abc a asked:


I posted a question a while ago about asking my doctor for pills about back pains…next time I went in he prescribed me a trial of Tramadol, which in the end did absolutely nothing. It takes forever to get an appointment with him, and I go back to see him this Wednesday. My friend just recently had mouth surgery, and he offered me one of his vicodin to help my pain. I took it, a whole pill (he said half of one helped his surgery pain), and it didn’t do anything at all for my pain. My question is, should I tell my doctor that I took it and it didn’t help? I mean, it is illegal to take the vicodin without a prescription, but it’d be pointless if he ended up offering me vicodin if I know it didn’t work at all…any suggestions?
I took the Tramadol at 300mg doses once a day, which he said was pretty much the highest it should go. I’ve been off of that for about 2 weeks before I took this Vicodin, so I think it should be okay as far as mixing goes. But I guess I’ll just tell him, there’s suppose to be that whole “doctor-patient confidentiality” right?

BRIAN