Anyone have a general high tolerance for pain meds?

[AtlantaRed 651]

I must take up this Scottish/red hair issue with my family who has been passing themselves off as Indians all these years

Lol...I know I'm 1/4 Mexican (first language was spanish) and part German. Not sure where mine came from! (In my pic, it's "enhanced" but it really does have it's own red, I promise!)

[Miss Mac 6,262]

You can tell by my username of Miss Mac, that I am Scottish. I was born with red hair, and it is just now at age 61, starting to go white. My dentist obliges my pain levels with extra relief, but the doctor who gives me spinal epidurals for sciatica at the pain clinic doesn't buy into the theory. As for me, I believe it. When I had some spinal reconstruction this past February, I had to stay in the hospital an extra day because of crazy pain that they were not expecting. Dilauded helped, by made me really loopy. In order to sleep when my sciatica acts up between appointments, I have to use a topical nerve cream (Voltarin gel), hydrocodone, lidocain Patches, and sometimes sleeping pills. My doctor told me to knock off with the sleeping pills on top of hydrocodone He said he would rather have a patient in pain than a dead patient. So, he has a patient in pain. Sorry, if that's no comfort, but it helps to validate the Scottish / Irish pain threshold concept. If I have pain issues after my sleeve, in spite of meds, I will probably be slapping Lidocaine patches every where.

[AtlantaRed 651]

You can tell by my username of Miss Mac, that I am Scottish. I was born with red hair, and it is just now at age 61, starting to go white. My dentist obliges my pain levels with extra relief, but the doctor who gives me spinal epidurals for sciatica at the pain clinic doesn't buy into the theory. As for me, I believe it. When I had some spinal reconstruction this past February, I had to stay in the hospital an extra day because of crazy pain that they were not expecting. Dilauded helped, by made me really loopy. In order to sleep when my sciatica acts up between appointments, I have to use a topical nerve cream (Voltarin gel), hydrocodone, lidocain Patches, and sometimes sleeping pills. My doctor told me to knock off with the sleeping pills on top of hydrocodone He said he would rather have a patient in pain than a dead patient. So, he has a patient in pain. Sorry, if that's no comfort, but it helps to validate the Scottish / Irish pain threshold concept. If I have pain issues after my sleeve, in spite of meds, I will probably be slapping Lidocaine Patches every where.

Another decent report for Dilaudid! I will keep my fingers crossed. I don't much mind the loopy (I wouldn't work or drive on it but while I'm at home, loop away!)

Thank you for your input and hope you're pain is controlled as well!