How Long Does Hydrocodone Stay In Your System

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Hello, how long does Hydrocodone stay in the urine? I have a prescription for 10 mg - 650 mg Oxycodone/APAP. I took 1/8 of one pill due to pain I had in my back. Twenty hours later I had a random drug test by my company. Will it still be detected? Thank you.

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If you have a prescription, then you do not have a problem whether they detect it or not. They cannot deny you the use of legally prescribed medications that treat a medical condition, even if they are narcotics, unless you are a pilot.

All you have to do is make sure to tell them that, though they do have the right to ask for proof, such as a statement from your doctor.

It usually takes 24 to 48 hours for narcotics to clear your system for a urine test.

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How long does it stay in your blood?

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We live in Tennessee and my son has a script for pain meds. He applied for a job with a painting company and they refused to hire him. They said he would be a safety risk since he was taking pain meds.

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I am taking Hydrocodone for pain, prescribed by my doctor. I was given a urine test at my last visit, and it showed no hydrocodone in my system. They reported me for possible non compliance. I did not take one on the day i went, because it is a 2 hour drive, but I am sure that i took one the day before, is it normal to not show up that quick? I swear I take them, they did not tell me that I had to take them every day, script says every 6 hours for pain as needed. I take them as a last resort, because they sometimes make me feel sick.

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They do this to make sure you aren't giving them to someone else or selling them. If you are taking even one every couple of days you should have some detectable level in your system. If you aren't taking them any more than that they won't re-fill them as quickly and will give you less. They shouldn't require you to take more than you need. You are the only one who knows what your body needs -- which is likely different from one day to the next. There are blood tests they can do to see ( and this is putting it in very simple terms, so it isnt EXACTLY what happens, ,but close) what your average or typical use is over time. If you're out of pills and your typical use doesn't support that, you're done.

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By the way...who is "they" that are reporting you? And who are "they" reporting you to? "They" would be out of line to say you are non-compliant if the script is "as needed" or "PRN" which it most likely is.

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what about if you take 2? will it be flushed out of your system in a weeks time?

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My doctor is who, workmans comp injury, and i have resolved it. but I am a little confused, since it is take as needed for pain, and I have not gone more then a day without them. I do hate taking them, but If I dont, I suffer. I have tried other pain remedys, but they either make my ears ring, and my blood pressure skyrocket, and they make me dizzy, so I take these, even though occasionally they make me sick, It is still not as bad as the other.l

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Took 35mg hydrocodone/asap this evening at 9pm because I felt like my back was going to break into. It is 10:26 and still hard to walk, but at least now the spasms have let up. My question is how long will this be in my system? I do not plan to take anymore, mostly because they are just too ineffective at a lower dose. I am curious how long it can be detected in my urine?? If anyone has any idea. thanks.

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Yes...I know, this is old.

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You do not have to take any medication you do not want to, or you can take less than prescribed. You don't like a way a med makes you feel is just fine for a reason none is in your system. You can also have a full or 1/2 filled or empty bottle, as long as if the maximum prescribed sig (instructions) would have emptied it. Only a Court can and rarely does, force you to take a med.

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35mg hydrocodone/APAP sounds like Vicoden generic, which would be 7 pills, which = 35mg/3500mgAPAP. First, you keep taking 3500mg of APAP you will have liver failure. 35mg of hydrocodone metabolizes at a half life of 3.8 hours. You figure it out. 35 mg after 3.8 hrs after administration you will have 17.5mg in your system, another 3.8 hours you will have 8.75mg and will do it one more time for you. In another 3.8 hours you will have 4.375, slightly less than one Vicoden. That is hydrocodone, not the metabolites of hydrocodone.

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Thank you very much for that, as i do not like to take them, i have been wondering if i should stop for a while, i do not want other problems to start from taking this med, I have been occasionaly getting pain in stomache, that i attribute to medication. But since doc said i might not be in compliance, been kinda afraid to stop.

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Your quite welcome, I was a little confused as to, who they were and who's making you, and why you HAD to, and answered I assume someone elves, or not, question.

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I know this thread is kind of old, but I was just wondering, on average, how long hydrocodone stays in your system? I had taken about 3-4 a day for quite some time then had stopped because I didn't like how they were making me feel.. I last took them on Wednesday (4/11) and had a random urine test on Monday(4/16). I am just curious to know if the hydrocodone would have been detected in my urine still (5 dys later) ?

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its actually my question, it is the workmans comp doctors, That reported to the insurance company that i might not be in compliance, so the doc did a second test and said i was fine. but my first question to my doc, was does the medicine say as needed for pain, or am i reading it wrong, so do i have to take the medicine every 6 hours whether i need it or not, because it does say as needed, and he did not answer me he just said we can resolve it right now, just take a urine test. so for now it is resolved, but I dont think it is right, that I have to take it even if i dont want to, but it is resolved.

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they will be out of your system in 48-72 hours regardless. If they don't work you need to tell your doctor, sounds to me like you need a muscle relaxer for your spasms

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i took half of lorab and got drug tested 3 days later will it still be in my system

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You said you had a prescription????

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i take prescribed hydrocodne 10-650 allowed 4 times a day .been on them for two years twisted my ankle three day's ago,so have been taking two more the told to on the bottle ,will i fail for abuse on post accident drug screen.

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I took 2 10s around 3 pm and passed a test by 10 pm. I've also taken them for weeks about 4 10s or more a day and passed before 24 hours. Everyone's different I guess but Wal-Mart has $20 tests if your unsure or scared grab one and test before you go

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That's happened to me also. I took 1 Norco 325/10 at 8-00AM & my appointment was at 400PM... I didn't pass so I don't think it stays in your system for some people that long. Any answers to this since it implys a different story of what a say?

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I despise Hydrocodone. Makes me feel like s***. I took 1/2 of a 325 early this a.m. It's evening now, I don't want this in my system. How much longer do I have to wait?

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damn, you must live in the so called Bible Belt....no offense..I know how damn docs are..I' have been in chronic pain several years..I learned it had a lot to do with the state or country you live.....ps..about the Docs....many are fed up with the DEA..yet, many are in coherence with DEA...btw. It's all about the money

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I took two 7.5s today around 6pm 2/7/2016. I go to my po Tuesday 2/9/16 at 8am. Will it still be iny system?

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Doesn't matter if you have a prescription for it..how much do you really take..normally like 72 hours for up ti even 5 tens a day

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After five years of being on hydrocodone, my question is, after prolonged use, how long does it take for the medication to leave my body?

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I take two hydrocodone apap 10-325 a day took pee test after one month of taking them and came back clean....how can this be? I did take alot of alive to help me more and alot of benadryl because of all the cinnamon i was around that month and this month and i drink at least 20 16oz.cups of coffee a day..i take my first pill at 5am and my second one at 8pm daily my dr. Appointment was at 330pm . Could that of mest up my pee test somehow?

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Hydrocodone can be out of your system in 6 hrs and even if as needed then.you should have some left and have been willing to show them to your dr and he woild have been fine but with none in your styatem and you being out your taking yo much our giving them away people assume they will be in there system for at lesst a day not trur only 6 hrs. I told my dr i had not taken mine that day he said there was nonreason to test last time i went i showed him how nany i had left he was satisfied i go pain managment been going 4 years

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