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Old 04-17-2007, 10:33 AM
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I'm glad to hear that the Percocet is helping his pain. One way to help lessen the weird feelings from pain meds is to change the dosing slightly.

For example - if he is supposed to take 1 pill every 4 hours, you could change it to Half a pill every 2 hours.... it's still the exact same dosing without taking any more medication or any less - but breaking up the dose like that can help reduce a lot of the "weird head" feelings (and can also help to keep the pain relief at a more even level for the entire 4 hours).

Of course - always check with the doctor/pharmasist to make sure it is safe to cut a pill (I have taken Percocet several times over the years and they always told me it was 100% fine to cut it in half).

Anyway, that might help reduce the "fuzzy head" and other weird feelings that happen with pain medication.

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