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Has anyone else known oxycontin to rot the teeth? I used to be on vicodin until my doctor told me I needed to switch to a morphine based meds. She put me on ms contin but I had problems with it so she put me on 80mg oxycontin. Eventually my body built up a tolerance so she kept raising it, i have am now on from 4-6 per day of the 80mg tabs. It scares me that this is what rotted my teeth because only 5 yrs ago i had only 2 cavities that needed filling and then only 1 yr after going on the oxycontin i had to have all my top front teeth pulled as they where rotting from the inside out the dentist said my mouth looked like a heroin addict's mouth looks. He said it was shocking to him that normally he only saw such damage from someone who abused drugs with so much dental damage, but i have never done any street drugs and have only take my meds as prescribed to me. Now i have lost 80% of my teeth and as a beautiful 41 yr old mother its devastating. I cant afford dentures and sure cant afford implants like i would like to have. I am a single mother and refuse to date because i have lost my teeth now, i had beautiful teeth before i started on the oxycontin and only 2 small cavities that needed filling. Does anyone else have this same problem and if so why hasn't the company making oxycontin warn patients of this possible problem?

If i had known this would cause me to lose most of my teeth i would have never agreed to go on it. Of course my family doctor who has been prescribing them tells me she hasn't heard of any other cases, yet when i researched the med online there where others like this why hasn't something been put in the warnings about this med, i sure would have preferred to have lived in pain the rest of my life rather than lose my teeth and be unable to even eat now. My health has gone downhill fast as i cant even chew foods necessary for good health. All I can eat now are yogurts, and liquid type of foods which isn't much. My kids are 7 and 9 yrs old and they watch me cry when we go out to eat and they order steak, and i can smell it but can't order one as i know i wont be able to chew it. This is so devastating for me. I want teeth so badly if i could wish for anything in life besides not to be poor anymore it would be to have a full set of real teeth or implants but i could never dream of having them, and i don't know anyone out there willing to just help me get any either. I have always helped others all my life, but cant even help myself, i have had to have 29 surgeries now since 1991 when a drunk driver hit my car and caused me major injuries with my lower back and knees, i have had a full lower back fusion and 8 arthroscopic knee surgeries until a year ago they finally had to do a full right knee replacement and now they are talking about doing my left knee soon.

So my life has been up and down with surgeries and i would go thru one more surgery just to have teeth implanted if i could. but i could never afford it, but i would like to know why these drug manufacturers are making a medication that could cause teeth to rot like this without warning us patients or even warning the doctors about it. This is just terrible of them i think, as now i am the one paying for this by having no teeth to eat with at such a young age now. I am a vibrant young 41 yr old at 5'3, 120lbs, slim woman, nice looking too as i was a model in my younger days, so i keep my looks up. But to have no teeth now... I never smile anymore, I am to ashamed to smile even though it wasn't my fault i lost my teeth. I think they should pay for me to have new teeth but no one wants to admit that the med causes it, but my diet wasn't the problem back when i started the medication and i wasn't drinking coca-cola either or doing street drugs so i know that wasn't the cause either. The only thing that changed within one year to cause this was starting the oxycontin medication. Well, if anyone out there can help me let me know thanks.

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This goes out to David who went to Mexico to get his teeth done.

Can you please let me know the name of this place? Would be very interested! Thank you

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Pimas here, with teeth going fast! I am a 61 year old white male with major teeth loss since on meds for pain. I was on 2ea-60mg SR and 4ea-5mg OXY, for years. My Insurance -(what the government calls insurence-when on Medicare) but they would not let me take it. I changed my Medicare -UNproviders twice, even with a EXPERT Drs. letter of explanation - why I should be using OXY--NO!- Anyway I am on morphine now, BUT I was losing my teeth at an alarming rate! while on the OXY, and having them pulled 1 at a time because of $.One Dentist was ready to retire and pulled 3 bad ones.I had gone in with just enough $ to pull one-he pulled 3 for the cost of one. He just said be kind to someone today. I had never put together the meds being the cause of loseing all my teeth so fast! Their must be a good lawyer somewhere to look into this side affect we were never told! I am mad as H___. if there is a connection. good luck, Pimas9FE1

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Just a note as to those looking for lawyer or someone to blame for the side effects. The fact is that all these pain meds do have many side effects - If you are in true pain ask yourself ? Even if you knew about all the problems upfront would it change your need for pain relief. Long term pain in worse than most will ever really understand. So if you have to pick between some pain relief with side effects or no relief and full time 10+_ pain what choice do you have ? Its just another side of your injury that we suffer from - side effects and for most still not much true pain relief.

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Hi Angela . . .I realize that this is an old post, but hated to hear all of the rude people scolding you for something that is completely out of our control......Pain.
Back in 1996 I was in a horrific roll-over car accident. I was driving a beautiful re-furbished 71 vw bug to work that morning, approached a 4-way intersection and proceeded to go through, as the green light was on for me, as well as 4 cars ahead of me had already entered the intersection. However, as I was just about half way through and in the center lane, a large white work truck ran the red light, which I saw coming at me through my passenger side window. Well sure enough he plowed into me, rolling me over two lanes in my direction, over the center divider (small island) and landing on all four tires in the far left lane of oncoming traffic resting in a small grove of trees and plants at a gas station. Upon my coming down right side up, is that my seat belt wasn't tight (older cars don't have the retractable belts) and I ended up coming down hard on the pull brake . . . that I must have pulled up during my acrobatic car show, right on my tail bone . . . which didn't really hurt so much when I got out.
I was just glad to be alive. . . .
OH yea.... it turned out to be a hit and run . . . NICE. Other witnesses followed him while he hid...turns out.he spoke no English. Had NO drivers license, and . . . of course . . . NO INSURANCE!
After several months, my Dr. had me on all kinds of pain meds and I continued to work.
It wasn't until late September that I decided to get off the pain meds...because I wasn't in pain.......WRONGO! We had been masking the intense pain all those months that I had NO idea I was in any kind of pain.
I had compressed my lumbar discs, and had my first surgery in Nov. 1996. 2 months later, I am still in pain...but worse...so Jan 1997 I have my 2nd discectomy. Only to end up back having surgery once again, this time to fuse my L5-S1. . .that took place 1 year after my 2nd in February of 1998.
It wasn't until 2000, that I finally had to be put on some strong pain medication....oxycontin 80mg.
Fast Forward to 2008 . . the screws and hardware in my fusion back in 98 had rested next to my nerve root . . and was almost shearing my nerve like a saw.
Couldn't live any longer . . .AND definitely didn't want more surgery....next surgery I vowed would by my Autopsy.
Not so...September 2008 I was having my 4th back surgery, and left the hospital with a 4 level fusion and in more pain than ever.
I have been taking oxycontin for about 11 years and really benefit from it's long lasting pain relief...even after 11 years. Before I took the oxy 80mg., I was laying on my bed for 22 hours a day. I was declared to be permanently disabled, and took a nose dive into depression, having to leave my job at Genentech, Inc. - a biotech company here in California, where I had been happily employed for 11 years when I had to climb out of denial and face the facts about my health.
I did however, get a small part time job at a craft store for 2 or 3 hours a day and felt good about my self.
Within the last few years, my crowns began crack at the gum line..breaking my lower and upper molars off. (I was born with Little to no enamel on my teeth and have had a lot of teeth problems all my life . . .but nothing like what I am experiencing now)...Then more upper teeth . . .some I had pulled,but lets face it...I cannot be paying 3-400 dollars per tooth to have pulled . . . .but they were just breaking at the gum line. Right now, I have my two upper front teeth and two next to them are gone. I just can't afford the cost (even with good dental insurance) of the procedures, then to buy new teeth! I opted to leave the ones I do have so I have at least ''something'' to chew my food. Takes forever just chewing on the two front uppers and lowers. I look horrible and try not to go out much. I was gluing my crowns back on for awhile... then I stopped that.
I Understand EXACTLY what you were going through, or still are. I feel your pain, and I know that I didn't ask for my life to turn out like this. Nor did I want to get hooked on such a powerful drug like oxy. My dentist told me that he doesn't think this tooth loss is from the medications, but more like it's in my genes.
I don't know your situation now, but I just spent a most miserable month with my first prescription of the New formulated Oxycontin . .to keep it out of drug abusers hands. It doesn't work as well now for my pain, and has pretty much probably turned the street value of these once great meds, into 0.
I am now searching for something something comparable (which there is not) because, these new oxy's are just NOT breaking up, and are causing me nausea, which is how I know that hours after taking the medicine, I can see that the pill is just breaking up like the old medication. Being on pain management is like a full time job...especially when your insurance co. decides that I can't get 180 pills a month (6 a day) anymore...instead they will only allow me 90 pills a month....three a day. So I am still working on something for me that will once again work.
I hope you or someone will read this...I realize that I'm replying to old posts . . .but hey I got nothing else to do today!
Carol

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What a bunch of crap. I have M.S. and am losing my teeth from the meds and steroids I am on. Quite possibly in the small print it said I would lose my teeth, but what options do we have? You either take the drugs or get worse, not all of us use drugs for "fun". Some of you people are real asses.

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Ally, Sweetie, you are so right! Don't allow the haters on this site make you feel bad because you have to take prescription meds just to try to live a moderately pain-free life. It seems that there are always those who demean others to bolster their own non-existent self-esteem.
I'm in the same boat. I'm almost 57 (my original post is on here) and am losing my beautiful teeth. I have Stage IV leiomyosarcoma, a very rare cancer. I worked for 35 years at a high-paying, high-profile job. When I was diagnosed and after two surgeries that cost me every cent of my $600,000 401K, I was prescribed 80mg OxyContin 3 times per day. No one ever said ANYTHING about losing one's teeth!
They are STILL telling me it's from the massive radiation I had, which is BS. Purdue Pharmaceuticals never put in the contraindications that one would lose his teeth after a period of 2-3 years.
I SERIOUSLY have begged God to just let me die before I lose all my teeth. I have multiple metastases, but the docs at M.D. Anderson cannot (or will not) give me an estimate of how long I have left. There are people who have lived with Stage IV for TEN years. I pray that I am not among them.
I will not go out in public because of my teeth. It is heartbreaking to look in a mirror. The fact that half of my right forearm is missing from the tumor surgery does not bother me AT ALL. I don't mind people staring at the scar and I always tell them what happened. What I cannot stand is when they stare at me and think, "She's a crack addict". Some people have asked me how long I smoked METH. I have never taken an illegal drug in my LIFE. The fact that I still dress well, always fix my hair, and apply makeup, puzzles people and I know what they are thinking. "Why is she bothering with clothes and fancy jewelry when her teeth are falling out?"
A very nice wealthy man who lives in my town has made me an appointment at his dentist for this Thursday, April 26th, to see if he can repair what's left. The gentleman is PAYING FOR IT for me because he knew me before I lost my teeth and he knows that I can no longer afford it. I am THANKING GOD for his kindness and generosity. I don't know if the dentist can salvage the rest, but I know that he does implants and bridges and ANYTHING is better than DENTURES. I already have porcelain crowns on my molars that I paid for myself before I realized what was happening.
I have talked to the best trial lawyer in Texas about what has happened to all of us who took OxyContin and/or Percocet (oxycodone and acetaminophen). He has been approached before about the subject, because he became a BILLIONAIRE on class-action suits for asbestosis. NO ONE is willing to take on Purdue Pharmaceuticals because the drug company did list "dry mouth" as a contraindication. He says that because that was listed, we have no legal remedy for the loss of our teeth. I have a college degree and I damned sure didn't know that "dry mouth" would result in losing the enamel off of my teeth, and then the crumbling thereafter. It makes me SICK to think that there are so many people like us, who DID NOT and DO NOT take street drugs. We were innocent pawns in a high-dollar business. My insurance paid for my Oxy's and it was $1100/month. Do you honestly think that Purdue would tell us that we were going to lose our teeth when they were dragging in MILLIONS every month in profit? They STILL don't tell you that long-term use of the drug will result in tooth loss!!!
All my life I had a PHOBIA about taking care of my smile! And we all have had the terrible dreams of losing out teeth, haven't we? I knew that as I aged, I would not retain my beauty queen looks and I didn't mind at all. I don't care about gaining 25 lbs., and I LOVE my naturally blonde hair that has turned platinum. (I save so much money on highlights - lol). The wrinkles don't phase me, either. BUT DON'T LET ME LOSE MY TEETH. I saved all my life so that I could take of myself in my golden years - it was all gone in 6 months and two surgeries, skin grafts, radiation, etc. I hate being POOR because if I had known I was going to die from this cancer anyway, I wouldn't have had the second surgery that literally bankrupted me. I would have cashed in my 401K and lived out the rest of my days on the French Riviera.
I knew that I had taken great care of my teeth with orthodontia work when I was 12, visits to the dentist every 6 months, etc. I knew that if worse came to worse, I could get implants with my savings. Well, now I can't!!
I used to date my endodontist and he has done all my root canals for nothing - God bless him also, for his generosity! Even HE didn't know about OxyContin. I have since told him and he said now he is seeing it on a weekly basis.
I hope that after I am gone that ALL of you who have suffered in silent humiliation for this awful malady, do EVENTUALLY find an attorney who will file a class-action suit on your behalf. And I pray that everyone will be as fortunate as I to have two wonderful friends who are helping me.
I will post my results at the dentist on Thursday night. I am cautiously optimistic and I'm scared to death to hear what I will most likely learn - that I will need dentures.
I am adding you to my prayers, sweet Ally! May God send you a miracle to repair your teeth, also.

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I promised I would print an update of my dental visit on 4/26/12 and here it is.
The dentist who is rebuilding my mouth has been in practice for 53 years and specializes in saving and revamping one's teeth. He thought that I had not been to a dentist in at least FIVE years. I had a root canal six months ago and go to the dentist every six months!
I had EIGHT abscesses in my mouth. He pulled my four lower incisors at the front of my mouth and is making a permanent bridge to attach to my molars that have porcelain crowns on them. He drilled all the decay from the INSIDE of my four upper front teeth, filled them from the back and bonded all the fronts to make new teeth. My front incisor had cracked and broken off and only a tiny portion was left. The dentist drilled that tooth and bonded it. It looks just like it did before the OxyContin. Next week he is starting to fill the rest of my teeth (EVERY SINGLE ONE LEFT!) in my mouth and bonding them also.
The cost of this?? SIXTEEN THOUSAND DOLLARS. - Yep - $16,000.00. I know that I am so blessed to have a patron who is paying for this work to be done. I realize how fortunate I am that I found a dentist who was dedicated to keeping my teeth. I know that he thinks I am or was a drug addict, but he is doing a fabulous job. The pain has been awful. So far, I have had four visits, with at least four more to complete the work.
I pray that SOMEONE can get an attorney to file a class-action suit against Purdue Pharmaceuticals for the lack of warning on OxyContin,
If anyone who is reading these posts is just starting to have dental woes, STOP TAKING OXYCONTIN NOW and get to a dentist! Perhaps some of your molars can be salvaged as mine are.
I remember each of you in my prayers and I only wish that all of you could afford to fix your teeth. It has been the most humiliating event in my 57 years.

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It's an indirect cause by all narcotics and your PM docs should have warned you. These meds cause dry mouth so the lack of saliva creates a breeding ground for bacteria/decay and without extra diligent dental care, will decay, abscess and be pulled unless you do something NOW to stop it. First, do you floss? There is a saying "only floss the teeth you want to keep". A lot of food gets caught b/w your teeth and up and the gum line and if you do not floss at least nightly, the decay will get worse. Once you see what's been staying in your mouth after you floss, I doubt that you'll be able to skip it (if you want to save your top teeth and I think you can). Brush several times a day and there are lots of mouth rinses that are made for dry mouth. Also, chew sugar-free gum as much as you can, it generates the saliva you need to keep your teeth clean. I have been on morphine for over 10 years and dilaudid as b/t and was warned about the dry mouth and at first I was with abscess after abscess and now I have NO problems. I also have a professional cleaning 4Xyear, it's not very expensive b/c you don't need any xrays but once - it's cheaper and much less painful than having all of these dental problems.

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Ive been dealing w/a mouth that has literally turned into a crumbling road to root rot. 8yrs ago this past April i was sitting in the dentist's chair getting Brite Smile teeth whitening done on a mouth that had only 3 fillings from childhood.I accredit this to my parents who,as a child,had my teeth protected w/a clear-coat that resulted to being cavity free for 20 yrs.! I attributed my current disaster zone to the whitening, bleaching off my protectant until my dentist(a specialist mind you)said the timing was just a coincedence. So as i thought about this i was like,"could the painkillers i had to take from '04 to '09 the cause?" I had a really bad accident on a quad that put me in the trauma unit&hospital bed for 3 mos.and then all that followed. So when i googled does oxy rot teeth,I almost fu***** fell out of my seat! I had no idea this stuff did this! To me one of theworst parts of this is that the rot is happening from the inside until the teeth are just so brittle til they break.I had NO PAIN and found out about the problem when i was flossing. Ipulled out not just plaque but a half-a-tooth came w/it. So i got a lil mouth mirror&began to look....lets just say within 3 more wks,2 other teeth were either chipped or fully broken. Last thing i wanna say is that the real disheartning part is that the damage can be fixed but stopping the process is not easy cus my gums have receded&they do not grow back.Also,ive been off oxy for 2.5yrs but its like a runaway train once this process gets rolling.Good luck to u all cus if anyone knows,i know what a b**** it is just to get off these,but then to look like a hillbilly,sucks.

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I hope everyone that has fallen victim due to pain medication and has unfortunately had there teeth ruined as I have sees this post in time. I now have no teeth of my own due to the morphine. My story is pretty long and horrible. But my situation will be on the channel 4 news tonight Thursday the 31st at 11 California time. After it airs it will also be on the channel 4 news website. I will not give up on this. please reply with a post if you have any questions.

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Some of us had no choice ! I was a mailman and lifted weights and I was in the greatest shape of my life ! Then when I was walking on the grass to the next house I stepped into a hole and herniated 2 disc in neck 2 disc in between shoulders and the worst was my 3 bottom disc ! I was supposed to be on light duty but they made sure it wasn't what the doctor said and I ended up hurting it even worst than before ! I have been dealing with everyday pain even though I was on OxyContin 80 mg 3 pills twice a day plus breakthrough pain meds and don't forget anti depressants and muscle relaxers ! I have been in this pain from 1997 and still to this day because they will not approve procedures needed ! If I get the money from a loan and have procedure done and it don't work or gets worst i will stop getting paid ! So I try to do the best I can to get by and help my children and parents but in reality they help me ! So my teeth ended up being the last peice of dignity taken from me ! I only go to doctors appointments or to store for food at 7:00am trying not to run into anyone I know ! So to the lady who said (get over myself and don't take the drugs) . Try walking 1 day in my shoes ! I promise you one thing , you won't comment on something that you have know way of understanding ! Also you will prey to God that no one in your family has to live with this! That I would be sure off !!

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Anyone that has any information on a lawsuit or class action suit please keep me informed ! I put my story on here . I am the mailman that hurt his back and had beautiful teeth until the pain medication oxycotin destroyed my teeth ! Maybe as a group we can try to get help with implants ! My name is Bob and my email is {edited for privacy}

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Nobody besides junkies want to take these narcotics but they HAVE TO due to pain. In my case spinal fusions and severe nerve damage. So this is for you "k" karma WILL get you and I hope your back gets smashed into pieces! Scumb Bag!

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Take it to the media tell your story let the public know what corporate drug america has done to your life it is the only way to draw attention to your loss and suffering and hopefully get the attention of an attorney. my ecperience is thhat evetyone thinks that losing your teeth is no big deal but they havebt stood in front of a mirror and looked at a gaping dpace where there once was a mouthful of teeth knowing that a drug company is making billions of dollars off of your loss. Go for it! You have nothing to lose snd eberything to gain posting here is good for the soul but you need to tsje it to the streets. Pease email me {edited for privacy} and let me know what's updated

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I would highly suggest that this particular issue should fall under "your" RARE instance! PLEASE let us communicate directly so that just maybe we can put together a class action suit against Purdue so no one else will have to suffer the pain and humiliation of losing their teeth because the drug company choses not to include this or warn against the potential in its side effects! Please reconsider your decision. Thank you.

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I'm currently sitting in the hospital with two abscessed teeth and lost 6 teeth this year alone after 10 years of being on OxyContin. I truly believe that the medication has everything to do with it as my pain group patients report the same problems. I feel for you I really do. I'm a successful business man of 42 and can't smile or like you say even eat properly. Is this medication really worth it when we already have depression issues from not being the attractive and healthy individuals we were.

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I am SO sorry!! I get the eating very carefully but to have a tooth crumble brushing your teeth?? That sounds exactly like nightmares I have had of all my teeth crumbling out of my mouth. I am going to try to stop taking the meds but I have no idea if that will help now. My dentist says my teeth are softer and he doesn't seem to know how to fix it. I just wanted to let you know I empathize totally and am so sorry you are going through this. I don't know if this is due to dry mouth or something else-- I used to use Biotene gym but they stopped making the gum and the other products are not any easier than sipping water. I personally think these drugs do something to the body's storage of calcium and other needed things. Its more than just dry mouth-- I don't have dry mouth that much. Anyway I wish you the best which I know isn't much. There isn't much else you can lose in your body and be judged like loss of teeth. Even I was guilty of it before it happened to me. Karma is a b****.

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I'm sorry but I simply can't allow this to be posted without commenting, at least in part, right away because i don't feel it's right to give people false hope when there is none. There is NO POSSIBLE WAY that tooth decay can be healed offer reversed, much less by following your "protocol", and I think today what you're saying is only going to make the situation worse for those who actually believe you. I'll return with more to say after I return from my PM appt. but, in the meantime (and after having talked to a UCLA dentist/professor friend), there is no possible way, no matter what you drink, that this can ever be reversed! Don't try to give people, who are already suffering, false hope!

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Justine! Thank you SO much for your input. Good to get. I have had some spinal injections at the S1-L5 level and that stung SO badly I didn't go back for the rest of the series. So, I'm a bit worried about the stimulator causing irritation rather than alleviating pain. I tried the STIM pack (against the skin) years ago which did nothing for the pain, but I know the concept is different than the implant.

Good tip on the lidocain. I used to get the Lidocain patches (which never stuck to my skin), but my insurance never covered it and I'm sure the manufacturer just got tired of sending me free ones. All my insurance and drug plan is changing so I'll have to look into what I can get covered. It's so confusing and I'm not looking forward to dealing with it.

Good to know one or the other should work. I wish the morphine pump implant manufacturer/rep (or whatever) would do a trial also. I'm not looking forward to having my skin ripped open. Trepidation has already set in for me in preparation for another surgery I was supposed to have had already this month. Just waiting for the slow wheels of my coverage to get moving plus still waiting for my dumb body to get over the bug I picked up that keeps turning over and over collecting symptoms as it snowballs down a hill accumulating more prescriptions. I hate that!

Has being on the pump helped in other areas related to drug side affects?? I had to take oral morphine for a time when I could not get my Fentanyl covered and it really messed with my weight. Other medications I've had to take for dental work or anxiety (like a plane trip) were not very effective anymore. Also, I sort of started to develop a bit of an allergy or reaction when I took the oral morphine that I absolutely do not have with the fentanyl patches. Mostly, I had a very mild reaction comparatively—just nasal congestion. I wonder how the body reacts differently to the different forms/delivery systems of the same medications.

I will speak to my doctor about those two options. He's an older doctor and not too terribly adventurous when it comes to treatment, but he'd probably be up for finding something that uses LESS medication and something that's covered. I've done a lot of research on medications I qualified for, for free, and he's been very gracious on his part in filling out forms. Of course, I do get charged for some of those dumb forms to get filled out. Darn it!

Anyway, thanks a heap for the input. Glad something worked for you!

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Justine I know how you feel I am in the same boat I went thru 9 brain surgeries a I was just involved in a bad car accident where I was sitting at a red light and a lady plowed into the back of my car because she did not see me or the light cause she was busy texting, the attorney that I would like to use to go after big pharm just lost his Mother and I am waiting for him to return but I suggest anyone who would like to be involved in this go ahead and give me your email so we can have direct communication and the more of us their are the better off we are but do keep in mind that these big pharmaceutical companies have a lot of money and a lot of attorneys so nothing will happen overnight but if there are enough of us together maybe they will do what is right and fix our teeth to shut us up and that is what I would like is to have my great smile back before all of this has happened to me and I am sure others are looking to get rich off of something like this, I don't know which group you fall into but I think the 1st thing to do is to come up with a great petition on change.org and get a lot of signatures, I don't know if you are a member on there, but it is a great petition site that has gotten many things done and I am talking issues that you have seen on national news, so if you have not checked them out please do, and once we have a well written petition that is something that the attorney can use and a lot of times companies just respond to the petition and make things right because they don't want the bad press so any research like what other medications these companies make and these other medications can people get them from another company because if so the one thing no company likes is to lose money and that is the only thing they care about is the all mighty dollar and what worries me is if these medications have hurt our teeth what have they done to our bones? Now I have heard that tooth damage occurred because the medication dried our mouths out but I know for a fact I never got dry mouth from the meds I was taking. well thats enough from me at the moment but please anybody who has ideas about what should go into the petition please let me know because it seems there are a lot of complaints and no one wants to see it thru and they get discouraged the 1st time they hear no but I am used to it from my brain surgeries because the insurance only wanted to pay for 1 hospital and I met with a lot of neurosurgeons before I found one I liked but he was a few states away so I had to find a way and I did even though there were times I wanted to toss my hands in the air and call it quits but I fought and fought hard on my own so the more people who are with me the better. I hope a lot of you want to get involved and we can through our thoughts around because we will have to get it done and until I fully trust any attorney we only have each other and remember 99.9% of the attorneys are in it for the money which is why most of them became an attorney cause it is hard to find one who actually cares about us but there are a few out there and I will do everything I can to find him but lets start out with people because as they say united we stand(and eat steak) divided we fall.

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My doctor recently put me on Oxycontin 15mg (twice daily) and he said that it would take a week for the medicine to reac...

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I know my maroon/brick red color 60 mg oxycontin was replaced with a VERY believable look alike by a so called friend an...

I have a rx for 60 mg oxycontin and I can't find a pharmacy to fill. I just took last one and I don't want to ge...

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Diagnosed with Ahlers-Danlos Syndrome almost 12 years now... I have chronic pain everywhere as all my joints are bone on...

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I read some of your articles. I have knee problems, and had surgery on hold for slip disc in my lower back and in my kne...

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NEED HELP PAYING FOR MY OXYCONTIN, I TAKE 80MG 3 X DAY . PLEASE HELP ## PRUDUE PHAR HELPED ME A COUPLE YEARS AGO WITH MY...

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