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Opioids Managing new prescription of Lortab/Vicodin...help please!!!!

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Sorry if this is in the wrong forum or anything, but I need help...I've been using this site for a year now and this is my first post. Thanks in advance!
Anyway, about a week ago, I got my wisdom teeth removed and was prescribed 5-500 Lortab/Vicodin. I saved it, and then got messed up as usual once the pain subsided. I would take two at a time for about a week, (so I could make them last), and got relatively messed up with a noticeable euphoria each time. I just got a refill containing 7.5-500 of the same pill, but now, every time I take them, the effects either hit immediately and subside within an hour and a half, or they take literally 2 and a half hours to hit me. In addition, the euphoria is noticeably reduced, and if anything, the lack of euphoria puts me in a bad mood. Mind you, the "headiness" that usually accompanies the high is still just as strong. It's like only that one particular effect is disappearing!
I consider myself a reasonably knowledgeable person about how to best take pain pills, so I know I'm supposed to expect a certain degree of tolerance. But the fact that I have a stronger dose should negate any short-term tolerance that built up over the previous week....Is there anything I'm doing wrong, or can do right to get that euphoria back? I didn't run into any problems whatsoever when I was using the 5-500 prescription. Maybe part of it is in my mind?
 
opiate tolerance builds quick Edit: No racsim. Next time it won't be just an edit. -phrozen

be careful. One week i was snorting 40mg of oxy and nodding.....then 2-3 weeks later 2 80s couldnt even get me off.
 
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Painkillers are not toys. Chasing that opiate buzz is a surefire way to dig yourself deep into addiction. I'd stop while you are ahead, continuing to take them regularly will not help. There's nothing you can do once the euphoria fades but take more.
 
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Painkillers are not toys. Chasing that opiate buzz is a surefire way to dig yourself deep into addiction. I'd stop while you are ahead, continuing to take them regularly will not help. There's nothing you can do once the euphoria fades but take more.
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sekio speaks the truth. This is the right forum for what you're asking, by the way :)

5/500 Vicodins are what got me started into opiates in the first place. Before them I had only smoked cannabis. I had gotten a script, much like yours, gotten it refilled and everything, started chasing those initial highs. When the script ran out I just started looking for other ways to get where I was the first few times I took Vicodin. Percocets, Oxy, morphine, hydromorphone...etc.

I know that sounds like the run-of-the-mill cautionary D.A.R.E. class bullshit, but it can happen to you. I thought it wouldn't happen to me, that's for sure. Unless acquiring an opiate habit that will stick with you then be careful with those Vicodins and Norcos. Just because they're C-III doesn't mean they won't lead you right into the heavier opiates.
 
i understand that...earlier in march i bought around 25 percs from a friend, and i took 2 each night until they went out. the thing is, i didnt experience any *large* reduction in quality throughout those 2 weeks...mind you, ive had 3 knee surguries from football, and each time i got around 35-40 vics. went through them all at that same pace...this is really the first time im experiencing this.
i guess i just have to take them more sparingly from now on?
 
since you are experiencing what sound like metabolic issues with the hydrocodone, I would abstain from using it until you figure out what is going on. Are you eating with them? are you drinking alcohol? Are you taking them with other drugs?
Are you taking over 4000mg of APAP a day?
As far as issues of addiction I can only advise you in the same way that people above me have. If you use opiates recreationally, you will develop a lifelong love for them.
Also, they will not be as effective when you really need them for pain.
i.e. if I were to be found at the scene of a car accident with a severe injury going into shock, the EMT's would give me the standard 10mg of morphine which wouldn't even effect me, and I would end up dead most likely.
There are lots of aspects to use that you don't even think about for a while.
 
it's very difficult to maintain a safe rhythm of taking opiates when you're in pain. sometimes i want to take one and i think of me being in some sort of (imaginary) pain. that validated me taking it. even more difficult is when your tolerance is increasing drastically. you feel like you need to take more to be free of pain, and that's when you get into stronger drugs, higher doses, and frequent usage, and that's bad.

i recommend you to suffer through pain that is 1-6 on a 1-10 scale. you shouldn't take hydrocodone when you have a hangover or stubbed your toe or something. it's hard not to, but you have to realize that each time you want to take one is one step closer to addiction. instead, you should take them when you need to. when the pain interferes with your life, not when it's a minor inconvenience. you got all that?

stay clean man--i don't want you to go down that sick, twisted path to addiction.
 
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