Oxycontin Damaged My Teeth (Page 16)

Has anyone else known oxycontin to rot the teeth? I used to be on vicodin until my doctor told me I needed to switch to a morphine based meds. She put me on ms contin but I had problems with it so she put me on 80mg oxycontin. Eventually my body built up a tolerance so she kept raising it, i have am now on from 4-6 per day of the 80mg tabs. It scares me that this is what rotted my teeth because only 5 yrs ago i had only 2 cavities that needed filling and then only 1 yr after going on the oxycontin i had to have all my top front teeth pulled as they where rotting from the inside out the dentist said my mouth looked like a heroin addict's mouth looks. He said it was shocking to him that normally he only saw such damage from someone who abused drugs with so much dental damage, but i have never done any street drugs and have only take my meds as prescribed to me. Now i have lost 80% of my teeth and as a beautiful 41 yr old mother its devastating. I cant afford dentures and sure cant afford implants like i would like to have. I am a single mother and refuse to date because i have lost my teeth now, i had beautiful teeth before i started on the oxycontin and only 2 small cavities that needed filling. Does anyone else have this same problem and if so why hasn't the company making oxycontin warn patients of this possible problem?

If i had known this would cause me to lose most of my teeth i would have never agreed to go on it. Of course my family doctor who has been prescribing them tells me she hasn't heard of any other cases, yet when i researched the med online there where others like this why hasn't something been put in the warnings about this med, i sure would have preferred to have lived in pain the rest of my life rather than lose my teeth and be unable to even eat now. My health has gone downhill fast as i cant even chew foods necessary for good health. All I can eat now are yogurts, and liquid type of foods which isn't much. My kids are 7 and 9 yrs old and they watch me cry when we go out to eat and they order steak, and i can smell it but can't order one as i know i wont be able to chew it. This is so devastating for me. I want teeth so badly if i could wish for anything in life besides not to be poor anymore it would be to have a full set of real teeth or implants but i could never dream of having them, and i don't know anyone out there willing to just help me get any either. I have always helped others all my life, but cant even help myself, i have had to have 29 surgeries now since 1991 when a drunk driver hit my car and caused me major injuries with my lower back and knees, i have had a full lower back fusion and 8 arthroscopic knee surgeries until a year ago they finally had to do a full right knee replacement and now they are talking about doing my left knee soon.

So my life has been up and down with surgeries and i would go thru one more surgery just to have teeth implanted if i could. but i could never afford it, but i would like to know why these drug manufacturers are making a medication that could cause teeth to rot like this without warning us patients or even warning the doctors about it. This is just terrible of them i think, as now i am the one paying for this by having no teeth to eat with at such a young age now. I am a vibrant young 41 yr old at 5'3, 120lbs, slim woman, nice looking too as i was a model in my younger days, so i keep my looks up. But to have no teeth now... I never smile anymore, I am to ashamed to smile even though it wasn't my fault i lost my teeth. I think they should pay for me to have new teeth but no one wants to admit that the med causes it, but my diet wasn't the problem back when i started the medication and i wasn't drinking coca-cola either or doing street drugs so i know that wasn't the cause either. The only thing that changed within one year to cause this was starting the oxycontin medication. Well, if anyone out there can help me let me know thanks.

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Once again, and for any of you who haven't yet contacted me so that we can all join forces to try and get the drug manufacturer to help us restore our smiles, please read the following (copied) response, from an earlier question/time, so we can add you to our database.

ANYONE WHO I HAVE YET TO CONTACT: The administrators at MedsChat have been kind enough to allow ONE POINT OF CONTACT for all of you who have been having to deal with one of Oxycontin's life changing side effects (in our case, anything having to do with tooth decay and/or completely losing your teeth) and I AM THAT POINT OF CONTACT. Follow their instructions to the letter so they will then forward your contact information to me and I will, in turn, contact you. We MUST get together, and work together, if we are to make any changes. Thanks, Christine

Please note that this individual is not employed by or affiliated with RxChat.com. Any communication with them outside of this website is your own responsibility and RxChat.com will not be held liable for any information / communication / interactions exchanged.

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Thank you Kaz7 for your suggestion and I have been in touch with person who is responsable for getting this situation heading in a positive dirrection and by herself she has made a difference in my life just by knowing her ! I have started trying to approach different lawyers and hope that I can be of some kind of help to get us the teeth we had before this medication was used ! With the extreme amount of money the company that makes oxycontin has made please open your hearts and your wallet to at least give us the opportunity to try to smile between our pain and Dr. Appointments ! Please ! Thank you Christine for all you have done and do to try to help all of us ! I will be in touch when I have something more than these words to help us! You are truely a inspiration to me and others that you try to help ! Thank you again and hope to talk to u soon because that would mean I found us help instead you doing everything ! Mail delivered !

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Christine how do I contact the administration and do I just tell them I want to get in touch with Christine or how do I go about it?

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Ginger go to page 3 and scroll down, you'll find a post from med chat admin and a link.

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Sausages - I see your posts were from January and this is June. Has anything been done on this yet because I am interested too!

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Hello everyone, my name is Troy and I currently take OxyContin and have been for two plus years now and I am beginning to experience problems with my teeth at the moment. Currently I have a full set but I can see the thinning process now. I've asked my doctors about this side effect and they say they aren't aware of it rotting teeth. I'm 34 years old and had to begin this medicine in February of 2012 when I fell 40ft through a roof while working. If anybody has any answers to the problem please share.

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Christine - have they given you my e-mail address yet? I also am wondering if the issue should be included of Perdue and the FDA not giving any warning about the reformulation and reduction in effectiveness of the medication to people who were already taking it which caused major withdrawal symptoms for several months because of the new version being much less effective. If I had been aware of this in advance I could have consulted with my doctor about weaning to avoid what I had to go through. We were actually paying for a medication we were no longer receiving. Will that issue be included. Also, along with the teeth issues I am also experiencing jaw issues. The dentist told me that the infection in one of my teeth was caused by the bone (jaw?) which I plan to look into further. I have been referred to a TMJ specialist several times since starting on this medication and I have seen several other posts stating similar issues.

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Biotin is a saliva substitute as yes these meds cause dry mouth, therefore cavities from increased bacteria, and bad breath. Look into All different ways you could afford dentures/partials as it seems to me this is your only option according to the info you supplied. Its impossible to tell if someone is wearing them as they look so real. Then have a long talk with your prim care physician and Thank him for not going over this side effect of Oxy with you and now he's going to get his a** sued off !

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.. Even though recourse would be difficult to do so since it would be hard to prove your tooth decay was caused by the medication, it would be a great way to blow off some serious steam towards him. Maybe he has enough compassion to make dentures for you free or little charge. But if not threaten the law suit, storm out and find a new dentist plus it can't hurt to at least talk to a lawyer just to ask .. Best of Luck to You!

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Dear Christine again I must appologize about flying off the handle by trying to help in the wrong way ! To anyone that reads this please go to the earlier post and it will tell how to get in touch with the person that was able to get the great people that run this sight to give us the opportunity to get in touch with with Christine so she can get your information and get us together and do this as a team rather than other ways that won't help the cause at all ! Please forgive my earlier loss of my temper I am like everyone else and need to controll my temper and do like everyone else and follow the right way to handle our situation ! If you get a minute Christine please get in touch with me so I might be able to make u smile instead of making it harder for u ! The mailman !

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I am having same problem with all teeth from oxycodone 30. I know I take double what most people take for pain, my doctor told me, but he agreed I needed it as I have a high tolerance to drugs. I can't take the long acting as they make me very sick. Within a year and a half, my teeth have rotted from inside out and are broken off up to gumline. I can't afford caps and bridges I was quote up to 40k to fix. I am a 45 year old mom with MS. What did you do. I guess I have to find someone to pull my teeth and get dentures? In much pain with teeth despite the amount of pain RX I take for the MS pain.

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Has anyone actually had a communication from christine? emailed her about 2 weeks ago haven't heard a thing, does she really exist?

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I haven't heard from her either.

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Hi Christine I just filled out the form for Admin. to send you my email. I to have dental problems since taking oxycodone for 3 years due to chronic back pain! Hopefully we can get some where with this!
Tks for trying!'
Norman

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I will tell anyone that ask that Christine is a real person and has to deal with problems with health just like the rest of us ! We all know that no matter how hard you try if you are having a bad week or month please be patient because she is putting this together on her own and we all need to understand that any information we can find out on are own so when she is able to get in touch with you that maybe you can help by anything you are able to find out about a lawyer that might take on a class action for us can only help ! My prayers go out to Christine in hope that you are getting better or if you are waiting until you get more info from more people that have the same problem we have and for them to send the info that you ask for ! So everyone stay patient and hope she is getting threw here health issue and gets in contact with you ! Mail delivered !

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Mailman, I can't thank you enough for understanding and asking everyone to be patient with me as, yes, I have been having a VERY bad many weeks now and I just haven't had the motivation nor the energy to even touch my computer much less check my email accounts! I'm going to try to send an email to everyone who has contacted me and will also check on those who've said that they've asked MedsChat to get hold of me but who I do not believe I've received a contact request from them. In any case, I hope that everyone is trying to hang in there and I'll be in touch with y'all within the next day or two. God bless..... "Christine"

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good to hear from you christine. why don't you try sharing the load, we're all in the same boat.

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just to let everyone know i've contacted the dental law society and given them details of my own case but also mentioned about this forum, without giving out names etc.,. hopefully i'll have something further to report soon.

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Hi Christine and to all the others who are in the same boat as we all are! Quick question I have been put on oxycodone because the oxycotin was not doing the job so does this action pertain to both? Thanks and all hang in there with the pain the meds the docs and life in general!

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Dear Christine I want to thank you for the kind message you posted and that you never have to thank me because you alway put a smile on my face when I hear from you ! I been really haveing a hard time and it's things that after awhile gets to us all ! It's got me so I just need to figure out something's out I am so tired of doing nothing and got to try to get the fight back in me ! God bless you and everyone with this problem ! Mailman

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