Oxycontin Profuse Sweating (Page 3)

I have been on oxycontin for about 11 years for pain management. I take 80 to 100 mg per day in 20-30 mg doses orally. In the last couple of years I have developed a severe sweating problem...I will break into a sweat for no reason sometimes but usually upon any sort of stimulation physical or mental. I just went for a 10 minute walk and my shirt is soaked through...even the sleeves. If I play a set of music with my band, at the end of 40 minutes, I look like I stood in a shower with my clothes on. Is this normal as a side effect of oxycontin use? Anyone else experience anything like this?

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Lost in the paperwork: I have been on suboxone for a short while. For as much narcotics as they are giving you you may need to be on it longer. But I don't recommend long term on suboxone bc the withdrawal is worse in the sense the it lasts so much longer. A friend of mine was in suboxone for a year because she wanted to "be better than" taking a narcotic for a surgery. Well the MEDICAL Doctor did not inform her of the withdrawal and just stopped her after a year. It is a very good way to get off narcotics just go to a suboxone clinic or a suboxone doctor. Not a medical doctor! And make sure u tell them u need to be weaned off when u feel ready to start weaning. It will take a while to taper you off as well. But the suboxone helps with cravings, it's like an antidepressant, and if you try to take ur pills u won't feel them because of the blocker naloxone in the sub. Hope this helps. Good luck to ya!

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B4itends: I have been on suboxone before for a short while. Not sure how much narcotics you're taking but go to a suboxone doctor or suboxone clinic, not a medical doctor. You MUST be weaned off the suboxone pretty slowly. The withdrawal from the subs compared to the pills is so much worse mainly because it lasts so much longer like at least a month, with the first 2 weeks the worst. I hope this helps. I know a ton of people that got on suboxone and got off and it saved their lives! Good luck to ya!

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I SWEAT FOR 33 HOURS STRAIGHT. MY DOCTORS HAVE DONE EVERY TEST AND CAN NOT FIGURE IT OUT.

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Suboxen is worse than methadone and methadone withdrawal is horrible it took my 5 weeks off work to get right. Then my blood pressure has never got right. To kick Oxy's...it take 7_14 days..methadone 5 weeks...and that was after coming slowly down from 80mgs to 3 mgs.
My advice...slowly bring yourself down off the oxy's...goin on sub's or methadone is literally jumping from the frying pan into the fire...ur gonna end up kicking something...7_14 days or 5 weeks? U can do the sick math.lol

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Matt, First of all youre doing great, you're married so you have somebody to share life with, all the ups and downs. As for sweating issues, Ive taken oxycontin ext release and hydromorphone inst release for about 15 years now and up until 3 years ago I never had any sweating issues but all of a sudden it hammered me. Like you I couldnt go out and if i did i had to bring a change of clothes and a towel in the car. Before i even left to go out i would spend tons of time trying to stop sweating and be forced to change clothes (head to toe) multiple times. It drove me nuts, quite literally. I realized after really thinking about it that raising my heartbeat in any way above a normal beating range would almost instantly trigger a heat wave and then non stop sweats. I found the closer i can maintain a normal temp the less i would sweat, as well as also making sure i had a dose of my medication in me. If you just took your meds or its nearing time to take them is usually when the sweats got the worst. Also try to avoid high and low temp changes. I walk into an air-conditioned room, i sweat, walk into a hot room, I sweat, walk outside and im good. But soon as i enter a room or wherever thats very warm or very cold i tend to start to sweat. The higher your heartbeat the more heat your body creates which then needs to be released and that always happens in our necks 1st, head, then maybe groin and/or the back. (Groin sweats always pissed me off, like i always carry a change of underwear around cmon geez!! Lol ). Ive learned to adapt as in fully dependent on my meds for severe chronic nerve pain and osteo-arthritis that ill have for life more then likely. My meds work for me and help me live a somewhat normal type life. Without them i would snap and go insane, literally, and end up dead within 24-36 hours max. But everybody is different and different meds work differently for different people. Ext release dont give me pain relief, but they do balance out the instant release i take and both help keep my pain managable as long as im consistent and stick to my daily routine. Other people are different, some ppl use ext release for pain and barely if ever take any instant release. First thing you need to figure out is are the meds youre taking helping you more then bothering you and making your life bonkers. If they are then try everything and anything to find what works best for your daily life and what bothers you and makes you sweat more then usual. I will say that being in the East its very very humid out there and humidity is a nightmare for sweating and keeping pain and body temp managed and balanced. The drier the better or the wetter the better, either one you can adapt to but humid greasy moist gross air and temps are a killer for anybody taking narcotic pain meds, especially opiates.

So if you need pain control meds for life or for the next number of years and theyre part of your life no matter what then first and foremost discuss with your doctor all the different types of narcotic pain meds and theyre strengths and weaknesses, they all have negatives and positives and the right balance and dosage are 10000% VITAL for getting proper relief and to also make sure youre not ingesting to much and not getting the desired pain relief you desperately crave and need. Methadone isnt a great pain reliever for long term, either is any type of instant release opiate pill/tablet. The best pain reliever for long term, daily relief and for balance within your life is an oxycontin slow release and ALWAYS start off with the lowest possible milligram and dosage otherwise youre doing yourself much more harm then good and will create major problems for yourself long term, even after you get off them. With the exception of the first 2 - 2.5 years, I STILL take the exact same strength and dosage of both my pain meds every single day for the last 12-13 years and i have NEVER raised my dosage or begged my doctor for more and more pills. Having a good honest doctor that discusses and everything with you and actually gives a real s*** is also critical for any real good and helpful pain managment. 70% - 80% of ALL Doctors are Know-it-All, arrogant, rude, my way or the highway, braindead i*****s that ONLY ever read medical books and due to this think theyre God's gift to mankind.

They are Horses***, plain and simple horses*** and they will almost always NEVER be anything more then book reading ******s that believe ALL Doctors know more then the majority of all human beings. A GOOD and HELPFUL Doctor will ALWAYS do 3 things for their patients:

1. LISTENS and ASKS QUESTIONS about their patients and keeps doing these 2 things until they find the problem(s) or find some/all solutions that truly help their patients pain / medical issue(s). And they will keep listening/asking in follow up dr visits to see if anything has changed or to see how you're doing in general or if they have some new technique or method or medication to help you further.

2. Will evaluate you until they KNOW they have ALL the info they need to fix/mend/assist/treat/operate/etc on their patients. ONLY book reading, idiotic, moronic, ego maniacs have all the answers and dont need more info to treat or help you. Its these doctors, which make up the majority of all physicians that are our world's biggest and scariest problems within the healthcare world. ANY Doctor that talks to you for a few mins and prescribes you some pill or medication to cure you is an i***** and is ONLY going by the limited amount of books they have read, NOT real experience and learned knowledge. Avoid these doctors like the plague.

3. Make you feel like a friend, they show you compassion, they care, they ask you about you and they surprise you with info about your medical issue that they asked a fellow doctor about for you, they called some far off country to discuss your issues with some expert in that certain field, they emailed your symptoms to another doctor on their own time, or went and visited another physician to learn more about your issue(s) etc so they can share this with you during your next visit. These are the cream of the crop, much much needed, excellent, superior physicians that our world needs many many more of and when you experience one of these doctors you WILL know it and be overcome with a sense of amazement and wonderment as to WHY arent ALL Doctors like them?? And IF you're able to have a doctor like this as your general treating physician then do whatever you have to to keep that Doctor for life or for as long as possible. They are very rare and they're in super high demand which gives them billions of options and usually sees them leave general physician duties and enter end of life care or some other very important and highly sought after and respected area of medicine.

I HAD a doctor with ALL 3 of these 3 specific traits I just listed for about 3.5 years and he helped me more in that short time then the other 25-30 doctors i saw, all over Canada + USA during the other 12 or so years i spent trying to find pain relief and what i needed to do to repair my injury the best possible way and without doing more harm then good for the rest of my life. The different types of advice, lectures, and info i came across with all these doctors was insane and incredible. They ALL thought they were right and they ALL thought I was a piece of meat to operate on and cram full of blah blah bs medical crap they learned going thru med school but know basically nothing about. Every general physician knows a little about alot and almost always a little more in one or two very specific fields of medicine, only a tiny percentage of them knows alot about many many things and has any real true experience within those fields. General physicians are almost always failed surgeons who gave up operating and went instead into general practice because they either gave up, quit, or lacked the skill, talent, expertise, knowledge, ability or dedication to become a good quality surgeon. So when you find a top level, awesome bedside manner, fantastic smart caring doctor hang onto them with everything you got and hope they dont leave or retire before the majority of your life is over!!! Lol Or until they help you 100% with your medical issue(s) lol. (Mine moved onto a more important field and trust me i was devastated to learn i had to search for a new doctor but extremely grateful for the time i had with him and for him helping me with both my surgery needs and my long term chronic pain management, super super grateful and thankful for him)

SO MATT !!!! Im very sorry for this crazy long wacko novel ive been making you read , considering you only asked about sweating and not about every part of the Medical field and every aspect of it!!! Lol. I actually wrote all this to not only try to help you with your question(s) etc but to also give you an idea about what it takes to truly find the answers youre looking for. Its not easy sometimes with medical issues, especially not when its about pain meds and the limited solid info about their side affects and issues that they can bring on to all of us on them. Sweating is from basically 2 things in regards to pain meds - raised physical activity / heartbeat / temperature / stress / anxiety / and other meds when mixed.

And sweating is also caused due to opiate withdrawals and the bodies constant need to be "dosed up" or fed opiate meds. Once the body senses the opiate levels are decreasing it then starts to spew out different side affects and will continue to until the body is filled up again with the drug. Also due to synthetic opiate medication working on receptors in the brain, the amount of solid true proven and long term clean info is very limited so finding any solid helpful info to help us isnt easy as well the info we do find is from different sources and hasnt been vetted by the overall medical community and sold as any type of foundational concrete information, its usually heresay, opinion, specific experiences and doesnt fit any mold for all opiate users.

My basic and best advice, probably all you wanted 10 days ago when you started reading my medical journal ive written here lol. 1. Take your meds at the same times everyday, best you can and stick to that routine and importantly, the same dosage everyday. Dont go up and down with dosages as this will cause you to not only sweat but have many other problems that are not fun, trust me. DONT Drink alchohol routinely or at least dont drink hard alchohol while on opiate pain meds, 2-3 beers is ok if not everyday but hard booze will screw you up and cause you a world of nightmares on opiate meds. Air-Dry out of the shower/bath and allow your body temp to balnce out and equalize to the room your in. Getting dressed right out of the shower tends to cause body temps to rise and then sweating starts to try to release that heat. If and when stressed out/full of anxiety try to keep calm and stay away and out of stressful situations as this can raise your heartbeat and thus heat etc which then causes sweating/heat etc. Getting mad or upset can bring on sweats. (you're married so good luck with these ones!!! Hahahaha just kidding!!! wish i was ??).

Wear looser, thinner material clothing, with any air vents if possible. Helps keep the body a tiny bit drafty and helps keep body temps balanced/equalized. Use lots of clear deoderant, unless you're partial to another kind. I find speed-stick Glacier, Sport, ocean surf, etc clear deoderants work better then the white pasty ones but i havent tried any sprays so maybe they work to? Keep a clean higher quality hand towel in your car, work, next to your bed, in your backpack, or wherever you go alot for quick access to drying off. Also get a higher quality towel that you can fold in half or 3rds and wrap it around your neck and tuck it into your chest under your shirt as this helps absorb sweat and prevent it from running down your chest or back. Keep a fan on you or in the room you're in whenever possible, helps me bigtime.

IF it gets to the point where you literally cannot go out or are always sweating and none of this info is helping, youre going nuts and pissed off and cant find any help/info anywhere, there is a medication that helps prevent the body from sweating BUT its for people that have major sweat gland issues but the good doctor i had told me about it and its something to look into to see if it could help. Maybe lower dosages might work?

BUT BE VERY CAREFUL WITH THOSE STOP-SWEAT MEDS AS TAKING OPIATES DOES CREATE BODY HEAT, HIGHER CORE TEMPS, WITHDRAWL SWEATING, ETC AND SWEATING IS THE BODIES NATURAL WAY OF RELEASING EXCESS HEAT SO TAKING A MEDICATION TO PREVENT SWEATING COULD CAUSE INTERNAL BODY PROBLEMS LIKE YOUR CORE BODY TEMP RISING AND THERES NOTHING TO RELEASE THAT CORE BODY HEAT THUS CAUSING POTENTIAL SERIOUS MEDICAL ISSUES. (Discuss this with your doctor for sure and research it alot on the internet)

AND Above all else really think about the medications you're taking for pain, IF they're TRULY Helping you and your pain, OR if theyre causing you more problems then they're worth. OR if there is another type of pain medication that might work better for you and have better results Or lower the side affects you're experiencing etc. I would suggest a Slow Release Oxycontin tablet and start of with a low milligram dosage 2 x a day, (morning and late afternoon/evening) and see how they help you / affect you over a period of time like a week or two. Slow Release Oxy's work very very well and if taken properly, routinely, and keeping to the same dosage daily they can been taken with good affect for a very long time. Any Instant release opiate medications WILL be very hard to get used to and cause more side affects until balance is achieved and routine is kept but they take years to adapt to and balance out. They are also much more addictive and easier to abuse as they release their active narcotics much faster thus giving the user a fast and liked High which is very hard to control and keep responsible with. Slow Release opiates are much better and much more controllable over time. Except for those who drink alchohol. Booze and Beers disrupt opiate meds and cause a more drowsy feeling which then becomes extremely hard to shake and stay away from and creates a Tolerance much faster meaning the user wants and needs more opiates and wants booze or beers with them at the same time to achieve the feeling they've come to like. This is an imprecise notion though as that High Rapidly goes away leaving the drinker / opiate med user craving more booze and more pills or higher dosages of pills which never ever ends well and almost always ends up in an OverDose situation and more likely Death. So Please Avoid any routine drinking and pills!!! And I wanted to say to Please NOT take all of what I wrote as some kind of lecture, its NOT meant like that one bit, Im simply sharing as much info as i can on here for you to pick thru and use whatever helps you. I just hope I wrote something that is of help to you.

Well Mr. Matt I HOPE i helped you in even a tiny small way with all my never ending blah blah writings and I hope some of it helps bring you something positive or gave you some new info that you didnt know and couid help make your days and life better. Again im sorry i went on and on, this topic is something ive spent pretty much almost half my learning and dealing with so it affects me and i tend to want to share as much as i can with others that are looking for answers. IF I can help you in any way at all please feel free to email me anytime {edited for privacy} and ill get back to you soon as i can. And again, never stop researching online as there's others out there that can relate to you and maybe have more helpful info and answers. I hope things get better for you and this becomes something that doesnt mess your life up!!

Cheers!
Steve

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I going to bite the bullet guys. I have had three back surgeries, with one fusion, and now I have found out that I have two very bad disc at L1 & L2. The doctor wants to fuse one already, but I have been there with little help so not jumping into anything. I take a few meds for my back like the muscles, antiinflammatory, and yes that oxycodone. I went to a pain clinic, and new what was going to happen. They always up that one. Well I am tired of the sweating! It is only my neck up. I don't sweat under my arms. CRAZY. I put my hair in a poneytail, and I have water dripping off the end of my dang poneytail. I don't like going anywhere, and backing myself off all my meds is already letting me know it, but I am going to give it my best shot. I was put on 20mg time release of oxy. twice a day. Now that is not a high dose to some, but I know pain clinics sometimes keep upping meds. I am down to 10mg twice a day not time released, and getting ready to cut one 10 in half. Yes, I am coming off slow. Another reason I hate this med. Yes it works Ok, but I have got to see how bad it is with very little to no meds...Wish me luck.

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Hello,

I have exactly the same issues with sweating you have described. Sweating comes on for either no apparent reason, the slightest of activity, whilst sleeping which the wakes me soaking wet and cold, if I become even slightly anxious, and the most depressing; immediately after stepping out of the shower. I have tried hot showers, cool, cold, medium heat, and nothing makes a difference. I have chronic fatigue in addition to chronic pain, mainly skeletal and back pain. Getting a shower takes so much energy that when I do manage it, and then am immediately soaked in sweat which carries on sometimes for a couple of hours, it is soul destroying. If I manage to shower on a morning, I cannot get ready for work (a job which I am clinging to due to my health issues), put any make up on, dry or straighten my hair for a number of hours. I do not always have the energy to shower on a an evening (or morning for the matter), but this is the best time to do it as I can sit for a couple of hours to dry and cool down, not needing to do any activity or start being anxious about being late for work. I cannot win!

However, I was watching a TV program last week, whereby Doctors were giving a advice on lots of things including avoiding heat exhaustion. They advised that the fastest way to cool down the entire body is to fill a sink of cold water, letting the tap run first to make sure it gets really cold, then sink both hands in to it up to the mid arm, covering the wrist and leave them there for a good 5 minutes or more. I had heard the running the cold tap on to your hands and wrists brings the body temperature down and had tried that a few times but it did not seem to make much difference. Anyway, the last few times I have got out of the shower and can immediately feel my body and head starting to sweat, I have filled the sink and submerged my hands and wrists for 5 minutes or so. It really does work!!!! I have only done it a few times, but I definitely cooled down a lot faster and therefore sweated a lesser amount and for a much shorter time. I suspect the longer I can leave my hands in the cold sink water, the better I will be. This is the only thing that I have ever found that actually does make even the slightest difference in managing this nightmare side effect. Although it does not take it away it does seem to make it more manageable at least and it does not cost anything to try.

I have previously spent £150 + shipping a certain pedestal fan from the USA, chosen because it is so quiet and powerful. Ideal for sleeping with it on or blasting myself when too hot. I go through tons of ice lollies, particularly following a shower. I thought be cooling my inside faster this might cool me down faster generally. They help a bit but no where near as fast as the cold water in the sink does.

I hope this helps even a little. Good luck!

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I am a first time user. Given by my pain management. I having flush, sweats. Wondering how long this will last. Or is this what I am gonna feel from now on. Jeesh

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Started Oxycontin 5mg for flank pain. Increased to ten. I sweat for at least 45 minutes.w As given percoset. Due to my recurring cancer, I was given zofran for nausea. Went for my chemo today my stomach hurt like crazy and sweat like crazy and vomited just liquids. Doc came in until it got bettert and gave me an ice pack for my back. She said keeping taking pain meds. I don't want to and have not since this am even though Oxyworks great for the pain

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Been doing this for 15 years and severe itching follows the sweating.

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If you're not to far in throw them away. I am 36 year old male and am so addicted my body only let's me sleep for four hours max confused all the time. I'm a father ,husband and carer . Now my life is so busy with work and bills plus family life that I can't get off them. W/d is so anxiety filled just don't do it before you know you will be taking them to feel normal

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SUBOXONE SHOULD BE TAKEN OFF THE MARKET.
Almost everyone I know that has taken this drug gets more addicted to it than any opiate drug. The half life of an opiate is multiple times less than Suboxone. I was on opiates legally for a year had some issues getting off got of them I spoke with my doc and he put me on subs. After not being able to get off of them for almost 8 years when I finally quit I was down to 1/32 of a 2mg tab and after 2 months still felt like crap. That was 1 2mg sub per month. Finally I picked up some oxy 10s from a friend tapered myself down in 2 weeks to nothing and have been legally on and off narcotics for the past few years for back pain. suboxone is one of the most addictive drugs I have ever taken. If you really want off of narcotics and have the will to do it taper down. I helped a buddy go from 6 80mg oxys a day down to nothing in less than 2 months and feels great. He tried subs multiple times and it just made things worse. He has been off all narcotics for over 5 years. As a side note my doctor is licensed to prescribe Suboxone and he agrees that getting off of them is more difficult to quit than any opiate IF YOU HAVE THE WILL TO QUIT. I had to have emergency surgury to remove my gallbladder after it ruptured when I woke up from the surgery I was screaming in pain due to the Suboxone. Nobody seemed to know what to do or why I was in so much pain. luckily a nurse that worked with drug rehab patients overheard me yelling that I was on subs and no matter how much opiates they gave me it wasn't going to help. She spoke with the doctor and they gave me Toradol INCREDIBLE DRUG non narcotic and works instantly as a shot.

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Thank you i thought i was going through the menapause missed 2 dosages and felt like i came out of swimming pool evil drug i take it for pain

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