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Could hydrocodone make your heart beat faster?

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Dr. Robert Fietsam answered

Specializes in Surgery - Thoracic

Unlikely: Hydrocodone activates mu receptors in the brain, which increase parasmypathtic output originating in the nucleus ambiguus where premotor cardiac parasympathetic nucleus ambiguus neurons are located. Thus there is bradycardia as a result

Answered 8/2/2014

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