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Hello everyone. Thanks for all the good wishes and prayers. By Sunday night, I was in tears from the pain and lack of good sleep. I'm thinking that what happened is that I had developed a reaction to the Vicodin - nausea, weird dreams, no real pain relief, and because of the no sleep, more pain (including muscle) and increasing depression symptoms (which are often triggered in me by no sleep). The doctor called in a script for oxycodone and I took a two hour nap and woke with no headache, and no sharp pains anywhere. During the day I'm taking one every 4-6 hours along with 800 mg of ibuprofen and feeling well enough to walk around with minimal pain. Exercises increase the pain, but now I have something to control it. At night, I take 2 every 4 hours (I wake up normally at least once a night for...) and last night was actually the first full night of sleep in a long time. I hadn't thought about it, but I wasn't sleeping well with the original pain med before the surgery, either, but had written it off to simply needing the surgery. So now I know to avoid Vicodin and its generic form, and tell the doctor I need something different.