Which Is Stronger 15mg Ms Contin Or 15mg Oxycodone (Top voted first)

I wonder what the difference is between 15MG MS Contin vs 15 Mg Oxycodone. Is there a substitute for MS Morphine..I take 2 30mg MS Contin twice a day and also with that I take 15MG MS Contin twice per day..which of course is 45mgs at a time..with 3 15mg Oxcodone for breakthru pain. I was taking 20 mg Oxycontin 3 times a day etc. But my insurance wasn't paying for the oxy. So what I take now is paid for. Do any of you have any suggestions of what would work better for the pain..since I changed to morphine it doesn't seem to do the trick..this is long..but any answers would be very appriciated..Thanks..

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i have 3 pain conditions. 2 of them for 10 years the other one just recently diagnosed. i started slowly moving up the pain med chain all the way up to the fent patch which i felt worked the best with perc for break thru pain. now i am with a new doctor dif state and he had me on oxycodone. i past my screening no problem. he tested all of us at the same time.out of nowhere he decided to. then i asked to switch me to norcos because the oxycodone wasnt working anymore. winter was coming and thats the worst time of the year for me. he agreed to switch for a couple months. inreturn to put me back on the oxys in october. when i went to my appointment he decided to put me on mscontin. no discussion. so iv tried it. nothing for break thru pain. it doesnt work. i v been going thru hell. i now have narcotic gastroproesis because of the extended release mscontin. my other drs are pist. so now monday i go in and see the dr who gave me the mscontin and have to figure out how to tell him he needs to switch me back. i rather have control over when i can take my medication and not. plus not mess up my body by taking an extended release medicine. this is my opinion. i believe for myself that the oxycodone works better for me other then the patch. i have taken the opana before. and i still stand by the oxycodone. i was able to take it every 4 hours as needed. sometimes i needed to? and sometimes i didnt. i take other meds more my other symptoms so im not just needing pain killers. i hope the description helped with my pain meds. oh and yes the methadone does help if you have nerve pain. i had to take that at one point too. however i pray i never have to take it again. its horrible to have to quit taking it. very hard. even after coming off the last 10mgs. i swore to never take it again. it helped greatly. my skin feels like its on fire at times. & it helped. but never again do i want to feel sick. your body adapts to it quickly. i pray all of you find relief and find what you are looking for. doctors are hard to find. that will help. those people who dont really need the help get what they want. but those of us who do need the help? dont because we all look like drug addicts. its a sad thing.

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I'm right with you on the disappointment when I took the MS Contin.I used to take 4-15mgsMS Contin & 10-10/325mg Percocets (MAX) per day.That worked ok for a lil while, it started out great,felt great pain relief,but,,,,after 3 more appts with my Pain Doctor,he said I was on way toooo much Percocets and they cut me down to MAX 6-10/325MG per day in addition to the 4-15mg MS Contin.Not one minute of relief after that.In MY OPINION,my body was now used to 10 Percocets aday and when I was dropped down to 6 so quickly and still taking the MS Contin,no pain relief what so ever.My body was saying, where's the other 4 for me today? Finally talked my doc into something other than the MS Contin----It's embarassing to say out loud because unless you are in pain and get PROPER treatment from a Pain Doctor and have tried other avenues,,,,,He switched the MS Contin for METHADONE!! I know, first thing I thought of was "I am NOT a heroin addict!!!!" Heroin addiction was the only diagnosis i had ever heard of for using METHADONE!! Kinda scared me at first, but once I started taking it and got up to 4-10mg Methadone per day along with 6-10/325mg Percocets per day, I did get much more relief. Ya, MS Contin and OXYCONTIN for that matter, just had no affect on me. Now, this change I just wrote about happened about 1.5 yrs ago and I'm now at that point again.I'm still on 4-10mg Methadone and 6-10/325mg Percocets per day and my body is needing more. I'm allowed to take 1 perc10 every 4 hrs,,,,well as most of you probably know,after awhile only 1 perc10 doesn't seem to even touch the pain after your body gets used to it, so I've bumped it up to 1.5-2 every 4 hrs and then by 4-7pm I'm out of pills for the day and my doctor now says he doesn't feel he can increase my narcotics because I'm on such a high does already. Anyone have any advice on how to talk honestly with your doctor (I have been with this pain doctor since December 1995!!! 17+ years!!!!) & try to explain how you feel your body is so used to the dosage that you feel you need more or add something else,,,,,,or what???? Any suggestions for me would be appreciated......Thanks (I just don't want to sound like I know alot about narcotics&I don't want him to think I'm just looking for more DRUGS. I just need more pain relief.I don't want the HIGH,I want relief so I can have some sort of life again I know all of you understaand what I'm saying

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Well, better open a pharmacology book if you're a nurse! I'm a nurse and oxycontin is NOT short action morphine, or morphine at all! It's long acting oxycodone (Percocet without Tylenol) fyi, most of all the long acting opiates now have abuse deterrent fillers, epoxy, plastic, etc that do not work as the old ones did, and cause many sensitivities! For long acting, go w the fentanyl patches. Soon, thanks to our government involvement all pain meds will be useless! Many are made in India, China, etc without proper regulations and that's what our people get! Research it, and join the rally to congress petitions some of us have started! It's not only pain meds either, some of these factories don't even have hand washing facilities! Our FDA needs to hear from chronic pain patients and get out of our doctors business! The number of suicides due to this have increased, especially the elderly! This is the most un american sick mess I've seen in 27yrs of nursing! Pain is real, addiction and dependency are different! This stereotypical attitude is the same as our mental health system, BROKEN!

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I was taking 10/325 hydro's every 6 hours and now the Doc has prescribed 1 MS Contin 15 MG 3 times a day, is this equivilant to the Hydro

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remember people that the ms contin is controlled release and not suppose to give you that immediate buzz that oxycodone does. So if all you want to do is get high go with oxy's but if you want to control your pain throughout the day I suggest working your way up the ms contin latter.. start low and increase as needed

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Clock watcher are in pain. Learn something about chronic pain, they have learned to deal with it. They are not going to be in acute distress. And maybe laughing and visitors are a good distractions. Maybe an 8 is the best they will ever get at, and they watch the clock because they are trying to stay on top of it before it becomes a 10.

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Brain tumor 88 & Cervical spinalcord neck surgery 97, damage c-5.6.7 nerves. Was like gasoline was on me burning, was not relieved with meds completely. I development drop foot 1st. & forced to use cane. Worked awhile astrophy of muscles & balance too became a huge problem. & had use loft strand canes. With 5 kids @ time. Really fought to be mobile.Then lost balance more & legs stretching out & shaking because were so much spaticity. Began falling down became daily then over & over. Broke both shoulder rotor cuffs, now forced to use wheelchair. Long long long story shortened. Had many many diff meds Which none completely relieved pain. So for SOME of you here. IF your in such pain as you say. You'd be happy with some relief to let it be more tolerable. But MANY of you are just pumping us suffering from pain, for info about the best kinda drugs, for u to take or sell. Which makes it more & more difficult for people who really need it. Because doctors r becoming more & more strict on prescribing pain meds. Today I'm quadriplegic with pain pump & list mile long of health trouble. With pain level always high & am glad to get it to about a 6 or 7. So for all of you suffering from SCI, Cancer, diseases & list goes on & on. GOD BLESS YOU & never give up & for the junkies, it WILL catch up on you. & if you ever do got to REALLY need chronic pain meds the chance they will work for you. WONT. Sincerely

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KEN- happy thanksgiving...but why are you asking these questions which have nothing to do with the topic od "whats stronger-15mg ms contin or 15mg oxycodone". goto other forums with those other meds you described. tramadolis a joke and did nothing for my pain, and diclofenic is an nsaid which reduces infamation...both were givin to me after my neck surgery..as far as the others...i dont have a pdr in front of me but not really sure why your telling us the meds your taking which dont appear to be ms ontin or oxycodone. have a question about these, i can help. have a nice day man.

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Verwon--WOW.You are sooo informative,Thank You for all the information. Can you give me some advice on how to approach my doctor-as you say-to talk to him about alternate RXs for narcotics? I am soooo very much afraid that he will get the wrong impression, ya know like I'm pill shopping,Trying to get more so I can get that 'high' feeling,the excuses they've heard go on and on.I've been going to this Pain Specialist for 15+ years,I have never ever asked to have an RX refilled early,not even by 1 day,They do spot 'street drug' urine tests I think 2X per year-I never failed one,I have signed a contract with them that I will never ask for an early refill&only this clinic can prescribe ANYTYPE of pain killers,no matter what type they are&That I keep all appointments&if I miss more than 2 appts they will drop me as a patient!!!! Yup,I've been a very good patient,I don't complain when I have to wait 2-4 hours to see the doctor. IDK how to start the conversation,can you help me??

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I am new to this forum but I too am having problems with the availability of Oxycodone 30 in the metro Atlanta area.
My doctor has suggested MS-Contin as a replacement Rx but I know it is not as effective. I am tempted to ask him about Methadone but since I suffer from chronic pain and must be on these meds to function I am concerned about building up a tolerance.

Those of us with chronic pain not only suffer from the physical effects but we must endure all of the other s---
that makes getting relief an ordeal.

Any suggestions for effective subs?
Thanks

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goodmorning dr t.....i wrote on here before and decided to check on here to see how hings were going. i did try the ms contin again. not much by choice. i realize each person is different and we all react differntly to meds and pain. however i now have all kinds of other issues from the mscontin that may not be reversible. i go to my dr today. he doesnt really listen to you. the same questions you answer he writes scripts. he is unwilling to change much. i spend all my time either at drs appointments including physical therapy which even though it hurts? im thankful for. or im in bed. i do however get to go out when my boyfiends band has a gig. other then that my life is at a stand still do to pain control or lack of. i am on steroids. so no nsaids for me. i do pray for everyone with chronic pain. it sucks and i never take away from those with any other pain. however when other drs told me i had to no exceptions had to go off the mscontin. my dr wouldnt give me opana or anything else but norco. so im in bed for the winter. good luck to all of you. sunshine cant get here fast enough.

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Sorry, but as my doctor says, you cannot by fed. Law be taking two Instant Relief pain medications. This is why you read so many say I take MS Contin ( extended release Morphine ) w/ like a percoset, a hydrocodone based mixture that is IR, like not I, vicodin, etc.. Just thought I would being that to the table, I hope it helps, me I just take 6* 15mg oxycodone IR. I should be taking the doctors advice & take the MS Contin twice daily and only take an Oxycodone 15mg. Instant Release a fewtimesdaily as needed for breakthrough pain, I can say beyond a doubt, one would get better overall pain relief, no need to take Advil, or alve for extra OTC help. I don't wish to become addicted to Morphine as well & god knows it's hard enough just trying to secure my current 6* daily of oxycodone Instant Release 15mg. I have had the morphine & trust me for long term relief & more if a complete overall, longer lasting & less expensive, & also only taking two daily being that's 24 hours round the clock pain relief, each month I say no I cannot accept the help which I know also each month their will be days I said screw it & if the side effects ( being another addictive medication ) I often wish I would at least accepted the RX & not being in pain that is not covered by the 6* oxycodone even though it's 6* daily, in time they just stop being as effective & this is 99% why people end up on both an instant release & a extended release, but one doctor cannot write an RX for two medications that areInstant Release & also by the way, nothing taking orally is instant releae maybe 15-20 minutes you may begin to get a Lil relief but I just keep on where I'm at & tell myself, I DONT NEED YET ANOTHER PILL THAT MY BODY WILL EVENTUALLY BE BACK TO WHERE IM AT NOW & then all mg.'s.. Would slowly go up & up, I'm not an addict as the science evens looks at it, but I'm am dependent on the Lil relief I get taking just an IR.. Well, I hope this helped you & others as well, if anyone has a doctor that does prescribe both two types of IR, be careful because he or she is breaking the law & at anytime you could loose this doctor due to his or her utilizing the proper & legal ways of treating chronic pain. Best of luck, it's TRULLY ashamed we cannot just legally grow our own poppies for pain relief, but that would be illegal as well huh, how we are so controlled in today's modern society, & only Uncle Sam, can legally import poppies & or the straw from which they make these medications even the semi synthetic ones which would also be oxycodone, it's made w/ the opium poppy plants alkaloid Thebaine & it is looked at as being a true opiate, which is not the case, morphine is the main & most active alk. In this plant but technology is so down pat that they have genetically altered a poppy to either grow one or the other poppy plants w/ either larger levels of Thebaine or large amounts of Morphine, the badinage given to opiates is that of abuse & bulls*** to the people's, they want to control our every move, thought, & if your one not to than off to the slammer for you, s*** Thomas Jefferson use to grow both medicinal hemp & opium poppies right their in his home in Monticello ( northern Virginia mountains ) but the DEA even raided it a few years back for just as they always have done is plant a more visual poppy garden w/ poppies most used for the appearances & to recreate what it was like when he was in his home, because as skid & taking field trips to Monticello, there was always the poppies planted each year to show & cold illy beautify the land around the house & long winding porch & views of their garden. We cannot let our nation be owned by major corporations & drug company ( legal ones of course ) be ran by thugs in suits & ties & their Lil doughnut Lil blue dressed friends or should I say sheep, that march, & destroy by the command of whats now, the modern world, we treat our animals w/ better love & sympathy for pain than our own loved ones, the humans that found this most miraculous of plants, their is a book about it having been what is today posed as Aspirin but in the early two & a half decades of the 1900's we were allowed to grow our own medicine for pain but if you can control & tax & profit from something nearly everyone suffers from every now & then & that's pain, you control it & it's cures, well you control a entire world & nation. Good luck to everyone that TRULLY suffers from chronic pain & to all you phonies out there abusing these miracle drugs that help us in chronic pain to be able to even get up & around & live a more productive & free life, I REALLY WANT TO STRESS MY GRATITUDE TO THE FEW DOCTORS OUT THEFE THAT ARE NOT SCATED OF BIG BROTHER & his threats to all in the medical profession, they gotta sell all the opiates being secretly flown into our country & thus why so many turn to it, because their doctors won't prescribe a legitimate form of pain relief & here in America ( I promise I would & have never tried or even seen it ) but it's just a tweaked out version of morphine having been put on steroids to say the least, we must & I stress this understand that opiates once in nearly every household in the early 1900's like aspirin is to our medicine cabinets of today. I have lived all over the US & the good poppies do & still grow in the wild, & trust me if we were able to grow our on foods & medical herbs & other healing herbs, corporate America & the foundation which supports it would crumble & the profit loss from arrests made, or finding a good doctor w/ whom you can talk to to get a piece of paper that if your on a tight budget your not going to be able to afford it & honestly as sad as it is, THE CRUEL WORLD DOES NOT CARE!!!! Be Good & God Bless America, I hope that all these laws will soon & one day be looked at as barbaric & stupid as they are, doctors take a hypothetic Oath & the first few words state that no patient should have to suffer in or from pain in a world of the science we have & opiates available to treat pain, trust me this is very very big business & it's only getting worse as each day out rights are being taken from us directly from under our feet, AMERICA WAKE UP!!!

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I'm sorry to say...there are very few good pain docs out there...I had one accuse me of taking suboxone with oxy 30s...I drove home and for all the suboxone I did not take and he still was very rude to me...said it was not logical...not everything needs to be logical...the docs are getting really nervous to give these meds with the FDA crackdown...I know 7 that were just arrested for selling scripts...over a million in a year...so you can talk as honestly as you want...docs will just say its not good to take that much medication...I hope you can find a good one...I was in a terrible car accident and its a chore for me to walk, stand, sit, lay, etc...and this doc I see does not get my pain at all...I have been totally honest with him...

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i dissagree with the lady up top heres my conversion of different painkillers.

oxycodone 15mg would equal 2 15 m g ms contin. meaning oxycodone is stronger then ms contin by a 2-1 ratio mg for mg.then you have oxycodone 30 mgs vs opana, scientific fact is that opana(oxymorphone)is stronger then oxycodone mg for mg 3-1 so if you were to eat,chew,sniff,or inject 1 opana 20 mg ur on the same level as 2 30 mg oxycodones.opana is serious ive done them i suggest use shouldnt.not unless u suffer from a serious injury
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i disagree with both of you. i got zero relief from taking ms contin 30mg er even tried to take 5 at once and still felt nothing. the bioavailability is crappy for morphine unless ived or rectal. oxycontin 20mg 3 times a day is way better than ms contin period. NOT even a discussion. this is fact

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It's people like you who view opiates as a way to get high that make it difficult for real pain patients like me to get medication to treat real pain. Get yourself help. You have an addiction if you're looking to get high. I need medication for real pain to keep working and stay active.

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Honestly I've been where you are. It's not more pain relief that you need, it's what you thought, it's an addicts craving. I'm not being mean, but it's unethical for any doctor, even a pain clinic doctor (and I'm going to one), to prescribe Percocet 10/325 10 TEN times a day! I'm sorry, that's true. First off, you would be getting too much of the Tylenol portion of the pill (the 325 part, being Tylenol), and I'm surprised that you're not into liver failure yet. There is a ceiling of about 3000/4000 mg of Tylenol a day and after that, of in fact after many years, that constant about of Tylenol will kill your liver and without a transplant, a person would most likely die. And especially, after hearing your story about when adding/trying the newest combo (with the Methadone), and having it worked for so long and now saying "we're right back where we were", and "it doesn't touch or help my pain out anymore, I need MORE", that's another red flag or tell tale sign that it's the addict/craving in the body (more accurately your brain), saying that you need more, because honestly, I'm gonna tell you, if you got more, where would it go? LOL and that does sound funny, because where imagine a bee's honey come and that big bee hive, and all those little cones. You have all those bee's makin trips out to the flowers (the pharmacy in this case, LOL), coming back with enough nector to fill up one of the cones, and then going out to get more and coming back to yet fill up another cone. There comes a point, and here's the scary part, what happens when all the cones are now FULL and the bees are getting the mistaken message from the queen (in our case, the brain), that we need MORE! MORE!

The cones are full and if we got more, where do we put it, where does/will it go? This can lead to an overdose, and perhaps even a coma. I'm not being mean, but by simply saying that when your doctor initially had to drop down your Percocet dose and you telling us by saying that nothing worked now and you had NO pain relief? That again sends up a red flag, because people that are truly in pain, just having the pain medication dropped some should (you're right here, but only to a point), not give you the same amount of pain relief, but considering that 1-10 pain scale that we all get asked about, it's simply that red flag or it's the brain/addict talking inside of us when we say that without the original "full" dose of what I HAD been getting I won't have ANY/NOPE/NONE/NO pain relief at all. That simply cannot be true. Now if you said that instead of my pain leveling off down to a 2-3 on my old dosing amount and now that I can't have/take as much, it's only coming down to a 4-5 level of pain (remember that scale of 1-10), then you don't sound like, or come across as an addict. Honestly, can you see now or understand what the "first guess" by the pain doctor in his mind would be if you said that simply by him dropping how "Much" or how "many" pills you can take a day took your pain relief from giving you a quality of life, and then now you NO/NONE, ZERO relief because he dropped one of the pills down from 10 a day to 6? Again, when the body is truly in pain and you get pain medication being put in you (remember back to a day when you were in recovery in a hospital, getting narcotic/strong pain meds being pushed up to you through an IV and even though what you were just given WAS NOT enough, you felt it and YES it helped, perhaps NOT enough, but you did feel it and it did help some.

You then had to tell them and say that it helped, but I'm still in agony, but if you simply would have said that you felt nothing, imagine what goes through the docs/nurses mind right there, after they just got done IV'ing you with morphine IV or maybe even Fentanyl? So it's just me, but you need to handle and talk about it from a clinical standpoint and you being in a professional setting (a legitimate pain clinic), talking to your pain doctor and saying that you pain relief and level according to the 1-10 scale, had me first down to a "whatever you feel", and then now I'm only able to get as much relief with it coming down to a "whatever you feel", rather than just by saying that you all of a sudden has NO relief now whatsoever. Imagine lastly then, and I'm sure that you would really get my point (and so would your body and pain relief level), understand how you can't go from a 3-4 level down to no pain relief just by having your meds dropped down a little. Here's the experiment. Go fo three full days and take NOTHING. That's right, take NOTHING for pain. If that keeps you only in bed and from there just to the bathroom and back, then do it. Perhaps only go or make it to two days if you can, but ONE day won't work for this idea. Because if you asked to take a UA and a person wanted NO narcotics to come up in their results, you're have to be off of any narcotic's for a full three days. This would also allow the body or understand and know that it's NOT getting anything more for pain and really, it would being your pain levels back really, really bad, maybe even a 10!! Then, on the fourth day (or second), start in the morning and go only on the dosing schedule and your amount of meds that you're supposed to be taking which included the lower dose of meds (the 6 percs a day rather than 10). Now at the end of that first day, perhaps after taking that last pill in the evening, I will bet you and there is NO WAY that you could sit there and tell me that you did NOT feel a single bit of relief throughout the entire day.

It's just not chemically possible. Understanding how pain pills work and being back on some pain meds, making your brain "opiate" receptors "fill back up" with your pain meds again (the cones being once again filled by the bees), is that trigger that tells you that you are now getting relief again (yes, and that "high" feeling), that returns, either quickly or slowly. This would also be a great way to (being from a fresh start), honestly see what the new, lowered dosage of meds), would bring your pain levels down to now (using that 1-10 pain scale). By the way, and another thing that someone would get the impression about by reading your post and seeing those red flags (with the word addict), come up again and again. This is because (and no one is judging or forcing you to tell us), but again with how you talked about you "having to have more" and by saying that nothing "works" now anymore and getting now "no relief" because of the lowered dosage - many people, myself included were wondering throughout all of your rant, "is this person suffering through an illness that ultimately produces death?". I thought many time, with the way that you were talking, you made your "desperation" sound like you were going to die (many times in-fact, LOL). Of course none of this is funny, but when another person (like myself), has been through both sides of the coin (being in real pain - chronic pain and needing round the clock narcotic pain meds), and then also realzing and having to always have/need "MORE and MORE and MORE", it's ultimately going to happen even if you don't want it to, that you're body physically becomes addicted to these meds and there's a fine line between physical/mental dependency when truly being in chronic pain and then being an addict that just needs more, more and more. I would often sit/ask myself, if I were just at the pharmacy and I could choose/take the meds I wanted and even take the dosage and strength of what I wanted (after being told what everything is and being told that with/by certain combo's, I could kill myself).

I would then sit and ask myself, would I be able to control/ per day would I would need to take and have a set limit, or would I always be going back to the "cookie jar" many/several times a day just thinking that "one more pill/inj./swig of that narcotic med will do it"? If you tell yourself that you would not handle this situation without a doctor or pharmacist or some sort of guidance being put into play with regards to how much of what you could have a day (even saying that YOU GOT TO PICK), but then after that, the pharmacy doors would LOCK and if that was at the end of the evening (or be it just in the middle of the afternoon, you would be DONE with what you could take/were given. So again, by reading your post, and the way that you talk, I would be scared for you because I would be led to believe that if you were given the keys to the pharmacy and were given the knowledge of what everything was and just "what not to take together or without at least this many hours in between, you would end up in an overdose and or coma situation. Again, I keep thinking and coming back to this "this person MUST have something to where he/she is dying. It must be Cancer or something that is simply never going to get better (or what). I know, respect and understand that those things/situations do exist BUT no matter what's wrong with us and no matter HOW bad the pain levels are, just ALWAYS, and PLEASE remember the Bee Hive, the HIVE and those bee's filling those cones and when we get to that point where the cones are filled and the queen still is telling the bee's to go out and get more (with NO PLACE/-Cones to put it in). Scary and I wouldn't want to see all those bee's and the queen overdosing on that honey and or that hive (be in your brain), slip into a permanent coma for the rest of your life. Good luck.

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I had a spinal fusion in 2009 to reduce the serious back pain that started after a hip replacement in 07. Well, it did not solve the pain, it only worsened. I have had every test known to man. So been on meds since then.
Started with Percocet, then Oxydodone. Have tried many things in between . Now take 15mg every four hours or so. I also take Clonidine for the sweating and other side effects. Of course after this many years , the dose barely handles it but I am wary of increasing it.
My. doc is suggesting a change to MS.Contin. Partly due to the timed release option, partly due to "availability" issues, although my pharmacy has always had stock . I also enjoy a few glasses of wine in the evenings. So I am very cautious of all of it. I think I want to stay on the Oxycodone for now. I am wary of the MS after reading various posts? Is a daily total of 65. MSG
Of Oxydone considered high ? It sure does not sound so after reading these posts ?? Thanks All.

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Here is what I know based ump my own experience a couple of years ago when posted the question on this site. I had been on Oxycodone for years following a failed spinal fusion. My Doc and I decided to try MSContin to see how it compared. I was drowsy, falling asleep even at a red light !!, AND it (MSContin) not control the pain as well. Eventually we switched to OxyContin, ( kept word Contin) as in contuous. Have been on 20mg every 8 hours and "occasional" 5mg Oxycodone for breakthru. This regimen has hit that fateful time where it no longer works all the way, and most folks just keep raising the dose, but I am resisting it as there is no light at the end of this tunnel. I can only say, MSContin did not work well for me. BUT HERE IS A SCARY aside..recently, my pharmicist made a mistake and refilled my 5mg Oxycodones with 30 MG Oxycodones..on top,of my regular OxyContin THAT could have been a real problem. The Pharmacy is doing backflips to make sure I know how happy they are I immediately returned and told them of the error.

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Please check your spellings of the medications that you're talking about because a person really seems (not saying outright), like an addict when "slang" or incorrect spelling of narcotics is used. Percocet is correct, NOT PERCOSET< LOL!! Any it's almost insane to say that your "percoset" isn't working but you want oxycodone. They ARE the same thing. Then only difference is that Percocet has the added medication of Tylenol with it, that's all. Anyone getting straight oxycodone is "just that", without anything extra added. To most of us "users" out there it is also a red flag coming up when someone says that one thing works, but another doesn't (when the two that the person is asking about ARE actually the SAME DARN THING!) One just has another medication added to it.

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I was prescribed 10/325 Hydrocodone, and 5/325 Oxycodone. Which is stronger for pain after rotator cuff surgery? Neither...

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I was given a prescription for each, but don't want to take both...just one of the weaker kind since I'm not in ...

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This is to answer the question is there a higher dose form of norco the answer is yes it's called Zohydro it was mad...

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my doctor switched me to Oxycod/apap 5-325 from Hydroco/apap 5-325. Which one makes you tired? ## Hello, CK! How are you...

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my doctor switched me to Oxycod/apap 5-325 from Hydroco/apap 5-325. Which one gives memore energy? ## Hi CK, I'm not...

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ive bee taking 15 mg of oxycodone every 4hrs for chronic pain do to a brain injury that occured about 4 months ago. ive ...

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