So how’d it go? Surgery and movie time both a success?
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Don't watch the first few episodes of The Walking Dead while actually in the hospital under heavy opioid medication. That's how you end up with extremely terrifying and vivid dreams of a zombie apocalypse in the very hospital you're currently in! Ask me how I know!
I watched 28 Days Later during a delirious fever spell, so I think I understand where you're coming from, lol.
Requiem for a Dream so you don't get hooked on them
This is somehow the best AND the worst advice in the whole post.
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Have fun!
Oh, I've heard of this one, but I never got around to it. Sounds like the perfect time to cross it off my list.
Do yourself a favour, watch the directors cut.
Seconded. Whenever I find out how botched the theatrical ending was, I was glad I started with the Director’s version.
Priest. I recommended it in a terrible movies thread. It's Paul Bettany and Karl Urban in a cowboy/ronin/faith-based militia versus vampires film. Critics gave it 16% fresh.
...... seriously. Look at this.
Paul Bettany and Karl Urban
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Dredd (2012)
The drug in it, named Slo-Mo, should be semi relatable.
Be warned, high level violence depicted.
Followup.
Also, Baraka and Koyaanisqatsi.
I saw Dredd in the theater in 3D and it was fan-fucking-tastic.
I own it on Blu-ray as well but nothing will top that 3D experience.
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When I had an abdominal surgery, I watched the full extended cut versions of the Lord of the Rings Trilogy
I did the same when I had surgery and was couch ridden for days. That was great. I then watched the "Tolkien cut" of the hobbit movies
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Videodrome maybe. Some of these suggestions are mean.
Paprika
We have a whole community of free movies over at !fullmoviesonyoutube@piefed.social, be sure to check it out!
I was in an altered state of mind while watching the Aquateen Hunger Force movie. I can barely remember anything about the movie, but I know I had a great time!
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas and Requiem for a Dream.
Hell, throw Trainspotting in there.
Tenet might be fun.
Well at first I was going to suggest Snatch, but after seeing the additional information you wrote maybe wait until after you're feeling better to watch it lol it's one of my favorites, but it is a comedy so it might hurt.
One of my favorite movies. Me and my kid laughed our asses off when we watched it together.
What the fuck can he get away from?
Watch some documentaries of opioid addiction. Better safe than sorry.
Brainscan
Ohh shit, I know this one. My dad had it on tape and I watched it a few times back in the day. This IS some good mindfuck.
Honesty, it holds up pretty well. Definitely one I go back to every now and then.
The Fountain
The inside of your eyelids. It's a banger every time! 😉 Good luck to you on your surgery, and a speedy recovery.
Whatever you do, take pictures, you're not going to remember it after.
Last time I was on them, they told me I could go back to work but I took the week off and went hiking. Mine was dental surgery. I still haven't figured out all the places I went. They probably should have taken my keys, but it wasn't something they warned about for that level of pills back then. Thinking back on it is kinda terrifying.
Be careful, you're not going to be competent to make decisions.
I don't know about anyone else but both my wife and I feel like we get little effect from them. Such that it feels like the side effects make them not worth it. This is for all opiods for us. Now granted if you don't take them your just absolutely fucked but to us its like the pain is still there you just can like use the toilet and such. Niether of us gets why anyone can become addicted to them. Now like the ones that block nerve pain like gabapentin we fucking love as it actually seems to cause pain to go away.
People take more than they are prescribed at once “until the pain goes away” and yeah at that point they start to get high on them
My experience with pain killers is that when I've actually needed them for pain, after a bad injury, they work on the pain without any euphoric effects. I can only get high when I don't have any pain to relieve.
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It’s obviously different for different people but yeah, for me it’s just the difference of “in pain and miserable” vs “tolerating pain and normal.” And this is from someone with a standing prescription for tramadol, the only opioid that actually works for me. I only have to take it a couple times a year now, thankfully. Gabapentin has never actually helped with my pain though.
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I tried to watch Pulp Fiction for the first time as a teen loaded up on oxys after getting my wisdom teeth out. I turned it off after twenty minutes because I realized I had no idea what anyone had said. Great movie, just not good from my perspective when you’re fucked up. Watch something stupid like Face Off
That's what my parents said about Snatch, and yet no one was on any drugs! I guess the accents were a bit too much to fully comprehend (we are Americans). I love the movie and re-watch it from time to time. May be a generational thing, too.
Ya like dags?
Avi, pull your socks up!
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I watched it many years ago, I just remember how trippy the movie was, not much of the plot. I don't know whether it's too funny for the state you will be in!
I be had two major surgeries, I've only been given oxy for one of them. I took it maybe two days and got off of it as quickly as possible. I hate taking pills, and I didn't feel like I needed it anyway. Pretty much just made me tired.
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