sovietelectroclash
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I am 370lbs, and was recently prescribed 10mg hydrocodone / 325mg acetaminophen for up to six times a day. Sometimes the pain seems to be too much even for this "powerful pain medicine" as my Doctor puts it. I have a high threshold for opiates, as I was prescribed 7.5mg hydrocodone / 325mg acetaminophen for over a year. My primary question is that according to medical research that I have found on google, it states that 90mg or more of hydrocodone in a 24 hour period represents a "fatal dose." What I'm wondering is if this means 90 mg in your system at one specific time not counting the half lives of each individual dose being fatal, or 90mg in your system at once accounting for all half lives of previous doses? For instance, if you take 80 mg (so 8 10mg pills) in 18 hours, would you be in danger of dying by taking another one or one and a half pills putting you at 90mg or 95mg for a 24 hour period? Or, do half lives need to be accounted for? So, say you take 2 10mg hydrocodone pills every 6 hours, are you actually at 80mg towards the 90mg in a day lethal dosage, or are you really at the sum of each dose at it's current half life added up to your last dose? I hope that I'm explaining this well enough for someone to answer me, and I'm sorry if the question was asked in too complex of a manner. Thank you!