For three months I have suffered severe side effects to the new oxycontin formula. I have stopped taking it now for 14 days. I do take oxy ir;s but they are not controlling my pain and I would like to know what would be a good dosage to start at? I am opaite tolerate I have had nurmous surgeries and have serious chronic pain. four years ago I took Avinza 60mg hs and 20mg oxycontin three times a day. I did well no side effects. After my last surgery I was put on oxycontin and have done great up until the change. I am at my wits end my doctor suggested I give the oxycontin more time I will adjust. Not happening. I think I need at least 90ms twice a day. Help anyone else had to get off oxycontin because of the new formula and if so what did you do. I hurt so bad I cannot take a deep breath.
thank you for listening any input will be greatly apprecaited
Need suggestion on what dose of Avinza would replace 80mgs oxycontin three times per day?
- Posted:
- 27 Nov 2010 by ksrock2
- Topics:
- avinza, oxycontin, pain, side effect
Responses (2)
daddy0127 Nov 2010
I'm sorry to hear your suffering do to the change of the oc's! If I was you id tell your doctor that you wanna try Opana ER 40mg at 3 times a day, and Opana IR 10mg at 6 times a day for breakthru pain! That's a healthy and really close to being sumwhat compatable dose for what you haft to deal with everyday! Opana is for opiate tollerate people, and is a around the clock strong pain med. The Opana{Oxymorphone] is expensive, but you obviousley have insurance if you have been on the oc's for that many years! I currently am on Opana ER 40mg's & the 10mg IR,,and I've been on everything sad to say, but when you suffer from a chronic disease, or severe pain everyday that's the mountain you climb unfortunately! Anyway, I hope this helps, and id deffinetley ask your doctor about it and give it a try, I bet it takes care of you! God Bless
oxyaaron30 Nov 2010
well according the the converter you would need about 360mgs a day of avanzia which is used 2x a day so you could get the 200mg avanzia 2x a day and lessen the BT meds to just 1 or 2 a day, but thats if you ant avanzia there are other alternatives like opana as mentioned bu is one of the more expensive or the fentanyl patch which is pretty pricey to so honestly i think you would do best on methadone its cheaper and at the right dose you may not even need BT meds if you went that route i would say you would need about 120-200mgs total a day and i think you wouldnt need any BT meds at all, and this would be the cheapest way to go. most people hear methadone and think JUNKIE, BUT its an excellent painkiller and when used properly is safe and little to no BT meds needed, hope this helps
your friend, Aaron
christineATU
30 Nov 2010
Great info Aaron. I happen to agree on the methadone too. It's helped so many people but still has such a bad rep. But if you say "suboxone" people think nothing of it! Even though it is ONLY used for addiction and not pain control. Very unfair judgement.
ksrock2
30 Nov 2010
Wow Aaron thats alot of Avinza, I did some checking and thats what I came up with as well. As far as money my insurance will cover it and the copay should only be about 30 dollars, not bad. I am not crazy about pain patches except I do use Lidoderm patches. Fentanyl is always being recalled, again just lately it was recalled for releasing too much medication plus if you do not apply them just right they fall off and bubble. I am someone who will not take methadone, I hear it gets into your bonemarrow and can cause serious problems down the road. Honestly I do not want it because of the stigma. It is difficult enough around my area to be treated with respect if your on any narcotic analgesic. I live in a small town and everybody knows everybodies buisiness. I used to work as a Respiratory therapist in one of our local hospitals it is unbelivable how the staff digs into patients charts and talk. I hated that.
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Thank you daddy01 for responding. Does opana have both a short and long acting component? I will look into opana further. I did check with my current insurance and it is not on the preferred drug list so I would have to pay more than a normal copay. Thing is my insurance changes in January.. You mentioned that opana is pretty strong. I do not want to feel dopey or sleepy. May I ask how long you have taken opana and did you switch from oxycontin? I am so upset about this whole deal. I was doing so well on the oxycontin and I will not let this go. I plan to write to my congressmen and the media. I am so sick of stories on the news about junkies but never do they talk about what is happening to the chronic pain patient who has to go thru hell to find a cocktail of medications that work and now I have to start over again. Again thank you and hope you have many good days.
Ksrock... I have been taking pain meds for all my diffrent spinal conditions
the change from oc's to op's is already turning people into heroin addicts these are good god fearing people who dont know how to control thier pain! so they end up trying something that WILL DEFF. work!