Hydrocodone and alcohol combination??? How much is too much?!


Question: On thurday of last week i was prescribed hydrocodone for a pain problem (500 mg every 6 hours as needed). I took 2 pills on thurday and 1 on friday at about 1pm. At about 7 pm i went out to eat with my family and had ONE small sip of anothers drink (bloody mary). I am aware that alcohol is not to be mixed with hydrocodone however i just completely forgot and then it was too late. Like i said it was one sip however i was wondering if even that could be dangerous, anyone know anything?


Answers: On thurday of last week i was prescribed hydrocodone for a pain problem (500 mg every 6 hours as needed). I took 2 pills on thurday and 1 on friday at about 1pm. At about 7 pm i went out to eat with my family and had ONE small sip of anothers drink (bloody mary). I am aware that alcohol is not to be mixed with hydrocodone however i just completely forgot and then it was too late. Like i said it was one sip however i was wondering if even that could be dangerous, anyone know anything?

The reason that hydrocodone and alcohol shouldn't be mixed is that hydrocodone is a narcotic which depresses the central nervous system. Alcohol also depresses the central nervous system. When the central nervous system is depressed you have side effects like unconsciousness, decreased breathing and slowed heart rate. these are all very serious effects and narcotics should never be mixed with alcohol. However, you can stop worrying in your case. The minute amount of alcohol along with the low dosage of hydrocodone (5/500mg), and the length of time between your last dose of medicine and the alcohol is not enough to cause a problem and these effects are immediate if there going to be a problem.

DEAD is a four letter word

You won't die, but heres why its recommended NOT to mix the two.
What you likely were prescribed was hydrocodone and acetaminophen(APAP) Lets pretend your dosage was HydrocodoneAPAP5/500.
Translation:
one pill contains 5 mg of vicodin and 500 mg of acetaminophen, more commonly known as tylenol.
The damage of mixing alcohol with this medication lies within the presence of the tylenol. One function of your liver is detoxification, and as i'm sure you know, alcoholics often ruin their livers. Tylenol also has the same unhealthy effects on your liver as alcohol. So, simply enough, putting your body through not one, but two liver stressers is NOT something you want to do.
That being said, one sip will have absolutely no effect. I don't recommend drinking anymore, though. You won't die, but it's never good to put your liver under more stress than it already is.
Hope this helps!

you'll be okay but you must be more careful

Back in the late fifties, early sixties a girl named "Karan Quinlin" made National news. She was a pretty young college girl that had a problem with pain. She took some pain pills and, went out with her friends, she had some drinks and, went into seizures and, a coma. She was in the coma for many years, they couldn't pull her out of it.
After many years and, court battles over taking her off life support, the family won and, they took her off. She survived for some months, finally she succumbed to death.

It should be remembered that alcohol and drugs do not mix, one or the other should be avoided.
Alcohol intensifies the drugs taken passes them into the system quicker then expected and more so, so that's the answer, do not drink with drugs.

There is a reason why they say you shouldn't mix hydrocodone and alcohol - think overdose.

People react differently when mixing their prescription drugs and alcohol. You may have been lucky that one time but what if you have alcohol again?

Don't do it.





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