I have literally NEVER been a pill person. I usually either ween myself off early or I tend to forget to take them long enough I move on. During my week on the recovery ward, I tried to be brave and start just living with some of the pain. They literally had to tell me, “if we don’t keep it under control it will spiral out of control” (or something like that). But it made sense to me in that moment.
Take your pain pills! Anything even close to a 4 or 5 (which I live with regularly), take the damn pills. It will only be for that week and believe me, it was the only reason I was able to sleep in the hospital.
Good note VeeEnn, thanks for the reminder!! (Oh and HI!!! HOW ARE YOU? ! ?! ?!)