OXYCONTIN Reviews (OXYCODONE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.5 (417 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare OXYCONTIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR OXYCONTIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | spinal cord injury | I have had no obvious side effects, (that I know of)Know one says I am crazy, not jumping of bridges, streaking thru central park, & rarely am I ill. | Since starting out on oxycontin in 1995, I was able to returned to work. I always had & have to be careful to not become caulky & do more than I should to cause further injury, but oxycontin did give me my life back. I had been on about every kind of pain killer there was in the market before oxycontin & each would do well for a short limited time. The nice thing about oxycontin is I can have a normal day, no highs or lows or periods of confusion as with other pain drugs. I take 4 40 mgs per day & 4 oxycodone 5mgs per day. The cost for me to move up to the 80 mgs oxycontin daily is way to high to consider not having any medical insurance & being self pay. So having the 5's does help me make it thru the day. I also should note, I have a great deal of respect for oxycontin & my doctor and what both have offered me since 1995. With this said I have never mis-used my meds & never will. Pre 1995 I barely worked more than 10 days per month & did so with a great deal of pain. In addition I would spend a great deal of time walking with a cane or bedridden due to the pain. I sincerely was becoming sick of having to live as I was. My career is in residential construction. Being self employed I can limit the amount of physical work I do most days, but I do still physically work most days & out work a number of healthy people I hire & give a chance to work. Taken as prescribed for sincere chronic pain, I cannot say enough good things about ox | M | 55 | 16 years 40mgs 4X day | 3/27/2010 | 5 | FMS, Periph-Neuropathy, Chron Pain, | Initially I was more tired than normal. Fatigue is part of Fibro and after a week the additional fatigue subsided. I started at 2/day, then to 3/day due to having to still use more BT meds (Percocet 10/325). Have some constipation just as any other opioid. It took a while to get to a GOOD dosage that was consistent. I can actually function to an extent when on this medication; recently had to be switched to Kadian due to Medicaid being approved, they said I have to try Kadian (Morphine ER) for 90 days. Kadian/Morphine is AWFUL. While it works once it kicks in, it does not last 12 hours and end up using BT meds. With Oxycodone ER, it lasted about 10-11 hours before it would start wearing off and did not need as much BT meds. | Fully recommend if you need CONSISTENT relief. The ups/downs with this long-acting is superior to others I have tried. | M | 32 | 9 months 40MG 3X day | 3/27/2010 | 5 | to get high | I would feel the effects of it some 12- 14 hours after taking it. I experienced breathing problems sometimes when I first took a dose and sometimes the breathing issues would bother me 12 hours later. I don't recommend drinking with it. There are times when I felt like my body was trying to shut down. I really feel that I have a problem with it and I just hope that I don't start using heroin. It is after all readily available and dirt cheap. | M | 45 | 2 weeks 80 1X day | 5/14/2010 | 5 | Long term chronic pain - Scoliosis | Tired. Sleep longer than usual. Perspire more than normal. | In my personal situation Oxy has added real value to my standard of living. It permitted me to remain active and get out of my house. On the other side of the spectrum, taking too much kept me in my house tired and too lazy to do much. Balance is important. | M | 37 | 7 months 90 MG 3X day | 10/22/2010 | 5 | Chronic neck & back pain | None really. Slight constipation. That's all really | Nothing has saved me like Oxycontin did. I had severe whiplash from an auto accident. My career only makes it worse. Oxycontin is God send. | M | 35 | 2 years 40 2X day | 12/2/2010 | 5 | nerve damage-3 operations | I get drowsy throughout the day, headaches,memory loss,constipation,sugar craving, hot & cold flashes,low sex drive,the last few years I have had a hard time getting an erection.Withdraw pain is severe after 4-5 years & gets only worse over time. | My pain was so severe my Doctor wanted me to take Percodan but I said no way because they are very addictive, so he said this new drug Oxycontin is not. Wow was he wrong! Yes the drug is great for my pain, nothing else would work because of my nerve damage and you all know how bad nerve pain is, but I have been on this drug for 12 years and I take 2 80 MG pills 2-3 times a day because over the years they don't last 12 hours but 8. Yes I want to get off of them because I can't work anymore but the goverment does not consider it a disability so only my wife brings in any money.But my wife tells me every time I try the pain is just too great. When I say pain, I mean not just my nerve pain but withdraw pain seems even worse. Every nerve end in my body burns and it feels like all my bones are broken, I have never in my life felt anything like it.I need something for my severe pain but I wish there was something other than a narcotic! I know I will probably be on this for the rest of my life and that's a scary thought, I'm lucky to have my wife, who has helped and understood the side effects. It's also too bad that so many people take this when they don't need it because it hurts the rest of us who really need it. So I'm torn with this drug, yes it really helps my pain, but the side effects are bad and the withdraw is even worse. For you people who have only used it for a year or less, please stop taking it, if you think you have problems now I tell you they will get way worse. | M | 53 | 12 years 160 MG 2X day | 4/27/2011 | 5 | Lumbar disk disease | Forgetness/ Anger/Only way to I could get out of bed in the morning/ Constipated/ | Went from Norco which gave me liver disease to Demerol(good) then to Methadone(sucks) then to Percacet(forget it) then to Oxycotin(took the pain away) Then had to jump to next stronger med Morphine 30mg( good but still tender) Next thing I'll do is cut my back off. But Demerol was the choice to use if you go to disneyland. Helped me out. | M | 44 | 1 years 30mg 2X day | 8/23/2011 | 5 | neck injury | Constipation, nausea | M | 31 | 8 months 40 | 1/21/2012 | 5 | chainsaw injury cut lower calf left | none sleep some times | it works | M | 32 | 7 years 40 mg 4X day | 3/16/2012 | 5 | Bad car accident | None really, slight constipation | This has been the only drug, besides Percocet that helps me with my chronic pain. | M | 45 | 3 years 60 mgs 2X day | 8/31/2012 | 5 | Severe chronic back pain | mild to moderate drowsiness, mild constipation, very mild upset stomach. | My starting dose was 60mg three times a day, I'm now on 80mg four times a day along with 1-2 Dilaudid 4mg every 4-5 hrs for break thru pain. All the side effects went away within a little over a month except for drowsiness during an increase in dose. | M | 35 | 4 months 80mg 4X day | 4/11/2013 | 5 | chronic back pain | severe euphoria and feelings of chronic detachment | Oxycontin is a great medication as long as you have enough of it. You do not want to run out of Oxycontin on a rainy day. When you have it the world is a great place. I have written about it more at www,popsnuff.com | M | 46 | 160 mg 1X day | 12/21/2012 | 5 | for back pain | no real side effects for me | it has worked really well and my doctor monitors my usage pretty closely | M | 61 | 3 years 60MG 1X day | 6/2/2013 | 5 | chronic neck & back pain, arthritis | none really. the one side effect most people complain about...constipation... was even a benefit to me because I had chronic diarrhea from IBS real bad, but the oxy fixed it! And the horrible gut pains I had too! | needless to say i have only praise for this drug. i was out of wotk for 5 years because I could barely move. looking back, it is funny that i was scared to try it because of the bad press this drug has suffered at the hands of the pathetic attention seekers and other lowlife, I just wish there was something we could do to reverse it and let the world know what we, the people who have benefitted so much from this drug, have to say about it! Worse yet, how could the DEA have such influence over legitimate doctors perscribing it? It is totally inhumane to let the actions of a few scumbags make the rest of us suffer needlessly! The excuse is they are trying to keep it from being abused. Well guess what? Drugs have been and will always be abused, take away oxycontin, and they will just find something else to get high on! did prohibition stop people from getting booze? no, it just made more people want it and made bootleggers rich. this stupid drug war is really a war on us pain patients. my | M | 55 | 5 years | 12/11/2005 | 5 | ruptured cervical & thoracic discs | constipation, alleviated by fruits, tea and stool softeners | greatly improved my quality of life | M | 33 | 3 years | 1/16/2006 | 5 | psoriatic arthritis, RLS, fatigue | At first it made me itchy,hot, and very high. I took 1 40 mg a day. It also wears off in 8-12 hours depending on the food taken with and before. I switched to minimum of two 20 mg a day, usually 3. I took antidepressants prior, the combination made me crazy with a fast temper. Eliminating the antidepressants got rid of the most side effects - bad temper, memory loss, and general insanity. I used alcohol as my pain killer before, when i stopped drinking beer (only beer no hard stuff) I got very constipated. I do not drink at all now and I eat lots dried fruit, limit meat and other things to help with the constipation. I smoke marijuana because of chrontic nause prior, the O.C. allowed me to become atctive and the nause went away. I reversed the cycle and now exercise and getting better and better. My memory is getting much better - at first it severally effected it. I am very intelligent and the loss memory was not acceptable. Once I got of all antidepressants my memory problems cleared | I like to say this drug saved me. Thank the lord! Amen. I just wanted to die for over a year, in the last few years, from all my problems. Besides the arthritis pain, the nerve pain, I also feel like I have the flu everyday for last 7 years. I have a very high pain threshold but after so long I just could not take it any longer - NOW I AM ALMOST PAIN FREE AND USING HALF THE DOSE. Its very unfortunate that many people here allowed themselves to abuse this medicine to point that they are very addicted. For me I have been able to cut back from 60 mg max to 20 to 40 mg a a day - i know average about about 25-33 mg per (that is, one 20 mg a day and 2 every 3-4 days) day. Although I have taken this drug for over a year I hope to be completely off of it in the next 6 months. I have adjusted to 20 mg, taken before bed so that I now am almost normal with no side effects other then constipation. I feel like I did before I got sick - that's a miracle! THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT- I have always tested | M | 44 | 13 months | 5/15/2006 | 5 | see below | see below | ---> the rest --->THIS IS VERY IMPORTANT- I have always tested myself continuously trying to take as little as possible. That is I try not to take it until the pain is unbearable again. Although it takes longer to work when you wait I think that waiting is the key to controlling the additive power of this miracle drug. It is VERY IMPORTANT that you wait, you need it, you wait for that feeling that you are going to be in a lot of pain if you wait any longer. I broke a few up in little 1/4 pieces so I could wait as long as possible. It takes about 3-4 hours | M | 44 | 13 times | 5/15/2006 | 5 | Severe Arthritis | No side effects because I take it the way it is supposed to be used. | OxyContin has played a crutial role into getting my life back to somewhat normal, and there really is no other good substitute for the drug. I would like to say, however, is that I'm really discusted with those people who misuse the drug, putting it at risk to be taken off of the market to satisfy there selfish desire to achieve cheap thrills. To you high school punks who think it's "cool" to illegally obtain, disribute, and abuse this valuable MEDICATION, I can GUARANTEE you that you WILL go to jail, and you will be unable to use any narcotic pain killer for actual ligitimate reasons because YOU WILL BE LABELED by every doctor, hospital, and pharmacy, which is really going to be rough on you because you will CRAVE the drug for the rest of your life, and you will have no access to it at any time for any reason. And if I EVER see anyone who is in illegal possession of this drug, I will do whatever it takes to make sure you are given a maximum prison sentence, and I will ask | M | 43 | 2 years | 9/11/2005 | 5 | knee replacement | M | 63 | 90 days | 3/9/2007 | 5 | Pain | Most physicians are seriously hesitant to prescribe oxycontin to pain patients, due to pressure from the DEA prohibition enforcement thugs. As a moron, I put ALL of the blame on those recreational users who abuse this medication for non-medical purposes- I do NOT blame the DEA thugs who are actually causing the problem. Likewise, since my logical reasoning abilities are so poor, I never blame rape on the actual rapist, but rather I believe the fault always lies entirely with those women who 'dress too sexy', thus provoking the rape. | M | 40 | 1 years | 2/20/2007 |
OXYCONTIN (OXYCODONE HYDROCHLORIDE): This medication is used to help relieve severe ongoing pain (such as due to cancer). Oxycodone belongs to a class of drugs known as opioid (narcotic) analgesics. It works in the brain to change how your body feels and responds to pain. The higher strengths of this drug (more than 40 milligrams per tablet) should be used only if you have been regularly taking moderate to large amounts of an opioid pain medication. These strengths may cause overdose (even death) if taken by a person who has not been regularly taking opioids. Do not use the extended-release form of oxycodone to relieve pain that is mild or that will go away in a few days. This medication is not for occasional ("as needed") use. (Sources: U.S. Centers for Medicare Services, FDA)