How To Recognize Vicodin Addiction

Vicodin is a very potent pain minimizer. This is usually given to people who suffer injury. Also, this reliever is used when a person undergoes surgery and opts to feel numb than feel pain. This addiction is similar to Percocet addiction, hydrocodone addiction, and oxycodone addiction. It blocks your brain from feeling the pain. This is very effective that people take it to feel relaxed and better.

Vicodin addiction occurs when you do not want to feel pain anymore to the point that you increase your intake over time. This addiction must stop as soon as possible to avoid health hazards. If all or at least 80% of the signs below are found in your friend, family or even yourself, seek help from addict converts (through online message boards) or better yet, get medical help. 

1. Immunity - Once your body gets used to taking more, the effect will no longer be the same. You will need more to sustain the feeling that you desire.
2. Body pains - You will feel uncomfortable because of different illness. Insomnia is the most common; cause of this can be night sweating. Also, the pain can vary from bone and muscle pains, involuntary movement of legs, and nausea. Cold symptoms such as runny nose and watery eyes can also be felt. Lastly, pain in the stomach can be felt like gastrointestinal problems (diarrhea), and vomiting.
3. Body temperature changes - Alternate sweating and chilling can be a symptom. It can also happen that you are chilling and sweating at the same time. Also, you might get to experience cold flashes during this period.
4. Emotional pain - You have so many ghosts in your head that there is a mixture of the following feelings:
   • Shame or guilt feeling. This is when you realize you are dependent already. You feel guilty because you simply cannot live another day without taking it.
   • Depression. This normally happens if you cannot stand by yourself. Most of the time, this depression is realized when you just accumulated the medicine, and then realizes that the relief you felt is temporary and was gone in a matter of minutes.
   • Anxiety. You feel nervous all the time, thinking that the people around you will not give you anymore.
   • Anger. This is either anger to yourself or anger toward the people around you.
5. Quantity and period of intake - If you exceed the prescribed amount and duration by more than 10 %, or worse and if you take it even without prescription, then you are addicted to Vicodin.
6. A barrier has been created among close people - Arguments will definitely be part of forum during mealtimes. Your family and friends want you to have treatment, but you think they do not care for you. Your tendency is to just ignore them and be alone.
7. Craving for the drug is uncontrollable - You can resort to desperate moves such as switching doctors, buying illegally and others. Anxiety and panic can be felt when you think that there will no longer be enough drug for your next intake.
8. Loss of appetite - Because your focus is on the drug, you do not mind that you have not been eating.
9. Withdrawal symptoms - Addiction is if you do not feel pain anymore, but your body systems is longing for the pill. If you are addicted, you will feel Vicodin withdrawal symptoms after at least six hours or more after last consumption of the capsule, depending on the dosage of intake and the length of abuse. The symptom is not grave up to the point of death, but will cause uneasiness and restlessness. You will just feel very irritated.