June 03, 2004, 08:21 AM
<Mrbutterfly>
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The best thing to do is eat some food with the pills. But I've been taking these things for years and years and years and still occasionally get nauseated from the Lorcet. Lortab never makes me feel this way. I've got a number of friends who feel the same way. Here's the kicker, while the Lorcet is clearly stronger in that you can feel the nausea, etc. I have NOT found it to fight my pain any better than the Lortab. I know that both Lortab and Lorcet fight the pain (for me) better than Norco (10/350), but I don't feel much difference between the 500/750. Knowing what the apap does to your liver any little bit you can cut down is great. I'd recommend TRYING Norco. If it isn't effective for you, like it's not for me, go to the Lortab. I'd personally only use Lorcet as a last resort. I know none of it is GOOD for you, but anyway you can help your body out by cutting back here or there is good.
As for breaking them in half there are two issues. 1 or A) this breaks the time release properties and you get the full dose more quickly. That might help with the pain initially, but it also means it wears off more quickly. Also, since the time release is gone there is actually a possibility that the faster dose will give you more nausea. Just a possibility, I don't know what might happen. 2 or B) the FDA is working to make pills that, when broken in half, fail to work. The oxycodone "scare" has the reactionary feds all up in arms. The issue with oxycodone is that users are breaking them in half, crumbling them, whatever and getting the full twelve hour dose all at one time. To fight this the feds are working on pills that lose their opiate powers when broken. I don't think they're out and about yet, but it's in the news that that's the future.
Good luck.
Two things I wanted to address here and please excuse me for nitpicking but I just wanted to post the correct info. Loracet comes with 650mg APAP. ES is 750mg
The other more important thing is I'm not sure if you�re talking strictly about oxycontin but neither hydrocodone nor oxycodone has a time release therefore breaking the tab in half will do nothing to the chemical properties or have any difference on the meds effect on you.
Oxycontin or Mscontin is oxycodone with time release molecules added to the med. It has a protective cover but the coating or pills makeup is not what gives it its time release properties. It�s actually an extra molecule they add to the med that gives it those properties. Think about it your stomach acid is some pretty strong stuff and can eat through most substances. So any kind of coating is digested along with the chemical.
Interestingly enough my nephew was sick and didn�t quite make it to the toilet and vomited on the kitchen floor (poor little guy). To this day their is a noticeable spot on the floor where his stomach acid had eaten through the floors finish. And believe me his father is OC with cleanliness and has tried just about everything to repair this to no avail.
Again sorry for rambling and sorry for picking apart your post.
