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Hey guys, I am in need of some advice from anyone with experience with prescription pain killers.
I am prescribed Norco 5/325 for an extruded disc in my back which I will be having surgery for soon. I am deathly afraid of becoming addicted to them. I am a correctional officer and see everyday, first hand, how these can destroy lives.
I have been on them for about 2 months and only take 1 or two a day if any at all (some days I dont need to take any depending on my pain level.) However sometimes I catch myself craving them for the high that they can produce and try to convince myself that I need to take one. I won't take one unless I am in some sort of pain but sometimes its not severe pain and I'll take it just to be totally pain free (even if it is just mild pain). I never take more than prescribed, I never drink on them or use any other illicit drugs, and I don't run out of them very quickly.
Does this make me an addict? I get very anxious about this everyday and it's all I can think about sometimes (not taking the pills, but whether or not I am addicted to them).
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>>16861224
>I am prescribed Norco 5/325 for an extruded disc in my back which I will be having surgery for soon.
You will be given something stronger after the surgery for a few weeks.
Talk to your doctor after the surgery about getting off of them. You will be fine assuming you don't go looking for pills on the street.
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>>16861254
Thanks for the response. I have absolutely no intention of ever trying to find them illicitly. I could not even imagine myself doing that
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>>16861259
Trust me, it happens. You turn into some disgusting shell of a human being when you're an addict, and your brain will try to reason and find excuses to why YOU doing it is less terrible than other people doing it.
Like "I'm a correctional officer, it's not like I'm on the streets begging for money", "I'm not a criminal, I'm not harming anyone", etc
Believe me, 5 year addict talking here. I guess all I can suggest is: don't forget you're human, and if given the circumstances, you'd eat a live baby if you had to. You're as human as every addict, murderer, criminal and suicidal person there has ever been, so please take care of yourself and realize you too can become corrupt, addicted or dead.
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