Taking ambien with vicodin

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Avatar m tn I recently quit taking vicodin (4 days now, was taking 6-10 5mg or 4-5 norcos a day) after 3 years. I think the worse of my symptoms have passed, but still feeling pretty melancholy and having trouble sleeping. I was wondering if I should refill my ambien prescription to help with the insomnia. Ultimately I would like to be completely drug free, but I feel like taking ambien would help. I guess I should be asking my doctor this but I'm broke any advice?
Avatar n tn It was the buzz I was after first, the pain relief was a simple by-product. By February on 2010 I was a very sick addict. I had been taking Vicodin 4 at a time, sometimes 5, and it wasn't working anymore. The buzz I was chasing was requiring more and more. I had to quit completely. When I logged on to this site in mid-February I was in full CT Opiate withdrawal, and taking 10MG of Ambien a night for sleep. I had also been on Ambien for 8 months.
1070971 tn?1299614110 I stopped taking my script of Vicodin 5 days ago. I was taking 2- 2 1/2 a day due to back pain. I used to take them off and on but the last couple of months my back pain has gotten worse. Just typing this I am in severe pain but I am dealing with it. I made the decision to stop since I realized the Vicodin was not working anymore and I did not want to be an individual that ends up taking a huge amount. I thought only individuals that take a huge amount go through withdrawals.....boy was I wrong.
Avatar f tn While detoxing from opiates I tried to cheat the system and sleep thro w/d with ambien. Taking several a day (for me) caused rebound headaches that were awful and severe anxiety. I say if you are lucky snuff to have gone 3 weeks, STAY AWAY! Can you go to some na meeting maybe for support?
Avatar f tn I did not take any Vicodin ... I took an ambien and a zanaflex ( short acting Muscle relaxer) last night to sleep. I just thought in 24 hours I would see something... and like I said ... I am in pain ... but its the exact pain I always have. So you think that my w/d is just going to take longer to start ... why ? can you explain...
Avatar f tn m on the verge to a substance abuse problem because I am always altering my moods. I will take a vicodin and notice I need to take a zanax with it because I feel irritable (or anxious). I take another vicodin in about 6 hours with my zanax. The zanax is normal dosage, 2 x's daily 1mg, but I'm noticing that I've increased to probably 3 a day. I take the Wellbutrin & Ambien at night and sleep really well.
Avatar f tn Hey his is my first time posting I'm 29 I've been taking vicodin 10mg for almost 2 years off an on but worse in these last few months.
Avatar f tn I'm not sure how long you've been using ambien. I used it for 9 months while on pain management with vicodin. I'm now off of both, but much to my surprise, the vicodin was much easier than the ambien for me to kick. I kicked vicodin cold turkey in February and started an ambien taper mid-march. I just finished with the ambien taper. Ambien can't be stopped suddenly; depending on for how long and how much ambien you've used.
Avatar f tn I want to feel the cool morning walk I take with the dogs, the hikes we take with the kids that end up at a lake. Vicodin has now taken that away from me. It used to help me keep going, now I just want to get it overwith. Instead of being so concerned that there is another prescription out there for me, I will be calling my docotor and telling her to cancel that next one, I would have to go through w/d anyway before I could pick it up.
491910 tn?1209366193 Hi everyone, my name is Jessica and I'm 22 years old living in the Tmapa Bay Area in Florida. Well I just got off of a 9 pill a day habit, but I've only been doing it a month or two and the thing is that it didn't start off 9 a day (as I'm sure it never does), but at first I started with a half, and of course the tolerance built up until I was taking 3 at a time 3 times a day. I have severe headaches which is why I started taking them...
Avatar n tn I have been reading this forum for about 2 weeks, this is my first post-3 yrs ago I broke my hip/femur, I have been taking vicodin since then. I became very depressed and started taking Zoloft (antidipressant) and Ambien (sleep med)about 11 months after the accident.I now have hip arthritis. I have had a chroinc stomach ache starting 1.5 years ago. I was also drinking about 3-4 glasses of wine every evening. I never took more than 6 Vicodins in a day.Usually about 2 or 4.
501205 tn?1227345442 I was taking ambien for a little while. When I was recovering from a vicodin addiction, I took ambien for the anxiety DURING THE DAY! i know crazy huh? Heres a couple stories...I woke up in a bath tub, I peed in my dog's dish (luckily she didn't drink it), My girlfriend said I did an intense workout for a half hour non stop including jumping jacks ( i mean who does those anymore?
Avatar f tn I do see mental health for depression and am relying on them for help with depression, but not the vicodin issue. Just want this to be over and done with. I have lost 40 lbs with depression, and lost 6 in the last 3 days. When I get anxiety, my mind races, heart pounds and I feel sick, then diarrhea. So, between not taking vicodin and having severe depression, I'm frightened. Don't know from one day to the next what I will feel or think. Only thing that keeps me here is my cat.
Avatar f tn I have been addicted to vicodin for years but with my last pregnancy was able to stop right before i got pregnant. I started shortly after his birth. I just found out I am pregnant, not sure around 6 weeks they think. Should I try and stop or keep taking them? I am down to 2 5oomg a day. If I stop will this do more damage? Have I done too much damage already. I am having to take Ambien to sleep at night because I cant take the withdrawl symtoms, especially the temperature irregularies at night.
Avatar f tn I TAKE 100MG VICODIN A DAY ABOUT TEN A DAY AND 4 VALIUM AND 6 ATIVAN AND 2 AMBIEN, I FEEL LIKE IM OVER DOING IT, WHEN IS TOO MUCH?
1218318 tn?1266808601 God bless the NA/AA programs. But the Ambien I was on to help me sleep with my back pain and opiate brain is MUCH harder to get off of. The stuff is unbelievable. I never really gave the Ambien much thought as I quickly got hooked on it. The instruction sheet that comes with my script said I would get a few days of "rebound sleeplessness" when I stopped. I was always concentrating on the Vicodin use. The little Ambies snuck up and bit me in the A-s!
Avatar n tn What are the risks of overdose with someone taking Xanax 0.5 mg tid, Perocet 120 per month, Vicodin 120 per month, Lortab 120 per month, and 30 ambien per month?
Avatar f tn You may take some Valerian for restlesness or talk to your doctor about some Ambien to help you sleep for a few nights. Try taking a half a pill of Vicodin for a few first nights just to make it easier for yourself. Then you can take some Tylenol instead together with the ibuprofen. They work well together for pain. Never take Tylenol while taking Vicodin though, because you may ovedose on acetominophen and damage your liver further.
Avatar f tn Right when 8 or 9 pm hit I get major anxiety and it doesn't stop. So what is Alteril? And the 5-htp is that to be taken at night or during the day? I'm taking L-tyrosine during the day and that seems to help with brain energy. What about Uni-som?
491910 tn?1209366193 both have similarities to benzos but not near as addictive nor as hard to withdraw from...tapering is still recommended with ambien...anything u use to sleep every night can become an issue...i have a frriend who abused ambien but did not have withdrawals getting off of it...just could not sleep...another person i know takes so much benadryl at night it is scary...if u took it away from her she would have trouble sleeping for a while and she is tapering off of it now...
Avatar f tn As of Jan 3, when I started my taper, I was on 60 mg daily of extended release oxy and 20 mg of Vicodin. (2 years ago, I stopped a benzo and Ambien almost CT ...this was harsh was actually awake for 18 days straight and sicker than even been in my life for the first weekend after I stopped them ) I am doing a slow taper...now down to 15 mg of oxy and the two Vicodin , 10 mg twice a day. I have been sick for 3 weeks now.
Avatar f tn i am 18 years old, 5'6'', 123 lbs, and i am in the habit of taking 4-5 12.5 mg ambien cr a night. even when i take four, i don't really feel anything, so i take around 5 benadryl capsules to get at least drowsy. i'm also taking 100mg of zoloft, and 300 mg of welbutrin for my depression and anxiety. i don't know what to do. about a week and a half ago i went two days without it, and then i just couldn't handle it.
Avatar n tn When I was told recently that the Tylenol on the Lortab was starting to affect my liver, I decided to stop taking all pain medications, a little over 10 days ago. The first 6 days, I replaced the liquid lortab with 2 Vicodin pills a day, the next two days with one pill a day, and then I stopped cold turkey two days ago. All of my side effects remain the same since the first day. Nothing has changed much; except I cannot sleep due to the restlessness on my legs, arms and hands.
Avatar n tn Hi I also took vicodin in my early pregnancy (15-18 weeks) and I had no complications from it. I made sure to call and ask my doc if it was ok to take and she said that there should be no problems (I had a oral procedure done and it was prescribed to me) My son was born healthy with no complications. It sounds like (from your previous premie) that you are just apt to have your children early.
Avatar n tn I was under the impression that Ambien was something that was used to help with withdrawal symptoms. I have been using Ambien for over 4 years almost daily, Xanax only 2, I've had sleep issues my whole life and probably will the rest of my life but if I can sleep I feel like I can heal from anything. My pain doctor had put me on Gabapentin at one time for the pain, I don't know if they'll want to try that again or not. At this point, I'm scared to try anything.
Avatar m tn Sounds like you were taking my nigthtime cocktail...mine was specificially T3, 10mg Ambien and .25mg Xanax. I was awaken to my addiction by a severe mental reaction to Topamax. Within a week, I started c/t off the T3. The next week, I reduced the Ambien to 5mg each night. The next week, I replaced the Ambien with Melatonin 1.5mg and cut the Xanax in half. Honestly, I am still not sleeping 8hrs, but it is better (I am on day 13).