Quote Originally Posted by GlassMan
This is totally off-topic but it's a fun digression. I don't manage pain medications well. They just don't do anything for me. For some reason they don't actually manage to suppress the pain as well as they should and they don't last very long. The doc prescribed large dose morphine and oxycontin for me once and they did absolutely nothing for me. So I just gave up on narcotic pain relievers.

Well, at my recent orthopedist visit he asked me if I was trying any over-the-counter pain relievers to help out. I answered yes. He asked if it was working and my reply was that it seemed to help. This got his attention and he asked what I was taking, how much, and how often.

I told him, that I was using 12 year old scotch, taken as 2 fingers of scotch in a standard tumbler, as needed for pain! He didn't think it was funny at all. But he did suggest that my prodigious alcohol consumption and tolerance might have something to do with my ability to metabolize narcotics as fast as lighthing. When he was doing the last operation on my leg I even woke up during surgery! Ahh, I love my liver.
sounds like a well developed pain relief plan you have there. Show a perfect reason why scotch was invented far before most modern medicines!