Hydrocodone: Uses, Side Effects & Dosage Guide

Store at room temperature, away from heat, moisture, and light. Using too much of this medicine may cause infertility (unable to have children). Talk with your doctor before using this medicine if you plan to have children. Using this medicine while you are pregnant may cause neonatal withdrawal syndrome in your newborn babies. Tell your doctor right away if your baby has an abnormal sleep pattern, diarrhea, a high-pitched cry, irritability, shakiness or tremors, weight loss, vomiting, or fails to gain weight.

Levothyroxine Interactions

Just one dose can cause death in someone using this medicine accidentally or improperly. Ask your pharmacist where to locate a drug take-back disposal program. If there is no take-back program, flush the unused medicine down the toilet. Follow the directions on your prescription label and read all medication guides. Never use hydrocodone in larger amounts, or for longer than prescribed.

Before taking this medicine

Remember, keep this and all other medicines out of the reach of children, never share your medicines with others, and use hydrocodone only for the indication prescribed. This is not a complete list of side effects and others may occur. Long-term use of opioid medication may affect fertility (ability to have children) in men or women. It is not known whether opioid effects on fertility are permanent. Since hydrocodone is used for pain, you are not likely to miss a dose. Do not stop using this medicine suddenly after long-term use, or you could have serious withdrawal symptoms.

Interactions between your drugs

A 76 year-old male with a diagnosis of cutaneous T cell lymphoma presented for enrollment into an open label study of oral bexarotene after failing multiple topical and systemic therapies (35). Within two weeks of starting bexarotene (650 mg/m2/day) the patient developed symptoms of hypothyrodism including cold intolerance, fatigue and depression. He was noted to have low serum T4 and T3 levels consistent with hypothyroidism, but his serum TSH was also suppressed.

Dizziness, lightheadedness, or fainting may occur when you get up suddenly from a lying or sitting position. Also, lying down for a while may relieve dizziness or lightheadedness. Do not drive or do anything else that could be dangerous until you know how this medicine affects you. There are no adequate studies in women for determining infant risk when using this medication during breastfeeding.

Selling or giving away Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets is against the law. Store Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets securely, out of sight and reach of children, and in a location not accessible by others, including visitors to the home. Drugs may also affect thyroid hormone levels by altering affinity for or levels of thyroxine binding globulin. Finally, drugs may affect absorption of thyroid hormone in patients who are dependent on exogenous levothyroxine (2). Table 1 shows drugs that affect patients with an intact hypothalamic-pituitary-thyroid axis which is subdivided by known mechanism of action.

Medical

Add your drug list to My Med List to view medical information in a simple, easy-to-read, personalized format. Automatically receive FDA alerts, drug interaction warnings, plus data on food, allergy & condition interactions. Since this medicine is used for pain, you are not likely to miss a dose. Skip any missed dose if it is almost time for your next dose.

• Make sure any person caring for you knows where you keep naloxone and how to use it.
• Store Hydrocodone Bitartrate and Acetaminophen Tablets securely, out of sight and reach of children, and in a location not accessible by others, including visitors to the home.
• We therefore conducted a randomized, blinded, placebo-controlled, cross-over study to determine if single dose bexarotene could suppress TSH in healthy volunteers (37).
• Take your prescribed dose every four to six hours as needed for pain.

What strength is hydrocodone and acetaminophen tablets available as?

This is especially important for elderly patients, who may be more sensitive to the effects of pain medicines. If too much of this medicine is taken for a long time, it may become habit-forming (causing mental or physical dependence) or cause an overdose. Medicines that interact with hydrocodone may either decrease its effect, affect how long it works, increase side effects, or have less of an effect when taken with hydrocodone. An interaction between two medications does not always mean that you must stop taking one of the medications; however, sometimes it does. Speak to your doctor about how drug interactions should be managed. Single-entity hydrocodone is only available in ER formulations in both tablet and capsule forms.

Dopamine/bromocryptine

• Yes, hydrocodone with acetaminophen is a controlled substance.
• Skip any missed dose if it is almost time for your next dose.
• Do not use this medicine if you have used an MAO inhibitor (MAOI) (eg, isocarboxazid Marplan®, linezolid Zyvox®, phenelzine Nardil®, selegiline Eldepryl®, tranylcypromine Parnate®) within the past 14 days.
• This effect may last for a few days after you stop using this medicine.

Monitoring of TSH and free T4 levels is advised for patients taking both metformin and levothyroxine. Using this medicine with any of the following medicines may cause an increased risk of certain side effects, but using both drugs may be the best treatment for you. If both medicines are prescribed together, your doctor may change the dose or how often you use one or both of the medicines. Although certain medicines bioidentical synthroid should not be used together at all, in other cases two different medicines may be used together even if an interaction might occur.

Abuse may lead to severe psychological or physical dependence. Do not stop taking hydrocodone without talking to your doctor. Never share opioid medicine with another person, especially someone with a history of drug abuse or addiction. Keep the medication in a place where others cannot get to it. Never use this medicine in larger amounts, or for longer than prescribed. Swallow it whole to avoid exposure to a potentially fatal dose.