I’m a dude. Had an inguinal hernia and got surgery to fix it, they actually strongly insisted that I would want to take hydrocodone and prescribed me bunch after I told them I was worried about taking an opioid. “Its going to really hurt, you want to take this ahead of time.”

Turns out I was allergic and it caused me horrible nausea. Took anti-nausea meds and it caused my heart rate to spike unusually with chest pains, thought I was having a heart attack. Fun. Further, the area I was in was well known to have a unusually high number of opioid related arrests…

After I swapped to ibuprofen and was fine.