DILAUDID Reviews (HYDROMORPHONE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.6 (204 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare DILAUDID with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR DILAUDID | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 4 | Acute arthritic pain | I suffer from arrythmia but was very surprised that Dilaudid could bring on an episode.In fact I thought it was coincidence but after reading about the side effects I now realize that taking a dose did indeed cause the irregular heartbeat. | I get bad intestinal reactions from most narcotics, Dilaudid being the exception.Now that I find it causes my arrythmia I don't know where to turn. I only take the medication on rare occasions when I am in real pain. | F | 86 | | 8/8/2009 | 5 | Kidney Stone | Dry mouth, dry eyes, light-headedness, mild delirium. | Amazing drug. Did not even know it existed before my hospital visit. Works within minutes when taken by IV (I never took it any other way), and you can feel it coursing through your system via a warming sensation. On a 1-10 scale, it takes the pain from a 9-10 down to a 0-1 in a matter of seconds once it hits the affected area. My personal opinion is that the benefits of this drug FAR outweigh the side effects I experienced. The one unfortunate thing is that the pain relieving effects did not last the length of time between prescribed doses. I tried to make a point of falling asleep immediately after an injection so as to get as far toward the next dosage time as I could. | M | 37 | 3 days | 7/26/2009 | 5 | I had a craniotomy | Great pain reliever, I had a brain tumor removed from my head at UC San Fransico and was given dilaudid for pain relieve. It worked very well for me!! No side affects. | M | 37 | 3 weeks | 7/8/2009 | 5 | Very Chronic ArthritisPain All Over | GOOD SIDE EFFECTS FOR ME! | I wasn't born sick but got sick later at 8mo. old. At 3 yrs old My mom found out I had Juvenile Rheumatoid Arthritis.I've had my entire body operated on and I've taken alot of pain med's. The doctors were running out of pain med's to give me. Everytime they gave me something it would work for awhile then my body would get use to it and it stop working. I ended up in the hospital again one day and I was in alot of pain and my doctor at the time decided to give me Dilaudid in IV every 3 hrs around the clock. I most tell you, after a day I felt so much better. My pain level was at about 95% gone. When I needed to beable to rest I was without pain so I could rest. And when I had woke up I realized I had more of my strength again, after having a condition like mine for so many yrs you cant expected your pain to completely go away. So, to me 95% is just fine. When I went home I was still taken it, but by injecting myself(I can't take the pill form). Now I'm looking for a doctor that will start me on it again because I don't have the sameone anymore. This pain meds really helps me alot. | F | 32 | 4 years | 6/22/2009 | 3 | sciatica | constipation and breathing almost slowed to none existent. I had to be told to breath, then they finally gave me and anti serum to get it out of my system | Doesn't make pain go away, just makes you not care. So for immediacy in an urgent situation it worked great, but can stop you from breathing. Care must be taken and someone should be watching you while you are under its affects. | M | 51 | 2 weeks | 6/10/2009 | 4 | chronic severe back pain | after several months i have noticed my tolerance to be increasing and relief for shorter periods of time, however, still more satisfied with this medication than the others prescribed in past | F | 48 | 8 months | 5/28/2009 | 5 | DDD Along w/ severe scoliosis | Nasuea, headache & sweats, yet pain relief. U need 2 choose | Given as breakthru 4 mg. 2x's day. Been on MS contin several years & tried several breakthru meds. Didn't do much. Take Xanax also as relaxant for muscles. This has side effects bad yet it allows me to get out of bed & rejoin a semblance of living with a scooter, & I can get out of the house! But because of addi ts or those out there looking 4 a high it makes people like most of us posting w/ real pain every day of our lives, it's very difficult 2 get DR'S. 2 give the scripts! I would give anything not 2 wake in pain everday !! | F | 56 | 3 months | 5/8/2009 | 3 | herniated disk | Felt upper body heaviness; had difficulty speaking and thinking clearly; was a little confused. Later had the worst headache I've experienced. Also had a dose of nausea and vomiting. | While in an ER, I received dilaudid through an IV to counter extreme back and leg pain. While it did take away some of the pain, I was still left in much discomfort. They gave me another dose just before I went for an MRI - worked better, but still had pain. | M | 59 | 1 days | 4/17/2009 | 4 | Chronic Pain L4-5 surgery, DDD, OA | Some sleepiness at 4mg. Mild constipation. At a higher dose, 4mg or 6mg, some mixing up of words. | I have used this for breakthrough pain. It worked very well the first time, which was for a period of 6 years, and the second time...currently, it doesn't work quite as well but enough to get relief, when needed, after 6pm. Used in conjunction with MS Contin. I find that it works best for me in the evenings or if needed, at night, rather than the Percocet, which keeps me awake. Optimally, for me, I prefer to have both available for breakthrough and manage them to avoid tolerance. Thankfully I have an MD, who I've been blessed with for years, who monitors closely, keeps great records, communicates well and trusts me. | F | 51 | 10 years | 2/8/2009 | 5 | Acute Brachial Plexus Neuritis | Other than taking the extreme pain away, I had problems with constipation. | I woke up in the middle of the night with extreme shoulder pain, ended up going to the ER. They really didnt know what was wrong with me. I have hypertension so the first response was a heart attack, which was quickly dismissed. Then on to lung tumor, bone cancer, and many other probing test. In the meantime they had to control my pain, they compared it natural child birth (for about 45 days)First I was given Tylenol and Codeine,did absolutly nothing, then Morphine, very little relief, then came the Dilaudid, 2 mg into my IV. The releif was almost instant, I could feel it traveling up my arm, when it hit my shoulder the pain was completely managable, also gave me slight euphoria.My stay in the hospital was 6 days before they I was fianly diagnosed correctly. I was give the 2 mg every 4 hours while I was there, then I took the 4 mg tablets every 4 hours for another month at home. I had no noticable withdrawels either, but I did have to be weaned off of it, I took 10 mg oxicotin for anot | M | 46 | 45 days | 1/31/2009 | 4 | Post spinal tap headache | Was given dilaudid IV in the Emergency Room, and within minutes my pain was relieved, but I had respiratory depression. Staff simply had to remind me to breathe, and I was ok again. Very tired and disconnected for about 2 hours after administration. | It did the job, but might have been overkill. It was the worst headache of my life, but I bet IV morphine would have done the trick. | M | 32 | 1 times | 1/15/2009 | 5 | Lupus, Fibromyalgia, CTD etc | Dry mouth, itchy nose at first and nausea if not taken with food or nausea pill | I take 4mg of Dilaudid 3 times a day, along with 100mg of oramorph 3 times a day and up to 6 Lorcet per day for breakthrough pain. I take these medications due to having terminal Lupus, Fibromyalgia, Arthritis and connective tissue disease. So basically my body is destroying itself. My immune system is 'eating' away at my organs and the tissue disease has eaten away my cartridge between my joints. When all my issues act up I get severe headaches, not migranes, but headaches that end up with me spending a week in hospital. The dilaudid stops me having to go to the ER. I don't know what I would do without it, I guess i'd have more hospital bills to pay. | F | 30 | 3 years | 11/8/2008 | 4 | Chiari Malformation Head Pain | Moderate burning sensation in muscles and immediate increase in pulse but quickly calmed down. Very fast relief. | Fast relief, very sedating. | F | 22 | 3 times | 10/23/2008 | 5 | Severe lung disease | able to breathe and be a part of the world | without dilaudid I can hardly breathe, and yet my doctors state this as a reason NOT to give me dilaudid - it lowers your respiratory drive. I tell them, No! It enables me to breathe! Yet I'm treated like I'm drug seeking (thanks to those of you who ARE!) and I'm completely tolerate to other pain meds. In fact I just had a bronchoscopy (big tube with a camera shoved down your lungs) with biopies done without any pain meds because that doc uses phentanyl which has no effect on me. | F | 36 | 6 months | 5/24/2008 | 5 | to get high and pain in bones | a lot of Euphoria,sleepiness,nightmares,headaches,itchiness, | makes you very high sleepy and makes you itch | F | 13 | 5 months | 5/2/2008 | 1 | severe strep infection thru arm | It stopped working as well and had to keep increasing the dose. went from 1mg at a time to 2mg then 4mg then 8mg at a time. at one point i was on 40-56 mg a day and when I stopped went thru immediate horrific withdrawal. | what I need to know is if anyone here has had a withdrawal symptom of severe and i do mean SEVERE arm spasms. I mean it wakes me up out of a deep sleep where my arms swing wildly and i cannot control it and it hurts very bad. will not go away unless i take 1mg of dilaudid(hydromorphone) i was off this for 5 nights and then this happened again and i tried to not take the pill but after 4 hours of the swinging arms I had no choice but to take it. within 15 mins the spasms stop completely. please has anyone had this? My md admittedly tells me he has NO knowledge of this medicine. Please someone help!!! | F | 37 | 3 months | 4/2/2008 | 5 | post-op pain & spondyloliothesis | nausea headache sweating fatigue constipation | I was given this in the hospital because I told the Dr. hydrocodene and Tylenol 3 did nothing for my pain (especially my back pain/ which had nothing to do with my surgery/ I was in for a hip replacement.)I first used it during the day and night. Now I usually use it only at night as it makes me too tired and I feel kind of "out of it". But it has been effective in a way the other meds were not | F | 59 | 4 weeks | 3/4/2008 | 5 | Post-Operative Pain | Severe Constipation, "Dopiness"/Confusion, Slow Speech, Personality change, Emotional instability (I started crying for no reason, then laughed crazily about it!), slight amnesia. HYPOXIA!! | After my microdiscectomy, when they were pulling the ET tube out, I was holding back my coughing. After they got it out, they told me I needed to cough fully instead of little puffs and clearing my throat. I told them I couldn't because it hurt too bad. They gave me 3 or 4mg I think. Then they asked "how you doin'?" and in addition to my nausea, I told them that I was in severe pain. 3 more mg. This medicine was great. It worked fairly quickly and took the pain away and made me really high, to be honest. It also dropped my SpO2 to under 89% and they had to administer O2 via High flow NRB for a while, then nasal canula. I also got more dilautid when I woke up in the hospital in severe pain the next morning. This time it was only 1 or 2 mg but It was still very effective effective. When the chemistry works out to the drug being 8x stronger than natural Morphine Sulfate and 3x stronger than Heroine, they aren't kidding. This stuff is potent. | M | 17 | 2 days | 1/29/2008 | 5 | Neuropathy, radicolapathy,surgery | constipation, nausea, sleep disruption (more from my pain waking me up), attitude from my doctors | After back surgery I was left to leak spinal fluid for 16 days, then an other surgery, it caused a whole new set of painful problems for me and none of them are reversable. I was put on all sorts of pain medications such as oxycotin, phentanyl, neurontin, vicoden, norco, baclofen, xanax, soma, morphine, you name it I was on it. Most of the side affects were unbearable, and I lived in a semi vegitative state for over a year, just long enough for the statute of limitations to pass for malpractice. I have never felt high or woozey on dilaudid. It takes my pain far enough away that I might have some semblance of a life (not much). If any one else is having problems feeling victimized by your doctors please email me ([email protected]). I am tired of my MD's insinuation that it is all in my head or treating me like a drug addict. I have done all of their tests (painfull ones) and I have 58 pages of medical reports to confirm my condition. I would like to start a support group for people | F | 44 | 6 years | 12/10/2007 | 5 | severe pain from shingles | Taking 4mg oral for pain associated with shingles. Most days needed no more than one and I found it was as effective as Percocet (or more) without the associated stomach pain. One day the pain was so severe I took two (one roughly 45-60 minutes after the other). BIG MISTAKE. Felt extremely nauseous, body shakes, scared. This passed after 20 min or so and then became extremely HIGH for maybe an hour. I still had terrible pain but I simply didn't care about it and wasn't bothered by it either. I wasn't taking it to get wasted and the negative effects weren't worth it. In the future it would be one pill backed up by Advil if I absolutely needed something else. | I am a software developer and my work requires me to sit in front of a computer and concentrate for hours at a time. When taking Percocet I cannot concentrate and therefore cannot work. WIth Dilaudid there is an initial "rush" perhaps 5-10 minutes after taking the pill that for me lasts just a few minutes. After this I can work steadily pain-free for hours so I get the same pain control as Percocet without the down time. I do take the meds as directed though and sparingly. | M | 34 | 3 weeks | 11/27/2007 |