I heard in the news today that the FDA is considering a ban on Vicodin due to its ability to harm the liver. What do you think about this? I think it's surprising that it took them so long to figure out that there was some sort of harmful effect on the body with this drug but I'm completely not surprised because I know that it can be a pretty harsh drug to take when you're in need of painkillers. Does anyone take vicodin right now? What do you think?
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I am currently on Vicoden due to being post Brain, Neck, & Spinal surgery and its really the only thing I can take other then tylenol which is also part of this. I was born with one kidney and unable to take any NCIDS because of it so if they pull Vicoden before I am able to come completly off it and lower the dose of tylenol I am screwed. I obviously do not plan to stay on Vicoden but still currently need it to treat pain during the healing process. I do not abuse the drug and only go to the max of 5 a day when I really need it. Most of the time I stick between 3 to 4 a day. They need to look at everything here and consider the fact that some people like me can't take other medications to treat the pain. I guess we will have to see where this heads now but lets hope they keep it on the market for the ones that use it as prescribed and to treat the pain.
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Well I think their argument is that there is so many overdose with this painkiller. They say that 56,000 people to the emergency room annually and about 200 die each year because of misuse of this drug.
I really don't have any experience with Vicodin and I don't know all the side affects. Could you explain if you had any problems while taking Vicodin?
I really don't have any experience with Vicodin and I don't know all the side affects. Could you explain if you had any problems while taking Vicodin?
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The news that you saw was a misconception. They were thinking about lowering the dosage in the tylenol thats in vicodine, because it's the tylenol that is toxic to the liver not the actuall opiate thats in vicodin........ A ban on Vicodine will never happend. It's way to effective will people who have severe pain....... no over the counter medicine can take away pain like vicodine. If these medications were off the market there would not be much surgeries going on........ Also if you take the right recommend dosage like 1 every 6 hours like the bottle says then it has no effects on the liver. It's the people who are taking 15-20 a day who are giving the medication a bad name.
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I'm not on Vicodine .. But I know "someone else" that takes it from time to time when their Klonopin doesn't work.
If they do ban it they'll have a lot of pissed off people, me included! :-)
If they do ban it they'll have a lot of pissed off people, me included! :-)
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Miss use of Vicodine is big. And this is a big problem. That is why then need to do this stuff. Like ant said if you take it like it says on the bottle you would not have any problems. People often don't like to listen what is said to them, that is why they don't follow the right dosage.
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Did you know that they're also talking about banning Tylenol? No, I'm not joking, I'm serious.
People are always going to misuse something and people can't just keep banning everything because of idiots that won't listen.
I'm really not trying to be cruel but it's ridiculous in my opinion to ban something like that ... Before you know it everything will be banned if they keep following that path, ya know?
People are always going to misuse something and people can't just keep banning everything because of idiots that won't listen.
I'm really not trying to be cruel but it's ridiculous in my opinion to ban something like that ... Before you know it everything will be banned if they keep following that path, ya know?
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Well it is very hard fore someone that is used to this drug. I'm not sure what will happen, but I think that they will always make new once that are substitute for the first one. There is not much that we can do. Do you think otherwise?
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I tend to agree with you. It doesn't make sense to ban things just because some people abuse it, although it depends on what it is. Do you know where you heard about them thinking about banning tylenol?
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It was on the news about a week or so ago ... I believe it was WSLS 10.
I couldn't believe that when I heard it .. I seriously thought they were joking!
I couldn't believe that when I heard it .. I seriously thought they were joking!
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Wow, I had no idea. Although you do have to be careful about some news items. Have you heard of the parody newspaper THe Onion? A lot of stories get picked up from there as real...
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No, I haven't heard of that. I'll be looking for that now though!
Thank you for telling me! :-)
Thank you for telling me! :-)
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I haven't heard of it. I'll definately be looking for it now though ... Thank you for telling me! :-)
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It's very funny if you like satire. The only thing is, there are several newspapers that think it's the real thing so they've reported stories as though they're true from The Onion. I hope that it's true for Tylenol for your sake...
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