The difference between hydrocoden and Loratab

[wirry1422]

I personally don't think taking a hydrocodone pill with more apap (tylenol) will offer any more pain relief than a pill with a lower apap and the same amount of hydrocodone. In addition, increasing your apap intake will greatly increase your chances of long term liver damage that can be very serious. If you truely want more pain relief, you will have to increase your hydrocodone intake. For example, if you are taking vicodin 5/325, and it is inadequate, increase to vicodin 7.5/325 or to 10/325, rather than changing to vicodin 5/500. I hope that example helps you to understand what i mean. Percocet fits into the picture in that it is a preparation much like vicodin with tylenol and a narcotic. The difference being that the narcotic is oxycodone instead of hydrocodone. Oxycodone is generally somewhat stronger than hydrocodone, between 20-40% stronger milligram for milligram (however the difference can vary greatly from person to person). Oxycodone is also a schedule II narcotic, while hydrocodone is a schedule III narcotic (in most states) This means that for products containing oxycodone, including percocet, you are not allowed refills without a written perscription, the doctor cannot call the script in, you must fill the script within seven days of the date it was written, but not within 30 days of a prior prescription for the same product, or it is invalid; and it is just generally more regulated. Percocet comes in generic, and it comes in preparations similiar to vicodin including, 2.5/325, 2.5/500, 5/325, 5/550, 7.5/325, 7.5/650, 10/325, 10/650. Don't let the schedule II status of the drug scare you, it is more of a minor inconvenience than anything else, and many people find percocet to be more effective than vicodin. In fact percocet is the next logical step, once vicodin has failed. Take care.

[NaeNae]

Thank you so much! That is the answer I needed perfectly!

Now I see the reason when I read like those in Hollywood getting addicted to Oxy. I used to be on Oxycontin Extended Release (can't remember the correct name) and I kept thinking, "Why does everyone keep getting addicted to this?" because I didn't feel anything. Now I see, that it's really Percocet. I have got my facts straight, thank you again!

[wirry1422]

Actually you were on oxycodone extended release, which IS in fact known as Oxycontin. With the strongest dose of oxycodone in a Percocet tablet being 10 mg, you can see why oxycontin is so appealing to addicts. Oxycontin has no apap to od on, and the weakest oxycontin tablet is 10 mg! It ranges in strengths of 10, 20, 40, and 80 mg tablets, which is mighty potent- one 80 mg tab is equal to eight of the strongest percocets available. They used to make a 160 mg tablet, but the government forced them (purdue pharma) to pull it off the market. Take care.

[boaz]

HC,

Good Heavens girl!! My hats off to you, you have been thru the wringer and attending school on top of it!!! My best friend is in similar situations as you, except she's 39, with three kids to jugle, and she has alot of pain.
You are an inspiration!!! way to go and good luck with everything!!!

[carleen59]

i wonder if someone can help me. I had knee replacement surgery in August of 2003 and have been on Loracet plus 7.5 since then. I only need to take 1 pill a day which is usually at 2am when i wake up from the pain in my knee.
My doctor thinks i've been on these too long which he knows i only take 1 a day and now i am going on 2-3 hours a sleep a day due to pain. I've been on weight watchers for a year and have lost 96 pounds which i figured would help me with my knee since i'm not carrying all that weight around. I ride my bike 130 minutes a day which really helps me NOT to need more pain pills because it helps with the arthritis that has developed in my knee. He has called in a rx for Darvacet which is NOT helping. I own my own business and can't stop during the day to ice my knee like he wants me to do. So i've been looking on the internet to see if i can just order the pills i need, does anyone have any idea's? I feel he wants to open my knee up again and clean out the arthritis but now is not a good time for me to be in bed for 3 weeks. Any idea's? I think he thinks i will be addicted to them after 17 months, well 1 a day i think is better then a stroke or heart attack i am at a high risk for on 2-3 hours a sleep a day.