Originally posted by sirrahbed
I have a nosy question for you though - I use codeine which is also hard on the belly (vicodin is essentially the same, only synthetic) - and am wondering if this is why you have to sleep sitting up?? I take my codeine with Phenergan and Tums and then lay down with no problem. Isn't it hard to sleep sitting up???
I actually have to sleep sitting up because of that head rush feeling pain meds give you. I've tried laying down, but I can't sleep, it feels so wierd...almost like the room is spinning.

I'm also on Tigan for my nausea...I just took one and sadly, will have to take another vicodin tonight. I did wake up feeling horribly ill this morning, and I think it was the 2 vicodin I had to take, I normally take 1 1/2 and usually eat more, but couldn't last night. Must have been that combination.

I was worried about a possible interaction between the two and figured out that the first time I took the vicodin (Feb, 2003, according to my bottle) I almost overdosed. I was looking at the symptoms for that and remember feeling almost all of them way back then. My dr says I can take 2 every 4-6 hours, but that would be way too much for my body...eeek!