Lortab symptoms and conditions

I started NuvaRing 3 weeks ago yesterday after having the Mirena IUD removed (kept in all 5 years). I removed it yesterday as planned. 1 week ago, I felt a terrible pain in my right side under my ribs. I started having very slight trouble breathing, pain when laughing or coughing, etc. I applied heat and the pain subsided over the weekend and I could breathe easily. On Monday, I decided it best to go to the doctor since I had trouble breathing, I didn't want to assume it was nothing. I went to a doc in the box (bad idea) and I was told that I had a swollen rib cage (the cartilage). I'm certain I was misdiagnosed because the dude didn't even do xrays, even after I explained that I had just started NuvaRing. I wanted them to be aware of everything. The doctor dismissed it.

On Tuesday night, I was in so much pain and my difficulty breathing was worsening that I cried myself to sleep. Wednesday I went to work and was in so much pain that I was in tears and headed to URGENT Care, as my primary care physician could not fit me in. They xrayed, ran a urinalysis, a CBC to check my white blood cells and found nothing except for a bit of what appeared to be constipation, though I have regular bowel movements. My white blood count was slightly elevated, but distributed normally. I was prescribed a laxative and Lortab for the pain, which was excruciating. The doctor told me to come back the next day (today) to retest my white blood count. It went down a tad, as I had taken the Nuvaring out yesterday evening. The doctor seemed puzzled, but gave me my CBC results and urinalysis just in case I developed a fever or an infection of some sort, but told me that she thinks I am having side effects from the NuvaRing. She asked me to not put it back in.

On a side note, I had called my OBGYN on Wednesday before I headed to Urgent Care and explained the situation and they advised me to remove the NuvaRing as well.

I'll have to bite the bullet and pop the daily bc, such as Ortho Lo.

I have been on Percocet 10/325 for 2 weeks now but i feel like they do not help at all I have been on Lortab 10/500 for over 5years they stopped working so my doctor put me on these I have had 7 back surgery thyroid removed because of cancer also have to have surgery on toes in about a week the only thing this med does is I feel nausea all day almost to the point of throwing up but I do not feel any pain relief

hello- I had Mirena inserted the beginning of December- 10 weeks after the birth of my second child.
I have had natural childbirth- I know what pain is... but I handle it well. I found the procedure to be uncomfortable but bearable- just a slight pinch from the device the doctor described as a grappling hook (nice hu?) grabbing hold to keep my cervix open for insertion- my uterus is tipped slightly back, so he had to go around the corner so to say..
I had cramps fairly bad afterwards, enough to take Motrin, and I don't like taking Ibuprofen because is causes a bad taste in my mouth while on it...(odd but true) I had heavy bleeding lasted about 7 days... but continued to spot, then came what I believe to be a period- as I had horrible cramps and the bleeding got very heavy again - more than any period Ive had before.. more like after having a child bleeding, I hear many women mention a smell- that I have noticed as well.. not horrible- but enough to suspect infection- so I go tot Doctors on the 26th of Dec. I get a nurse pract. because my OB is away for some reason. She looks at me like Im crazy when I tell her how Im experiencing stabbing pains like its poking me, and Im bleeding more than I expected and the severe cramping is unbearable at timesl.. she tells me " wait it out.. it will settle in, take 600 mg of Ibuprofen 4 times a day for 7 days - the cramping should subside. I don't recommend taking it out this soon, it would be a painful procedure and you would need to schedule with your regular ob and he wont be back until next week" she prescribed some Lortab for the pain , and I made an appointment for the next week with my OB. To my bad luck, the weather played a harsh role in not making that appointment ( our area has declared a state of emergency due to the mass snowfall in such a short amount of time) I was literally snowed in for four days. So I missed the appointment, and by then Im not cramping as bad.. I had been taking the ibuprofen as recommended- even though everything I taste and smell is nasty because of it... and Im still spotting- it tapers off to brownish or pinkish like I might be stopping- then whamp- bright red or dark again- and Jan 3rd I started another cycle I believe, another heavy gross period, only I don't have cramps as bad until day 5- then I was back to taking 1/2 a lortab again just so I could function( though not very alert being on hyrocodone ) about 10 days into the most recent cycle the bleeding went back to spotting and color fading, but then yesterday It started dark red again, I think I made the decision to have the Mirena removed when I woke up in severe pain at 4:00 am this morning- I felt like I was being stabbed in the uterus- pain as bad as labor pains, I went to take some Ibuprofen and found myself getting dizzy- my ears began to ring, I got weak and collapsed on the floor in a hot flash/ cold sweat. I drug myself to the kitchen sink when I felt the wave of nausea coming, and vomited.. it was everything I had to stay upright and finish puking, then collapsed on the floor again and waited for the ringing and cold sweat to subside. I crawled into bed once I was able to , and tried to concentrate on the pain flowing out of me ( Im a big believer in the power of thought) I used this technique in labor and it does help, but labor pain is something you KNOW is temporary and will go away, this pain is of unknown origin (save for knowing about the foreign object in my uterus) and you don't know if its going to go away... so needless to say, hard to block out of your mind with the power of thought..
I am not cramping as bad now this afternoon, but regardless I made an appointment for Friday to have this thing removed.
I have also experienced symptoms of depression and overwhelming anger during the time I have had Mirena, like most women- easy to contribute to lack of sleep and getting back to life as normal with a baby.. but the rage for no reason- snapping at the slightest irritant.. being pissed at yourself for being too tired to do housework or go to the grocery store. Having debilitating cramps doesn't help- and a severe back ache- sometimes a xiadic nerve feeling from the pelvis- down into your legs... Im glad Im doing something about it before the side effects have long term repercussions.. like - this is a great birth control because you don't have sex - because you DON'T WANT TO or cant because it HURTS too much or your bleeding all the time! My husband said to me the other night he'd go find action elsewhere If Im not willing or able to keep him happy in bed .. isn't that nice?
Just a note to all you women who's husbands put up with your mood swings and or lack of action in bed, - that your men showed compassion and sensitivity towards your pain - you are lucky, and your men are honorable. We don't all have such caring people in our lives. I wish my husband had an ounce of compassion for what Im going through .. instead all the comment I get is "go get that bitching bleeding device taken out of you!" sigh...
I hope I feel better soon.

Everyone's body is different and reacts to every medicine differently. After experiencing depression for some years i was finally put on an antidepressant (cymbalta). My dosage was continually increased because I wasn't feeling any better. Eventually I changed psychologists and she diagnosed me as being bipolar II and said that anti-depressants have an adverse effect on people who are bipolar. so for about a year and a half i was on 200 mg of lamictal. It worked wonders and i felt no negative side effects other than if i forgot to take my second dose during the day. Eventually i took myself off of it (slowly, in the same fashion that i had started it) and was off of it for about a year. Getting off of it was hard, but eventually i felt ok. Then a year later i felt i needed it again. So after a 3 months of being on it again my doctor took me off of it because i experienced extreme head pressure-to the point that i felt like my head was going to explode. i had a checkup at my regular doctor and nothing was wrong. once i had the lamictal out of my system i felt fine again. well now a year and a half after that, i started the lamictal again in hopes that it would work like it did the first time for me. Unfortunately that has not happened yet. As i write this, my head has so much pressure. I ve experienced headaches on and off for the past 4 days. This is not a common side effect so im not sure whats going wrong.. Has anyone else experienced this or know why that is happening? Anyways like i said the first time i was on lamictal for a yr and a half and i felt fantastic. I would tell people i "loved it"---which sounds silly but when you go from absolutely miserable to feeling alive again and having motivation, that phrase doesnt sound so silly. so take everything you hear with a grain of salt. experience it for yourself because everyone's body is different and who knows, maybe you will feel better on it. I however am stopping this drug tomorrow because of the rare head pressure i experience while on it!

I didn't pinpoint it until tonight, but after every dose I feel really hot for about an hour. No cold chills, though. And the first day I was on it, I had a terrible headache, but that could have also been due to the lortab, because I sat on something sharp and metallic and it hurt.

Do not abuse them,they are very hard to come off of.I heard that it is just like oral heroin.I have a prescription and at first everything was good but then I started liking how good they made me feel and started taking more and more now I am having to recover and I wish that I would of never put that pill in my mouth.At first you are full of energy then after a long period of use your body becomes immune and it has a higher tolerance level so you find yourself taking more and more the the aching muscles begin,muscle that never ached before,you stay tired,ill and lose your sex drive.I really don't recommend them unless you are in severe pain!Trust me everything is good at first but that will in time come to an end and so will your liver.

Well, I am so glad that I read these responses. I have had the absolute worst headache for 1 week now. It is miserable. It is on the right side of my head and goes down behind my right ear. I have even been so concerned about it that I had a CT scan of my head done. It was a pain like I have never had before. I was on the NuvaRing for two weeks and when I went for my yearly, after complaining of the headache, she yanked that sucker out. I have still yet to start a period 4 days after the fact, and welcome it with open arms. Hopefully when this hormone is out of my body, my so called "hormone induced migraine" will leave me. Lortab doesn't even subside the pain. UGH>

On June 4, 2007 my husband had achilles tendon surgery on his left leg. He will be in a cast until July 19th at which point it will be determined if he has to be cast again. He took Levaquin 750 mg for 10 days beginning April 10 - 19th. On the early morning of April 21st he was CONVINCED that someone was trying to break into our home, he called 911 TWICE and the police came to our home to find nothing. I forgot to mention that he was also taking 500mg of Lortab for the extreme pain in his legs. Just after the police left for the 2nd time he took 2 steps and fell, rupturing the left achilles and tearing the right. I took him to the emergenceny room and he was so dehydrated that his kidney function had pretty much subsided. After 2 more visits to the emergency room he was hospitalized with Kidney failure. After a different round of antibiotics and fluids he was released after 4 days in the hospital. During his stay the swelling is his legs was terrible and the pain with the ruputures and tears of tendons was unbearable. After a vist to a rheumatologist she immediately diagnosed his injuries as a result of taking Levaquin. So currently he has a cast on his left leg and a boot on his right in hopes the right will heal without surgery. His primary care physician apologized because he didn't know about this drug. Surely there is something that can be done.

It is amazing that a drug with the these side effects is presrcibed so easily. It seems to affect many people in so many different ways. It addresses the symptoms it is prescribed for but its side effects can be painful and uncomfortable as well as dangerous.

I started a ten day course of prednisone to aleviate lung inflamation due to allegy induce asthma.

Day 1 80mg
Days 2,3,4, 60mg each day
Days 5,6,7, 40mg each day
Days 8,9,10, 20mg per day

It worked well,I was breathing much better the second day and felt good overall.
On day seven I awoke to pain in my left foot. The pain persisted throughout the day. It was not until my girlfriend looked at and felt it that I realized the severity of the situation. She said it was cold and it appeared very white.
I decided to go to the outpatient emergency room, for fear of having a blood clot. They gave me a blood thinner and pain killers and also made an appointment for a arterial specialist. for the next day. I went home that evening and took a lortab and went to bed. Before I fell asleep the pain in my foot became excruciating, and I decided to take another pain reliever and was able to fall asleep for a couple of hours before I was awoken, again in pain. The next day I went to the Arterial Specialist barely able to walk the hallway to his office(it was now affecting both feet).
A sonogram was done on my legs which indicated no clotting.The doctor felt my feet and toes and said they were like ice cubes and noticed the right one was now purpleish blue at the toes as the left had been the night before.
The doctor agreed that the prednisone side effect may be causing my pain. He suggested an angiogram for further diagnosis, but I declined and left assuming the symptoms would lessen over the next few days. I have not taken the prednisone in 5 days and still experience pain and numbness in my feet, pain in my knees and hips and cannot stand or walk for any length of time without pain. I don't know how long this will persist and it seems doctors and people posting to the site can't say either. It would seem the length and severity of the symptoms is as varied as the symptons themselves. It appears to me after reading the postings that individuals are all affected differently (also dosage length of time on prednisone) In my opinion that makes its unpredictability a real risk for any individual.
Still waiting for normal.

I AM 28 YEARS OLD & HAVE BEEN ON LISINOPRIL FOR ABOUT 4 MONTHS NOW....I HAVE TRIED VARIOUS MEDS. FOR MY HYPERTENSION SINCE I HAVE HAD HIGH B.P. SINCE THE AGE OF 15. I SWITCHED MEDS. DURING PREGNANCY TO AVOID HARMING THE BABY...I WAS PUT ON TOPROL....I HAVE HAD PRE-ECLAMPSIA IN ALL 3 OF MY PREGNANCIES...NOW MY DR. PUT ME ON LISINOPRIL, VALIUM, PROZAC & LORTAB 10 (FOR UNBELIEVEBALE HEADACHES)! SO, IT'S NO SUPRISE I'M FEELING DIZZY & WEAK. BUT THE COUGH IS OUT OF THIS WORLD!!! AT THE LAST D.R. VISIT HE ASKED IF I HAD BEEN COUGHING ALOT, WHICH IT WASN'T THAT BAD AT THE TIME, I TOLD HIM I HAD BEEN, SO HE TOLD ME THAT THE LISINOPRIL WAS THE CAUSE & THAT WHEN I'M READY TO SWITCH MEDS. TO LET HIM KNOW. THE ALTERNATIVE MED. IS MORE EXPENSIVE, BUT I AM SWITCHING....I TOOK MY SELF OFF THE LISINOPRIL ON SAT. & AM CALL HIM ON MON. FOR A NEW RX.....I COUGH SO HARD IT MAKES MY HEAD POUND, I CAN'T SLEEP, MY HUSBAND & KIDS CAN'T SLEEP,SOMETIMES I COUGH SO HARD I VOMIT.....WHEN I HAVE A COUGHING EPISODE IT CAN LAST UP TO AN HOUR NON STOP.....MY HUSBAND HAD A VASECTOMY A FEW WEEKS AGO THAT I STAYED IN THE ROOM WITH HIM FOR & I COUGHED THROUGHOUT THE ENTIRE PROCEEDURE & ALL THE WAY HOME WHILE DRIVING!!!! I CAN'T EVEN GO TO THE GROCERY STORE DUE TO EMBARRASEMENT!!! SOMETIMES I FEEL LIKE IT'S NEVER GONNA' STOP & I CAN'T CATCH MY BREATH & LETS NOT TALK ABOUT THE TERRIBLE HEART BURN....I'VE NEVER EVEN TAKEN A ROLAID UNTIL TODAY! I CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE!!!!!!!!!!!!! I WISH SOMEONE WOULD TAKE THIS DRUG OFF THE MARKET!!!!!!!!!!!

I just started taking ultrecet. I have been on lortabs & I am trying to save them. So far I have experienced nasuea & sleeplessness. None of the euphoria yet. I thought it was just a simple pain pill. I had no idea there was so many side effects. Funny how they don't tell you about all that. One thing that really irritates me is when the dr. gives you something like lortab or ultracet & you do get addicted they blame the patient & not themselves. Without there help you wouldn't be able to get the medication. Thank all you for your comments. It will make me think again about this medication.

Been taking 300mg of Wellbutrin xl for about 1 year. I sleep almost all the time, don't care about anything or anyone. Try not to go outside. This is horrible! I'm going to ask my doctor to wean me off it. I feel suicidal. I was never so depressed in my life. I hate this feeling. Is anyone else tired on this stuff? I also take Ativan and Lortab. I feel as though my mind is lost and I don't care.

I first started taking Lexapro 10 mg about 2 years ago. I felt like it wasn't working for me anymore. I had sunk back into my deep depression and was having really bad social and non social anxiety. I went to the doctor and told him that I wanted to try Zoloft. He prescribed me Zoloft 50 mg. I have been on it for about 6 months. I noticed changes as soon as 2-3 weeks. I felt so good about myself and was not having any anxiety.

And then it began...

I noticed that as time went by I was dropping weight tremendously. I am 5'7 and at that time I weighed 150lbs. I completely lost my appetite and only ate once a day, if at all. I now weigh 120lbs. This is only the beginning...

In October of '04 I started using drugs i.e. Lortab, Lorcet, Percocet, Klonopin, Xanax. I have never been the one to use such drugs to get "high" from. I want to say I was on a self-destruct mode. Im only 21 so my mom noticed that I was not acting myself, losing so much weight, being angry, irritable, ect. My mom came home from work early one day and saw I was still sleeping at 2pm. Which is not like me at ALL. She looked in my purse because she had that motherly instinct that I was on drugs. She found all my pills, and took me to a detox program. I didnt care that I was hurting my family, friends, let alone myself. I didnt care about anything but getting messed up. Needless to say Im am now drug-free but there is more...

After I got clean from the pills, I started drinking...binge drinking. I only drank to get really drunk. Let me stress the word really in that last sentence. Once again, I was on self destruct mode. I did some research on Zoloft and I have found out that you can become self destructive/violent towards yourself when on this drug. I would like to consider that taking drugs and drinking to the extreme while knowing it could harm me/kill me would fall in the category of self destruction.

Also, I have really bad tremors from time to time and I will go from having an "I dont care" attitude to "please love me" attitude.

Some things are for some people. And this is not for me. I am now winging myself off of this crazy blue pill. I think Im ready to become myself again.

I also think that for some people it is all a mental thing. I have realized this for myself. That by taking my medicine everyday I feel comforted. When Im having a bad beginning to a day, I take my meds and for the rest of the day I tell myself that Ill be ok, because I have taking my medicine. I dont know if anyone else feels this way...

Hope this helps other people out if they are having some of these same reactions I am open to discuss.

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lortab, hydrocodone, and vicodin are all derrivited from the same drug, and are essentually the same. differences mainly concern allergic reactions. to my knowledge, stomache pains are a side effect of too much of any of these drugs, and they are all highly addictive

PLEASE READ: I have read all the captions regarding the use of Ultracet and the group can or could be broke down specifically into two groups. Those with Chronic Pain and those with Pain. The ultracet probably will not work well for those that experience just enough pain and see relief from an uncomfortable feeling. On the other hand, I for instance, have been in almost constant pain after having a benign tumor removed from the interior of my spinal cord 01/23/1994. The tumor had itty bitty fingers that wrapped itself or entertwined into my cord. It was removed but unfortunately, the area affected "between my shoulder blades" somehow interupted a nerve that runs under my right arm pit down tricep area of my arm to my elbow. The pain is described as a hornets sting where you actually feel the insect pumping venom into you. On a good day, the pulse of pain accurs about 2-3 times a minute. While on a bad day the pulse of pain occurs about every 2-3 seconds. I went over 10 years trying stimulation, physical rehab (5) jogging ect.. Where I have tried everything you can imagine to remove this pain, in Aug of 2003, I elected to use narcotics. I went a year on lortab and decided to stop. It was a bad 3 days but I survived it. My doctor then put me on ultracet about 6 months ago and I really like it. I take enough to make my pain stop, I dont care if its 4 of 10. I've had all the pain I can take. I am a Policeman and have been for 24 years. I dont like the idea to being addicted to ultracet, but it could be a lot worse. Those of us in the category of Chronic Pain must come face to face with the realization that addiction is a major result of our treatment. IM SORRY, but thats just the truth. Im willing to deal with it at this point because like I said, I just cant take the pain anymore. Like I said before, I went 10 years before taking pain medications because I was a Police officer and I had to work and raise 3 kids. Well, Im ready to retire now and all my kids are gone. I hope I havent bored anyone but I just wanted my Chronic Pain people to know, IT"S OKAY to be addicted. IT's NOT GREAT, BUT, IT's OKAY. Use your medication as your doctor prescribes it and remind him that you want kidney and liver check up's about ever quarter. That should prevent you from damaging your vital organs. PeAcE...

I have been struggling with sinus allergies/sinus irritations for about twenty years. I was also diagnosed with CFS. I have had 3 sinus surgeries, tried many different meds/herbs, and many other therapies. Tried about every antihistamine and antidepressant. Two-months ago I complained about sinus headaches and was given ultracet. This not only took care of the headache, but my nose cleared up significantly; I felt like I could breath. It has changed my life more than anything I have previously done. I feel great. I take 1-2 pills about every 3-4 days. If take too late in day can't sleep. I have had lortab and other painkillers on rare occasion and never had a liking for them. Ultracet has given me new energy and a life. Again, I feel that I have tried everything with little help. I am a mental health professional and I feel my job performance has dramatically improved. Just positive side effects for me!!!!!

I have been on Lortab for about a year, only taking a max. of two pills a day and most of the time only taking one a day. I started seeing a new Dr. due to the fact that I am terrified of surgery. I am starting physical therapy now and my Dr. has put me on Ultracet in the mean time. I took one pill yesterday afternoon, an hour later I felt very disoriented, much the same as when I stared taking Lortab. I did seem to have alot of energy, again the same as when I take Lortab. I took one more about 4 hours later because it did not seem to help with the pain in my lower back. I then began to itch like crazy, mainly my nose, I thought I was going to rub it right off my face. I did not have any problems sleeping, but this morning I felt like crap. My head hurt and my eyeballs hurt (if that makes any sense at all). I felt a lot of tension in my back and neck so I took an Alieve; did not even touch the headache. I was scared of taking another Ultracet so I took a Lortab this afternoon. Headache and tension are now gone, I will try to take another Ultracet this evening. I know they say this not an addictive drug, but the euphoria it gives you is great. For people who are addictive type people, this would be an easy drug to become dependent on. Be careful.

I have been taking ultracet for my menstrual cramps for quite some time and, like a lot of you here on this board, I have had some pretty weird side effects. First, the insomnia...ohh boy...I just lay in my bed and listen to the fan go whirrrrr whirrrr until I feel like it's talking to me in some robotic language. Then, the itching starts and my hands are constantly busy relieving various body parts for a few hours. I do warn you though, DON'T TAKE ON EMPTY STOMACH...I did this once and puked big time! It was no fun. Other than these weird occurrances, this is the only medicine that has helped the pain. I wish I could get Lortab, but you know...