ZenArcher
Senior member
- Joined
- Feb 22, 2007
- Messages
- 676
- Reason
- PALS
- Diagnosis
- 02/2007
- Country
- US
- State
- PA
- City
- McEwensville
For the past month I've been taking hydrocodone for pain. It began last summer when I fell and cracked my collar bone. The ER gave me 15 Vicodin. I had a follow up with the VA and when I said I'd like a few more they gave me 100. Once the collar bone healed up I had like 97 left which I of course disposed of properly in my desk drawer.
Fast forward to about February this year and I'm having problems sleeping due to pain in shoulders and hips and even in a ROHO my backside wasn't happy. I broke out the "properly disposed of" hydrocodone and they worked wonders. Now that in and of itself is no big deal. I also have problems with coughing. I get that tickle and start coughing which throws me into laryngospasms. Also excess saliva can end up causing laryngospasms. It turns out that hydrocodone is a strong cough suppressant. In addition one of the side effects is slight dry mouth.
I take 5 mg hydrocodone with 500 mg acetaminophen 2 - 4 times per day depending on what kind of day I'm having and it takes care of pain, saliva, coughing and greatly reduces the number of laryngospasms in one fell swoop. Just thought I'd share.
Fast forward to about February this year and I'm having problems sleeping due to pain in shoulders and hips and even in a ROHO my backside wasn't happy. I broke out the "properly disposed of" hydrocodone and they worked wonders. Now that in and of itself is no big deal. I also have problems with coughing. I get that tickle and start coughing which throws me into laryngospasms. Also excess saliva can end up causing laryngospasms. It turns out that hydrocodone is a strong cough suppressant. In addition one of the side effects is slight dry mouth.
I take 5 mg hydrocodone with 500 mg acetaminophen 2 - 4 times per day depending on what kind of day I'm having and it takes care of pain, saliva, coughing and greatly reduces the number of laryngospasms in one fell swoop. Just thought I'd share.