They had me on Dilaudid after my bike wreck a couple of years back. That and the fentanyl were pretty effective. I stayed on the dilaudid for about 2 days after I got released from the hospital, still have a bunch. I figured I wasn't in much pain, and found that I could manage it with OTC naproxen. Aside from the head-stuffed-with-rags feeling that I got from the opiates, I hated the constipation issues, as they clogged me up like eating 5 pounds of cheese...