Pain Medication

When a person has a disease such as endometriosis, it is extremely debilitating.  In 2007, the very first hospital I was admitted to had a solution for this. They prescribed Percoset, or Vicodin.  These medicatons do absolutely nothing for pain, but dull it enough so that it is tolerable.
We had a storm this week, Megastorm Sandy.  My doctor that I see on a regular basis was not available to me.  He wrote me out a prescription for Percoset and I was only too happy to take it. I did not have a problem falling asleep. I would moan and toss and turn a whole lot, but I was not really aware of any of it.
Not having the percoset to take, I started to have some very bad symptoms. Without realizing it, I was in withdrawal.
I stopped the percoset cold turkey.  I had to do, what I had to do. I had terrible sweats.  I actually haulucinated one night.
I could not sleep.
I felt irritable.
The pain that was normally an annoyance at night, and sometimes severe become intolerable suddenly. 
I felt like my legs were on fire. The pain radiated from my ankles up to my knees. It was incredible pain, like I had never felt before.
I realized that my body was looking for percoset, and becaue I had not taken it for three days, my body began to react.
I will never take this medication or any narcotic ever again.
These medications are highly addictive and contain an insane amount of tyleonol, which is very bad for your liver.  That can lead to a slew of other problems.
I am finally feeling better for the first time in two weeks. 
I was able to sleep and rest without feeling like I was put into a drug induced sleep.  I got REST.
Amazing.
Be careful of which drugs you take for pain.  Even though a doctor or hospital may be the ones prescribing it, it is your body and the ultimate decision is yours.
By all means, do what you have to do, to have some semblance of a normal existance without absolute writhing pain. 
Just remember that when you stop taking these types of medications, no matter how infrequent they may be taken, you will have a problem.