Ultracet and addictive

I have taken Ultracet sporatically for over three years. It helps and the desired side effect that I have experienced is that is supresses my appetite. I do not find it addictive.

I was given Ultracet to manage severe pain from sciatica. I was told that Ultracet was 'less addictive' than Percocet, which I'd been taking. What a disaster. The Ultracet faded out on me in less than three hours, leaving me in pain, and I developed severe stomach problems: acute, spasmadic cramps, inflamation of my stomach lining, and ultimately, gastritis. The doctor stopped the Ultracet as soon as I complained of the pain--by then, I could barely stand upright.

The gastritis is still a serious problem, months after stopping the Ultracet. I now have to take prescription medication for gastritis, and cannot take any pain reliever except acetomenophin. (For folks outside the U.S., even paracetamol aggravates the stomach.) This drug ruined my life. Everything, from my diet, to how I manage my pain, to how I perform my daily activities has had to be changed.

Please, please, PLEASE, discuss this option with your doctor before agreeing to take the 'less addictive' Ultracet.

ADDICTIVE!!! BEWARE OF ULTRACET!!!!
I was prescribed Ultracet after a car accident. I had torn fascia in my back, and a leaking disk in my neck. The disk began to pinch a nerve, sending shooting pain into the entire left side of my body, to the tips of my toes and fingers. I wanted to throw myself against the wall to numb my body. The pain was unreal, and did not cease with Massage, Accupuncture, Chiropractor visits, or Physical Therapy. My last resort was to get on Medication, so the doctor told me about Ultracet. He said it was NOT ADDICTIVE, and so I trusted him. I did my own reasearch on it, discovering that it is an artificial "opiod derivative".....well he wrote a scrip for 200 of them, and I took them all. Then he wrote another and another. When I finally realized that I was not myself, which took a few months...I tried to stop taking them.

The withdrawals I went through included three days of lying in bed, with cold sweats, hallucinations, vomiting, shaking, and emotional upheaval. While I was on the medication I had horrible nightmares, slept constantly, and had harsh emotional backlash when the medicine began to wear off. I lost my motivation for sex, socializing, and school.

The pain was gone, but it reaked havoc on my emotion. I think that part was worse than physical pain could've been...I don't know. I was at the point of wishing I was dead due to the physical pain I was in. I began to workout, and take MSM. This seems to have helped eliminate some of the pain. I also got a really good matress. Don't believe that this is not addictive.

IT IS ADDICTIVE if you stay on it for more than a week or two. BEWARE!!! I've never been addicted to anything in my life, not even cigarettes, and this took me months to recover from. I actually thought about checking into a drug rehab hospital, it was sooooo scary.

I took an ultracet for pain aroind 3:45 yesterday. I was up all night and today I feel like I have been ran over by a truck. I am very fatigued, grouchy, emotional. If I didn't have a hysterectomy three years ago I would think I was having a bad case of PMS. I have cried over petty stuff all day today. I am clearly not myself. My Dr.also told me it was non addictive and not a narcotic. I believe Ultracet could indeed become addicting as it gives one a very nice feeling of uphoria much like that of a narcotic.