• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for pain)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall) (difficulty falling asleep)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 2 x 500 mg-5 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: just stay the course on dosage. it's easy for people to overdo it because they end up taking more. the effects can decrease over time if you don't consciously control how much you're taking and how often. it lifted my mood because the pain was minimized.

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: difficulty falling asleep

• Effectiveness

  Slight (for pain)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall) (constipation)
• Adherence

  Usually
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 2 x 325 mg-10 mg All the time (24/7)

Advice & Tips: this medicine also seems to help my mobility a little. i try and make sure that i take it every 6 hours. it just seems to work better that way.

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: constipation

• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for fibromyalgia)
• Effectiveness

  Major (for pain)
• Effectiveness

  Moderate (for breakthrough pain)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall) (brain fog, intoxicated feeling)
• Adherence

  Sometimes
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: As needed

Cost: $50-99 monthly

Side effects: intoxicated feeling, brain fog

• Effectiveness

  Major (for pain)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall) (headaches)
• Adherence

  Usually
• Burden

  A little hard to take

Cost: < $25 monthly

Side effects: headaches

• Effectiveness

  Major (for headaches)
• Effectiveness

  Major (for back pain)
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: As needed

Advice & Tips: Again, better reaction....but I am not allowed to take it, so on the shelf it goes. At least I have an ace in the hole if I need it!

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Major (for headaches)
• Effectiveness

  Major (for back pain)
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Usually
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Advice & Tips: Great stuff. I prefer this to my other pain killer, methadone. For some reason, my docs are not as much of a fan. That's unfortunate....I really have a superior reaction to this medicine.

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Major (for muscle pain)
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 500 mg-5 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: It grieves me v. much to hear all the negative press and judgementalism about Vicodin users. Of all the treatments I have tried, 1/2 a tab of Vicodin, taken about 4 times a day has been the absolute best treatment, with virtually zero side effects, and allows me to think clearly, and accomplish my studies as a full-time student, as well as work fulltime. Right now, I have had the ability to obtain this drug curtailed by the doubts of my physicians and worries that I am going to abuse it. I suppose this comes from real reports of so many other abusers. However, during the rare times when my pain level is very low, I feel no need to take it and do not take it. So that is my side of the story. If I did not use Vicodin, the most effective agent that allows me the freedom to be the most active in society, I would have spent many more days home from work in bed.

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Major (for Increase effect of another treatment)
• Side effects

  Mild (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Usually
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 3 x 500 mg-5 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: Only take this when you really need to, so the effectiveness will stay with you. Otherwise you just take more and more and end up with the problem of another addiction to try to control.

Cost: < $25 monthly

• Effectiveness

  Major (for pain)
• Side effects

  Moderate (for Overall) (constipation, brain fog, sleepiness, drowsiness)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  A little hard to take

Dosage: 4 x 500 mg-7.5 mg/15 mL Daily

Cost: $50-99 monthly

Side effects: drowsiness, constipation, sleepiness, brain fog

• Effectiveness

  Slight (for Other)
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Usually
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: As needed

Advice & Tips: It is a pain pill, not a good buddy.

• Effectiveness

  Major (for pain)
• Side effects

  None (for Overall)
• Adherence

  Always
• Burden

  Not at all hard to take

Dosage: 3 x 325 mg-10 mg Daily

Advice & Tips: take as the Dr says, increasing will only mess up your tolerance and run out of meds causing you more pain.

Cost: $50-99 monthly