OXYCONTIN Reviews (OXYCODONE HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 3.5 (417 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare OXYCONTIN with similar:
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| 3 | 4 neck fusions/cysts on liver/kidne | I have not experienced any side effects from the drug. | I've had 4 cervical fusions, of which 1 failed.I get extreme headaches and episodes that mimic a stroke.We moved to Colorado from Missouri for the elevation (which did decrease the frequency of the 'episodes'),and for the specialists at the University of Colorado since the ones on Missouri could not figure out why my systems are failing.I have extreme pain on my right side under my rib cage, am always nauseas, can barely eat, always fatigued, weak and dizzy, very lethargic, can barely take a shower.MRI's showed growthes on my liver that have increased in size and number in the past year (and now ther is one on my left kidney),my gallbladder shut down and had to be removed,the ducts to my pancreas closed off and had to be cut and reopened (ERCP),I was in the ER a couple of weeks ago because I was urinating pure blood.My pain doctor will not give me anything to relieve the muscle spasms in my neck, or to help me sleep.I need a pain doctor that wants to help relieve my pain.And, I need a specialist that can figure out what's going on with my liver/gallbladder/pancreas/kidneys.Can anything help? I don't want to have to go back to Missouri-all the doctors there already gave up on trying to figure out what's wrong.They admit there's definitely something wrong, they just don't know what-I need someone to care enough to find out what. | F | 41 | 2 weeks 20 2X day | 1/6/2011 | 1 | Chronic Back Pain | With the new OP Oxycontin, I was having severe stomach cramps. The Reglan I am prescribed for stomach cramps was not even working to control the severe cramping. I had my doctor change me back to the immediate release Oxycontin and I have not had any problems. | I think the drug makers should have left the extended release Oxycontin alone. The idiot druggies make it hard for the patients that really need this medication for long term chronic care to receive the treatment they need. | M | 49 | 30MG 4X day | 1/4/2011 | 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 | 3 | SPINAL STENOSIS, DDD, FIBRO, PAIN | I SWITCHED FROM OPANA ER WHICH WAS MUCH TOO STRONG BUT DID VERY LITTLE. WHAT I MEAN BY THAT IS IT MADE ME FEEL DOPED UP BUT DID NOT HELP MY PAIN. I DON'T THINK THE ORAL AVAILABILITY ON OPANA ER IS VERY GOOD. I STARTED ON A VERY LOW DOSE (LIKE 5 MG) AND WENT UP TO 20 MG IN THE COURSE OF A MONTH WHICH IS EQUIV. TO 40 MG OF OXY. THAT CRAP IS LIKE MORPHINE AND IS DEF STRONGER THAN OXY. I DID NOT LIKE THE IDEA OF HAVING TO UP THE DOSE ANY MORE THAN 20 MG SO I WENT OFF AND WAS VERY VERY SICK FOR ABOUT 1 MONTH. DOCTORS ARE SUGGESTING THIS I THINK B/C DRUG REPS ARE PUSHING THIS ON THEM, IT'S EXPENSIVE AND IT SOUNDS A LOT BETTER THAN "OXYCONTIN", HOWEVER, I HAD TO ALSO RECENTLY GO OFF THE OXY B/C THE NEW OP FORMULA DID A NUMBER ON MY STOMACH AND I HAD GASTRITIS AND WAS VOMITING EVERYDAY. I WENT FROM OXYCONTIN TO THE REGULAR SHORT ACTING OXYCODONE, WORKS GREAT! | OXYCODONE IN CONJUNCTION WITH MY NORCO HAS BEEN THE BEST COMBO MY DR. AND I HAVE FOUND SO FAR. ALTHOUGH THEY ARE BOTH SOMEWHAT SHORT ACTING IT HAS BEEN WORKING OUT THUS FAR. I HAVE TRIED MANY OTHER COMBINATIONS. THE MOST I EVER HAVE TO TAKE IS 20 MG OF OXY AND 30 MG OF NORCO. THE LEAST I EVER HAVE TO TAKE IS 5 MG OF OXY AND 10 MG OF NORCO. AS I SAID, THIS COMBO HAS BEEN WORKING WELL. ALTHOUGH DOCTORS WOULD LIKE YOU ON A LONG ACTING MED EVERYONE IS DIFF.- 2 SHORT ACTING ONES SUCH AS THESE HAVE BEEN A GODSEND. | F | 30 | 3 months 10 2X day | 12/27/2010 | 4 | Endone Normal release | Feeling High but great for pain relief although I dont like being looked at as though I'm A drug addict by my pharmacists..Not fair !!!!! | I have to say this drug works for me But my G.P seems to have other ideas ,,first He started me on Oxycodone than switches me too Tramadol XR 200 MG X 1P/D ..I was on Panadiene fortes 30MG codiene 500 Mg paracetamol for 14 years with no problems but for some reason he wants me off them as he's concerned of liver & Kidney damage ,,I havnt got it yet ,,tests have been done.. But I have to say Endone ( Oxycodone) made the servere pain I get down my right leg from My sciatica totaly dissapere... I'm not game to take the Oxycontin as I dont want cancer from the Polymear Coating But when I compaire it to Tramadol XR ..Its a much safer and bettter drug ..I've only been taking TramadolXR for 14 days, I stopped two days ago as it wasnt doing anything only to now find im going through withdrawals ..How does that happen when Oxy is addictive but Tramadol is totally synthetic ??? Maybe we arent being told the truth behind some meds ..they dont weant us on ones that wont hurt us and use crap to get us onto statins and laced drugs which they say are harmless but really are the total opposite .. Im going to be ripping my G.P a new Yeah this week when I see him ,,im not amused ... | M | 47 | 14 days 7.5 MG 3X day | 12/22/2010 | 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 | 3 | Back pain | Itching and cold feet. | It does help with my pain. I used to average a 4 on my pain scale. Using oxycotin has brought that to a 2 on my scale with some 0 in there which hasn't happend since before my back issues caused me to have surgery. | M | 41 | 365 days 20 2X day | 11/30/2010 | 3 | Daily high | Euphoria, (less & less as time goes on) more talkative and/or extremely drowsy, (depending on the social situation) no motivation, chronic daily headaches, & lots of unintended pain to friends and boyfriend. At first it really is a wonder drug. I had no problems, no worries. Over time these effects gradually lessened and I now take it solely to feel normal and not go through the withdrawls... | I PROMISE you, none of the good side effects that come from this tiny pill outweigh the WITHDRAWALS. I started taking this stuff as an anti-depressant and to get high to deal with daily life. I have been hooked on painkillers now for over 2 years, and this last year more specifically oxycodone 30mg. I am completely broke living paycheck to paycheck spending anywhere from 500-1200$/mo on the stuff. You WILL get hooked. When you stop taking it, the side effects are unbearable. Imagine the worst flu you could possibly have x10. Symptoms almost immediately include sleeplessness (for days or weeks) frequent diahrea, upset stomach, sneezing, severe muscle pain & weakness, severe apathy & severe depression. I cannot get out of bed in the morning or fall asleep at night without taking the stuff. It's absolutely ruined my life. Luckily my boyfriend is still sticking by me. I dont know where to turn, having the little income I have, to get off this stuff quickly. This drug will take everything you ever worked for in your life and flush it down the toilet. All you care about is having more. It's on my mind 24/7 no matter what I'm doing. It is my whole life. And I dont wish this kind of dependency on anybody. Please beware!! | F | 26 | 1 years 30 3X day | 11/29/2010 | 1 | Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy | Diarrhea, stomach pain, bloating, high blood sugar, high pain. | Have had RSD for six years. I took oxycontin for five. The pill worked well for pain except it never lasted 12 hours like promised. The new pill is dangerous. My diabetes was well controlled on the old pill. The new pill caused diarrhea, stomach cramp, bloating, pain. Pain did not improve until four hours onset compared with forty minutes with the old pill. Sugar went from normal (on metformin for diabetes) to 250 with the third new formulation pill. It took days to recover. Luckily the pharmacy had put some old pills in the kit or I would be in the ER. This is negligent to introduce a new medicine without proper testing and hide in the old appearance. Wolf in sheep clothing. This abuse the sickest people with dangerous goods in uncontrolled experiment. | M | 52 | 3 days 10 2X day | 11/4/2010 | 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 | 3 | CHRONIC PAIN, HERNIATED DISKS, ETC. | SEVERE NAUSEA, VOMITING, GASTRO ISSUES QUESTION: I DO NOT KNOW WHAT "OP" VERSION IS. I HAVE THE OXYCODONE ENXTENDED RELEASE VERSION. IT SAYS "OC" ON ONE SIDE AND 10 ON THE OTHER. IS THIS THE "NEW ONE"? MY PHARMICIST DOES NOT KNOW OF ANY NEW ONE AND DOES NOT THINK THIS ONE IS NEW. IT SAYS THE MFG. IS "APOTEX". PLEASE HELP. SEE BELOW | I WAS ON OPANA ER 10-20 MGS. PER DAY AND SUDDENLY SWITCHED TO OXY ER 10 PER DAY I HAVE BEEN VERY VERY SICK THE LAST WEEK AFTER SWITCHING. I DO NOT KNOW IF IT'S THE OXY OR THE FACT THAT I FOUND OUT OPANA IS MUCH STRONGER THAN OXY AND MAYBE IT'S WITHDRAWALS?? PLEASE EMAIL IF U KNOW... | F | 30 | 7 days 10 MG 2X day | 10/12/2010 | 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 | 1 | Lyme induced neuropathy and FM | Was doing fine until they changed formula and added wonderful stuff like plastics and resins and BHT (banned in several Countries). | New formula is not absorbed and will go right through you and most likely cause nausea, constipation and severe bloating. It is toxic as hell. I cannot believe they ruined a decent drug to prevent a few bad guys. Sucks. | M | 47 | 10 years 40mg 2X day | 10/5/2010 | 1 | Chronic knee pain | Hives- nausia, insomnia, ineffective as pain reliever for burns. | All this hubbub about "new" Oxycontin, being very powerful, and viciously addictive, and all it is, is plain old oxycodine, seen in percocet, and percodan, and I think, talwin- When I worked over 5 years in a compounding pharmacy, it was the cheapest opium based pain med, and not very popular, as it easily made PTs sick, and *very* constipated- almost every cough med, and pain med used codine phosphate, which cost about a nickle a pill, or .65 cents a 4 oz bottle. Now a days, you cant get codine phosphate unless its polluted with either the toxic ibuprophen, or the toxic acetomenophen, so I asked the Dr dose anyone still make just plain old codine phosphate w/o the extra junk in it?- He said no, (a compounding pharmacy will) but they did make a codine only pill, and sent me off to costco, where I paid an outrageous $150 for 60 pills, of 10mg plain vanilla oxycodine! Here I had thought that oxycontin was some new potent analgesic, that just sounded like oxycodine, but its the same old junk they had trouble selling at 100 times less the cost, in 1976. | M | 59 | 7 days 10mg 2X day | 10/2/2010 | 5 | DJD & fibromyalgia | Constipation | This is a wonderful drug for pain | F | 36 | 2 years 320mg 1X day | 9/26/2010 | 1 | Chronic pain. | NEW OP REFORMULATION: daily headache, flushing, sweating, nausea, bloating, etc. LITTLE PAIN RELIEF COMPARED TO ORIGINAL FORMULA. i had my life back for 5 years now i feel like there is no reason to even live like ths. | F | 35 | 5 years 80 mg 3X day | 9/25/2010 | 1 | FMS,CRPS/ RSD,OA, etc. | Some constipation with older (original?) time-released version. Complete withdrawl from using "OP" version. Either Purdue Pharma is simply lying about the bioactivity being equal, OR there are counterfeit versions making it to our pharmacies that have little, if any, oxycodone in them at all. I went through surgery with no pain control at all & neither my doctors nor I were notified of the change. I had to discover this by finding there had been a change on the Internet! My doctor treating me had no notification of the change. My pharmacist knew of the change to the "OP" version as it seems to be dubbed, and yet she was assured that it was "bioequivalent" as it states on Purdue Pharma's web site. I have to wonder if they EVER tested this on chronically ill individuals? (I didn't think so) I'd like to see the REMS strategy Purdue Pharma made with the FDA, as they state on their web site at www.purduepharma.com/pressroom/news/20100405.htm | OP version of OxyContin I received from my pharmacy roughly 8-10-2010 seemed to be biologically inactive. Old version worked just fine for roughly 10+ years! It is clear from the firestorm online that many people are having problems with their OxyContin medication. Either Purdue screwed up the formula so some of us who are chronically ill can't utilize it, or perhaps the shipments are being hijacked. Either way, there needs to be an investigation! Increasing a dose to double or more, one option mentioned to me, could be incredibly dangerous, as we don't know why it isn't working. Should the dose be increased and a change occur that allowed a patient to then utilize it as before, it would cause an overdose & perhaps be fatal. I asked instead to be put on something else & my doctor agreed. This change was made without notification to myself or my doctors & with inadequate notice to my pharmacist AND without "Informed Consent" my medication, and that of others legitimately on it. The actions taken by my doctors, surgeon, anesthesiologist & an ER doctor as a direct result could have been deadly, as they had no idea this change had occurred. I have to also wonder if this falls under "The Federal Anti-Tampering Act" that makes tampering with consumer products a felony punishable by up to 10 years in jail? Purdue pharma has some serious questions to answer & I have to wonder how many others have been harmed by their product. w/ according to | F | 46 | 10 years 20mg 3X day | 9/25/2010 | 1 | chronic pain | THE NEW OP IS POISON!! IT HAS MADE MY STOMACH SO SICK, I CANNOT SLEEP ANYMORE I AM SO SICK TO MY STOMACH UP ALL NIGHT STOMACH GOING CRAZY DRY MOUTH - THIS OP IS A HORRIBLE POISON STOP NOW BEFORE THE SIDE EFFECTS KILL YOU AND STOP UP YOUR KIDNEY | F | 34 | 360 days 60mg 2X day | 9/15/2010 | 1 | Back nerve damage, knee | New OP Oxycontin have given me severe acid reflux, already have gerd, severe stomach pain. | I was recently changed this month to OP and they really make me have severe acid reflux and stomach pains. I throw up until I can't anymore. I don't feel any pain relief at all since I'm taking these. I have been on Nextium for 6 years but this doesn't give me any relief. I have throw up something that looks like glue that is sticky. I hate these new pills and now wondering if my Dr. will think I'm a junkie cause my body can't tolerate them. Purdue has made a bad mistake with this pill. I thought they made pills to help patients but I don't know who they are working for now. I don't abused my pills but will have to be taken off these to not be in so much stomach pain now. What a shame to take something away that worked so good for me. | F | 58 | 3 years 40 MG 3X day | 9/15/2010 | 1 | chronic pain | NEW OXYCONTIN OP ====SEVERE STOMACH PAINS | OXYCONTIN OP . Let me say that I have been taking the "old" o.c. for multiple yrs and it worked great. I HATED the stigma the drug addicts put onto it, so I was pleased to hear that the drug company "Purdue Pharmaceuticals" were making a smart pill that was tamper proof. What they have done is add a polymer ingredient that if it is crushed and wet it turns the pill gelatinous....glue like so it can't be injected. OMG,,, since taking this my stomach is on fire and I have missed work.It takes longer to start to work also so you feel a tad bit more pain. Oxy worked great but I may have to switch to something else. Good try Purdue but will this stuff that turns glue hurt us in the long run? I mean after all, aren't you the ones who said your 1st version of oxy was the best in 1995? I am scared!My pharmacist agrees as he said it takes 3 days to make 1 pill!! It takes that long for this probable cancer glue to dry?? OMG!!Put naxolone in it and call it a day! | F | 41 | 4 days 60mg 2X day | 9/10/2010 |