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 |
| 2 | Peripheral Neuropathy | Tired but can't sleep. Nausea (has lessened recently). Slight confusion | Does not, for me, provide the pain control I was accustomed to with oxycodone. Unable to sleep at night b/c of pain, burning in feet and legs. | M | 58 | 14 days 100 MG 2X day | 6/29/2014 | 1 | Djd | Hives plus very tired | F | 38 | 7 days 75 | 6/24/2014 | 3 | Herniated disc | Helped some of the extreme pain some of the time. Kicked in about 1 hour after taking and lasted another 2 hours. Was able to get some sleep but only while sitting up. Extremely vivid dreams about almost everything you can think of. Woke up talking to people who were not even there. Switched to this after Percocet was causing nausea, headaches, and sweating. Heart rate averaged 90-100 bpm while dosing. Lesser of many evils. | M | 30 | 5 days 50 MG | 5/28/2014 | 4 | back pain | F | 45 | 365 days 75 3X day | 4/13/2014 | 1 | back pain caused from car accident | I am thirty was in a car wreck diagnosed w pcs and had mild pain in left leg but kept having pain where shoulder blade would meet spine. I was sent to a sports medicine dr who thought I possibly had a fractured rib that had been missed. Anxiety comes along w pcs and before wreck either anxiety or upper back pain were present. Pain was eating me alive it seemed worse it could get. People DO NOT TAKE TRAZIDONE AND NUCYNTA TOGETHER. I took the two not at the same time as directed I was sick almost unconscious sick for a week during a blizzard. I woke up after taking nucynta at noon and trazidone before bed as directed and woke in the night blind w a migraine and pain u cant describe down both of my legs. One dose ....I live w a pain I cant describe everyday and it never leaves. Dr truly meant to help but please contact me if u have had this happen. Hospital I saw dr at ate the bill but pharmacy asked my dad is he having horrible pain down both legs. WOW IT HAD HAPPENED BEFORE YET THEY STILL GAVE THE TWO OUT. research has shown me taken together they are toxic and I want anyone else to contact me if this has happened. I made 50 dollars an hour now I can barely walk I made my gf of 2 years leave because it ruined me one dose people. FDA confirmed they are toxic I am not wanting money I cant walk to spend it. I want accountability and to help others. I took each separately as dr directed too see which I was allergic to we called four times before he said go to e.r.I fd up.IF A | M | 30 | 2 days 50mg | 3/9/2014 | 2 | Chronic low back/neck pain | Switched from Norco 10/325 and experienced 3-4 days of withdrawals. Felt great for next 4 days, pain went from 8 to 0, literally pain free. Then all the side-effects started in. Very restless, anxious, couldn't focus. At times I would just sit and stare into space for hours. I called myself the restless zombie. I didn't trust myself to drive on this stuff. Also experienced insomnia with wicked restless legs. The last straw was the increased heart rate. Doctor switched me back to Norco | After switching back to Norco, I don't get the same pain relief as I did with Nucynta, but at least I feel human again. | F | 51 | 11 days 100 2X day | 3/6/2014 | 5 | Back pain | May experience itching if doses are not spaced properly. Very good for pain treatment. | F | 34 | 2 years 100mg | 1/9/2014 | 3 | Back Pain, Leg Pain, Ankle Pain | about an hour after taking it, I get hit with a huge wave of nausea, flushing, anxiety, rapid-heart beat, and I feel REALLY bad. My face and upper body area get red and feel hot. Then after an hour that goes away, and I get chills. The nausea is so bad I sometimes vomit. | The strange wave of bad side effects that come on after an hour are really disconcerting, and disabling. If I am out in a car somewhere or something I have to pull over to deal with it. It helps the pain well, reduces pain from an 8 to a 2 or 3 for me, but the very hard whammy of rough side effects makes it too much. I am going to ask to go back to traditional opiods like Percocet. | F | 50 | 3 months 50MG 3X day | 12/15/2013 | 1 | back pain | Breathing heavy very tied hurting more very. It just makes me weak I don't feel right | F | 52 | 4 days 50 | 12/1/2013 | 5 | hand pain, bone contusion | Only slight euphoric feeling when it first takes effect. Slight dry mouth. But the benefits definitely outweigh these few side effects. Finally gound a medicine that actually helped my pain without making me groggy and itchy. Very thankful my dr prescribed this for me. Not exactly sure why it's a C-II though...? | F | 33 | 1 weeks 50 mg | 11/11/2013 | 2 | Chronic migraines | Eliminated constant neck pain but that was only about a 2 to 3, tolerable, still had 'break through' migraines, 6 - 10 pain level, multiple emergency room trips. Side effects: constipation, diarrhea, had to take amitiza for constipation, horrible hot flash like sweats, longer I took it the less I slept - it is now 4:58am still haven't been able to get to sleep, can't find anything, disoriented. | F | 56 | 60 days 100mg 2X day | 9/10/2013 | 1 | Chronic pain | Severe migraines and nausea. | The nurse practioner at the pain clinic prescribed this. She didn't tell me that the medications I was already on would have serious drug interaction. I stopped all my meds to give this one a try. I should have changed doctors and never put this poison in my system. If you are prescribed this ask questions. Ask how it works, ask why they are prescribing a drug that has such serious side effects. | F | 2 months 100mg 3X day | 9/7/2013 | 1 | Back pain , knee pain | 1 days | 7/29/2013 | 3 | Interstitial Cystitis, low back pai | Was switched from Norco 10/325 every 4 hrs to Nucynta ER 100mg every 12 hrs. I was still in pain and my doctor told me to up the dosage to 200mg ER every 12 hrs. So far I have noticed that my pain comes back after 7/8 hours and not 12, severe Insomnia, severe constipation , nausea and headaches. | F | 40 | 1 days 200mg | 7/9/2013 | 3 | Chronic & Acute Pain: Ehlers Danlos | Ha! Who knows.. Everything? I take Nucynta 100 ER and 75 IR (2x) in addition to Voltaren 75 (2x), Vyvanse 70, Propranolol, Valium, Bentyl, Nexium, Zofran, there's an entire list.. | Basically, Nucynta initially provided a wonderful respite from my widespread chronic pain, and still does in large doses, but it's not worth the side effects/withdrawals.. I have a connective tissue disorder that causes organ issues, joint pain and dislocations, along with other comorbid conditions like MVP/Dysautonomia, heart arrhythmia, Spinal Arthritis, Costrocondritis, etc., which can all be very difficult to manage, especially at my age. However, after several months of relief, I feel the Nucynta has caused a MAJOR recurrence in partial seizures and has also (in conjunction with the NSAIDS) caused painful Gastroparesis. For the past month, at least, I've also become quite temperamental and depressed, at times w/ suicidal ideation- NOT normal for me and an obvious chemical imbalance in the brain. I also wake up in near excruciating pain EVERY SINGLE MORNING until I've had about 3 hours for the meds to kick all the way back in. The sharp increase in baseline pain/immediate withdrawal is unbelievable and includes full body aches/'bone' feeling pains, severe weakness and sweating, extreme nausea, pallor, etc. I'm hoping to wean back off of this ASAP but on such a high dose I cannot do this on my own. Even under a pain management doctor's discretion, this drug should be used EXCEEDINGLY carefully in conjunction with other heavy medications and multiple coexisting conditions, and, in my opinion, simply should not be given to anyone with a history of seizures. | F | 27 | 4 months 100ER/75IR 2X day | 6/4/2013 | 3 | Chronic neck pain/arthritis | After taking 2 50mg 6 hours earlier waking up in the middle of the night tossing and turning with pins and needles sensation and unable to go back to sleep. Took a Xanax to try to releave the anxious feeling but, it did nothing. Took a piece of hydroxyzine and finally went to sleep but, woke up with pins and needles again. AWFUL! Had to miss work. | It does help with the pain but, still can feel it slightly. | F | 46 | 4 days 50 mg 4X day | 5/21/2013 | 1 | pain from TFCC sprain in wrist | I took my first dose about 6am on 5/9/13 for pain that was keeping me awake. I felt a warming calm and thought that maybe this was going to work. Within an hour I felt violently sick with nausea (kinda like drinking way too much). I tried to eat some crackers, but it didn't help. Although it didn't make it any worse. About 45 min later I passed out. I woke up about 6 hours later wondering feeling lost and confused. I decided that this was not the drug for me. I was out of it a bit, but had to go to work. BTW I did not get any relief from the pain in my hand. I went home and was back in bed by 8pm. I took an 800mg Motrin and I slept off and on and had a headache and felt stuffy and restless. I woke up off and on from about 2am to 6am from pain in hand, headache, constipation and stuffiness. I slept from about 6am to 9am 5/10/13 and got up to get ready for work. I felt a bit groggy, but thought it was due to lack of sleep. I had a few errands on my way to work and noticed that I was shak | I told my Dr that tramodol causes me to itch. She prescribed norco which also caused me to itch. The Nucynta also caused itching. | F | 43 | 1 days 50 1X day | 5/13/2013 | 1 | Severe back pain | I took ONE pill of 150mg ER and I am on day 4 of being so violently sick, weak and unable to stay awake that I've ever been in my life!! I even ended up at the hospital with no doctor able to tell me anything at all about this pill or what to do to even help me. My PM doc gave this to me to take along with perc 10s for pain and even he didn't warn me of the side effects. I can't go back to work cause I can't even drive. I am worried this pill is going to kill me. | M | 38 | 1 days 150 | 4/20/2013 | 5 | Migraine & neck, shoulder pain | 2 days of stomach upset but better now... Wonderful drug last longer than norco | F | 40 | 7 days 50mg | 3/29/2013 | 2 | Back and leg pain | Nausea, stomach gurgling, dizziness, feeling like I was developing a chest cold and terrible mood swings. | Switched to this med after Percocet only provided two hours of relief. Started at 50 mg, increased to 100 mg about two days later. Eleven days into treatment, pain relief is maybe four hours at best. Considering pain relief is marginal, the side effects are not worth it. Discontinuing. | M | 40 | 11 days 100 mg 2X day | 2/18/2013 |