Do prescription drugs affect you differently now?

I had 2 wisdom teeth pulled last Tues.  I don't tolerate (never have) many pain meds, but I did use Tylenol 3 for a day in the past and did fine with it.  So that's what the dentist ordered.  2 1/2 days on that and I was nauseated, felt really "funny" in my head, etc.  But I needed it for the pain.  Finally on Thursday night I took 1 before going to bed.  It was Saturday morning before the nausea and weird head feeling were gone.  I was still having some pain, but decided I would deal with it rather than the icky feeling the T3 did to me. 

A while back I had to take Indomethacin (NSAID) to resolve a flare up of gout.  I had taken this med. for 7 years daily for arthritis pain.  Went off of it 2 weeks before VSG.  When I took one pill for the gout, it made me feel weird all over then too.  It was a terrible feeling - light headed, racing heart, shaky.   I didn't want to blame it on the med since I had taken it daily for years, but once it was out of my system and I took another, the symptoms came back.

I know we absorb alcohol more quickly than pre-VSG, so I'm assuming that I'm absorbing these meds more quickly too. 

Has anyone else had this experience?   No doubt I'll never be addicted to prescription pain meds.

This does seem odd. I have never heard of it but next time you see the doctor ask about it. Gotta say I have used very few pain meds since surgery but have had no changes in how they work.  Diane

I'm not really a medication person, but for years at least a few times a month I used Aleve during my TOM.

I always took 3, as I was a big girl and needed the extra dose.  Nowadays I only need to take 1 to feel the same great effect I've always received from 3 pills.  Smaller me = smaller dose.

I have exactly the same tolerance for pain meds and other meds as I did pre surgery. I take less because I NEED less, but they seem to have same effect they always have.

The dentist told me to take only 1 pill and see how it worked.  It didn't, so I took a second one about an hour later.  That was a mistake!  After that I only took 1 at a time and waited a lot longer between doses before taking another. 

Lesson learned.  Going to have to try something else if I ever need pain meds again.  I want to have PS on my arms later this summer and not looking forward to dealing with pain meds again. Guess we'll try something else next time.

As Mimi says, as our weight goes down, the amount of medication we need is smaller. A lot of medicine dosages are based on weight, in fact, in recognition of this.