"I have an anal-rectal abscess, and as you can imagine, it is debilitatingly painful. Once it is drained, all will be well, but the thing is, the doctors cannot drain it until it is &#039;ripe&#039;, which won&#039;t be for another 3-4 days. 3 days ago, after having this thing growing in me for over a week, I finally went to the walk in clinic, and they gave me antibiotics, and 30 T3s. The T3s I ate like candy, did NOTHING for the pain, and only helped with the fever like symptons these abscesses comes with, and knocked me out. Just got back from the doctor, and he prescribed me Dilaudid, 8 mg tablets, and so far I&#039;ve only taken one, but I can walk almost normally for the first time in almost two weeks, wihtout grunting and wincing in pain."