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• DahGangalang@infosec.pub ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Had a minor surgery earlier this year. They have me fentanyl as the drug to put me under. Was hella surprised about it. Also I see why people love that shit so much.

  But also for fentanyl’s danger, I think it comes down to how small a dose you need to hit the LD50/50 point is so low that you can hit it by accident without even trying. Street drugs are also being laced with Fentanyl and not in safe / well regulated doses. If you had a lab grade supplier, it’d probably be safer / easier to do safely…but I don’t think that’s what people are doing…

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  • Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Are you sure the fentanyl wasn’t supplemental to something else like propofol? It’s not used for anesthesia induction before surgery AFAIK, just pain relief afterwards. If the IV burned a little when they pushed the plunger down on a syringe full of milky fluid, that was propofol.

    But I can see an anesthesiologist saying something like, “We’re going to put you under now. We’ll give you fentanyl so you won’t be in pain when you wake up.”

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    • DahGangalang@infosec.pub ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m not sure.

      I want to say they gave me two stages of anesthetic, but I also think fentanyl was the first of the two stages (counter to what you’re saying should have happened). But also, I’m at best an amateur at chemistry; even less when it comes to medicine. That said, reasonably certain what they gave me was not milky nor did it burn going in (you’ll have to excuse me if I misremember any deets, it was my first time going under and I was irrationally nervous about it)

      I could have some things mixed up, but it did stand out in my mind that they used fentanyl (and I remember how fuckin’ nice it felt when they threw it in my veins). But that’s how I remember it.

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      • Fuck_u_spez_@sh.itjust.works ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        I don’t know what order they should have been given in. Maybe the fentanyl was first? Did your tongue just go numb and your vision go dark for a few seconds before you passed out or did it feel like an angel tossed you into a zero gravity hot tub and instantly jerked you off?

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• idiomaddict@lemmy.world ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was once given cocaine eye drops in a hospital though (it’s a combined vasoconstrictor and analgesic, which makes it good for facial injuries that tend to hurt and swell/bleed a lot). Just because something can have a clinical use case doesn’t make it safe for anyone to use it regularly.

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• Starski@lemmy.zip ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Comparing nitrous oxide to fentanyl is actually fucking stupid.

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  • ryedaft@sh.itjust.works ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    True, fentanyl might kill you while nitrous will just put you in a wheelchair for the rest of your life. With poor fine motor so even gooning won’t be the same.

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    • BussyCat@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      If Steve O didn’t end up in a wheelchair from his nitrous use, then I think that might be a hyperbole…

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    • Starski@lemmy.zip ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Only if you abuse it. Like I had said already.

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  • baguettefish@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    you’re right, one can be bought legally and used to even be available on amazon and the other gets you in jail

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• ulterno@programming.dev ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I also hate all the misinformation surrounding Ivermectin, horse vets use it for horses’ sake, shits safe as long as you don’t abuse it.

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