Do prescription pain meds give you hallucinations?

i rarely have that.. but let me drink a diet coke or something with aspartame in it and im seeing all kinds of crazy crap

I just plain not into medications at all. I will take antibiotics if I get one of my bouts of bronchitis but that's it. For just about any other problem I might have, I just take good old aspirin or rely on natural/herbal type remedies. One time years and years ago, my family doctor gave me a prescription for an anti-depressant for my anxiety issues....I took it a total of three days then chucked it out. Why? Well if I was depressed before taking it, I sure as hell was while taking it and felt like a zombie. Some of my friends who have anxiety issues used to take the most prescribed medication for the problem...Xanax. The one woman said while she was on it, she swore it was like a radio was in her head...meaning she kept hearing voices all the time...great huh? Once she stopped, the voices stopped. Since you're mentioning about pain meds, long time ago my mother was given some kind of pain med...can't remember what it was though but when she took it, it was like she was in the twilight zone or something and wanted to sleep all the time

I have never taken vicodin and percoset, but when I had my heart attack I was put on statins, beta-blockers and an ace-inhibitor. I couldn't tolerate the ace-inhibitor and was taken off it within days. But I continued with the statins and beta-blockers. I was still experiencing a lot of dizziness, muscle pains and was bad-tempered (not usual for me). Last year I had enough and quit the statins and beta-blockers. Apparently they would extend my life expectancy by 5 years, but that's not proved. I'm going for a cholesterol test tomorrow, so I expect I will be encouraged to start taking them again - but I don't think so.. - Derek

No never. Whenever I used them I got relief. May be I am not that old to get affected by this. Well, all I know is that my parents are also using em but only on emergency but they never felt like hallucinations!

I think everyone is different. Where one med will effect them one way, it won't another. I don't like to take anything more then tylenol. Anything stronger and it knocks me out. Like you, I can't function. I have a problem even with going to the dentist because they want to give you a shot to deaden the area before they drill out a cavity. I know I won't be driving even after a simple thing like that because it knocks me out.

hi yes i did have hallucinations from a medicine that was percribed by a doctor and no i will not take anymore it was allfull.i agree i will stick to otc medicines that will not have that offect on me i don't know why anyone would want to have those strange feelings scary to me.

I use prescription pain meds once in a while, and I have never had any weird side effects with them. They work fine for me and they are actually once of the few ones I'm allowed to use. Some medicines might have side effects and if you get them you should talk to your doctor and change them to something else. I'm sure none wants to have side effects.

Yes they can do that to some people. Percoset and darcaset make my stomack sick. But vicodin works great for my severe pain. I never had a problem with it.