DrugBuyers.Com: Question!!

That is correct as far as the ratio, Hydro is approximately 5 times stronger than Codeine, however thats scientific terms not real-life experience, everybodies bodies simply react to each medication differently. You can argue that 30mg of Codeine is approx equivalent to 5 mg. But again this is only a general ratio. IT also depends on what kind of pain you are experiencing. I used to use Vicodin 5/500 which worked great. After a while however it started producing negative side effects and the analgesia was not working as it did. Tolerance may have played part of this however, when my Dr. switched me to Tylenol 3 & even Tylenol 4, all the sudden it worked great. After using that for a while, it started losing its effectiveness. I now rely on Norco 10 and Lortab 10 which does the trick. At times one seems better than the other and back again..Strange .

Bottom line everybodies different and there is no across the board 'this is more effective or better than that'. That being said however most people do tend to prefer Hydro to Codeine for pain releif. Not to mention the Codeine's side effects such as terrible constipation which seems to be very common, however it did not make me as tired like some commonly complain. But then again everybody is different...

I once read a very interesting article on medication effectiveness, and showed a table with common medication types and percetages for each, this represented percentages based on research for each type of drug based on real world effectiveness. The findings: A good majority of medication simply does not work; don't remember the specifics but they mentioned that they develop a certain medication for this or that and research shows that *most* medications simply don't work for people (like a 1 in 5 was pretty common). That is why a lot of doctors seem to "experiment" with medications they precribe something for whatever condition there is actually a better chance that it won't work as effectively for that patient and the Dr. many times have to play a guessing game... "this didnt work try this, then this and what not". This is likely common knowledge in the medical profession (of course the Drug Manufacturers don't like to admit it). And again the biggest reason cited for this is obviously the unique differences as small as it may be between one body to the next. The human body is just so amazingly complex. There are obviously some medications that are more effective across the board, and then again there is many types of meds where the opposite is true. Overall very interesting article and I wish I could site the source. Overall I found it to be rather disturbing..
BTW: Opiate pain killers were on top of the list as far as effectiveness as compared to others. No surprise there! Benzo's were not far behind.

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