Does hydrocodone 10/500 help anyone with chronic pain or is it too mild?!
Question: Yes they do help. I've been taking them for years for a spine injury.
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Answers: Yes they do help. I've been taking them for years for a spine injury.
go to htp://webmd.com and use the drugs and treatment tab and look up in the H tab
All opiates make me sick to my stomach.
its a more mild form of pain reliever its a narcotic but there better pain meds this is the first one then the dose can go up or they give vicodin if your not use to pain meds it may help what do you need it for???
Doctor's always start you off at the lowest doseage when it comes to pain killers. We all start at 10 mgs and if it doesn't give relief go back and see him.
Finding the correct doseage is different for everyone, but the drill for physicians is that they always start you off at 10, the lowest doseage and then they don't suggest you come back, but they see if you come back on your own.
They don't suggest coming back if it doesn't work because of the problem of drug seeking. But after a few days, if you can't live the pain, go back and see your Doctor.
The fact is that you are lucky if 10 works for you. Once you get into heavy duty, you are stuck for life and can't get off because the condition is chronic and it takes more and more to be effective.
Believe me, I wouldn't wish that on anyone. If I told you how much I take because of an old injury, you would understand that going up is not a good idea unless you have too.
I am sorry to read that you, have pain. My Sister has had severe pain now for 3 years. She was in an automobile accident. Broken neck. Two fushion surgerys later. The pain we see, she will have to learn to manage some how. She takes 5-6 Viks. a day. Our biggest worry for her. The Liver. I fear that we are going to hear that the liver is shot. For everyone reading this. Please try. Try hard to figure out how to manage your pain. I know that some of us can not help. My Sister does things to bring the pain on. The easy fix is to take a pill. Take two of the pain killers. Wait a bit. You can mow or clean house or pick up the kids. You can take more pain killers, later. Whats a person in real pain to do. There is abuse of pain killers. I have seen these people, Share and borrow and sell. You name it. A lot of the people I hear of go to clinics. For a cash fee. The Doc. is there to write a script and Medicaid pays for Medicine that these folks don't take themselves.
You are lucky to even get that. I broke my back shoulder and elbow and had 2 reconstrutive surgeries on each, I also have degenerative disc disease and fibromyalgia I live in constant pain and have tried to kill myself twice because the drs where I live do not give out pain meds. I get 6 ultram (it is a mild non narcotic pain med) and i suffer through day after day knowing I got 30 years of this left. so be thankful and take what you got and do not change drs.
Hello,
Remember what works for one is not going to work for another.
Most of those make me sick.
I have been on and off those things for years (over 20 years, messed my self up pretty bad in a accident). Finally have something else that works better and does not make me so sick. Also the stuff I take now is not habit forming.
Wish you well......
It really depends on you here, chronic pain simply defines that the condition is long term and persistent, and can encompass anything from a long term niggling ache up to extreme serious prolonged acute pain.
10/500 may well work for some people towards the more mild end of the spectrum however for people with more severe pain they will most likely need something stronger, there are some forms with more hydrocodone per unit dose, alternatively there are other drugs such as percocet which is paracetamol/oxycodone (the latter is more powerful than hydrocodone), things like oxycontin which contains only oxycodone in slow release form usable for more severe pain where the paracetamol in other meds would limit reaching a therapeutic dose of narcotic for the patient, further up the scale still there is fentayl (a synthetic opiate drug which has an analgesic (pain killing power) which is 1,000 times that of diamorphine (heroin) and 3,000 times that of the gold standard morphine and has typical doseages in the micrograms (as opposed to milligrams for most drugs).
Also it depends on how long the patient has been treated with narcotic pain relievers and the dose used, narcotic pain relievers are all subject the the problem of tolerance (the dose has to be increased over time to achieve the same effects even where the pain remains at the same level), this is why some people who have been in treatment for long term chronic pain can be forced to take dosages of medication at levels that would easily kill any opiate naive patient.
The only way you can know is to take your medication and see if it has the effect you need, if it doesn't you should go back to your doctor and explain that the medication is not giving you the relief you need (by the way never suggest a drug to a doctor when dealing with narcotics that is the best way to get labeled a drug seeker and be refused medication altogether)
yes, it works very well,and always take ur pain meds before your pain gets out of control, because its easier to control your pain before u have to have it.... trust me own this one.....