igy76

Hey all. I'm ending now my fourth month of the 2nd kidney stone experience in my life. I'm having my SECOND lithiotripsy within three months (11/8/02) on 1/30, and it's my THIRD overall. It's a LONG story. A real doozy. But since I'm still pepped up from the dilauded shot I received in the ER early this morning, I thought I'd stop by the boards and pop a question.

We all know the eternal search for reading material while we wait for our prescriptions to be filled (And gee, we never seem to actually BUY that magazine do we? 20 minutes seems like just enough time to extract the info we needed. Browsing is the term....)But the other day out of curiosity I picked up some official Pharmacist's Pill Book. So I looked up Percocet, and for side effects it had two categories, MOST COMMON and LESS COMMON. Now we all know the lip service (and ink as well) that's paid to the whole "high probability for dependance" issue, but get this: What merely made it into the LESS COMMON side effect list - and I quote "feeling of euphoria (getting high)". Uh.... Wha.....? Can't have it both ways....

While I'm at it, another random observation. I live alone and most of the time I'm at the ER its late at night so I'm not calling anybody to drive me. Do you guys experience this at all? That it seems completely random in that which doctor and which time when they'll give you a hard time about wanting to drive yourself home after your given narcotics? I've had some doctors give me demerol, then cut me lose well within an hour without even a mention of how I was getting home. Other times, I've been given a cursory "neurological test" to make sure I'm okay to drive. And now tonight I had to walk home. There was NO WAY the doc was letting me drive home (luckily I live within a mile). And the kicker? This very same doc in the past (he didnt remember me) has let me go after giving drugs. Now, I've been in the ER at least 2 dozen times in the last 5 months or so, and I just never know when I'm going to be given a hassle or not. And I'm lucky in that narcotics don't affect my facilties at all, I remain completely lucid and coherent even minutes after a shot. I've driven home MANY times on the stuff, and constantly drive when I'm on oral meds. Never a problem.

What do you guys think? Talk amongst yourselves....