After my surgery last Tuesday I was given some extra strength Vicodin as a prescription. The first night I was in so much pain I had to take about 3 of them and it completely knocked me and the pain out and I was able to get a good nights sleep. But when I woke up the next morning, I had a headache and it felt like a terrible hangover, I drank water, took some aspirin/tylenol and in a couple of hours I was feeling better. The pain subsided in my surically repaired area for the next 2 days to where I only had to take tylenol, but then on Friday the pain was back.....really bad pain, so I took 3 more Vicodin that evening and slept through the night again. Well on Saturday I woke up with a severe hangover again ...and was really out of it for a long time dozing in and out of sleep, the good news was the pain finally broke. I went from a pain level on a 1-10 scale of about 8 down to a 2, something I could easily tolerate. Saturday, I got a great nights sleep and the pain has been even less on Sunday and today. But, I decided to look up Vicodin on the web, and it turns out the two nights I was taking it.....what I was experiencing the morning after was withdrawl symptoms. It felt like a terrible hangover - apparently Vicodin is highly addictive..... I am glad I will not be taking it anymore, what a horrible feeling the next day...... Anyone else have any experience with this drug? And I wonder why Doctors prescribe it so much if it is so addictive? DD
I used to take Vicodin FOR my hangovers. I took em for my back. I never had any complaints. I quite enjoyed them.
Are you supposed to take more than 2 at a time? That might have been your problem. I've had to use them before and don't remember taking that many at one time.
You're not having withdrawal symptoms after only taking it a few times. I have been taking vicodin several times a week for well over a year for a degenerative spinal condition, and I only experience slight withdrawal symptoms when I go a week or so without taking any. I am also prescribed the Vicodin ES (extra strength), which are 7.5 mg of hydrocodone, and 750 mg of APAP. If you really took three at once, thats why you woke up with a hangover. Taking 22mg of hydro for someone with zero opiate tolerance is way too much. Also taking that much APAP at once is hard on your liver. Take 1 or 1.5, and you'll be fine.
I meant I took 3 over the course of the whole night. I would basically take one every four hours.....and the prescription said I could take up to two every 4 hours. Mine are 10mg Hydrocodiene and 325mg of APAP.... As I said extra strength. They knocked me out good, but only lasted about 4 hours and I took another one. I am fairly certain I was going through withdrawls......... DD
no way, really? that seems awful fast to be having withdrawls, i hope you weren't injecting it................
Nah, just waking up with a severe headache, feeling very dehydrated, and small shakes. Felt like crashing down.........at least from what I remember back in college. DD
When I used to take a lot of Vicodin it made we wicked constipated...the constipation gave me a wicked headache. I learned to take my vicodin with fiber, softeners and a laxative. I heard somewhere recently it takes around 100 hours to become addicted to Vicodin. Your more likely to be crashing from the Fentanyl used during surgery, it's 100 times stronger than heroin. I tried to talk my anesthetist into giving me the Fentanyl before the Versed to I would be awake to feel the rush but he wouldn't do it.
Well I am not taking any more fo-sure. Just talked to my doc, said it was not withdrawls but the narcotic can cause a hangover like effect. No kidding. DD
"Withdrawals" only occur after physical addiction has developed. This can not happen in such a short time as you describe. You just gave yourself the pharmaceutical equivalent of an alcohol hangover. EDIT: you posted above while I was typing this post.
I have a very good friend, a college roomate, who basically wasted 20 years doing drugs and never growing up, finally after living on the coach of several friends they all had enough...... He basically got kicked out by all of us.....then miraculously a year later shows up sober and his life back in order and working in a steady job. I know the ills of drugs......I am just going to flush these bad boys. DD
Man this is so weird. I took painkillers for two months (most of which on painkillers with much more codine than vicodin) and I never had any effect like the one described above. Sure the more powerful ones can cause you to trip out every now and then but I never had headaches or anything of the sort.
