Ah. That explains a few things.

[solarbird]

Also, when you ask what painkiller the hospital is handing you, "Tylenol" may mean "Tylenol WITH CODEINE." If you are most people, you lose nothing in the distinction. If you are the 0.2% of people who have the paranoia reaction to codeine, it might put your sleepless night and next day spent crying uncontrollably - until it finally fully wears off - into a little more context.

I have explained this as well. Hopefully it will stick.

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[spazzkat.livejournal.com]

Ah. Yeah. Anything with -codone at the end is codine. That's what the nurse was giving you when I made the Limbaugh crack then realized it was Oxycontin that he was taking and that it was codine that they were giving you.

All codine does for me is fuck up my sleep as well.

:-P

[brightbeak.livejournal.com]

i have a VERY VERY large warning in my file about percocets, and there has still been issues w/ it b/c they don't bother reading the warning, they just open up and try prescribing the pain-nuker du jour...
it doesn't make me wonky or anything else of medical note, unless of course LIKING it and becoming addicted again is worth noting... :P
fortunately, i guess i'm SO damn vocal when they're giving me pain meds (even when completely out of it in recovery & whatnot) that i tell them that i want meds, but they can shove the percs up their collective you-know-where's! i'm supposedly anything BUT subtle in my comments about it... :P
friend of mine has a nasty reaction to demerol (bp from normal to the basement faster than you can say "gravity") and they've given it to him several times already after being TOLD...

guess they figure that when you are in pain that you'll take anything and the side effects be damned :P :P
stupid folks!

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

Never had Codein myself, and hope I never do. My mother is allergic to it, and I already know I'm allergic to several unrelated drugs.

[kissare.livejournal.com]

Ugh - I've never had a bad reaction to codeine, but the very idea that they would blatantly ignore an instruction to NOT give someone a certain medicine infuriates me! The person inhabiting the body MIGHT just actually KNOW something about how that body responds to certain drugs, and I don't care HOW long anyone went to medical school; it does NOT give them the right to ignore peoples instructions about their own bodies!

[lyricae.livejournal.com]

Last time I took Codeine I woke up with a tatoo, so it makes me paranoid these days as well.

Glad to see you posting. As soon as I can walk more than a few feet without whimpering, I'll be up to visit!

[dpawtows.livejournal.com]

Hospital staff, like staff everywhere, sometimes have problems with odd situations. Remind me to tell you the story of my grandfather and the "removeable teeth", preferably sometime when you're not in a hospital yourself.

[pauldf.livejournal.com]

Heh. Yeah, I think it's also known as Tylenol #3. You should also avoid Robitussin AC. :) There are likely others.

[sarakate.livejournal.com]

Well, that sucks. The last time I was in the hospital, I had a bright red bracelet with my allergies/contraindications written on it in big letters, and persons who entered with pills I was supposed to take obsessively checked it -- evidently your hospital could merit from some similar procedure.

[solarbird]

Well, it was more a lack of clarity on at least both sides. They had talked about codeine at one point, and I'd said no thanks, but hadn't said why. For all they knew, I just didn't want to be sleepy right then.

[solarbird]

Well, it was more a lack of clarity on at least both sides. They had talked about codeine at one point, and I'd said no thanks, but hadn't said why - in fact, I'd said that I did not have dependency issues with it. So for all they knew, I just didn't want to be sleepy right then. I needed to be much more complete and emphatic.

I'm now listed as allergic/reactive and I have another new bracelet.

[solarbird]

Last time I took Codeine I woke up with a tatoo
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