I'm scheduled for some extensive dental work in a couple weeks, and one thing that's fairly common in such cases is for the dentist to prescribe analgesics for afterwards.
Slight problem: The most commonly prescribed "post-treatment" analgesic is Tylenol 3, with 30mg of coedine per tablet. I'm a truck driver. While any legitimately prescribed medication (with documentation) would be treated as a negative on a drug test, all opiates/opiods are a special category - until the patient discontinues use, they are medically disqualified from driving commercially.
ASA/acetominophen/ibuprophen (even in prescription strengths) are fine - it's the entire opiate/opiod family that would be a problem?
How do I get the message across to my dentist that stuff from group "A" is fine, but I can't take stuff from group "B", without looking like a drug seeker (even though drug seekers would WANT group "B", and would make up some excuse that they can't take anything from group "A")? Thanks.
Slight problem: The most commonly prescribed "post-treatment" analgesic is Tylenol 3, with 30mg of coedine per tablet. I'm a truck driver. While any legitimately prescribed medication (with documentation) would be treated as a negative on a drug test, all opiates/opiods are a special category - until the patient discontinues use, they are medically disqualified from driving commercially.
ASA/acetominophen/ibuprophen (even in prescription strengths) are fine - it's the entire opiate/opiod family that would be a problem?
How do I get the message across to my dentist that stuff from group "A" is fine, but I can't take stuff from group "B", without looking like a drug seeker (even though drug seekers would WANT group "B", and would make up some excuse that they can't take anything from group "A")? Thanks.
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