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 |
| 3 | Back,H&Nk, hip, pain chron, Fall | Was put on a ridiculous dose IN 2011. was on 40 mg BID, new doctor had me on 80mg TID, with 30 mg QID break thru pain. Increased over 2 months from 40 mg, he kept saying "ur not Maxed out,", questioned him about addiction. Said " take as prescribed u wont get addicted only 5% do. I didn't he lost his license in 2015 selling 3 rx s to L.E. I was so stupid I trusted him so much, he was a Neurologist . 9 years ago, fell on ice backwars down into a sewer grate..+ LOC, headaches,perm. double vision,atrophy left forarm | So new pain doctors said everything is changing, tapered me as follows: 60 mg OC BID x 2was, 5 mg oxy IR TIiD PRN,40mg x 2wk,30 then 20 mg bid,5mg of IR, present dose. Helps a great deal, it wont cover new pain, you have to wait till it subsides.feel more clear headed, no memory loss ( that I can think of 🤔 )", or constipation.. Yea! The shotty Docs brought it on themselves and so did the BS patients1q | M | 52 | 97 years 20 mg | 9/7/2019 | 5 | )back leg arm foot pain | F | 63 | 30 years | 5/10/2017 | 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 | Brachial Plexus & neck injury | Sometimes tiered, need to take something for constipation | I can function - with pain I can not. Very thankfull that there is such a wonderfull painkiller that works -making it possible for me to live as close as possible to a normal live. | F | 55 | 16 years 4X day | 6/9/2010 | 2 | c4/5 cervical fusion/nerve damage | Long term side effects are definitely constipation, forgetfulness & addiction. Want to get off of it but don't know what else to take for the pain. I hate being addicted to it and I hate the stigma associated with it. If it wasn't for addiction and other side effects, I would like it. | Taken it for 13 years. | F | 60 | 13 years 100mg 2X day | 11/23/2011 | 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 | 1 | chronic pain | Since change to OP formula, med gives no pain relief, reflux, heartburn, searing abdominal pain, consitpation, severe headaches, heartburn. | Huge mistake for Purdue, this hasn't been tested in humans and contains carcinogens that weren't in the old OC formula. | F | 40 | 12 years 10 mg 2X day | 10/9/2010 | 5 | Chronic Fatigue Syndrome & Fibro. | none on 10 mg. CR up to 3 times per day, drowsiness if mgs. are increased above 10 mg. | excellent pain reliever | F | 42 | 11 years | 12/10/2006 | 5 | severe chronic low back pain | at first there were some fatigue and constipation but hey i can live with that because i am living | i have been taking oxy for ten years now and have in that time completely came off the drugs twice and no the withdrawal is not nice but the living of my life is wonderful and would easily reccomend this drug some people say they now live as a recluse THIS IS NOT BECAUSE OF THE DRUG you need to see some professional help i lived as a recluse because of the pain yes i still have pain but nothing like i did then i now have a wonderful man in my life and actually jump on the back of his bike and go for a ride i have been taking 40mgs three times a day for ten years and have now dropped to 30mgs two to three times a day stop whining get out there and L.I.V.E.... | F | 41 | 10 years 40mg 3X day | 12/27/2010 | 5 | chronic pain,fibromyalgia,c-spine i | basically all I had is constipation,but I found eating right & taking fiber with alot of water daily works | I was put on this drug after an injury at work which caused more spinal problems. I went to all the pain doctors,had injections into my neck & spine. Finally after several months I agreed that my Dr put me on this medication.The Dr that originally prescribed this medication told me I wouldnt become addicted if & took as prescribed, LIE LIE!!! Over the years I have gone from 10 mg twice daily to 80 mg twice daily. Now after all these years a different Dr wants to take me off it. I am being tapered off at 2 week intervals by 20 mg at a time. I get night sweats,& wake up at night with withdrawls & cant wait until 8 am so I can get my 60 mg to make the symptoms cease. Yes, this is a great med for chronic pain,but think twice about using long term,as the symptoms of withdrawl are no picnic. | F | 51 | 10 years 80 2X day | 4/22/2010 | 5 | SLE, MS, Leukemia, Spinal Tumors | When I first started the med it caused severe anxiety and clausterphobia. Now it sometimes causes massive headaches and addiction. I am very willing to deal with any side effect from this drug it has saved my life. | I am not a believer in medical science anymore. When I first got diagnosed w/SLE I was not on any meds never even had a drink of alchol i was 21yo. I went into the hospital w/chest pain and found out that my pericardium was filling up with fluid. They treated the pericarditis and tested me for Lupus and it came out possitive. I then came down with vasculitis about 1 month later and was having gran maul seizures so the put me in the hospital and started chemotherapy (Cytoxin)and put me on Oxycontin 20mgs. every 12 hours this was not enough so the doc's then decided to keep me in the hospital and give me IV demerol 100mgs. every other hour this made me a zombie. I was in the hospital and on this dose for 6 weeks. When they got me off the demerol they put back on the Oxycontin 20mgs 3x a day. After my doses of chemo for 6 mos. I was getting very numb in my face and limbs and my right side was very week. They then said I had a very rare case of cross over disease that happens one in a mill | M | 32 | 10 years | 3/16/2007 | 5 | Knee pain, ms pain | Dry mouth, itch, constipation, | 40 mg 3x per day for years. I'd like to stop the narcotic and have been researching using weed to get through it. Anyone have experience with that? It works well. I regret when I miss a dose. My pain can roar up like a vengeance and that gives me panic attacks of not getting pain under control. Horrible circle. | F | 45 | 10 years 40 3X day | 5/10/2014 | 5 | Severed spinal cord C5 with 6 crush | Constipation some irritability, insomnia. | I was taking OxiContin for 10 yr. Medicare Medicaid made me change drugs because of the price of OxiContin. highway robbery. I think it's terrible that a drug that works so well yet I am forced to change because the manufacture charges to much. So we are forced into taking medication that doesn't work as well. | M | 45 | 10 years | 3/31/2008 | 4 | broken leg resulting in amputation | Constipation, itchy skin, tooth decay, weight gain, constantly tired sleep up to 2hrs per day, hot flushes, increased eczema, swollen leg & cellulitis, but no pain BONUS!! | I was prescribed oxycontin & oxynorm for breakthrough pain relief after falling & shattering my ankle resulting in an external fixator & finally amputation, by the hospital pain clinic. I was unlucky enough to get compartment syndrome in my foot which caused horrific pain so was given oxycontin as morphine didn't work. I've now been taking oxycontin for over 10yrs, remarkably without realising the amount of side effects I've been living with until filling in this review, which has somewhat alarmed me. I will be contacting my doctor for a referral back to the pain clinic to seek other alternative treatments to manage my pain. In the last 6mths I've started to suffer more & more with phantom pain & sensation so need help with this also. Oxycontin has controlled my pain for the last 10yrs but sadly also my life to a degree, this I need to change. | F | 44 | 10 years 40mg 2X day | 1/12/2016 | 4 | TMJ, arthritis, FMS, scleroderma | Profuse sweating with any activity, over-heating, some constipation, physical dependence iotrogenic, secondary to use of opioid for analgesia | I am on relatively high dosage; 80 mg AM, 40 mg PM, 80 mg bedtime (total = 200 mg per day), plus total of 5 mgs X8 prn of oxycodone for breakthru pain. I have tried Duragesic patches, MS Contin, Oramorph, hydrocodone (Vicodin ES), methadone & others analgesics. Oxycontin offers good pain relief, but like all opioids, loses its effectiveness due to drug tolerance. The profuse sweating is very bothersome, but the alternative is suffering symptoms of severe chronic pain; it's a Catch-22. I eat raw nuts, dried fruit, and drink lots of water, which deals with constipation; sometimes I take stool softeners; don't beat yourself up if you need the medicine, but recognize the long-term effects upon your liover where it metabolizes, and drink tons of water to flush your kidneys, and take mineral supplements and vitamin C; find a pain doctor that specializes in pharmacology; find a pharmacy that does price matching, since it is rarely covered by insurance; I spend about $800 per month cash out of pocket, but am thankful for the pain relief | M | 50 | 10 years | 9/28/2004 | 3 | back pain | taking since it came out,1996-97? very addictive, works well with simple asprin, and or tylenol. Stay with as low dose as possible. I'm on 10-mg 5 times a day. | F | 42 | 10 years | 8/15/2006 | 2 | Chronic Pain L4-5 surgery, DDD, OA | Anxiety, agorophobic-like tendencies, itching. | I have tried this twice over the past 12 years. The first time was for over a year. The second time was for 4 months. The side effects vs. any relief I got were not worth it for me. | F | 51 | 10 years | 2/8/2009 | 1 | pelvic surgery,hip replacement,back | constipation,depression, | oxycontin i am on 360mgs twice a day i also take oxynorm 80mgs 4 times a day,i was on 540mgs of oxycontin every time i went to my doctor he up the dose, i felt like a drugy i could not get up in the morning i had to do something as this is on life for me and my famiy,i got down to 360mgs twice a day by myself it can be done slowly im hopeing to be of the drugs by the summer and im doing it all by my self | F | 38 | 10 years | 2/6/2009 | 1 | Chronic Pain | When I first started taking it, it gave me horrible headaches but really helped with managing my pain. When my alarm clock went off if the morning to get up for work, I would have a pill sitting on my night stand and take it before getting out of bed. After about 30 minutes, I was not only pain free but had awesome euphoria! I was ready to tackle the day and simply put, felt great! About 2 years ago, my pain management doc lost his license to prescribe opiates. I went thru hell! I was suddenly cut completely off and unable to find another prescribing doc. I made it thru the withdrawals however and after about a week, I was doing ok but the pain came back with a vengeance! I UNFORTUNATELY found another pain management doc willing to prescribe and put me back on maintenance. I don't know if anyone else has experienced the same as myself but I would argue with anybody that within the past 2 years, they are simply not the same! The ingredients can't be the same as before and the color even changed. I am totally aware that you build up a tolerance to this devils pill but I also know the pharmaceutical companies have done something to change the effects of them.. I feel this medication has "taken my life" from me! I stay horribly depressed, constant panic attacks, no energy at all and zero motivation. I just want to stay in bed all the time but unable to rest! I feel that my body is shutting down and deteriorating very quickly. I could go on and on endlessly about this h | REFUSE TO TAKE IT UNLESS YOU HAVE NO OTHER OPTIONS AND ONLY FOR A VERY SHORT PERIOD OF TIME! Doctors just don't tell you the road you're headed down! | F | 59 | 10 years 30mg | 4/30/2017 | 1 | Amputation, Broken Bones, Trauma | sweating, over eating, insomnia, blackouts, always tired, itching and picking from skin crawling, irritable, constipation, | I was 22 when I started taking oxycontin and oxycodone. This was due to a work accident involving a rail car, and being ran over and drug down the tracks across asphalt. This resulted in an amputated left leg, broken bones, severe road rash from neck to feet and severe nerve damage from being twisted into a pretzel under the rail car. I though that was the worst thing that could of happen, but when the pain doctors went to send me home after two weeks, they put me on oxycontin and oxycodone. Due to such a high tolerance the doctors had me taking 1200 mg of these meds a day. I have spent nearly ten years on it, trying to wean off of it but the withdrawls were to much. This med has robbed me, my wife, and my kids of a life we all deserve. I never thought life was a problem while on it, other than when I was running out of meds. I took as prescribed stepping down to to 90 mg a day but couldn't kick it. I am now 2 weeks out of rehab, and 5 weeks without use and my life has been better those five weeks than it's been in years. I saw so many in rehab from this nightmare of a drug. I know there are people who need it, but I think there are too many that are prescribed it and then cut off and many of these people must use other drugs to try to get the same effect. I hurt all the time while taking it, but found after detoxing that the hurting was all in my mind from me wanting more oxy. too much to right here but if anything know that this med is a destroyer, of life, love | M | 32 | 10 years | 8/18/2009 |
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)