NUCYNTA Reviews (TAPENTADOL HYDROCHLORIDE)Average Rating: 2.7 (148 Ratings)Filter ResultsCompare NUCYNTA with similar:
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| RATING | REASON | SIDE EFFECTS FOR NUCYNTA | COMMENTS | SEX | AGE | DURATION/ DOSAGE | DATE ADDED |
| 5 | Herniated disks | I have had any side effects except for when I take anything else with it like Oxy or norco. I don't really need anything else though! | Relieves pain very effectively! | F | 34 | 1 years 100 mg | 5/30/2016 | 5 | arachnoiditis failed back surgery | dry mouth, constipation, | tried several other drugs that did not help, tried spinal cord stimulator but it increased my pain. Nucynta has been very helpful. I was becoming suicidal due to inability to cope with the pain. I now go to work everyday. | M | 54 | 4 years 250 mg ER 2X day | 5/22/2016 | 1 | Herniated Discs/fibromyalgia | Hallucinations when closing my eyes, I've felt like I've looked down a 4 barrel shotgun plus I've seen grey flashing lights. This was while awake, I am afraid to sleep. When finally fell asleep I had horrific dreams. Major headaches that won't go away. I am also extremely nauseous. I have been tired and afraid of getting out of my bed because my body feels like I'm drugged I have a hard time walking. I feel like I am completely stoned. I've also been dizzy and had an out of body experience when backing my car out of the driveway. My Dr told me to halve the medicine, I did that and refused to take it until my husband was ready for bed. I woke up in extreme pain. | I asked my Dr for this medicine since my friend takes it and has not had any issues. I also take oxy but fell like it's not helping me as much anymore. I will be calling my Dr Monday morning and tell him the side effects scare me and I will no longer be taking this medicine. Even though the drug did make my pain go away for a little while, the bad definitely outweighs it. Never again. | F | 41 | 2 days 100mg | 4/30/2016 | 5 | Lower spine pain | It's a powerful opiate that has less chances of addiction than others. Seveare constipation and there is light hallucination. I felt very depressed and light suicidal thoughts in early 1 to 3 weeks. | I was in #6 to #8 constant pain and these pills made it managable. I did 3 to 4 100mg pills in 18 to 20 hours. | M | 62 | 9 weeks | 4/19/2016 | 2 | For pain in my legs | I never had pain in my chest by my heart feels like a catch when I started taking this meds 2aday every 12 hour my chest feels like I have a catch on the left side | My pain in my legs don't feel much but the side effect it gave me was chest pains | F | 51 | 3 days 50mg | 4/19/2016 | 2 | Fibromyalgia | Dizzy, "out of body" feeling, shaky, nervous | did relieve most of the pain, but side effects were unmanageable | M | 65 | 24 days 150 2X day | 4/18/2016 | 1 | Degenerative spinal disease. | Heart pounding, shaky, diarrhea vivid dreams, extremely irritable. | On my 5th day. Did take some of my pain away but side affects are not worth it. Heart beats extremely hard. Shakey. Feeling out of body. But the worse is made me have hair trigger temper. Super moody. These are crazy pills. Do not recommend at all. | F | 55 | 5 days 50 mg | 4/11/2016 | 1 | Degenerative spinal disease. | Heart pounding, shaky, diarrea vivid dreams, extremely irritable. | On my 5th day. Did take some of my pain away but side affects are not worth it. Heart beats extremely hard. Shakey. Feeling out of body. But the worse is made me have hair trigger temper. Super moody. These are crazy pills. Do not recommend at all. | F | 55 | 5 days 50 mg | 4/11/2016 | 1 | er pain medication AWFUL , DON'T TAKE | Shaking , nausea , diarrhea, hot cold sweats , pain in chests , panic attacks, no energy . Lethargic , crazy hallucinations | I'm writing to the bbb at my pm dr and writing to manufacturer, and pharmacist . | F | 35 | 3 weeks alms 1mnth | 3/29/2016 | 2 | Osteoarthritis | ER - bad headaches - itching a lot -dry mouth | Does not with my pain at all, made me sick --- plus paid $158.00 for 30 days with ins..seeing my doctor going back to my great pills !!! Nucynta ER never helped me!!! | F | 60 | 10 days 100 | 1/20/2016 | 1 | Back pain, joint pain and RLS | Dizziness, sweats, racing irregular heartbeat, strange semi conscious state, and hallucinations. | Did nothing for pain! I had a bizarre reaction two hours after I took it and shortly after I took my bedtime meds. After the fact my Dr and I believe that I experienced Sarotonin Syndrome. When I used a online interaction checker it boldly and in red stated that this was a major interaction, and that the two drugs should never be used together. Evidently, my doc didn't get the memo. Oh, and mine was the Nucynta ER. Did I mention that it didn't work for shit? | F | 53 | 2 days 100 | 1/15/2016 | 5 | Chronic back pain, fibromyalgia | Shaking, heart palpitations | I've been on narcotic pain meds since 2002 whIle going through chemo for breast cancer, I've had chronic pain since then. Percocet quit working, my Dr put me on Nucynta and I immediately felt a difference. I'm not groggy, there are no side affects like opioid meds I'd been on in the past. I am, however, experiencing shaking and heart palpitations. I, too, take zoloft and will need to adjust per my Dr. Worth the change! I still have pain but not near what I had on oxycodine. | F | 54 | 3 weeks 150 mg ER | 12/31/2015 | 1 | Post Hepretic Neuralgia | I haven't had any side effects but Nucynta is useless against neuralga pain. I hurt 24/7 and can only take 1 Nucynta every 12 hours. | F | 64 | 3 months 50 mg | 12/7/2015 | 5 | tried something new | Use to taking hydrocodone nucynta made me dizzzy dats it i have lyrica for that!!! | F | 38 | 1 days 50 | 11/27/2015 | 5 | chronic pain, trigeminal neuralgia | Confusion, sweating, ataxia | After four months of use I found out that my side effects were due to serotonin syndrome. The Mayo Clinic and Medline have good articles. You need to understand that serotonin syndrome can cause seizures, coma and death. I halved my Zoloft dosage with almost immediate results. It has been a very good pain relieving drug for me. I've been on painkillers since 1997 namely Oxycontin and later, Norco. I hated Oxy - the side effects were nausea and vomiting and Norco wasn't doing anything to relieve pain. Use caution and PLEASE read about serotonin syndrome if you take this drug in combination with any SSRI, i.e. Zoloft, Prozak. If I'd been educated it would have saved me a trip to the emergency room. | F | 59 | 1 years 100 mg 3X day | 10/12/2015 | 4 | crps | Mod-severe itching, extreme tiredness (requiring day sleeps), nausea and vomiting every dsy | My side effects have increased with time taken.It does help with pain but im literally sick with side effects and need to get off them:( | F | 39 | 1 years 250mg BD | 10/5/2015 | 5 | Atypical Facial Neuralgia | Initial Problems with constipation (about first 3 months) | I take this as needed for face and scalp neuralgia and average 2.5 per day over a month. My pain is most often just like atypical Trigeminal Neuralgia but sometimes also includes portions of my scalp pain. Nucynta Immediate Release starts working within 20 minutes and lasts about 6 hours for me. My mild and moderate pain spikes last less than 8 hours often. My severe pain spikes, I sometimes overlap pills or take two but I stay within my monthly pill allotment. Before trying Nucynta, I was on Percocet that had to be increased three times in 14 months. I had less pain relief with the percocet than I do with the Nucynta. It can completely control my mild and moderate pain, and it does significantly reduce pain during my severe pain spikes. I found the extended release (ER) version of this medication to be completely useless but I often have trouble with ER versions of medications. The constipation issues were easily overcome with dietary changes or fiber supplements. My body adjusted to it just fine. | F | 52 | 2 years 50MG 2X day | 9/5/2015 | 1 | Chronic pain | Do not take this medication! You have incredibly hard heart palpitations also while sleeping you will quit breathing waking up like you're drowning. I have the type pain that without pain medicine that I would kill myself. I would rather hurt to take this crap!! | M | 42 | 1 weeks 50mg x 3 | 9/4/2015 | 1 | Pain from surgery | Please do not use this drug, dr gave me this to add to my oxycodone. I took it and within the hour it effected my breathing, heart palpitations, cloudy and foggy head, black spots, and still having trouble seeing after 5 day and only took one pill 5 days ago, heart still racing and heart palpitations , going to er today because I've never in my life been so scared. Vision is wavy and foggy, and images are like a fu. House mirror. Been waiting it out to see if it flies away but has not. This is a synthetic drug. Avoid Please do not take this drug. You do not want to experience what I am going through. I'll take the pain any day over this. | Stay away from this. Report it to the drug administration. | M | 45 | 1 days 50 | 8/10/2015 | 3 | Herniated disc in lower back | I started this drug after being on Tramadol for years and it was no longer working. | The first few days was fine. I have not had a steroid ejection in almost 6 months so it did not take away all of the pain but it did help a lot. This was expected though. After the thrid day, i could not sleep at all. I started taking less doses throughout the day but nothing was helping. I am in the process of stopping it, i have way too much going on to not sleep. I am going to see my dr in a few weeks so until then I am going to go back on the Tramadol. It is not great at all but it will have to work. | F | 28 | 4 days 50mg 4X day | 8/9/2015 |