protein drinks last night), and just had some rice a couple hours ago. I didn't chew and just washed it down with water. The vicodin is feeling pretty good 'cuz I'm on an almost empty stomach.


Vicodin's an opiate, which puts it in the same family as opium, morphine (which was invented to get addicts off opium), heroin (which was invented to get addicts off morphine), methadone (which was invented to get addicts off heroin), along with oxycodone, percoset, and a bunch of others I forget. They're all basically just like the endorphins your brain creates to stop pain (the word endorphin is a portmanteau of "endogenous morphine), which makes them get absorbed by the brain super efficiently and they work great. This means 2 things: no permanent side effects (the main short-term side effect is drowsiness, feeling great, and if the dose is strong enough, shutting down of your digestive and excretory systems to the point where you can't shit or piss, and if you eat ANYTHING you'll vomit immediately) and... super addictive. This means that if you can find your sweet spot and not get addicted, the drug is completely harmless. But of course the government doesn't want you to know that.



@super_etecoon, I didn't make it to Choke. I got home at 5 and played FF4DS for a few hours while the really heavy anesthesia wore off. I would've had to be at the theater a few hours in advance to get a seat, and when I first got out of the dentist's office I could barely stand up, let alone in a line for hours.