Idk if there's a better comm for this, but.

Let's say, purely for the sake of argument debate-me-debate-me that I am currently on a super-cool prescription painkiller that works great. Let's also say for the sake of argument that the bone/sinew structure that's supposed to hold my ribs together is trying to kill me constantly by conspiring with the base of my skull to cause me unbearable chronic pain. If I skip more than like one day of the cool prescription painkillers, then even just walking around becomes challenging. But also, if I just keep taking the cool prescription painkillers, I'll build up a tolerance. I'm on like 75mg a day right now and even that could be playing with fire.

I need something cool that's gonna dummy out my pain receptors long term. What's a good painkilling solution? I've tried cymbalta, taking way too much paracetamol and ibuprofen, and this cool highly addictive prescription thing. I'm game for any suggestions.

  • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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    3 months ago

    The addiction part isn't necessarily true. I've taken Kratom for many months at a time and have never felt compelled to use or had withdrawal symptoms after stopping cold turkey. I do have a friend that said he was straight hooked on it but that hasn't been my experience. Also don't feel like you really build up a tolerance that fast because if you take too much it starts to feel like standard opiates where you become very eepy and nauseous. I only take it for fairly common aches and pains though.

      • Aryuproudomenowdaddy [comrade/them]
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        3 months ago

        shrug-outta-hecks Prescription painkillers usually just make me super itchy. I don't typically react the same way most people seem to on a lot of drugs, but I think that might just be the undiagnosed ADHD.

        • ashinadash [she/her, comrade/them]
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          3 months ago

          Big ups to ADHD :) The fucked thing is tramadol works splendidly for making all my pain receptors shut up, so it sucks it's not viable longterm.