I thought you were supposed to feel better in vicodin...

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THE4RINGZ
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Aug 12, 2010 12:23am
Vicodin makes me hyper as hell.
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DeyDurkie5
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Aug 12, 2010 3:04am
you are just a pussy...anyone who feels "weird" on vicodin needs to have their nuts checked
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ernest_t_bass
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Aug 12, 2010 9:41am
Fab4Runner;448820 wrote:I take oxycodone when I give oral.

O R'LY?
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Aug 12, 2010 11:00am
so I felt a little bit better this morning... maybe mixing up the timing and taking one before bed worked out
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Scarlet_Buckeye
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Aug 12, 2010 11:51am
Stuff like that always makes me feel worse before I feel better.
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Scarlet_Buckeye
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Aug 12, 2010 12:25pm
darbypitcher22;448559 wrote:Been taking some vicodin for some pain lately and instead of feeling absolutely giddy and wonderful like people have told me, I feel sluggish, out of it, and awful.... why?

You're doing it wrong!
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Aug 12, 2010 1:35pm
it's only vicodin. Pop about 7 or 8 and see where you're at...
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Aug 12, 2010 1:48pm
Last week when I had my appendix removed, they gave me Oxycodone and all that does is make me drowsy and it doesn't really get rid of the pain.

I wish I had a prescription to Dilauded though :D
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darbypitcher22
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Aug 12, 2010 2:41pm
the vicodin makes me drwosy and just feel plain oopy... I popped one about 3 hrs ago and am feeling the full height of loopiness
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friendfromlowry
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Aug 14, 2010 12:28am
In my opinion/experience, the idea that vicodin will give you this loopy/strange feeling like you're high or drunk is off. I would think if anything, it'd just make you sleepy.
What type of pain are you taking it for?

Everyone handles their medicines differently. I would also speculate that it has a strong correlation to alcohol. For example, a 110lb woman who doesn't drink much happens to drink a few beers, she's probably feeling it. You take a guy twice her weight who drinks more often, a few beers don't touch him.
So it depends on your sex, age, body size, and overall tolerance. I've seen patients get so much pain medicine it'll make you cringe. Dilaudid every two hours, and of course then they need the zofran to balance it out. At that point they don't even need it to control the pain. They'll be asleep at 10:30am, but at 10:45am when it's time for their next dose, they're complaining of severe pain that "came out of nowhere". End rant on drug seekers.

Point is, everyone's different. I came home from work Monday and had a bad migraine. I have some vicodin left over from a tonsillectomy last year. I took a dose of that, and my headache was gone within 20 minutes. I tolerated it fine, no nausea or drowsiness.
But it's mindblowing how some drugs work on different people. I had a restless patient the other day who was getting ativan and haldol regularly, and nothing was phasing him. You give that same dosage of ativan to any other person and they're out like a light.
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Aug 14, 2010 1:12am
Mohican00;448565 wrote:People react differently to drugs/medication.
^This
Tiernan;448599 wrote:I think its "on vicodin" not "in vicodin" ...if you are sticking them "in" you like a suppository they may not be working correctly.

And ^This
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Aug 14, 2010 2:37am
friendfromlowry;450751 wrote:In my opinion/experience, the idea that vicodin will give you this loopy/strange feeling like you're high or drunk is off. I would think if anything, it'd just make you sleepy.

To be honest, whenever I've had a Vic, it's woke me up to a degree. The few times I've done them with alcohol, they've temporarily boosted me in the way that caffeine does to a person in the early morning. And back when I was married, my current ex gave me one when I had a bad headache, but had to get through a workday. I felt like I'd had 3-4 cups of strong coffee.

Like you said in your next (unquoted) paragraph, drugs affect people differently. I rarely touch pills and when I do, it's in tiny doses, but for me, they get me wired more than anything else.
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Aug 14, 2010 1:45pm
Vicodin=Tylenol
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Aug 14, 2010 1:48pm
gerb131;450988 wrote:Vicodin=Tylenol

perc 30's is how you do it
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Aug 14, 2010 4:07pm
DeyDurkie5;450991 wrote:perc 30's is how you do it

perc 30's? oc 180's
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Aug 14, 2010 4:17pm
gerb131;450988 wrote:Vicodin=Tylenol

They all have acetaminophen in them.