I've just come out of hospital after an emergency admission which eventually resulted in an operation to remove part of my lung and 'staple' the rest to the chest wall to stop it repeatedly collapsing.
Initially in the hospital I was on IV morphine, and then the oral equivalent. The pain was much better and now I've just got codeine and paracetemol which I'm taking 4 times a day.
The thing I'm worried about is 'rebound headaches'. I've read about them before and usually I'm very careful not to take painkillers, or only very rarely. I missed a dose of painkillers yesterday and got a terrible headache - but then I also had a funny tummy and felt generally unwell so that could be the cause.
Your body can't 'know' that the painkillers are or aren't for a headache, so how will I avoid getting lots of headaches when I finally stop the painkillers?! Or am I worrying over nothing! Probably. Been a rough few months!