NORCO Reviews (ACETAMINOPHEN; HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE)Average Rating: 3.3 (185 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare NORCO with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR NORCO | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 1 | Trying to get off it.terrible side effects depression can't hardly eat.75 hours without it.please help me. | F | 82 | 5 weeks 5/325 | 12/23/2016 | 1 | Hip replacement | Very had constipation. Can't poop the stool is impacted..horrible they recommended colace didnt work. I am miserable. | F | 78 | 14 days 10-325 mg | 10/8/2019 | 1 | Back surgery | Terrible brain fog that hasn't totally disappeared although I'm tapering off and about finished. | Hate it. It did not agree and I can't wait to totally get off about another day and hope I don't have much residual effects. Was on two months on one dose or another. | F | 78 | 2 months 10mg 5 mg | 8/28/2015 | 1 | Pain-after knee replacement | Mood change-normally very optimistic and cheerful, became very paranoid, angry and anxious. Agitated. Panic attacks. Disoriented, strange dreams, memory changes. Became irrational. Erratic heartbeats. Hallucinations. | I would not touch any of the opiates again. Had same reaction to Dilaudid, though Norco was the worst. Found out later it is not recommended for people my age. I wish they would have checked more thoroughly before giving it to me. | F | 77 | 1 days | 2/16/2005 | 1 | Rotator Cuff Surgery | I had rotator cuff surgery after a fall four months ago. My doctor prescribed Norco and three months of physical therapy. The PT was brutal at times so I changed therapists. However, last month the surgery failed. The only thing Norco does for me is make me feel good about the pain. Tylenol does nothing for me which my doctor explained is one of the ingredients. It relieved a little of the pain and a reduced my chronic low grade headaches, but when I weaned off it I experienced a heavy withdrawal headache. Then my daily the headaches came back. The two worst things about Norco is how it negatively affects my quality of life. First there are evil negative mental images that I see when I close my eyes. A narcotic that does that is like a bad LSD trip. I notice in the drug write-up that suicidal thoughts may occur, but that was not what I felt, only evil around me. The second evil thing I experience is one that negatively impacts my family life. When I take Norco my disposition chang | M | 73 | 3 months 10-325 3X day | 10/10/2014 | 3 | post op pain...foraminotomy/fusion | M | 70 | 365 days 10/375 1X AN | 12/23/2010 | 5 | Laminectomy and Failed Laminectomy | Constipation | No other side effects. The drug works EVERY time. I'm taking 5 10/325 tablets per day in conjunction with Zanaflex, Neurontin and Lyrica. I use .5mg of Dilaudid when all else fails and that is fairly rare. Norco is a lifesaver. | M | 69 | 4 months | 11/4/2009 | 5 | broken arm | M | 68 | 4 days 10/325 mg | 3/30/2014 | 4 | abdominal pain | the longer you take it, the more you need to get the same amount of pain relief. occasionally you have to drop back and wean your way down to smaller doses. a good time to do this is when your pain symptoms are milder. that way, when the pain gets more severe, you can get relief with the same amount you were taking. | norco or its generic (watson) comes in 10 mg with only 325 mg of 'tylenol.' too much tylenol is not good for your liver. an alternative to norco is lortab which comes (among other) in 7.5 mg with 750 mg of 'tylenol!!!' if you are taking higher doses, i'd stay away from this. | M | 66 | 3 years | 6/13/2005 | 2 | Post-op knee surgery | Hallucinations, but it wiped all pain from my body! | The first day I took the drug, all was well. The second day, I was awakened when The Virgin Mary, attired in blue, sat on the headboard of my bed. She was looking at me and talking a blue streak, but I couldn't understand her. I listened, but I was really freaked out. As abruptly as she appeared, she disappeared. I was shaken, but I went back to sleep. This drug made me VERY sleepy. Soon I was again awakened by what I thought was the dog scratching, but it was my DAD in angel form, flapping his wings as he hovered over me, saying not a word, and really not looking AT ALL like himself. Somehow, I knew it was my dad. He didn't stay long. I got up and walked a bit, then I woke up my husband, told him about my "visitors," and he calmed me down enough to almost fall asleep again. But I looked at my sleeping husband, and as I watched, another angel came from his body, flew over me and over to my bedside table and then flew back into his body. I again woke him up and told him to stop it. He asked me if he was snoring. The GOOD thing is that for those two days and part of the third, I had NO pain anywhere in my body. However, I decided I didn't need hallucinations, and they freaked me out, so I stopped the medication. For the next three days I had a headache. I don't know if the cessation of the meds had anything to do with the headaches. My doctor was not particularly happy that I stopped the med, but he DID say that "about 1%" of patients who take it report | F | 66 | 2 days 5-325 3X day | 4/7/2014 | 1 | back pain | 15 minutes after taking Norco, I began feeling light-headed and nauseous. I threw up then and about 1 hour later. I'm still feeling very nauseous and my stomach hurts 4 hours after taking the pill. | F | 66 | 1 days 7.5-325 mg | 1/12/2016 | 1 | Knee pain | Severe anxiety, nausea and vomiting for about the whole day. | This was horrible for me. Would not recommend it. | F | 65 | 1 days 20 4X day | 3/4/2016 | 5 | because I have ME | none. I have pain that only responds to norco. I tried all meds in all classes. | F | 64 | 5 years 10-275 | 12/10/2013 | 4 | pinched nerve and to bulged disks | occasional constipation | 64 | 10 years 2X day | 4/9/2016 | 1 | Back pain | Insomnia, chills, fever sweats rash | Yys ago did not have these issues w/norco now my body is reacting to it so differently is this drug changed or is it my body w/ age? | F | 64 | 9 weeks .5 mg /325 | 6/19/2017 | 5 | Back Pain from fall | Restless legs, which over the counter "Leg Cramps" tablets(qunine) seem to help and sometimes constipation which milk of magnesia corrects. | I've been taking a 10mg Norco tab 2 to 3 X a day for 5 years for back pain from a fall. I've always had a high pain tolorence but 3 years ago had hip replacement with residual pain then developed joint pain, knee, leg, and foot pain followed by tendon issues. Sometimes I would take a 3rd and 4th norco, and seemed to quiet all my pains and I was able to get around. In the past year I developed muscle loss to the point I it was hard to get off the floor after playing with my young grand kids or out of a chair or even walk around. Dr's were concerned all this might be due to Agent orange exposure from the army or norco. I stopped the norco for two weeks (with no withdrawel issues) but had no effect and pain was in far less control with Tylenol and IBP. I also have diabetes ll and neuropathy from the agent orange and have been taking ACTOS for three years to control blood sugar. Forgot the ACTOS on a holiday trip recently and didn't take it for 4 days and low and behold joints are not hurting so bad I can get off the floor out of the chair and muscle tone is returning in just 5 days. Problems were not from norco but ACTOS! . Back on 2 norco tabs a day for back pain and no ACTOS, beginning to feel much better. Found this site and and the reports on actos confirm the actos connection to my issues. . . I now believe all meds taken need to be re-evaluated periodically , and you can't always depend on MD's to do it for you ... Thank you, Ask a Patient. | M | 63 | 5 years 10mg 2X day | 3/12/2013 | 1 | Back Surgery Pain | Constant shaking, a nervous wreck. | Only taking the Kolonopin I still had the amphetamine effects of Norco. It didn't stop, the shaking, until I took a Norco. My doctor want's to switch me to Suboxone but I'm not sure if that is going to stop the shaking. I've tried taking only a half of a Norco but the shaking persists until I take the other half with two Kolonopin in me. I can't wait until this is over. I've been on narcotics forr back pain (and 6 spine surgeries) for the past 17 years and this is by far the worst drug I've ever been prescribed. I HATE IT! Please, if there is any alternative for your pain medication other than Norco, take it. This drug makes me feel like an addicted, drug dependant looser. I can't cook, clean my home, eat, nada because of the effects of the Norco (along with Kepra for any possible seizures from the drug) and my life has turned into a complete mess. | M | 62 | 5 months 3X day | 11/30/2014 | 1 | Painfully watching it destroy dad | I'm watching this drug suck the life out of my dad , who once had a quirky humor, and had goals and ambition ! Now he is moody if he runs out of pills , quick tempered, tells us we should let him die ... I don't know him anymore our hearts are literally breaking ! I've seen this happen to others as too!!!!! | F | 62 | 10 months 30 | 5/16/2014 | 5 | neck surgery and extreme low back pain | none | this helps me to no end. ibuprofen does nothing for me, and if i am gone from home too long and it is worn off i can hardly get out of the car. on the other hand i have heard over the years about becoming addicted to it. i can stop taking it without any type of withdrawal or cravings only pain. not only pain i have weakness in one leg and with the pain i feel more unsteady. my dr. said just two days ago that both sides of legislative body is wanting to do away with norco. i told him that if that happened i would have to lay on the couch all day like a quivering pile of jello. | F | 61 | 7 years 5-325mg 5X day | 2/23/2017 | 4 | Fibromyalgia and arthritis pain | Sleepiness, a little foggy at times. I cannot function without it or I use the fentanyl patch. | For constipation, try taking magnesium, upping the dose until you get relief. It's natural and it works. | F | 61 | 5 years 10/325 4X day | 4/14/2010 |
NORCO (ACETAMINOPHEN; HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE): This combination medication is used to relieve moderate to severe pain. It contains an opioid (narcotic) pain reliever (hydrocodone) and a non-opioid pain reliever (acetaminophen). Hydrocodone works in the brain to change how your body feels and responds to pain. Acetaminophen can also reduce a fever. This product is not recommended for use in children younger than 6 years due to an increased risk of serious side effects (such as slow/shallow breathing). FDA Approval Date: 1997-02-14 (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)