MS CONTIN Reviews (MORPHINE SULFATE)Average Rating: 3.9 (202 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare MS CONTIN with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR MS CONTIN | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | 19years of addiction | constipation. For a while had trouble breathing and pain in left chest. Had stress test (no ins.-$5,000), okay tho. Guess it was heartburn cuz prilosec eventually helped. Damn waste of money. | Started w/ codeine & hydrocodone at age 16. Got allergic to codeine and was on hydro and oxy til age 27 when got on Oxycontin (avg 3-5 80mg/day). Started shooting up for about 6months. Lost source & did heroin a while (over-rated). Got on methadone a while then lost license-I liked meth. Could sleep and wake up still feeling effects. Got back on Oxy. Done all: Dilaudid(HAVE to shoot to feel), fentanyl, you nae it. Had done MS a few times & thought it was okay. Finally decided no more Oxy & switched to MS 200mg's(buy off street at $13 each which is actually cheap where I live). Take 300mg/day usually. Got down to 100, now up around 400 & gonna run out b4 payday 4 1st time in ages. SCARED. Horrible WD. Your body adjusts and starts to like whatever u take if u take it long enough. Took an 80 a ways back & did nothing. Love MS: after initial 1st few weeks there is NO high. I just feel normal & can function. I don't even make $10/hr tho so need to get back down t | M | 35 | 4 years | 3/23/2006 | 4 | SECONDARY PROGR. MULT. SCELROSIS | NONE NADA ZIP ZILCH | PRIOR TO THIS I WAS TAKING 8MG OF DILAUDID 4 OR 5 TIMES A DAY THE DOC PUT M EON THIS MED HERE AT 30 MG EXT. REL. 3 TIMES A DAY AND 15 MG IMM. REL. 2 OR MORE TIMES FOR BREAKTHROUGH PAIN. COMPARED TO ALL THE OTHER PAIN MEDS I HAVE BEEN ON THE PAST 3 YRS. THIS ONE SEEMS TO WORK BEST HELL I CAN GET UP AGAIN. I DO NOTICE HOWEVER THAT TAKEN A 25MG PHENEGRAN WITH THE MED MAKES IT LAST LONGER FIGHTING MY PAIN NO LOUSY SIDEEFFECTS LIKE THE FENTY PATCH OR ANYTHINGLIKE THAT AND I CAN OPERATE A CAR WHICH I COULDNT ON THE DIALUDID | M | 30 | 5 weeks | 3/5/2006 | 5 | double amputee-multiple surgeries | some constipation | Very effective for pain control. I have taken every pain medication there is and this has helped control the pain the best. I take 2 60mg. pills 3x a day. However, I need to find an effective med. for the break thru pain. I have had over 30 surgeries on my legs-first trying to save them and for the past 4 years trying to fix the damage caused by the disease that led to them being amputated. Doctors want to amputate more of my legs-they think it will help the pain. But with the ms contin, my pain is under control and I am able to walk on prosthetic legs. I refuse to let them take any more of my legs. With the ms contin I am able to live a fairly normal life and be a good wife and mother to my family. I also have a wonderful pharmacist who understands the battle I have gone through in trying to seek pain relief and he never gives me any hassle. Finding a good pain management doctor and pharmacist is very important so for those of you who are struggling, keep looking until you fi | F | 42 | 1 years | 2/22/2006 | 4 | Two prolapsed discs L4,L5 S1 nerve | keep losing my balance when i get up and sweating alot more than usuall, I'm a bricklayer and its got me back working which is the main thing! | taking two 15 mg a day(12 hours) still have pain thats life | M | 28 | 4 months | 1/21/2006 | 3 | deterieration and herniated disc | Constipation, dry mouth, very sleepy and out of control itching all over my body. | I started taking the MS CONTIN on January 11, 2006. Before that, I was taking Ultram and for breakthrough pain I would take Percocet. I have taken, on and off for eleven years, Vicodan. I would rather be taking the vicodan and Soma, the muscle relaxer I'm on now, in stead of the MS CONTIN. All I have to say, is thank Gods for Health Insurance! I have been on temporary disability since May 2005. I'm a waitress, I've done it my whole life and now I can't. I'm looking at having two surgerys with in the next year. One on my upper spine for a herniated disc and another on my tailbone to remove bone chip fragments that are pushing on a nerve and a herniated disc right abouve that. I just hope these side effects will go away soon, very soon, and, that my Doctor will give me something else for the breakthrough pain, I just can't stand it anymore!!! I wish all of you well. Believe it or not, meditation will do wonders for you!!! Blessed Be everyone. | F | 39 | 4 days | 1/14/2006 | 5 | Arthritis, other skeletal pain | Constipation, lack of sex drive | Great pain relief. Have had knee replacement and need another. The brand works better than the generic version. | M | 53 | 7 days | 12/13/2005 | 5 | disk disease and fibromyalgia | constipation | I take 30mg three times a day. This relieves the pain so I can work. If the fibromyalgia flares up really badly I'll take a short course of prednisone. I've taken pretty much all of the other narcotics but this seems to work out the best. I've never got any euphoria from this med so I really can't imagine why anyone would abuse it. | M | 50 | 2 years | 12/3/2005 | 3 | Back Problems | Takes forever to piss, sometimes falling asleep and pissing all over myself, trouble shitting, turds are really hard and rip my orface until it bleeds, quite painfull, headaches, dependency, rectal urphoria, trouble blowing my load, can't nut not sure why, sac hangs really lows, lower than penis, having fatal thoughts of .......... | Truthfully, oxy-contin is better than MS, does anyone want to trade I have 40 left, just kidding, FT DEA | M | 33 | 6 days | 11/2/2005 | 4 | chronic back pain (low back) | constipation, but 1 Senna-cot for each dose helped | I was on almost every drug for pain, or thought to be for pain ,for 15 years after an accident .I had surgery and the doctor took thr wrong disc out and I now have seveal (6 ) herniated disc.MS contin was a life saver ,literally, because the Tylonoyl in the pain meds over the years damaged my liver.THANK GOD FOR MS CONTIN !! It has helped me greatly,I have been on it now for 7 months and its the best I have felt in years.It is a great drug. | M | 45 | 8 months | 10/1/2005 | 1 | C-3-4,C-5-6,C-7, L-3,L-4,L-5,S-1 | Constaption,Trouble Uraine,Dizzy, Trouble Breathing,Sleeping all the time | I have been on 40MG of Oxycontin 3 times a day with Percett for breaking thru pain and I was having no trouble for 5 years, I have Degen,Disc Disease in both my neck and back and even had a back operation on L-5 and S-1 where they inserted 3 screws and did not help even with therphy and injections which where supposed to block the pain but never did help.I also need neck surgery again for C-6,C-7 and a pinched nerve and they won`t approve that either. Then my husband work changed insurance and they won`t pay for it. Now they put me on MS Contin and it does not help but to make me a junkie, the dozes keep changing and they keep giving me other meds, I don`t want to get into that. I could function on the Oxycontin and no one even knew I was on any pain meds. I have been on this for 2 weeks and I hate it, I feel like a zombie and don`t get out of bed expect to go to the bathroom which is very hard to do either one. Insurance Companies don`t understand severe pain all they understand is paying less money, and we have to suffer as junkies to get just a little relief. | F | 60 | 2 weeks | 8/14/2005 | 1 | back surgery | FOR GET IT I NEED MY OXCIES INS,WONT PAY NO MORE | UNSAFE DRUG | M | 49 | 6 days | 7/21/2005 | 5 | Sciatica-Lumbago-Disc Degeneration | dry eye | A very good medication for palliative care of chronic pain; does not have the extreme hormonal effects of methadone or ketobemidone. More reliable a painkiller than hydromorphone for me, and more suitable overall for chronic pain that oxycodone. | M | 33 | 3 years | 7/13/2005 | 5 | Crohns Disease | I trip, I fall, I run into the wall... | Excellent for pain relief | M | 33 | 1 years | 7/6/2005 | 4 | Hi-speed contact w/stationary objt | I have experienced constipation. A little peri-colace works well. Sometimes I get analgesic rebound-(headache the next day). As far as any other side effects-I'm not a good subject for study due to other issues. | I have C1 & C2 fused & screwed together as well as T-11 thru L-2. L-1 is gone, replaced by titainiuim. Be very careful on your next ascent on a ladder. Try not to be over asphalt. Anyway...I've preety much been through the mill. You've been there or heard it before. Oxycontin and Dilaudid are probably the the best for pain relief, but despite my best intentions, I couldn't help abusing them. They do a good job with the pain and they make you feel really good-(well being) I would find that chewing my 80mg pills every 6 hours was better than swallowing them. After a while, I never swallowed them. I forced myself to ask the doc for something else. (after 7 years!) He gave me MS-contin 60mg 3X day with 30mg 4X day for breakthru. I feel so much better. A little peri-colace relieves the constipation. That's the only side effect I have. I never chew them-brand is definetly better then generic. I don't have any real high to speak of. Just the better feeling of pain releif. I'd say about 60%-70%. Like 4-5 on a scale of 1-10. I can live with that. W/O the drug, it's a 10 or 12 -24/7/365. I never run out as opposed to running out 5-7 days early on oxy's(everytime). I never get any trouble from pharmacists. I always go to the same one. They see me every 30 days and have my script ready when I arrive at 9am. I can't really relate to any other | M | 44 | 1.5 years | 6/21/2005 | 5 | 7-hern. discs. degen. disc disease | I took MS Contin for almost a full year before I decicded to take myself off of it due to the side effevts that were causing problems in my marriage. It completely took my sex drive away. It also caused me to strike out at my wife and pick up a domestic violence charge. I only threw a pillow at her, and chose to only throw a pillow rather than pick the chair up I was sitting and slam her with that. This is something that I am very ashamed of. This is something that I NEVER would have done otherwise. It had to be the morephine that made me react like that. As for the pain relief, it was wonderful and worked very good. I started taking two 30 mg twice a day, and went to three a day. I slept like a baby, not having to wake up during the nigh to take more of other types of pain meds as I know have to do. I'm currently taking Lortab 10's and find myself taking more than the perscribed 8 per day. I'm in pain, and feel alot more pain which really limits me as to what I can do in any given day. I am a Viet Nam Vet. Airborne Ranger Special Forces, and jumping from the airplanes has really taken a toll on my back and on my knees. It never really bothered me until around two years ago, and it all came out of the blue around the age of 50. My pain is so severe, sometimes I don't think that I can take it any more. It really takes alot of pain for me to even complain, but I'm doing alot of complaining now. Especially since I've taken myself off of the MS Contin. I really feel worthless and sometimes wonder why I sholdn't put a bullet through my head to end the pain, suffering and discomfort. I really went through some seriuos withdrawals but I'm considering going back on it just to relieve more of this chronic pain. I'm having a hard time weighing out the pro's and con's. I could use a little help with making this decision so if anyone could send some thoughts my way, It would really be appreciated. | The MS CONTIN really helped with the chronic and severe pain, but...I'm a serious advocate for doestic violence and don't ever want to harm my wife and, or children. I'm also a retired pro-fighter and could really hurt someone. And that I don't want to do. Mayb, just maybe, now that I can recognize the symptoms and side effects, I can control them. | M | 52 | 10 days | 6/8/2005 | 4 | Degenerative back disease/RLS | Little constipation, kinda tired. (Take a multivitamin for constipation, most manufacturers use magnesium in their multis to help digest okay read the label and it softens stools.) | My Dr. prescribed this for me after having back surgery AND I have mild restless leg syndrome. First she gave me MS Contin 15mg 3x per day and Morphine IR 15mg twice a day for breakthrough pain. Holy crap I kept falling asleep at work! So she took me off the morphine IR and gave me good old hydrocodone. I was going through the hydrocodone because I was taking so many at once to alleviate the pain, so she switched me to oxycodone 5mg, which is way better. | F | 25 | 2 months | 5/26/2005 | 5 | back fusion L 4, L 5, S 1 | constipation, sweating | I am currently on Kadian ( extended release morphine ) I want to switch back to MS contin as my back pain has subsided due to surgery. I used MS before my surgery. Not as effective as kadian because you need to take more pills. Kadian lasts longer. I have heard it is very hard to go off of morphine. I weaned myself off from 400 mg. to 100 mg. Got very sick when I just stopped all together though. My pain management doc wanted to take me down slowly but I want off. I see him Monday so we will see.As far as the pharmacies, you do get looks but who cares. Nobody knows how much pain you are in so tell them to stick it. Kadian is very expensive & MS is not so that is a plus too. No health ins. here. Good luck to all! | F | 38 | 1 days | 5/14/2005 | 5 | I am addicted, get sick if i dont. | I shoot up with it so i somtimes get nausious and itchy... | Best drug in the world | M | 21 | 2 years | 5/11/2005 | 4 | Ruptured Disc Acute and Cronic Pain | Just took for the first time yesterday. Have been on Hydrocodeine for night, Darvocet for working, Naproxin, Muscle Relaxers and Steroid packs as well as shots of pain relievers and steroids. Going to a Pain Management Center to start a round of Epidural Steroid shots to try and put off back fushion surgery as long as possible. I have a VERY difficult time taking pills of any kind without gagging and vomiting. But I liked that the pills were tiny and alot easier to take. However, that said, I could not sleep last night, had problems breathing which I believe was due to panic attacks. I was very worried about taking morphine, and read all the side effects that could occur and just went into panic mode. But Hydrocodeine just doesn't help me. It only messes with my head. But I felt better a couple hours after taking the first dose and feel like a new woman today. | F | 34 | 1 days | 5/11/2005 | 3 | Anklosing Spondylitis | nausea every time, depression, moodiness, constipation,does not help with energy levels | I have been taking it at a dosage of 360mg daily.While it helps to take the edge off the pain it never truly eliminates the pain.I wish there was something more effective with less side effects. | M | 34 | 8 days | 5/5/2005 |