My headache (yeah, singular) and the grand failure of over-the-counter painkillers to affect me is something that is not uncommon knowledge among folk I know.
So, I woke up this morning with the worst headache I have ever had. This was something brutal of an order well beyond anything I have ever felt before. I once had coffee withdrawal and a hangover simultaneously and that had nothing on what I felt this morning.
The closest I can come to describing this was as if someone was trying to flay my face off from inside my skull with one of those metal tipped whips from Passion.
After about 2-3 hours of just suffering I caved and took some Vicodin.
I wasn’t really sure what to expect. Vicodin is supposedly powerful stuff, but painkillers just don’t work.
I was quite pleasantly surprised to find that it did have an effect. 1 pill dropped me to a state of “I can actually focus on something other than pain” and 2 pills got me to “This is unpleasant, but manageable.”
While it is nice to know that there is headache relief for me when it gets too bad, the fact that it’s really powerful stuff available by prescription only is kind of depressing. I dislike medicine. I don’t want to take something that strong just to be able to clear my head when my headache gets bad.
Granted, given that I’ve made it this far in life before having my headache reach a point I couldn’t make it through unaided means it’s unlikely to happen again any time soon.
But hey, a painkiller that actually kills pain! Wuu!
How did you happen to have Vicodin? That seems kind of weird.
I’m glad you got to feeling better!