I don’t know about anyone else but both my wife and I feel like we get little effect from them. Such that it feels like the side effects make them not worth it. This is for all opiods for us. Now granted if you don’t take them your just absolutely fucked but to us its like the pain is still there you just can like use the toilet and such. Niether of us gets why anyone can become addicted to them. Now like the ones that block nerve pain like gabapentin we fucking love as it actually seems to cause pain to go away.
It’s obviously different for different people but yeah, for me it’s just the difference of “in pain and miserable” vs “tolerating pain and normal.” And this is from someone with a standing prescription for tramadol, the only opioid that actually works for me. I only have to take it a couple times a year now, thankfully. Gabapentin has never actually helped with my pain though.
I don’t know about anyone else but both my wife and I feel like we get little effect from them. Such that it feels like the side effects make them not worth it. This is for all opiods for us. Now granted if you don’t take them your just absolutely fucked but to us its like the pain is still there you just can like use the toilet and such. Niether of us gets why anyone can become addicted to them. Now like the ones that block nerve pain like gabapentin we fucking love as it actually seems to cause pain to go away.
It’s obviously different for different people but yeah, for me it’s just the difference of “in pain and miserable” vs “tolerating pain and normal.” And this is from someone with a standing prescription for tramadol, the only opioid that actually works for me. I only have to take it a couple times a year now, thankfully. Gabapentin has never actually helped with my pain though.
People take more than they are prescribed at once “until the pain goes away” and yeah at that point they start to get high on them