Topic: ugh --- lortab -- am really sick!!! or herx???
geniveve
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i picked up my prescrip for lortab yesterday. i already had the amoxy on hand.
dentist said to take 4 amoxy a day, 2000 grams, so i took one at noon and one at 4. got the lortab and took it about 5.
ok....i started getting a major, major headache, excruciating pain. then i started vomiting and i mean vomiting. my husband had to hold my head up as i kept choking and couldn't breathe. we had to flush the toliet three times, well, anyway, you get the picture, major sick.
the headache let up a little but last night the major eyetwitching, head pressure and shortness of breath started. i had to get up at 4 and walk the floor, i thought i was dying. i really did, no lie.
my heart rate was up and i had to calm down. it finally relaxed but i had to cancel the endodontist appt today cause there was no way i could drive over there and go through that. so i'm going tomorrow at 10.
was it the lortab or was it a major herx? i had stopped the abx in january cause the doc said no more so i haven't had them since.
could this have been a amoxy herx or a combo of allergic reaction to the lortab or both???
ugh, do i feel bad. right now i'm not sure i want this tooth out..........
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My wife can take vicodin-lortab basically the same as your taking but cant take percocet other name oxycodone vomits within 5 min after percocet,oxycodone. You may be allergic to it or its just to many mg's? for you ? The amoxy probaly isnt the problem its a herx plus allergy to much?
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I would call LLMD quick seems like it all started after the lortab
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Lortab has some ingredients (binders, not active pain relief medication) that makes lots of people, including myself...very, very sick. Its a very common reaction.
I don't think its a herx. I would advise asking for another compound, like Vicodin or Percocet for pain relief. Those two (percocet is stronger, but seems to have fewer side effects) are usually tolerated.
Hope you're feeling better.
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no i've never had it before, but man, i ain't touching that stuff again EVER>>>>>>>>>>
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quote:Originally posted by geniveve: no i've never had it before, but man, i ain't touching that stuff again EVER>>>>>>>>>>
What was the dosage in mg's?
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Geniveve,
Assuming it was the Lortabs that caused the vomiting, it sounds like you have an allergy to codeine.
Do you know if you have a codeine sensitivity/ allergy?
I sure do, and I can't take any of the stuff listed here or I throw it up. I do okay with Darvocet or small doses of Demerol (under 50 mg.).
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That was a lot of amoxicillin, too. I'm sensitive to medicine--I've always taken the generic for Lortab and it's one of the few things that helps my pain.
I once herxed on 100mg of amoxicillin. Awful. And I'd taken it in the past many times before I got this sick.
But everyone is different--my husband can't take hydrocodone because it makes him itch. Codeine makes me sick--gives me a headache on top of nausea.
It's hard to know when you take two things at a time, and when you're "abby normal" like we sickies!
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uh, do you mean to say it had codeine in it? i can't take codeine.
i took it (codeine that is) once back in 1975 or so and got sicker than a dog and have always told my doctors never to give that stuff to me.
i didn't know lortab was codeine....yikes, no wonder i got sick.....
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Geniveve, I have a similar reaction to Lortab, or any drug containing codeine - whether it's real or synthetic. So it sounds like Lortab, to me...
Like Tracy, Darvocet, Darvon, oral Demerol, and a very few others are the only ones I can handle.
If you think it's the Lortab, please be careful and tell your doc when you're trying new pain meds, because you could develop sensitivities to other meds, too.
I developed a severe sensitivity/allergy to morphine and all morphine derivatives. Had a reaction very much like you described when they gave it to me in the ER a few months ago - the duck said he'd never seen anything like it. Not fun.
Hope you find something that will work for you...
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Codeine and hydrocodone are both opiate (as in opium)alkaloids, chemically similar but not exactly the same thing.
Heroin, morphine, and oxycodone are also opiates.
Hydrocodone works even without being metabolized by the liver enzyme system because it can fit into the endorphin receptors. That's why it works for me but codeine doesn't.
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