the cleoDoes this happen to anyone? I am taking oxycotin and have a headache for the last week. Could the pills make me have a bad headache? But the thing is I was taking oxycodone for 2 years and never had one fom that. Just woundering since that is the only diff drug I have taken by the way it is 40 mg of the op version 3 times a day
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the cleo
Could Oxycontin be giving me a headache?
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pattishan612 Feb 2012
hey The Cleo, yeah, it could and also, when they changed it from oc to op, lots of people report problrms they didn't have with the oc's. The company, Perdue, i think, that makes them, let the pharmacys fill the ocs until they ran out, for the next few weeks, we got mutliple posts per hour, about the new pills. I hate to say that, but if you join the opana group, and look thru the old posts in that group, you will be shocked at how many complaints people had. One member looked up the address and contact info for perdue and listed it here. It could also be you adjusting, but i would be lying if i hadn't read probably at least 100 complaints about the new formulation. Patti
Anonymous 2 Feb 2012
Hi the cleo,
I've taken both oxycontin and oxycodone, and I used to get migraines, on OxyContin!! So bad, that I would go to my doc for a shot of dilaudid!! Which only made things worse.
This was a while ago, about three years or more, but when I flushed my oxy (not suggesting you do that!) no more migraines nor bad headaches! I couldn't believe it. I'd had several headaches a week for ten years, and voila, they were gone.
I take a small amount of oxycodone now, and have no problems, just your garden variety headache that tylenol will help.
Opiates are famous for headaches, but it is odd that both you and I have had headaches while on oxycontin, but not on oxycodone. I was taking 180mgs of oxycontin by the way, quite a lot.
Can you take enteric aspirin? It is coated and will not cause stomach upset. That is what I would take when nothing else worked (while on oxycontin).
Best wishes, hope they go away! Caffeine (sp) helps with headaches, have a cuppa coffee or tea with your enteric aspirin.
sweet lemon
DzooBaby2 Feb 2012
All opioids have the potential to give you headaches. Opioids increase intercranial pressure. that is why they NEVER give opioids to people who have had head injuries. Some people are sensitive to this change in intercranial pressure and it gives them a headache and no drug will touch it much (the headache, I mean) I take both OxyContin and oxycodone and if I take too many breakthroughs I get a wicked headache!! I couldnt take methadone for pain for this very reason-wicked nasty headaches caused by increased intercranial pressure. You might try reducing your dose or you may have to go to another drug. Some people are affected more by one drug than another and it definitely gets worse the higher the dosage.
lmariani55
2 Feb 2012
Dzoo the d.c. guru has hit the nail right on the head, as per usual. Listen to everything she has to say. Apparently, she is a great resource person.
Hippie Laura
Anonymous 3 Feb 2012
My friendly flower gurl,
I've never ever seen Dzoo get one wrong, she is always right!!
I do swear by drinking coffee for headaches though, maybe it reduces the intracranial pressure in some way. Maybe DzooBaby could explain that? Doesn't it do something to blood vessels?
Lara
xoxo
lmariani55
pattishan61
2 Feb 2012
Yes, took me quite a while to catch onto that. Patti
DzooBaby
2 Feb 2012
The old formula of OxyContin was marked with an OC on one side and the mg on the other (10,20,30,40,60,80) the new abuse deterring formula is marked with OP on one side and the mg on the other-this is how you can differentiate between the old and new formula, plus the sizes are a bit different but not much. The OP's have a polymer matrix that resists crushing-it will flatten and maybe break up into big pieces if you hit it with a hammer but wont crush into powder, it is tougher to split, and when it hits water (people could dissolve the old version and shoot it in the vein or would snort the powder up their nose for instant large rush of all of the drug at once) it gels up into a gummy substance that you cant inject and gels if you snort it and it hits the moisture of the mucus membranes and wont absorb as well as the old version. You can still abuse it by taking too much but they are trying to at least make it less desirable for abuse potential.
the cleo lmariani55
3 Feb 2012
I got it now, cleo... thank you for clarifying that ever so important question. And BTW, I hate polymer matrices!!!
Sweet Hippy,
Laura
9 Feb 2012
Absolutely! I have severe back pain and was on 300 mg/day 3/80 mg oxicontin and 2/30mg of oxicodone. When the oxicontin went to op I experienced severe headaches, stomach aches, and constipation. so now i'm on just oxicodone 2/30mg 5x/day, it doesnt work as well and the pain is harder to control but i dont have the other problems. I trie afterd it again and the side effects happened again. I'm hoping that the oc type do come back and I heard that they will when a generic can be produced but Purdue has the patent on the drug. If I am miss informed on this or anyone knows more about this please let me know. Rafiki
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Ah, my wee little Irish lass, how art thou? And my sweet, for my 'oxy headaches', I do take aspirin... works like a charm and I also drink a ten cup pot of coffee a day my love. Your answer is 'right on' as usual!
I am back, sleeping every night, feeling like a million dollars , but I miss you so much. I pq'ed you the other night... the message was from when I was really sick and somehow I missed it. Will thou ever be able to forgive my digressions?
Please contact me, use carrier pidgeons if need b, but I NEED you
Sweetest Frisky Hippie,
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And Cleo,
OP is waaaaaay stronger than OC. OMG, I took a small piece of one, I grant u no pain, but I did float about 3 feet off of the ground for hours (believe me, it is hard to clothes shop in that altered condition). I like my oxycodones, just my preference for severe pain control and at the most I take 60 mg a day
But I'm not your average Hippie either. Just ask anyone on the site ;-).
Wishing you the very best pain control,
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