…when do I become snarky and bitter? And when do I get to date insanely attractive women with medical degrees?
(Yah, it’s legal - scrip for particularly painful ear infection.)
Seriously - so far, it’s been about 40 minutes since I took a vicodin, and I’m not seeing what all the fuss is about. Maybe it’s a little harder to type, but that’s probably just fatigue. Scarcely seems a high worth chasing.
I’ve only taken a Vicodin Rx once for severe tooth pain. I didn’t feel a “high” either. I don’t know if it was the amount of the dose or if my tooth pain was the perfect buzz kill.
I got prescribed vicodin for the ear infection from hell when I was pregnant. Worst pain ever, surpassing even childbirth. That damn stuff did NOTHING. I’d take it and get maybe 30 minutes of relief at most and then bam, pain comes back and I can’t do anything about it for nearly four more hours. I didn’t get buzzed or anything either when it was working. Just sweet sweet pain relief.
I always thought that they were over-rated. They make me vomit in a big way. I was informed by an RN friend of mine that if I took a Benadryl with them, it would curb the nausea. It worked, I kept it down, and the pain went away. That’s all I wanted, or needed, from them. I never got a buzz, either.
I’ve got some right now from a tooth extraction yesterday. It just makes me sleepy. It’s not bad…it does kill the pain for me, and that’s pleasant by itself, but it’s not like really being high or anything. Maybe you have to pound like four of them or something, but one practically puts me to sleep. Four would probably put me in a coma.
IMHO, a Vicodin with a beer feels like about 4 beers. Vicodin with an injury feels like taking about 4 ibuprofen.
I had Vicodin when I had some teeth pulled. It didn’t do a whole lot except dull my responses to the world, basically. My mouth still hurt like hell, but I didn’t care. This was not however an ideal way of dealing with pain.
After a day or so, I switched to Advil. It killed the pain much better than the Vicodin did without the malaise.
I was prescribed Vicodin for post-surgery pain on a pilonidal cyst.
All it did was make me sleepy and foggy. I always assumed it might work better for less “specific” pain–like maybe a headache or muscle cramps or something.
When I mentioned this at work, however, I got several offers from people eager to buy them from me. One pill at a time, if necessary. When I said no, I didn’t think so, and why were they so valuable anyway, people said, “No, Audrey, you gotta DRINK on Vicodin!”
I never did take their advice, but I’ve heard this many times since then.
Apparently Vicodin and alcohol are the “key” to making them worthwhile.
:dubious:
I had Vicodin after my appendectomy. It just killed the pain. After I was healed I had some left over (and a prescription for 90 more, what a waste) and took them for recreational. There was a buzz, like having a couple beers. It was pleasant, but not nearly worth what I’m told it would cost me to but some.
I’m here at Sundance and I crashed pretty badly my first day snowboarding. I got my wrist x-rayed and the doctor said it was a bad sprain. He asked me how bad the pain was, and I said, not bad, a 1 on a scale from 0 to 10. He prescribed vicodin just in case, and I nabbed the prescription. The pain the next day got a whole lot worse when my wrist swelled up. The vicodin definitely works well as a painkiller in this circumstance and I would’ve been miserable without it. Fuck, I could not even tie my damn shoelaces! The pain has subsided, but I am very glad I had had the vicodin.
basically you have to drink to get “the effect” people who buy the drug illegally are searching for. I’ll tell you, after my shoulder surgery the doctor kinda skimped me on vicodins and I couldn’t very well go to the store to get more (my mom was taking care of me, but she was also pretty busy at the time) so I’d pop my two vici’s and have a couple beers. I was basically fucked out of my skull for a week (which was quite nice considering I bedridden the whole time and was too weak to hold my own arm up in the shower (but it hurt if I let it drop all the way down to a natural hanging position))
I started out with Vicodin for back pain (the primary symptom of my tumors) for the first month or so while we were still mucking around with biopsies and other tests to figure out what kind it was and how to proceed, and into the first couple weeks of chemo before it killed the tumors enough to make the pain stop. First dose made me spacey-floaty high, but not off-my-rocker high. Second dose made me dry heave for about an hour? or so, maybe two. After that, we switched to Tylenol 3. Oddly, I can’t remember at all what it did to the pain. Must’ve done something, because I can’t remember the pain, either.
That really depends on which people who are buying the drug illegally you’re referring to. I’ve got a bit of an opiate habit, but I hate alcohol.
Also, something very much worth noting: DO NOT combine different depressant drugs (e.g. Vicodin and alcohol)! It can kill you! Or at least make you puke. Granted, that’s probably not going to happen with one or two Vicodin and three or four beers, but better safe than sorry.
Most of you guys who are claiming little to no effect probably just aren’t taking enough, or you’re expecting the wrong things. Less powerful opiates aren’t going to give you the same high as heroin addicts in the movies. They’re basically just going to make you feel really happy, really great about everything. And that’s what makes them so addictive, particularly to people like me who hadn’t known natural happiness in many, many years before they tried opiates.
I just had a root canal on Monday. The doc gave me a scrip for Vicodin, but I haven’t even filled it. Haven’t taken anything, in fact. Either I found a really good endodontist, I’ve got a high pain threshold, or a phobia of limping around New Jersey hospitals.
I’ve taken Vicodin exactly once. I have no idea if it killed any pain, as I have absolutely no memory of the 24 hours after popping the pills. No more V for me.
Vicodin doesn’t work on me. I don’t mean that it doesn’t get me high, though it doesn’t get me high. I mean that it doesn’t give me pain relief, I’ll just get sort of sick to my stomach when I take it. I’ll get more pain relief by taking a couple of regular Advil. I wish Vicodin did work on me, it seems to be the painkiller of choice these days.
Like **neutron star **said, home remedies like adding a couple beers to your vicodin is dangerous. Anyway, Re: the potency of vicodin, it is a mixture of hydrocodone (the good stuff) and a lot of filler (acetaminophen). You can’t expect to get high taking one or two while you are in pain. Usually to take in enough hydrocodone to get high, you would also have to ingest enough acetaminophen with it to screw your liver over. Someone I know used to take advantage of the fact that the two ingredients had different water solubility in cold water, and make extractions that gave a very euphoric (and analgesic) high, sometimes to the point of “nodding”, which most people associate only with heroin.
I forgot to add that the said method of extraction solves (for most people) the problem of barfing and horrible nausea, although opiates can make you extremely nauseous as well, its not as bad.
okay I read it again and it sounds too much like I’m advocating getting high off of these–I’m sure all of you are smart enough to know not to ever do this without being prepared for the consequences. 
In my experience, the by far most common cause of nausea from opiates is taking a higher dose than what your body is used to. This kind of nausea will usually hit somwhere between one and four hours after taking the pills.
Oh, me and Vicodin, we’re old friends. I took it following two knee surgeries in high school, and I also took it semi-regularly for menstrual cramps… one of the few medicines that did anything for the pain (that and Tylenol with Codeine.)
When I was in the ER for stomach pain they gave me a scrip for 30 pills. I’ve taken 1.5 in the last three weeks. Rationing them out, I am, because I know they aren’t going to give me another scrip for them.
Mmmm, Vicodin.
But I wasn’t expecting ANYTHING except pain relief! Which it failed to provide! I followed the dosage–mainly because I have this fear of liking anything too much for my own good–and I just got really drowsy and “Blah.”
I got two bottles of like 30 pills, and I think I took maybe 9 of them. When I realized I was starting to take it at bedtime so it would help me sleep, I stopped taking it. (There goes the paranoid Audrey.)
Now I take Nyquil when I can’t sleep; I guess I’m doing the same thing.
shrug
I guess we’re all susceptible to something.