How do painkiller addicts function??

[TheOtherMe]

Percocet after wisdom teeth put me to sleep, but also made me hallucinate.  Neighbors who were checking on me finally took all cooking utensils out of house as I was trying to cook and she would find the stove on.  She ended up cooking the pudding, etc. and bringing it over so the house would not burn down.

Morphine drip and something through an IV -- hallucinated for about 3 weeks and have very little memory of it.  I'm just totally embarrassed by the things I have been told I did and said during those three weeks in hospital.  

Once released from hospital, on Vicodin.  Mostly wobbly and sleepy.

[AgeOfEnlightenmentSCP]

I don't "like" to take anything.  I believe Tylenol, while a deadly poison, to be completely inert as a pain reliever.  Even if it worked, it scares me.  I DO like Ibuprofen- as a pain killer, it's outstanding in my book.  For those all day aches and pains, like after a tough run, or a work out that went awry, or from dragging a clingy three year old on Saturday all over the Magic Kingdom carrying her because you can't bring a stroller in the queues...I think nothing works like the NSAID in Alieve (Naproxin Sodium?).