So I had some screws and plate taken out of my tibia today (surgery last summer) …well mostly out…one of the screws broke in half apparently and is still in there (helpful visual aid).
Whoever invented hydocodone…thank you…thank you…thank. Right now the words on the screen are kinda blurry…and I’m feelin kinda woozy…but not so much owey.
that is all
ps please send over a monkey butler to assist me.
thank you
Has the itching started yet?
While I love narcotic-based painkillers (I was just on Percocet a few weeks ago when I broke a rib), DAMN, they make my nose itch (on the outside). I don’t recall itching when on Demerol and morphine after my surgery two and a half years ago, but then again, I don’t recall much… :eek:
Hydrocodone made a shattered tooth bearable until proper reconstruction could be done.
God bless the stuff!
I love hydrocodone too. I’ve had pain from both migraines and from kidney stones, and the drug really helps. I haven’t had any side effects either.
What a coincidence that I should read this today, especially the itching comment, as I was standing behind a lady, who was having a script for Hydrocodone filled, yesterday, at the pharmacy. I overheard her conversation with the pharmacist, regarding the medicine, and here is what I gleemed from it.
Apparently she has had it once before, and it caused her to itch something awful. Hydrocodone does not make everybody itch. If you’re itching fiercely, after taking it, you have an allergy to the medication. It is not a harmful allergy, that is going to cause any irreversable damage, but if it’s present, you should stop taking the Hydrocodone, call your doctor, let them know, and have them give you a script for some other type of pain killer.
As for me, the times in my life when i’ve needed it(the most recent being post c-section this last January), it’s been an absolute life saver. I cannot imagine what life was like before it, nor would I ever want to experience it. Yay Hydrocodone!
Now Codeine on the other hand…no pain is worth gut wrenching, and toilet bowl hugging that follows whenever I take it(thus I refuse if someone attempts to give it to me).
~V
The first time I tried hydrocodone was about 13 years ago when my impacted wisdom tooth (since removed) got infected. The pain was intense until the good doctor gave me a script.
That was the first time I’d ever been on serious pain-killers, or any other drug stronger than Tylenol for that matter. I remember commenting to someone that I finally understood how people could get hooked on drugs.
I’m glad to hear you are feeling no pain!
I bet your daughter is getting a kick out of her daddy right about now.
Silly daddy!
Heh, it’s funny because hydrocodone is pretty much heroin without the addictive chunks. Great stuff when you need it for legitimate pain!
Oh no, make no mistake, it can be quite addictive. It has the potential to be every bit as addictive as morphine when abused…handle with care.
As to the itching, IANAD, but I was always under the impression that itching was a side effect of all opiates and their derivatives and affected pretty much everyone like that. They always have me, at any rate.
There are many prescription drugs that are addictive, narcotic pain killers being one of the biggies. They are great, when you do need them, but even then one must be careful. My boyfriend’s ex-wife was addicted to pain killer, most especially Codeine(the most common pain killer to be addicted to, from what I understand), and she started out taking them for her chronic migranes. My mother also was, at one time, addicted to prescription pain killers, an addiction that innocently started out as relief for severe back and leg pain, caused by Fibromyalgia. Thankfully, in the latter case, it was short lived, and she cleaned up her act, and doesn’t go anywhere near the stuff. I wish I could say the same for the former.
As for the itching, what I posted above was pretty much verbatim what that lady was told by the pharmacist, and I do know that not all opiate pain killers cause itching in everyone, myself included, as well as many of my friends. Of course, with the two exceptions above, I don’t know anyone whose ever been on them for more than a few days at a time(ok, well, I was on it for two weeks in Jan, but that was after major surgery). I always chalked it up to the fact that different people will have different reactions to the same medication, regardless of what type of med it is, I never considered the possibility of it being due to an allergy before. Makes sense.
~V
If the itching is bothering you, Darvon is dreamy…
Hydrocodone should be given a holiday. With parades. And lets not forget Hydrocodone’s cousins, the Vico brothers. (Profen and Din!) 
Huh?
Hydrocodone is very addictive. I was addicted to it for 3 hellish years. I spent 7 days in a detox unit to get off the stuff. The nurses told me that the withdrawl from Hydrocodone is similar to heroin withdrawl.
Honey
Yep I was on the stuff last year after surgery. I remember one day I took it on a sorta empty stomach which is a no no. A few minutes later I started to double over in stomach pain, but then the 'dro kicked in. I thought it was sort of funny that the same thing that was causing my pain, was killing the pain at the same time! Anywho, I am in full agreement with the op, it should be given a national holiday.
Beagledave, been there, done that, bought the T-shirt (and the external fixator, plates, screws, crutches, walker, Denver boot, and pretty much every orthopedic gadget know to mankind). I feel your pain…and yes, hydrocodone is your friend.
And yep, I was warned that it can be addicitive. However, don’t let any potential pain control nazis tell you when you should stop feeling pain and not need the stuff anymore. One moronic hospital nurse told me I had to stop getting morphine shots, because they were supposed to release me from the hospital soon and I wouldn’t be able to get them at home. She gave me Tylenol w/codeine, which didn’t do squat for that kind of pain (I had broken the leg in 6 pieces a week before, and had just had the plate, screws, and external fixator installed).
What the moron didn’t tell me is that there are a myriad of other pain relief options on the spectrum between IV morphine and Tylenol with codeine. The substitute doctor luckily straightened her out. But boy, was that a hellish time until the doctor got there! Nobody knows what kind of pain you’re in but you. Hang in there, dude! You’ll be dancing a jig in no time (or at least in physical therapy).
Okay, to clarify: hydrocodone is a synthetic opiate that is very similar to the 2-4 diacetylmorphine hydrochloride, which is heroin. It was synthesised as a substitute for heavy painkillers by removing some of the molocules (such as the acetyl groups IIRC) that make heroin and morphine so devilishly addictive. Hydrocodone, while addictive, is not as potent as heroin, in addiction potential terms. That’s why it is still perscribed today for outpatient pain, and why if you take it for a while you don’t have the same chance to be addicted to it as you would with heroin. There!
Encinitas does the happy hydrocodone hula!
