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Percocet vs Vicodin
The short story is I have fallen into abuse of perscription pills. Mostly Vicodin. Sometimes Percocet. I usually get clean for a few months and fall into a a few weeks of abuse and get clean again.
My habit has gotten worse in the last month. It has been going on for the 5th week now. It has been up to 14 to 15 pills daily of extra strength norco vicodin. I am trying to wean myself down right now. My script ran out and I had to go the ER and they gave me Percocet there for a pain I was lying about.
My question is how strong is the 500/325 percocet in relation to the 750 norco vicodin? I am trying to take only 10 percocet a day and survive. WHat does 10 percocet equate to in terms of ES vicodin?
I am having some pretty nasty nausea at night and heart palpitations and nausea dizzyness. I have cut down overnight from 14 to 15 pills daily to 10 pills daily and it is causing me some of the nastiest withdrawal I have ever had yet from it. I think I tried to taper off to quick, but in the past I have never had to taper like this. Usually I could save o4 or 5 pills and just take them when I got antsy from withdrawl over the next one to two days. I can't do that this time. You cannot die from opiate withdrawal can you?
My habit has gotten worse in the last month. It has been going on for the 5th week now. It has been up to 14 to 15 pills daily of extra strength norco vicodin. I am trying to wean myself down right now. My script ran out and I had to go the ER and they gave me Percocet there for a pain I was lying about.
My question is how strong is the 500/325 percocet in relation to the 750 norco vicodin? I am trying to take only 10 percocet a day and survive. WHat does 10 percocet equate to in terms of ES vicodin?
I am having some pretty nasty nausea at night and heart palpitations and nausea dizzyness. I have cut down overnight from 14 to 15 pills daily to 10 pills daily and it is causing me some of the nastiest withdrawal I have ever had yet from it. I think I tried to taper off to quick, but in the past I have never had to taper like this. Usually I could save o4 or 5 pills and just take them when I got antsy from withdrawl over the next one to two days. I can't do that this time. You cannot die from opiate withdrawal can you?
Your asking the wrong question........
Asking about the strengths of narcotics when you probably already know the answer to the question...
Why aren't you asking about getting off narcotic pain pills and how to get free of drug use......
Why not ask questions about recovery and how to go about it and to sustain recovery...............
Your brain is controled by addiction and the addiction is controlling your thoughts and is managing your life......
To admit that that your powerless agains't your addiction and that your life has become unmanageable when you get this your question about narcotic strengths hopefully will be
a mute point.......
Asking about the strengths of narcotics when you probably already know the answer to the question...
Why aren't you asking about getting off narcotic pain pills and how to get free of drug use......
Why not ask questions about recovery and how to go about it and to sustain recovery...............
Your brain is controled by addiction and the addiction is controlling your thoughts and is managing your life......
To admit that that your powerless agains't your addiction and that your life has become unmanageable when you get this your question about narcotic strengths hopefully will be
a mute point.......
Yah I am mistaken. Your mg is correct.
I don't think your guess on equivalency is correct. If the percocet is more powerful than the ES norco I havent noticed it to be so. It doesn't make me feel as good as the vicodin does and it seems to take more to get there.
It is driving me out of my skin this night. It is 1:25 in the morning and even though I have taken ten pills today ( two norco this morning, then 8 percocet following the ER visit one of which was taken only an hour ago) It feels damn near like I am going cold turkey for some crazy reason. And by my figuring I have only tapered my pill intake by around 1/3 of what I have been taking the last few weeks. It has never felt like this. Is it because In the past my crash's only lasted a few weeks and with less of a dose, where as now its been 5 weeks and a heavier daily dose the last two? I haven't felt this bad in the times in the past when I quit cold turkey after a few weeks of abuse. And right now (since yesterday)I am taking 10 a day! If I sound redundant I apologize. But I am dizzy and the worst part of it is the heart palpitations. I shouldn't let them get to me, but I do, and they scare me. I will be trying to sleep and my chest will pound and it is like a big smash to my blood circulatory world. Like it is going to leap out of my chest.
It gets to me. My wife and baby are sleeping in bed next to me peacefully and I am losing it on the other end of the bed. I did this to myself but I cant detox I need to believe I can do this on my own. I am sticking to a strict taper, or who the hell knows maybe my taper needs to be stricter or less. I have no clue.
Confused in Seattle.
I don't think your guess on equivalency is correct. If the percocet is more powerful than the ES norco I havent noticed it to be so. It doesn't make me feel as good as the vicodin does and it seems to take more to get there.
It is driving me out of my skin this night. It is 1:25 in the morning and even though I have taken ten pills today ( two norco this morning, then 8 percocet following the ER visit one of which was taken only an hour ago) It feels damn near like I am going cold turkey for some crazy reason. And by my figuring I have only tapered my pill intake by around 1/3 of what I have been taking the last few weeks. It has never felt like this. Is it because In the past my crash's only lasted a few weeks and with less of a dose, where as now its been 5 weeks and a heavier daily dose the last two? I haven't felt this bad in the times in the past when I quit cold turkey after a few weeks of abuse. And right now (since yesterday)I am taking 10 a day! If I sound redundant I apologize. But I am dizzy and the worst part of it is the heart palpitations. I shouldn't let them get to me, but I do, and they scare me. I will be trying to sleep and my chest will pound and it is like a big smash to my blood circulatory world. Like it is going to leap out of my chest.
It gets to me. My wife and baby are sleeping in bed next to me peacefully and I am losing it on the other end of the bed. I did this to myself but I cant detox I need to believe I can do this on my own. I am sticking to a strict taper, or who the hell knows maybe my taper needs to be stricter or less. I have no clue.
Confused in Seattle.
I am afraid I cannot answer all of your questions but I did not want you to think that you were being totally ignored. I am probably the only one online at the moment - the rest will start getting on slowly but surely starting around 6 a.m. and I am sure many will take a stab at helping answer some of your questions. I will tell you this, you WILL NOT die from opiate withdrawal; hopefully, that will at least take some of the worry from you until the morning crew arrives and can help you with your other questions.
You listed that you were taking 500/325 Percocet - that has to be wrong, it is probably 5/325. Most people get it either in the 5 mg or 10 mg strengths, not even sure if it comes stronger. I am currently taking 2 Percocets a day (10 mg each) and three Methadone a day (10 mg each). Just guessing, I would say that one 5 mg Percocet would be the equivalent of maybe three or four ES Vicodin? I don't think I would even feel I had taken anything if I were to take one 5 mg Percocet, I basically don't feel anything with the 10 mg anymore, so don't ask me why I am still taking them. The ER must have given you a large RX for the Percocet if you are considering taking 10 of them a day. I know the ER here in my town would never even think of giving a patient Percocet, the strongest thing they would send you home with would be an RX for 10 mg hydrocodone.
Good Luck friend. Please keep posting and if you do not get the replies you need by mid morning, please post again.
Love, Cindy
You listed that you were taking 500/325 Percocet - that has to be wrong, it is probably 5/325. Most people get it either in the 5 mg or 10 mg strengths, not even sure if it comes stronger. I am currently taking 2 Percocets a day (10 mg each) and three Methadone a day (10 mg each). Just guessing, I would say that one 5 mg Percocet would be the equivalent of maybe three or four ES Vicodin? I don't think I would even feel I had taken anything if I were to take one 5 mg Percocet, I basically don't feel anything with the 10 mg anymore, so don't ask me why I am still taking them. The ER must have given you a large RX for the Percocet if you are considering taking 10 of them a day. I know the ER here in my town would never even think of giving a patient Percocet, the strongest thing they would send you home with would be an RX for 10 mg hydrocodone.
Good Luck friend. Please keep posting and if you do not get the replies you need by mid morning, please post again.
Love, Cindy
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