Hi Peter,
Percocet is an amazing pain killer that helps a huge number of people
though - the trick to taking it without dramatic side effects is to start
slowly. Being unable to focus is a pretty severe side effect - good thing
you were at home in bed when you took them - in hindsight, taking 2 may have
been too much - but at least they stopped the stone pain. I've had kidney
stones also - felt like I was dieing - I empathize and hope you don't have
episodes very often.
I have chronic pain unrelated to stones and started at 1 perc a day -
eventually ended at 4 of the 10/650 size a day - when the morphine pump was
implanted we gradually reduced it to 4 Perc of 10/325 strength - the 325
indicates the amount of acetomenphine in the pill which can be very bad for
the kidneys when taken long term - total time for me is up to ~10 years.
The morphine pump puts a continuous drip of morphine directly into my spine
but I had to have it refilled monthly - to get better pain relief they
changed it to Dilaudid which is more concentrated and the refills went to
every 3 or 4 months - a big relief considering they had trouble finding the
port and once made 7 attempts with the needle before finding it. No fun at
all.
The Dilaudid was a huge help in controlling pain and I have been able to
gradually reduce the Percocets to 2/day and my kidneys thank me. ;-)
Now, I only have 1 or 2 "Bad" days/week where before it was 3-5 bad days a
week.
They had me on Oxycontin for a while - but the criminal element makes that
dangerous - some thugs were following people home and breaking in to steal
it - Hillbilly Heroin it was called. But it was a great pain killer - most
effective when it was built up over time.
I hope the Kidney Stones are a rare event for you - it's amazing how much
pain something so small can cause -
Larry T (67 MGB, 74 911, 78 240D, 91 300D)
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Peter Frederick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Mercedes Discussion List" <mercedes@okiebenz.com>
Sent: Friday, December 22, 2006 10:34 AM
Subject: Re: [MBZ] 190D pics
I had a similar experience with Percocets a couple years back. I had a
kidney stone (avoid these, they are not worth the trouble!) and the
doctor gave me some for pain. The dispenser at the drug store asked
me if I took painkillers or narcotics of any kind, and I of course said
no, why do you ask? He replied that I probably need to be in bed when
I took the Percocets, then.
I had an "episode" at 5 am, finally gave in a took two at 5:30.
Within a minute I was comatose, woke up at 9:30 but couldn't focus both
eyes at the same time in the same place, and finally managed to get to
the phone at 10:00 and call in.
For the life of me I cannot understand why someone would call abusing
these things "recreational". "Suicidal the slow way" is more like it,
who wants to be incapacitated?
Peter
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