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I<3theOcean10 Apr 2012
Yes. I believe the ip203 percocets are as strong as the 512's. I deal with much pain every day & take percocet/ oxycodone 5-325 mg. every night in order to get any kind of sleep thru the Fibromyalgia pain. Add shingles to that. 3 yrs. ago, I broke my leg in 3 places. That's when I was introduced to the "peaceful pleasures" of this medication thru my family doctor who makes sure I am restricted to one pill a nite. He never writes out more than what I absolutely need, & am monitered. It has been a god-send as so many "pain pills" just don't work for me.
Thanks for letting my story be told. eaglehaslanded
beezer34
26 Apr 2012
me too bro! im also monitored very closely but i take 90 a month for breakthrough pain that breaks through my 20mg oxycontin which is percocet just in a time released capsule or sorry, pill! u should try lyrica for the fybromyalgia. works great on my pinched nerve
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They don't act the same or work the same. Ip203 don't have the same efect, seam weaker.
Lol thanks for the pointless thumbs down. Nothing I said deserves a thumbs down. I answered 100% correct. They are the exact same drug combination just made by different manufacturers. If they feel different to you its one of 2 things, either its in your head and not real (which happens all the time with ppl) or maybe the 203s you got were older and therefore less potent. Aside from that, there's no difference. All brands are verified by the FDA and can't vary from brand to brand. One persons opinion doesn't out weigh chemistry facts. Both pills are 5 mg oxycodone and 325mg of acetaminophen. As I said before, they are the same
While they are the same drug, sometimes there is a variation in the strength of either the active of inactive ingredients. I've been on percocet for almost 3 years now and I have noticed that while the 512s work one way the ip 203's work similar but not quite the same... the do seem weaker in the oxycodone to me as well. It could just be a variation in the way they're made.
Theres many explanations people swear by when it comes to these things and I myself used to be one of the ppl who would swear up and down that certain ones were stronger than others but theres just so many things that can make a huge impact on what they do to you. Most often it has to do with the time of day you take it or what you have eaten recently or with it. If you take it in the morning, they are always more "potent" or if its the first pill of the day, or if you already have it built up in your system or not, or if you have a full stomach or an empty stomach. Or another possibility is certainly if you have taken any other meds or alcohol.
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Because theres so many things that can impact what affect you get from it, it can really seem like one is more potent than another while in reality if you dissolved them and run tests on them like the FDA does, you would find that they are exactly the same. Trust me, I totally believe what you are saying in that some seem stronger to you because it can very well seem that way. Even having someone else tell you one is stronger than the other can make it seem that way. A lot of it is mental and then a lot is physical in that theres a lot of outside influence on how well it works like I mentioned earlier. But regardless I can guarantee that they are all the same from brand to brand if they are labeled as the same exact drugs and they are a real US prescription. Its just all the other factors that make it seem otherwise. Ive been taking pain meds for about 13 years and over the course have done a ton of research as well as my own findings from personal use. And while I used to think that there definitely are differences, now I know there really isnt when it comes to the actual drug make up. Its just your body, timing and outside influence that makes it different.
The other prescription I had as af yesterday are working fine, I used these today and they are not. In fact I did not know they were not the same manufacturer until I checked the medicine in the new bottle, because they were not working effectively, if I had not compared the 2 pill I would not have known the numbers were different on them
Can't fight science!
Well it might have the same type of "simular" ingredients, but can you explain why they don't work the same!
i thought that they were loracets which are tylenol with codeine. they seemed much weaker to me also but i see no difference between the 512's and any other labled percocet and ive been takin them for 3 yrs with oxycontin for "breakthrough" pain