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I've actually always wondered that as well. The strongest pain medication I've ever had is over the counter tylenol. What do stronger painkillers do exactly that makes people get addicted to them? Do they just really relax you? Is it something that can't be described and you must experience the feeling to understand?

In addition to what other people said, I just realized when you asked that that I had an undiagnosed anxiety disorder at the time, and painkillers will relax the shit out of you. When you think of how many Americans are running around with untreated or undertreated mental health issues, there can be no doubt it really exacerbates the situation.

It may be a psychologcal thing because of my dad, but I hate morphine. I hate the head-spinny feeling you get when it first kicks in, and I hate the slightly foggy feeling while it's active. Lesser narcotics like percocet and stuff are better and I have no real objection to taking them, but I still don't like the feeling.

When I had some surgical procedure I can't remember now, my vasovagal reaction was kicking in from the IV so they gave me something to relax and I can still remember the kind of frazzle that went through my visual field, and it was so positive that when I semi woke up it was imperative to find the nurse with cute sneakers and thank her.

Reason #47651 why there cannot possibly be a God: the incredibly positive feelings of drug use coupled with the horrific consequences of drug addiction.

After my knee surgery, they gave me percocet and vicodin, both of which made me incredibly sick to my stomach. I can't even express how painful it was to try to kneel in front of a toilet on a tile floor less than eight hours after knee surgery. They ended up giving me Tylenol 3, which is tylenol with codeine in it. For some reason, that has no adverse effect even though codeine is an opiate related to morphine.

The reason: modern medicine is basically hygienic witchcraft with stethoscopes.

oh my gosh that sucks.

I took two oxy's that night after the morphine had worn off and threw up for an hour. I started cutting them in half after that, and then quarters. Rx doses are based on the average man, not woman, for things like sleeping pills and pain killers it's just too much, especially for smaller women, get a pill cutter if you don't have one.

Do you use the razor blade kind or the plastic kind??? I use the razor kind because I'm hard like that.

I also had dramatically different reactions to vicodin and percocet, so suck on that Showal. Nerd.