Ultracet and medications

I would just like to say I have been taking Ultracet for about 5 years with yearly blood tests. All my life I have suffered with RLS and now I have been diagnosed with Fibromyalga which is very painful and no one understands this pain unless they have experienced it. Ultracet has allowed me to function so much better and for all those years with RLS when I could not sleep at night and was so tired during the day ,Ultracet has changed all that .I have no side effects except for maybe dry mouth which comes with most medications. I take 4 or 5 Ultracets a day and have little or no pain. It has changed my life so much for the better.

I'm only 21 years old, Female from NY. I was born with scoliosis and i've been in two major car accidents. I take about 2-4 Vicodin's a day, and decided to try Ultracet in order to decrease the amount of acetomenaphen to my liver daily. I find that I need to take TWICE as many Ultracet in order to feel comfortable daily, well about 4-6 pills daily.

I remember having side effects years ago, I think i'm totally immune now when it comes to Vicodin and Ultracet.

Am I the only one who's taking more than 3 a day?
I now notice that I am probably better off just sticking with the Vicodin, as I have chronic back pain and nerve damage in my spinal cord. As for the addiction part... I cannot go more than a day without my meds, so I am addicted. My advice to those who have to take these medications daily to keep a quality of life? Do as I do, DONT EVER RUN OUT!

Good luck all.

I am on my fourth day of taking Ultracet, and I found that it did not relieve the pain very much and I have been awake for three days now. Some medications work for some people, some don't. I will discontinue this today and try something else.

I have taken only one Ultracet tab for pain because I have shingles. I do not know what side effects I might get if I continue Ultracet, but it definitely helped that awful pain on the side of my head and neck where the rash occurs from shingles. I take high blood pressure medicine (metoprolol) and norvasc and synthroid for thyroid problems. I have a hiatal hernia, an umbilical hernia, arthritis and I take Tums and other over the counter vitamins fish oil caps and was wondering if the Ultracet is going to react from all of what I am already taking. I agree that the doctors do not keep up-to-date enough on all the new medications. They run you through like a bunch of animals and it makes them mad if you mention new information that you read or hear on television. As the old saying goes,"you never get too old to learn" and "you learn something new every day".

June (4-26-2003)