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Numbing eyeballs

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I was talking to my dentist the other day about the laser treatment I had had since I last saw him. He said that apparently they use pure cocaine to numb the eyeball! 😱
 
I've heard that too
 
Good grief, you'd think they'd have to tell you they were slipping you a bit of the hard stuff wouldn't you 🙄
 
You'll be able to get a free piece of tin foil then! :D
 
Crikey 😱 I've had at least 35+ sessions of laser, does that make me an addict? It's no wonder my pupils won't dilate anymore they are well and truly stoned 😱
 
Actually, there are a few class-A drugs which are medically useful. All the opiates, for example, are not only strong painkillers but cough suppressants. Diamorphine (it's called "heroin" on the street) is particularly useful in cases of terminal cancer. It was originally marketed (by Bayer, as Heroin™) as a cough mixture. 😱

When I was in hospital once (in St. Thomas', on the Jack the Ripper Ward, or the "William Gull Ward" as it's formally known), I had been hooked up to a catheter so couldn't get to sleep because of the pain. I asked a nurse and the doctor gave me a shot of oxycodone, which numbed the pain, made me sleepy and eased the cough I was suffering! 🙂
 
Hubby was recently in hospital for an injured back, luckily was released after only one night but was given some industrial-strength codeine for the pain. I looked that up and discovered that it's an opiate, so also presumably closely related to morphine, heroin etc 😱
 
Codeine is a classified (probably class A) drug; it's illegal to supply it without prescription, except in combination with another drug. 😱 (The most common combination, of course, being co-codamol, which is is 500mg paracetamol plus 8mg codeine. I've heard that prescription-only forms of this combination can be up to 30mg codeine.)

When codeine-only tablets were available without prescription, there were cases of addiction. 😱 Hence, of course, the classification.
 
That's interesting thank you Robert! They did give him paracetamol too (separate pills), a week's worth of codeine and 10 days' worth of paracetamol. I thought it was just to give more efficient pain relief, but there must have been another reason! 🙄 The codeine did zonk him out a bit actually so after a couple of days he stopped taking them in the day and only used them at night!
 
robert@fm said:
Codeine is a classified (probably class A) drug; it's illegal to supply it without prescription, except in combination with another drug. 😱 (The most common combination, of course, being co-codamol, which is is 500mg paracetamol plus 8mg codeine. I've heard that prescription-only forms of this combination can be up to 30mg codeine.)

When codeine-only tablets were available without prescription, there were cases of addiction. 😱 Hence, of course, the classification.
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I take 50mg Tramadol for Fibromyalgia 4 times daily. If the pain is exceptionally intolerable I am allowed to take Cocodamol which is 30/500. Pretty strong and if taken too close on the heels of Tramadol can make me feel so ill. 😱
 
I was given tramadol once for extremely painful bladder stones.

The Doctor said to take 1 or 2 at a time depending on the pain. I started with one and was fine but later on the pain was getting worse so I decided to take 2. Big mistake, I had just left work and was on the bus when I started to sweat like crazy, then I started feeling really weird.

Just about got home before I nearly blacked out. My heart rate had dropped and I felt completely spaced out. I just lay on the sofa, it took about five hours before I started to feel normal again.

Needless to say that was the last time I ever took tramadol.
 
It's true, although cocaine eye drops are hard to get hold of at the moment. Cocaine paste is also used in some surgical procedures. There's a difference in classification for drugs with the potential for misuse when being used legitimately. We work in schedules rather than classes. These controlled drugs, of which cocaine and tramadol are examples are judged to be medically useful and under strict legal control when it comes to storage and supply. Now, effort I spend any more of my lunchbreak boring you to tears with the Misuse of Drugs act, I'll just add that we used to supply a cannabis nasal spray for MS the sufferers, but had to stop because it was too expensive.Unfortunately all the patients I spoke to said it was really helpful.
 
Hi Rachel! Thanks for that. What a shame about the cannabis spray, surely it can't have been that expensive? :(
 
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