Elpatron69
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I've recently been prescribed hydrocodone 10/325 pills. My prescription says to take one every 4 hours, but being the person I am, I try to push my limits. I've never really taken opiates in the past, aside from having an occasional percocet or vicodin given from friends. Tonight I took 3 of my 10/325 hydrocodone pils, and for the majority of the time, I was very concerned about my breathing. I've heard about respiratory depression being a symptom of opiate overdose, and this thought was just shoved into the back of my head throughout the duration of my "high". I felt like I had to focus on my breathing and manually force myself to take breaths. I felt that my breaths had become shallow. I've heard of people reporting having the same experiences at high doses of opiates (having a hard time breathing and manually forcing themselves to take breaths). I am not too savvy with opiates, but I feel like 30 mg of hydrocodone is not nearly enough of an opiate to induce respiratory depression. Often times I let my anxiety get the best of me, and I feel like this was what happened here. The more I focused on my breathing, the harder it became to breathe, it seemed. Was I experiencing a potential overdose symptom and a real state of respiratory depression? Or was this "respiratory depression", I was experiencing just a simple state of anxiety? I know that panicky symptoms also include shallow breathing. Is 30 mg of hydrocodone safe for anyone to take at once? I feel like even low doses of opiates would alter your breathing regardless, but not near to the point of danger, and noticing this alteration, my anxiety may have further caused me to believe that I would stop breathing because of the vicodin I took. I understand I might seem like kind of a bitch here... having all these anxiety driven questions about what a lot of people would probably consider a low dose of vicodin, but any input would be cool. Thanks
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