FDA Denies Relief To Chronic Pain Sufferers And People With Shady Doctors
If you're holding Percocet or Vicodin, start hoarding (also, come sit by me): An FDA advisory panel has recommended that the pills be taken off the market because the acetaminophen in them tends to blow up your liver when taken at high doses or with alcohol. The move has been condemned by some doctors who worry that it will have an adverse impact on patients who use the pills to combat severe pain, but let's be honest: Most of you guys use it because it gives you that sweet, fucked up, itchy underwater feeling. Get ready to start lying to your friends about how you're all out while surreptitiously sneaking into the bathroom to knock one back.
When the hell is the FDA going to talk a hard look at dread and desolation?
They'll just remove the acetaminophen from Vic and call it Oxy-Lite or some nonsense and raise the price in the bargain. Acetaminophen does nothing for existential pain anywho.
If by "underwater feeling" you mean "unable to breathe" then yes, that's exactly what the vic does to me. (Yes, Alex, you can have mine.)
Anyone want mine? I don't get that sweet itchy underwater feeling, I just yuke.
But then what am I supposed to take when I don't want to poop for 2 weeks?
It will be a good thing if they take the acetaminophen out and sell the opiate alone. It was appalling they put it in there anyway. They reasoned that the liver damage caused by the acetaminophen would discourage addiction to the opiate. In other words, the FDA would rather have you die of liver damage than, god forbid, become dependent on painkillers. Assholes.
I had a friend named Vicodin
Who brought the bliss for which I yearned.
I thought our time would last, but then
He left and so the pain returned.
My head itches.