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 | Depression, weaking of the ankles fell 5 days ago due to my legs just collapsed | This drug makes me forgetfull,depressed, lonely, restless, unable to sleep a full night sleep, wake up every 3 hours at night. Dry mouth,very very tired. Not able to feel alive anymore. Feel like ending my life. Talked to Dr. Anthony Reeves but, he said I need to continue taking the drug. I feel like a lab RAT. I have chronic pain in my Right Ankle wihich was fused 4 years ago and a complete Left knee replacement 2 1/2 years. I am a 58 year old woman and deal with this chronic pain 24/7 for the past 12 years. Help me. | F | 58 | 90 days 75 mgs 2X day | 3/29/2012 | 1 | Herniated disks | Sadness, crying, depression, anxiety, agitation, stomach upset, appetite loss, hot flashes, feeling "in a dream" | F | 42 | 3 days 50 po qid | 3/17/2012 | 5 | herniated disc, annular disc tear | Mild euphoria, mild itching that eased with time, and constipation (treated with senokot)... all tollerable. Takes a few days for your body to adjust to it, but then works great! | M | 34 | 6 months 75mg 3xday | 3/8/2012 | 5 | Chronic Pain, Deep Muscle Tissue | A speedy effect is noticed. Every time I took it in the beginning I noticed my heart rate increased. Sometimes I slight headache if I hadn't already taken my NSAID. Great pain relief. For myofascial pain it is better than methadone, vicoden, tramadol or dilaudid. | I took this on top of methadone 25mg/day. I like it so much that this week I plan to start switching from methadone to Nucynta ER. | M | 19 | 1 years 75 MG 3X day | 1/29/2012 | 5 | degenerative neck and back disorder | I get pain relief without feeling fuzzy. Very happy with Nucynta because I did not like the way I felt on other pain meds. The only issue is the cost I do not have med coverage | F | 59 | 6 months 50mg 2X day | 12/4/2011 | 5 | IC | This pain med has helped more than any other pain medicine I've taken the past 5 years. The only side effect I've had is loss of appetite/weight loss, which to me isn't such a bad thing! | I am clear headed and no memory loss. I love this medicine. It has changed my life! | F | 42 | 3 weeks 4X day | 11/25/2011 | 5 | Knee surgery | Helped with pain after ACL surgery. Constipated and burning feeling when urinating. Only other side effect was trouble sleeping. Much better than hydrocodine - that made me itch and had hives. | F | 34 | 9 days 50mg | 11/24/2011 | 1 | lower back pain | I just started taking Nucynta two days ago and I hate it. I hate the anxious feeling I have, the zombified feeling, and just want to cry for the past two days. It makes me so irritable I cant stand to be around myself for the past two days. I will not take this again. I dont see how anyone can get addicted to this, its awlful, who would want to feel like that all the time, well not me. | F | 37 | 2 days 100 mg 1X day | 11/17/2011 | 4 | neuropathic pain | Depth perception a bit off, hard to describe, but almost seems to put you in a 2D world vice 3D world....very odd. No sedation or constipation. | Figured since no info on the ER version, I'd post on Nucynta ER. Just started a couple of days ago for neuropathic-type pain. One 100mg/day, so I only get 12 hours of relief. I have short acting opioid to augment. No opioid "carefree" feelings at all, but seems to work on the pain a bit. Not perfect, but given the side effect profile is almost non-existant as opposed to other types of opioids, it provides some relief, knocking my pain down from a 5 to about a 2-3, I'd say. If you are looking for a LA medication that allows you to be functional at work, this is a good choice. | M | 40 | 3 days 100mg 1X day | 11/4/2011 | 5 | RSD/CRPS; DDD;Spinal Stenosis | Only constipation like all pain meds cause, easily solved with Miralax. | Definitely try it for yourself, people either love it or hate it. For me, I'd take it over Dilaudid, Fentanyl or similar class meds in a heartbeat. I get no drugged feeling from this. I can stay alert and active but without the pain. I love it! | F | 39 | 3 months 100 MG 6X day | 10/19/2011 | 1 | Pain | Heart pounding, mind racing a mile a minute | Ear surgeon prescribed 75 mg after ear surgery. About 30 minutes after taking one tablet, my heart began pounding, my mind started racing - felt like I was having a heart attack! Ended up in ER with high b.p. and an elevated heart rate. ER doc said it is a bad medicine. Reported this to FDA. Do not recommend this!! | F | 44 | 1 days 75 MG 1X day | 8/13/2011 | 5 | s1 radiculopathy/labral tear in hip | Sinus congestion, hangover (possibly due to Lyrica mixed with it) | I take .25mg of Xanax every 4 hours and 75mg of Lyrica 3 x daily. The doc put me on Nucynta a week ago. I wasn't too happy once i got home and read that it's similar to Ultram. I couldn't understand how it's a Schedule II and still don't. I take it about an hour before bed and before I know it I'm nodding off. I'm sure it's also because of the Xanax and Lyrica. I've been sleeping great and feeling no pain at night. Nucynta is nothing like Oxy, Lortab/Vicodin or Morphine. It's not heavenly as I like to call them. It's more like Ultram but instead of keeping me wired it actually puts me down. It's very relaxing. I'm shocked that it's a CII. That is too funny. It shouldn't even be a controlled drug. You might try Lyrica and Nucynta if you're in great pain but only at night. It'll put you down quick, which is good! | M | 31 | 7 days 50 1X day | 7/23/2011 | 5 | Back and knee pain | I found there to be little side effects. This drug only relieved pain, there was little to none of the side effects recreational drug users like. If you are looking for a buzz this is not the drug for you. If you just want pain relief this is the best drug I have been prescribed. I have been on oxycodone, hydromorphone, hydrocodone, and methadone. | M | 50 | 6 months 100mg 4X day | 7/18/2011 | 1 | Lower back and leg pain | Severe headache that increased as I stood. upper body muscle spasms. overwhelming sensation to cry, actually cried 3 times from second dose. | I will never take this medication again ever!!! I took this med 05-12-2011. from what I've read its fairly new. So we are all lab rats to the giant pharma companies. Ended up in emergency room had inceased blood pressure, pulse broke down crying uncontrolably. needed IV and series of meds to get be back to normal. Just tell your Doctor NO if prescribed. | M | 37 | 2 times 50mg 3X day | 5/13/2011 | 1 | Back and neck pain | Irritation, loss of cognitive fucntion, headache, itching, and it didnt help at all with my pain! | i told my doctor this medicine wasnt effective and I was having adverse reactions and they told me to deal with it for a week! I finally got fed up n called them again now there switching me to percocet I would recomend this to anyone! Please be careful if u get perscribed this. I think the drug reps are pushing this med down onto the doctors to perscribe it | F | 28 | 3 days 50 MG 3X day | 4/29/2011 | 4 | RLS/PLM | Extreme and consistant nausea with vomiting to the point of being unable to keep food and other medications down. Lost 10 pounds in 3 weeks. Feelings of difficulty breathing even though oxygenation levels remained within norms. | I started at 50mg 2x daily for severe Restless Legs Sydrome when Mirapex ceased being effective. At that level I got absolutely NO relief. When dosage was increased to 100mg 2x daily in addition to 2mg of Mirapex daily I did get significant relief. When taking the same dose without the mirapex I got some relief for shorter periods of time with leg and arm pain being extremely bad as soon as the Nucynta wore off and for a few hours until I was able to take my next dose of Nucynta. With the pain getting out of control between doses the Nucynta was less effective even during maximum effective times. The breathing issues did seem to lessen after about a month but the nausea and vomiting remain constant. | F | 51 | 2 months 100mg 2X day | 11/22/2010 | 2 | Lower back pain | Already experiencing symptoms exactly as described by various individuals in discussion forums. While my pain was dulled some , it came at a heavy price. Experienced serious "twiching" shortly after exposure to the drug. Involutary muscle spasms &/or the twitching. On twiching for example: my entire neck twiched and came back so fast could see the blur from the movement. General loss of focus. Took 1.5 10mg diazepam (valium), and has not kicked in almost 2 hours later. Seems to be an issue with increased insommnia (AS if I needed anymore of that) Could almost feel slight panic attacks and anxiety surfacing. | I've noticed a mixed bag of comments from users, and most are on the negative side. Some of the positive reviews are so cookie-cutterish , it appears an agent from the pharmacuetical company wrote them to try and balance the ratio from bad to good. May try it one more time tomorrow, but if this twitching continues, it is just too much for me to bear. (BTW injuries: pelvic fracture from many yrs ago, tried Vicodin, Opana (boo), the hydro codone family has the least amount of side effects which makes what lies ahead of me kinda scary. Good luck all | M | 30 | 1 days 50-100 3X day | 10/20/2010 | 3 | Lower Back Pain | Dizzy, Euphoria, Tired, Relaxed. | I was prescribed Nucynta 75mg about a wee ago. The med is ok so far in relieving pain, short term. Takes some of the withdrawl symptomes away that I recently encountered with Oxycodone 5-325 and Hydrocodone 10-500. I have 3 buldging discs and 1 herniated..L-5 S-1. I have been doing some resarch and the reviews so far are 50/50 good and bad. People react different to certain medications. Hope you guys find some relief with this medication. My doctor says it has less of an addicting nature to it..which I hope is true!..Take Care guys! | M | 27 | 5 days 2X day | 9/15/2010 | 4 | hysterectomy | Euphoria. Headache. Slight upset stomach. Lessened pain. | I felt Nucynta worked well. It gave me headaches if I didn't drink enough water, but it took most of the pain away. It is touted as not being addictive, but I found it slightly addictive. It gives a sense of euphoria and I had some withdrawal symptoms when I stopped it. | F | 37 | 14 days 50 mg 3X day | 9/14/2010 | 1 | Chronic migraine pain | Experienced symptoms of withdrawal after taking this med for one week. Nausea. Very similar pain relief and weird feeling as tramadol. | This med made me feel crazy, but could have interacted with preventatives I am on. Did nothing for me for pain relief and made me feel like an addict. I quit taking it and resumed after a week, and after one day had withdrawal symptoms again. Not for me! | F | 40 | 30 days 50-75 1X day | 9/5/2010 |