VICODIN Reviews (ACETAMINOPHEN; HYDROCODONE BITARTRATE)Average Rating: 3.3 (642 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare VICODIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR VICODIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 2 | Back Pains | Feeling very Hot, and severe Headache. | Some relief from pain, but not worth the side affects. I didn't like waking up feeling like I've been hit by a Train. | M | 23 | 1 weeks 2/500 1X day | 10/4/2010 | 1 | Back pain | Initially, GREAT pain relief, sense of well being, very energetic. Then headaches,, irritability, THEN Sever increase in B/P, pulse, short of breath, face went numb, shook so bad my teeth were chattering, T.v. vision, disconnection from reality, the most severe panic attack you could every imagine. I have developed an allergy to it. | It is not for everybody. Never saw the addiction angle to it. I took it for years and never had a craving for one when I went awhile without it. Appears to have the potential to cause you to develop a severe allergy to it. | F | 42 | 5/500 1X day | 9/24/2010 | 5 | Osteoarthritis in my knees | A little light headed and dizzy. Slow heart rate and the feeling of Afib though I maintained normal rythym. Face was red. A little disconnected from myself. Not tired or sleepy but a little spacey. I talked a lot as if I was drinking. | With Vicodin I can do normal things. My knees are so bad I am in a lot of pain all the time and severe pain when I am active. When I take Vicodin I can go places, do things and enjoy life. I wish I could take it all the time. I get more done around the house in a day with Vicodin than I do in week without. Too bad it is addictive. Otherwise I would recommend they put it in the water. | M | 61 | 10 days 5mg 4X day | 9/19/2010 | 4 | menstrual cramps | Nausea, dizziness, and fatigue | I have had severe menstrual cramps since the late teens. I finally screwed up my stomach trying to manage the pain with OTC meds (Aleve/Ibuprofen), so this is the ONLY thing that gives me any relief. I'm still incapacitated every menstrual cycle, but at least I don't spend days in excruciating pain. The side effects aren't for the faint of heart - for that reason alone I didn't give this a 5. | F | 34 | 3 months 5/500 1X AN | 9/7/2010 | 5 | severe menstrual cramps | An hour ago I was literally on the floor in a ball doubled over from the excruciating cramps I get monthly. Thankfully, my uterus is numb now and hopefully I can get some sleep. I could take a whole bottle of ibuprofen or Aleve and it never touches the pain. | F | 46 | 1 days 5-500 4X day | 9/4/2010 | 3 | Back pain | Anger, mood swings, confusion, constipation | first 2 doses were helpful. After that the pain remained and was no longer masked by the confusion. Anger got much worse. | M | 32 | 5 days 2/500mg 4X day | 9/3/2010 | 2 | molar extraction | had a difficult extraction at the dentist for a molar that had been abscessed. After being on penicillin and Vicodin for the pain the dentist took out the tooth. The pain after oral surgery was horrible as the tooth broke off. Took Vicodin, didn't help raw pain. After taking 3 of them within 12 hr period and still having the raw pain, I decided to take 2 Extra Strength Tylenol. To my surprise, the pain totally dissipated and I feel so much better. | This is just maybe one time that Vicodin did not relieve the pain and Extra Strength Tylenol did. The dentist even suggested I take Extra Strength Tylenol FIRST before the Vicodin. Believe she knew what she was talking about. | F | 58 | 500 mg 3X day | 8/26/2010 | 5 | Chronic Sciatica and post surgical | Tired, constipation in high doses, pain relief. Resolved stomach issues (masked) and huge improvement in attitude to family life. Basically it caused me to age 10 years but everybody likes me better LOL Reduced adrenaline addiction. Have had an increase in caffiene addiction to offset the fatigue. Red Bull and Vicodin are a GREAT mix. | I've been taking this drug (ES 10/325) for almost three years. Prior to my second surgery and post surgery I needed it to sit or enjoy time where I wasn't lying flat or icing. It was the ONLY thing that I've had that works. Since then, because of side effects, I've had as little as 10mg in 24 hours (to maintain lack of side effects) and as many as 40 per day (if I havea re-inflammation) Had my enzymes and bloodwork done. However, I have noticed decrease in testosterone, increase mid-section body fat. I've coursed off and on, never tool more to get high because one or two can make me silly high anyway. | M | 35 | 3 years 30 3X day | 8/21/2010 | 4 | Laproscopic cystorectomy | Constipation | This drug did help a lot with the pain but it made me so constipated. Make sure you drink a lot of water and take a stool softener when you take this. | F | 26 | 2 weeks 1X AN | 8/11/2010 | 4 | severe menstrual cramps | Itching, felt spacey | This is the only med that takes away my severe menstrual cramp pain completely, and I have tried every NSAID out there. Without the Vicodin I would be in a ball on the floor. I just wished the pain relief lasted longer, at most 4 hours for me, and then the cramps come back big time until my next dose. | F | 41 | 3 months 5/500 4X day | 8/11/2010 | 2 | bruised ribs | At first, it was wonderful. Great pain relief, just enough sleepiness to rest through the pain. On the third day, the pain reducing effects decreased and sleeplessness occurred. Day four, after a sleepless night, no decrease in pain with dose. | I am a recovering alcoholic, 2 1/2 years sober. I don't know if my metabolism is making a difference as far as my tolerance level. I'm going to call my doctor to change medications. | F | 45 | 4 days 5/500 4X day | 8/10/2010 | 4 | Prostatitis | Not bad, no serious side effects, feel kind of crappy in the morning, almost mildly "hungover", but seems to go away once I take another one, only on for a few weeks, hopefully don't get "addicted". | M | 30 | 15 days 5 mg 2X day | 8/2/2010 | 5 | rotator cuff surgery | At first the medication made me tired and helped me sleep, but after several months of use it started to give me tons of energy and actually helped my depression. I would get up in the morning feeling lethargic and depressed and then take one and within an hour I was feeling completely normal and full of life and energy..instead of feeling depressed I felt like everything was great. Ive suffered with depression for many years and have yet to find something that works..I know I cant take these for depression..just wish there was something out there that worked like they do. | Completely took the pain away after surgery and helped with other pain like headaches and cramps. | F | 41 | 6 months 750 3X day | 7/25/2010 | 3 | Leg injury | Extreme itching, tiredness, very moody. | M | 27 | 30 days 500MG 4X day | 7/25/2010 | 3 | Migraines | "disconnected", drowsy, dizzy, unusual dreams, nausea | Medication was prescribed to help migraine headache. It did it's job and relieved the pain, but the side effects were bizarre. Strange dreams happened a lot, but not nightmares, just the dreams that are hard to separate from reality. The nausea may have been caused by the combination of Vicodin with another medication I am taking concurrently. | F | 31 | 7.5/700 mg 1X AN | 7/8/2010 | 5 | Neck pain after MVA | Itching and mild nausea | I don't know what I would do without vicodin: it dulls the pain and allows me to lead a decent life. I also take a lot of NSAIDs (ibuprofen primarily), but those definitely do not give me enough relief. | F | 35 | 8 months 1-2 5/500 2X day | 7/6/2010 | 1 | for fun. | it SUCKED. i kept hearing about how fun it was and how amazing you felt, well boy-oh-boy were they LIES. like 30 mins after i took it, it all just hit me at once. i was unbelievably dizzy, horribly nauseous, i had hot flashes, and i threw up more than i ever have in my life. ...never again! | F | 15 | 1X day | 7/6/2010 | 5 | fractured back | F | 57 | 500 2X day | 7/1/2010 | 3 | wisdom teeth (2) extraction | first time i took it i felt really good - like i was high... second time i took it a few hours later and it just kept the pain away... took it two other times that day and it simply kept the pain away... so, the first day i took it 4 times and it did its job took it in the morning on the second day with a smoothie and after an hour i took a shower. when getting out of the shower i felt extremely dizzy, had extreme difficulty breathing, and started hallucinating. i held onto the towel bar in my bathroom because i thought i was going to faint. next thing i knew i was on the floor... the towel bar broken, and a huge pain in the back of my head (i had hit it against something)... i dunno how long i was out but when i woke back up i was still dizzy and had trouble breathing... i called 911 and went to the emergency room. | the docs said that the vicodin made my blood pressure plummet and told me that's why i fainted. never taking this medicine again!!! it made me feel like i was going to die! so basically, if you are going to take this medicine, be very careful about how you take it... if you have problems with low blood pressure i would not recommend taking this medicine at all... take ibuprofen instead!! | F | 21 | 2 days 5mg/500mg 2X day | 6/24/2010 | 2 | Pain after a minor surgery | I took a 500mg Vicodin tablet at 11pm. It took my pain away and I fell asleep only to wake 2 hours later at 1am. I could not sleep deely all night. Just dozed here and there. This is probably just a personal problem as Benedryl does that to me as well. I just wanted to let people know that it's a possibility. | F | 49 | 1 days 500 mg 4X day | 6/20/2010 |