Opioids Hydrocodone question

[pnut3844]

Ive been abusing hyrdo for close to 4 years now, with this last year the dose raising from 20-30mg a day to 80-100mg a day. If I take them during the day im fine. But if I take one after 10 pm I wake up during the night not breathing. I finally figured out what was happening and told my wife and she stayed up that night scared to death bc I kept waking up not breathing and freaking out. I of course only remember it vaguely happening once. Does anyone know why this happens? It only happens if I take a dose at night and roxis make it 50x worse.

 

[tricomb]

What other medications do you take? Do you drink alcohol?

How do you take 100mg hydrocodone? Probably should be doing a cold water extraction at that level of addiction.

You can't abuse these drugs forever, your lucky that your wife puts up with that..

 

[hydrobliss]

opiates slow down your resperatory system substantially.. if u cant hang dont dose that high

 

[weekday warrior]

you could have borderline sleep apnea and the downers push you over the edge cause it seems strange that with a 100mg tolerance one pill will produce these results.

 

[Tommyboy]

you could have borderline sleep apnea and the downers push you over the edge cause it seems strange that with a 100mg tolerance one pill will produce these results.

That was what I was thinking even before I saw your post, so I think it's something the OP should have checked out, or just stop taking high doses of hydrocodone.

 

[BiggDirty01]

I started developing severe sleep apnea last year when I went from two daily opiate medications (ER, IR for my back) to 4 daily opiate medications after surgery. Between the Dilaudid, MS-Contin, Fentanyl and Methadone every day and the 3-4mg of ativan, I had to start using a C-PAP device (Continuous Positive Airway Pressure).

Normally a person with apnea will wake up many times during the night, not remember it, and suffer from excessive daytime sleepiness. There are online questionaires similar to ones a physician will use and if your score is high enough, you should definitely consider seeing your PCP or a pulmonologist/ sleep specialist.

http://www.stanford.edu/~dement/epworth.html

Here is a link to an online version of the test. Recommend checking it out.

 

[pnut3844]

Well im actually in the process of tapering off. Tired of the haze. Down to just 20mg a day. It hasnt happened since lowered my dosage. It wasnt that I couldnt handle the dosage I've actually taken more before but its expensive enough to dose what I was dosing. I was just wondering if the sleep apnea was exacerbated by the pills or caused by them. I take no other medication, don't drink or anything. And the particular night in the op was when I snorted roxis. As I said its a lot worse on those. But ive snorted many things over the years, beans mainly. So I imagine that plays a factor.