You may see if he can up your milligrams of
oxycontin. If a extended release drug isnt working for you any longer you may have to switch to a immediate release drug, this is rare as er drugs are for chronic pain and ir is for acute pain but it does happen in some people. Dilaudid is a very powerful drug. Dilaudid is actually hydromorphone and oxycontin is just
oxycodone in a extended release. If you compared hydromorphone and oxycodone you would find that for every 1 mg of hydromorphone it would take almost 3 mg of oxycodone to get the same effects. When you see a 40 mg pill of oxycontin that 40 mg is released in 8-12 hours so you are not actually aborbing 40 mg all at once. With the dilaudid it is released in a quick amount of time so you get relief much quicker. Although you will probably require them again in 4 hours but it will be immediatly released when you take it again. I hope this helps. I will also tell you this people talk up oxycontins being so strong because they see all the talk about them. They are very strong and work great for pain but there is things stronger the reason the drugs recieve so much media is because people like to chew them or snort them which release all the drug all at once, this is very dangerous and can lead to death. Taken correctly though you get the same amount of oxycodone you would from an ir pill like roxicodone but released over a period of 8 to 12 hours. I hope this clears up a lot of your questions. If oxycontin has failed for you and you want to stick with a extended release drug you might try
ms contin.
This is just my opinion i hope it helps.