Vicodin- wasRe: [Sca-cooks] Offline

[Philippa Alderton]

Thanks, Avraham. One more note to add to WHy My Body
Seems To Have Odd Drug Interactions- as in half of the
painkillers  don't seem to work.

Phlip

--- Avraham haRofeh <goldberg at bestweb.net> wrote:
> > Funny- that's one of the ones that does absolutely
> > nothing for me, neither kill the pain, nor give me
> a
> > buzz. My surgeon put me on a hefty dose after some
> > surgery, and I had to call him back and ask for
> some
> > Tylenol 3....
>
> Some people lack the enzyme that metabolizes
> hydrocodone to morphine. Some
> people also lack the enzyme that metabolizes codeine
> to morphine (about 10%
> of the population in the US). That's why some of
> these drugs don't work for
> everyone.
>
> Note that Lortab = Vicodin. If one doesn't work,
> neither will the other. I'm
> not sure about Percocet (oxycodone), whether it uses
> the same pathway as
> either of these others.
>
> Avraham


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And never a rider who cain't be throwed....

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