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MS Contin for Pain User Reviews (Page 2)

MS Contin has an average rating of 8.3 out of 10 from a total of 41 reviews for the treatment of Pain. 85% of reviewers reported a positive experience, while 10% reported a negative experience.

Reviews for MS Contin

  • Drazala
  • December 28, 2016

"I have degenerative disc disease and had spinal fusion and stenosis surgery in my lower back. For years I have been on Norco 7.5mg/325 (1 pill 4x a day as needed.) and for the most part that took care of my pain. Roughly the past year my dr decided to reduce the Norco by half and added MS Contin. 15mg 1 pill twice a day. It didn't help much. For me it takes the MS Contin three hours for me to notice any difference and it only helps for about six hours leaving three hours before I can take another. He upped it to 30mg in the morning and 15mg at night. Still not seeing anything different. This Friday I am going to ask him if I can just go back on the Norco at my old regiment. It seemed to work better for me then these extended release meds."

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  • Skrappy
  • January 11, 2009

"I've had 2 back surgeries for herniated disks. The second surgery wasn't successful and I have constant nerve pain along the right side of my leg all the way to the ankle. MS Contin ER has helped a great deal. I take 45mg every 8 hours. I also take MS Contin Immediate Release for breakthrough pain (15mg up to 4 times a day). All in all, thumbs up."

9 / 10
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  • Anonymous
  • March 4, 2010

"I took MS Contin 12 mg/day for a medical condition which has since been resolved. When I ran out, I decided (against the advice of my Pharmacist) to quit cold turkey. Symptoms were worst on day 5 of withdrawal, knee pains, nausea, hot flushes, severe insomnia, malaise, and have now (day 9) gone down to just nausea and malaise. I have not, and refuse to, seek any other habit forming drugs from my doctor. "

1 / 10
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Frequently asked questions

  • Anonymous
  • December 17, 2008

"I was put on 45mg of this drug a couple of weeks ago and all is going well. I was given Norco 10/325 to help with the breakthrough pain. The morphine combined with Norco are hard for me to take together. I am taking 15mg every 8 hours, and it seems to be doing the job. There are times I feel fine when the 8 hours is up but it says not to miss a dose."

9 / 10
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  • chris...
  • December 22, 2010

"I suffered burst fractures, nerve damage, spinal cord damage, due to a bad car accident in September '09. Not only has MS Contin worked well, it's relatively inexpensive compared to other extended release medications. People talk about how great the Fentanyl patch is for chronic, severe pain. But you can't control the amount of medicine entering your system, it's unpredictable, certain brands are being recalled because of defective pouches. Plain old morphine. It's been around forever and nothing works as well. The only problem is I've grown tolerant and needed 2 increases in the past year. I guess that will happen with any medication. With my latest increase (100mg 4X daily) I've been able to cut down on the oxycodone by half!"

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  • big...
  • October 31, 2009

"I have 9 herniated discs (4 in my neck and 5 in lower back). Took Vicodin 10/660 for 2 years then Norco 10/325 for 1 year. 6 to 8 a day finally got the Ms Contin with my Norco and life is way better - can play with my daughter now."

8 / 10
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  • Anonymous
  • May 16, 2011

"I have muscle atrophy and have been taking MS Contin for about a year now. I started taking 15mg in the morning and 15mg in the afternoon. That stopped working. So we went to 30mg in the morning and 15mg in the afternoon. That stopped working so now I just started taking 30mg twice a day and so far it's working. I have a lot of pain but we will see how long this dose works for. I think it has a lot of side effects as well. But I couldn't live without it."

8 / 10
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  • Anonymous
  • March 1, 2011

"MS-Contin was good at relieving pain not as strong as Oxycontin which I was used to. They are different and I read in a 2007 Physicians desk reference guide that they are 45-55% or more absorbed by the human body where Oxycodone was 60-85% absorbed in the human body. Also made me more tired than Oxycodone. Secondly, though both medications made me tired it seemed like the MS Contin made me more tired and lethargic than Oxycontin."

8 / 10
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  • anonkat
  • Taken for less than 1 month
  • October 21, 2022

"During a very bad period of face pain from Trigeminal neuralgia I call those flares, this one was particularly awful and I was afraid to even speak because of the sensitivity, I went to the ER and they prescribed me seven MS Contin 30mg pills. it worked really well, I was a bit, I'd say sedated, but I could drink water and eat food without it feeling like someone took a glowing hot drill and put it through my nose and eye. It didn't get rid of the pain, but it made it much less triggerable and it made the pain less intense when I for example answered a question. When I was a child I got attacked by a dog, and this isn't related to the pain from TGN but it puts it into perspective, during the attack half of my face was torn off by the teeth, not deep enough to damage anything or bleed heavily, but still was the color of raw steak, the pain of the dog ripping a layer of skin off half of my face was an 8 compared to the neuralgia at that times which was a 10. After it was a 5, and this med probably kept me from suicide, 10/10"

10 / 10
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  • brian...
  • May 16, 2008

"Works wonderfully on my spinal arthritis. Thank goddness for this medicine."

9 / 10
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  • luvmy...
  • October 22, 2008

"Very good medication if you have chronic pain. Have been on it a couple of months now, taking 30mg a day."

9 / 10
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  • smoore
  • April 1, 2008

"Gets rid of my back pain better than anything I have been on yet! For me this is the best! (However, I have never been on anything stronger like Duragesic.)"

10 / 10
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  • Gobbler...
  • November 5, 2015

"I have had 14 operations and where my back and neck was broke kills me. I have 4 bulging disc and my m s contin 60 mgs is not working anymore"

7 / 10
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  • cheye...
  • August 18, 2009

"Relieves pain for a while and then it does nothing after a while."

8 / 10
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  • bob...
  • September 24, 2008

"I'm taking 2 x 60mgs a day. Works well and no side effects."

9 / 10
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  • tbyrd
  • April 24, 2009

"It relieves all my pain and I sleep easy."

10 / 10
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  • Anonymous
  • January 26, 2011

"Severe abdominal pain due to Crohn's disease put me on this. Taking 45mg per 12 hours. Absolutely could not have lived without it."

10 / 10
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  • Anonymous
  • August 12, 2008

"No more pain."

10 / 10
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