Taking Hydrocodone For Depression (Page 10)
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I am wondering if anybody else out there has taken Hydrocodone and noticed that symptoms of depression are alleviated? I find that many of today's anti-anxiety and antidepressant drugs come with unpleasant side effects, whereas while taking Hydrocodone they aren't there. The caveat to all of this is that yes, I know that Hydrocodone and opiates in general can be addictive. So long term use would result in withdrawal symptoms. I'm just wondering who else might agree with me on this?

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JD, I have been on adderall for 4 years. In the beginning it was wonderful. I felt energized, I could talk to people again, I could go out and best of all it lifted my depression. Then after about a year I developed a tolerance to the drug and my doc prescribed a higher dose. I'm taking 80 mg per day. I felt great again, then the famed adderall crash started. I was getting extremely high anxiety, heart beating out of my chest, crying, no motivation, severe depression, fatigue, suicidal, paranoid and agoraphobic. I decided to stop taking it but the withdrawal is unbearable and I felt worse than I did when taking it. After speaking with my doctor, I started taking it again. I take it for ADHD and depression along with antidepressants. Adderall is a wonderful med for ADHD and it also helps depression, but not for long. I wish I never started taking it. I'm sure I'm addicted to it, because once I stop, I crave it because my body has been conditioned to feel "normal" when taking adderall, which it's not. If you decide to take adderall and you start to feel anything like what I've described, please speak with your doctor as soon as you can. I don't want to see you go through what I did. Stay strong.

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Leelyn, you're one of the lucky ones that was diagnosed with treatment resistant depression and it took you (I'm not going to say only 3 months because someone who is diagnosed with your type of depression, 3 months could be a lifetime) 3 months to find antidepressants that work for you. I have tried most antidepressants, mood stabilizers, an insane amount of ECT procedures, hospitalizations, residential mood disorder facilities, EMDR, and I continue to suffer. I have never went the opioid route, and I don't plan to. I'm looking into checking into a research hospital like Johns Hopkins. There has got to be something that can help and maybe they have something up their sleeve. It might come down to me embracing and accepting my illness and learning to live with it. I don't see that as being a success, but one never knows. I'm happy that you found something to help you. That kinda gives me hope. Stay well and stay strong.

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Thank you Spyz for this very interesting tidbit of information. I have never heard of endogenous deficiency never mind the fact that it can be a cause of refractory depression. I have every intention of discussing this with my doctor during my next appointment. If he knew about it, then he allowed me to suffer needlessly for years. Could he have been ignorant of this information or did he keep it from me on purpose? It all boils down to Big Pharma's bottom line. They are an evil, well oiled machine that are only interested in continuing to make their millions, while others like us have a disease with a pretty high mortality rate. Would the doctors not give a cancer patient chemo or a diabetic insulin? I don't think so because Big Pharma profits big time from those diseases and the medication those unfortunate individuals are prescribed. There is not enough profit for them to treat depression with bupe. Welcome to the machine.

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GOODLUCKBUTNEVERGONNAHAPPEN,

I too live in TN and feel as you do. Being a Christian we don't have the luxury of pulling the trigger. I went from praying for death to praying for healing or death to just trusting God for healing...I've was doing great on my pain meds and then slowly started withdrawals from life...I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism and found that Fentanyl which I was on caused it in menapausal women who are unable to do HRT. I went off Fentanyl and am becoming more myself! My pain doc and other pain docs no longer take my TennCare. I can't find a doc to give me more than 10mgs 4/day when I have twice reduced my usage instead of using increasingly more! If docs would've prescribed them every four hours instead of six (like they were created to be taken) none of this mess would've happened! Docs knew about tolerance! That's the best thing about Oxycodone! You can safely take a higher dose but doctors are p*****s who are all becoming medical w****s! We are to obey the laws of the land unless it conflicts with the word of God...that means the herb bearing seed cannabis Gen 1:29 is okay for us to use as pain relief....not sure bout smoking it but edibles, oils, salads, etc.

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Opiate Era is over. You're never gonna get a Dr. to write you for depression. They will hardly give it to someone that's dying now. And I know I am a long time pain management patient turned addict from the drs at first then tolerance oc, morphine and H to being clean 6 years. And I know the system, if you even mutter a Tylenol to a doc now you be kicked out so fast your head will spin. I can't even get the meds I need to live a normal life because of ridiculous laws regarding stuff like this now. My state the only state TN put a law that no one can get subutex anymore just suboxone that has just 1 extra ingredient naloxone and that extra ingredient makes many people terribly sick like me and does nothing for pain for people who are in pain management but addiction too. We are F'ed when it comes to getting what we need but it don't matter because you can't fight the system. I know I tried, I had a normal life for 4 years until they did that law now I'm a shutin that can't do anything at 30 years old. I told the docs I'm gonna pretty much off myself or and be back on street drugs but they acted like they didn't hear me haha. They rather have me out breaking the law and or dead before they give me a med with one less ingredient then the one I'm on now. I know crazy right, you would think they would like the world to get better but Naw it's all about big pharma and what they want them to do and the DEA, but I'm 6 years clean but that don't matter because like I said they don't care.

Long story short it's never gonna happen. Drugs for depression ha get outta here you be lucky to get anything soon unless it's the newest thing big pharma is pushing because they are the dealers. They call the shots and they are getting out the Op business because of the DEA is having their war on Ops. That's just gonna make it worse because all these people that used to be normal. Lawyers, retired nurses, etc, will just be on street drugs. So get ready to have all your Meds changed or no Meds with alternative because that's what it's coming to. Meds will be a thing of the past soon and people that need them will just die off and the kids now will just know the alternative methods but they won't really need them because they will be healthy so yeah. If you really have you heart set on doctors writing you drugs for depression then you need your head checked for some other mental illnesses and yes I have depression, bipolar, anxiety, ADHD, stomach cancer from ulcers and my back scoliosis with other things wrong too with my back. So yeah they ain't giving me anything. I cry and wish I was dead but would pull the Trigg, but I'm a Christian so I won't do it. I don't wanna go to hell so I'm stuck until I get worse enough and maybe just maybe they might let me use hospice when I'm dying and I'm being totally serious. That's how much hope I have.
There's nowhere for me to go. My Docs don't know what kind of dr I should have to get the right meds I need and one is a former methadone clinic dr so if he can't tell me a name or even the type of dr I need then nobody can. So they have nothing for me, so I'm just gonna stay here and keep doing what I do every day wasting away until the lord says its my time.

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SADIESURRENDER read the article Ignorance Kills! I'm not calling you ignorant but the doctors....most who are considered treatment resistant depressives are actually Edogenous deficient and require external opiates not antidepressants....too bad doctors have forgotten the many wonderful Godgiven benefits of poppies.

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The likely long term scenario that I would be concerned with is once you become physically or physiologically addicted the depression will become worse as well as when coming off after the withdrawal phase. I just now recovering from a near ten year addiction to opiates. It was a life crushing, brutal hell filled with severe depression among other horrific symptoms and life altering consequences.
In short, it typically places out like this when trying opiates based on my extensive experience and observing countless others. " they work until they don't then things get very ugly ".
It's not as simple as do they work short term. It's a matter of the hell you may find your life in once addicted. And I mean HELL!. Opiates lure ya in with feelings of relief or euphoria then tolerance grows as does dosage taken then physical dependence then drug seeking behavior to source more drugs all the while depression and other emotional disorders developing along with the addiction.
It took me eight years and over a dozen attempts at treatment to get off opiates as well as the financial losses and major pain the experience caused my family.
Again, today's relief can lead to tomorrow's hell when dealing with opiates.

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A depressive episode can be triggered by problems, however, depression is caused by a disease of the brain. Speaking as someone who has been diagnosed with treatment resistant depression, I realize life is short and I will try anything to feel normal again. I want to be happy during the time I have left. I have tried just about every anti-depressants, psychotherapy, ECT treatment, a residential facility for treatment of mood disorders, inpatient care at hospitals, CBT, EMDR, all to no avail. If a prescription for a low dosage of hydrocodone will help me feel normal, even temporarily, I will risk addiction and withdrawal. I have survived bad side effects and severe withdrawal symptoms just from anti-depressants. What's the big deal of enduring one more if I have to. Please think before you speak next time. It's not that simple to enjoy the good moods, when there aren't any no matter how hard I try. I fight my demons all day every day knowing I will have to fight again tomorrow. It's a lonely and exhausting fight. That's why I say I would risk addiction and withdrawal from an opioid. At this point, it may be my only hope because I cannot keep living in my own personal hell.

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John Hopkins said i need Flexeral n Hydrocodone for end of life pain. Since obama don't care act n Gove. prick scott in FL says everyone on disability is just on it for a free ride. Any way it only took 1/2 of hydro. after having two teeth extracted the dentist gave me prescription for 5 mg for 1 week. I'm breaking it in half. My daughter was so exited that ive been able to get more done even with the pain of surgery, now that i got a temporary prescription for tooth surgery. Yes i feel like im gonna live again.

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Have you ever had treatment resistant major depressive disorder? If you did, you would know that people who suffer from this disorder barely have any good days. You don't have to tell us life is short. That is one of the reasons we would try anything so we can enjoy what ever amount of time we have left. Check your facts before posting such a flippant comment.

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HOUSE they are synthetic copied from the alkaloid THEBAINE--it's the only NONNARCOTIC alkaloid of the Papaver Somniferum poppy...it's a STIMULANT!!! LOL we've been telling our docs that for years! Not only that, it increases T levels in your thyroid resulting in enhanced mood and energy. imho it is a necessary nutrient able to treat and cure many ailments much like Cannabis! I really think that's why it's scheduled so strictly. The healthier a population is, the less they're dependant on govt. Think of the countries that produce poppies and cannabis...Due to being illegal they can't use those substances as their national commodity, keeping them in poverty... By relying on the U.S. for financial aid the U.S. can 'negotiate' or impose various regulations on them as part of the deal. And you know our govt., they love to control not only individuals but countries as well.

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I have been telling my Drs this as well oxys best antidepressant

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I have been telling my explaining to my Drs this as well oxys best antidepressant

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I dunno about all that Spyz,.. are they considered OPIATES? I mean, if you say that they AREN'T narcotics, then what exactly ARE they?? Just curious...

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My whole family thinks it's criminal that ins. n Gov. took buy out, even say people in end of life pain r drug addicts. n have taken what little life we had taken away to live in inhumane what used to be criminal pain. Yes it would help my whole families depression if they could see me be able to take care of myself again without the debilitating pain i'm forced to die in now.

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gagelle if it works on the opiate receptors it only makes sense to prescribe opiates as an anti depressant......like they were 70-6,000 years ago!!! Oxy and hydro aren't even narcotics! They are stimulants and natural antidepressants...the govt has lied to us about them the same as cannabis

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There is an alternative to treatment resistant depression using anti depressants. That is Adderall. It works immediately in relieving depression and will make you not even think you need pain pills when you are not really hurting.

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Speacilist that could not even graduated Univerisity of Phonnex. Should know pain casues high blood pressure then heart damage then death. Thieving ins. co having fun getting away with turture n murder yet . Seems to be.

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I recently read about a new anti-depressant medication in phase 2 clinical trials that targets the mu receptor affected by opioids. I wish I kept the link. But if this drug works, it may be a breakthrough in depression treatment.

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I noticed my depression left immediately after tahin 1 500/5 Loratab! It was such a productive day! I have tried antidepressants and they increase my anxiety and make me nauseous even after trying them for 6 weeks! I wish there was some way to take this medicine and feel normal again! Life is so short! I haven't tried it again! It does have a constipation side affect with i counteracted with Miralax!

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