PSA Oxycodone on National backorder

[Eli]

lol, addicts will be the only ones with pills.

 

[imported_Lothar]

Originally posted by: Squisher

Originally posted by: Lothar

Originally posted by: Squisher
My wife just tried to get a presciption filled at CVS and they told her they would have 1/2 the order tomorrow and 1/2 the next day.

I have been bitching at her something fierce because hydrocodone was having ever lessening effect on her back pain and her solution was to take more. Now that she has switched, the amount of pain killer she has to take doesn't make her seem like a crazed addict intent on pickling their liver.

btw-why do they include the mild analgesic Tylenol in strong pain medication? I could understand if it was an anti-inflammatory, but Tylenol seems so unnecessarily redundant, like putting a rubber band powered propeller on a Ferrari to make it go faster.

In most cases, because it works.

2+4 = 6.
6 > taking 4 alone.

Doubling up on the 4's will either kill you, shoot your kidney, turn your liver to mush, or make you a complete crackhead so that's not an option there.

I'm really not getting what you are saying with your math. Vicodin I'm familiar with comes either at 5, 7.5, or 10 mg which gets bundled with I think 400, 500, and 650 mg of acetaminophen.

The wife was taking the 10/650 and was far exceeding the max daily recommendation of 4000 mg for acetaminophen.

She's been on Vicodin for two years and had a spinal fusion of 3 vertebrae on 11/18/08.

By the math I was doing, I wasn't comparing dosage.
I was comparing effectiveness.

As vi edit said, they have completely different mechanisms of action.
It also useful to combine because they have completely different metabolism and never cross path or interact with each other.
One excreted through the liver, the other through the kidney.