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80 mg op received this month. What the heck is purdue doing to me my stomach hurts, my pain is almost all they way back. I'm in agony. Why don't they take whiskey off the shelves and make them put plastic in it. It takes 3 hours for it to work if it does? I've had a headache also. They lost my almost $1500 a month and need something for pain. Anyone have any ideas???

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TO UPSETASHELL! I TOTALLY KNOW EXACTLY WHAT YOU R TALKING ABOUT AS I TOO HAVE SEVERE INJURIES FROM AUTO ACCIDENT, MY BILE DUCTS ARE DIALATED, PREVENTING MY FOOD FROM BREAKING COMPLETELY DOWN,THE COATING AND SYNTHETIC STIROPHOAM PREVENT THE PILLS FROM BREAKING THREW TO THE ACTUAL PILL.THEY SAW THEM WHEN MY BILE DUCT STRICTURED, BECAUSE THEY WHERE ALL STUCK. I HAD AN EMERGENCY STENT PUT IN. I NEVER HAD THAT PROBLEM TIL THEY SWITCHED. IF IT HELPS....MY DOCTOR PUT ME ON OXYCODONE 30MGS AND IS ALOUD TO WRITE FOR A HIGH AMOUNT BECAUSE OF THE PROBLEM. GOT MY LIFE BACK. THOSE PEOPLE THAT DON'T LIVE IN SEVERE PAIN HAVE NO RIGHT TO JUDGE YOU. THE OXYCODONE IS THE SAME DRUG AS OXYCONTON,ONLY DIFFERENCE IS THAT U HAVE TO TAKE THEM EVERY 4 TO 6 HRS, THEY DON'T HAVE THE 12 HOUR TIME RELEASE. FEEL BETTER!

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I am disabled and have been on Oxycontin's for a few years now, My Doctor tried other things that did not work for me, I am very sensitive to meds and have many allergies to dyes & meds, The ops do not work!! I laid in bed for hours and couldn't get to sleep because I had so much pain!! This is not fair to the ones who are in pain and need meds!! When I received the ops, I told my husband that the chronic pain suffers are the ones who will suffer the most because the ppl who abuse it will find a way to use them and by several posts I've read ppl are finding ways to abuse the ops. as well as ocs!!

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I just picked up my 20mg Oxycontin today and after looking at them I noticed they had an op and not an oc. So I went back to my pharmacy and asked what these were. They explained that these are the same pills that I have been taking but a different coating. The leaflet they supplied is from 2009, before the change. One would think they would have had a new one for these. I couldn’t get any more information from them so I am on the net looking for answers. After reading all these posts I am not sure I even want to take them. (I hate to see what this will do to all the burn patients out there if it makes them itch, scratch their painful burnt skin? Oxycontin has been used for burn patients for years since the itch factor isn’t there.) I can’t take morphine, found this out after back surgery. Going POSTAL is mild to what I become on morphine. I can’t take any of the other meds that cause itching, Darvocet, Percocet, Vicodin etc, as it gets so severe that it keeps me up all night. I don’t get any rest and then I get sick from sleep deprivation and no one wants to be around me as I also become extremely cranky. Not to mention I was still in pain and so spaced out that I couldn’t function. So I don’t take anything for break through pain. I tried many other meds but nothing works. I have a lot of nerve damage, neuropathy, bulging and herniated discs pressing on my spinal cord, severe sciatica and spinal stenosis, all by the time I was 39, now 48. I didn’t take anything for years until the pain got so bad I couldn’t stand it anymore. I tried Neurontin for the neuropathy and was not warned of the extreme side effects, the doctor didn’t even know about this. One being that you become so tired real fast that you have to get to a safe place WHEN you pass out. Couldn’t figure out why I was passing out so often until a friend told me that her mother was on this med and had the same reaction to it. I ended up wrecking the car because I passed out, fortunately I was in a traffic jam when it happened so it wasn’t bad. That was the end of that med. I have only been on Oxy’s for 2 years and they help but not as much as I would like, but then I refuse to take a higher dose as I want something to work when the pain becomes so intense as I age that I have no other choice but to increase the dosage. So, I CHOSE to live with a little pain as long as it isn’t debilitating my daily living. So far the 20mg Oxy’s every 12 hours has taken the edge off the pain so I can function. If these new Oxy’s don’t work or I experience the problems you have all been writing about, I am not sure what other choice I will have. I’ve tried acupuncture but it made the pain worse. I’ve tried medical marijuana and it doesn’t help the pain but it did help with the stress. So what is left when no other pain medication will work? Oh right, we should just live with the pain, get a life and deal with it! I will gladly give you Mikeeee, Deal with it and Get a life all the pain I have to be off these meds. Having the normal daily aches and pains of life would be a picnic to this!

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i don't think that is fair that we have to pay for others who abuse this medicine they only want to stay high and bitch that others abuse this medicine when really its the person who is running there damn mouth there is people that have health problems and sit in pain day in and day out im one of those people i hate the new medicine i took it to be able to work and support my kids cause with it i could live day to day and now with the new medicine i cant be that person thanks to the abusers that got it taken from us its not fair i pay for mine and they don't help that's why we are mad i understand we as people should have the right to get what makes us better we should not have to pay with our lives cause we are if you think about it we can't do the things we need to do not like before its painful we need to do something about it write lots of letters telling them how we really feel to help us be well again and that we should not all have to pay with our lives its just not fair at all what if it were them and they had to live with pain everyday that runs into the night i use to be up all night long and when my doctor gave me that it helped i thanked god to have it and like others i am back to that again up all night and day so i understand we are suppose to be able to do what helps and be free to make our own choices that's a lie cause we can't so im with you all and i hope it changes soon

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I've been taken ops now for two months afta being on OCs for two years NO the ops don't work at all all my pain is comin back afta being contolled for two years what can I do

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Well Oxyman, noone here is talking about crushing, shooting, or smoking Oxcontin! You and the people like you are the reason why me and other people with a serious illness are suffering right now because of the formula change! Did you even read these comments people have left on here? I pray that you get some help and go to a Methadone or Suboxone Clinic. Please don't right anything like that on here again! God Bless You!!!

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Thanks Oxyman 101! You have f-ed up chronic pain patients even more...we are not here for addicts..We are writing to try to get help for pain. I know addicts are hurting bit they need to get help for the emotional help that they need. If u can open up and get admit that you hurt emotionally or psychologically then .maybe you will stop abusing meds that r used for chronic pain or terminal patients..

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Yes you can get morphine prescribed but, for someone who has been on oxycontin its not the same. I was on 100mg morphine tablets and it was not helping at all not to mention the stomach pain they were causing and my old Dr. suggested that I double my dose when needed! 200mgs a a time is crazy I Don't want to be a walking zombie I just want my pain releived.So to answer your question Sympathy yes u can get morphine prescribed but no they dont work.

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try see the movie and internalize The Passion of Christ.

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I feel sorry for all of you. The ones who take them for real pain and the person who thinks up pain to get the scripts, then abuses it. I went to my son's Dr. directly and told them that he is abusing them, taking all of the months pills in 3 days. He told me to mind my own business, that he was the Dr and knew what he was doing? So for me I don't take them but as for the person who is abusing them, it may save those lives, but when you think about it, they don't care if they are saved or not. They are mad about the intert ingredients. The Drs. don't know who is for real and who isnt but when somebody points it out to them, they should do blood work at least. I would not want to have CA but I do have a lot of pain from my joints being worn out completely. I think as long as they are taken as prescribed by the Dr, they are okay. But the abusers have ruined it for anyone. What about morphine? Can that be prescribed to patients who need it or does it help?

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All the arguing going on seems to be in the spirit of accusatory and not helping anyone. I am prescribed 80 mg Oxy 3x per day and 30mg Roxi 4x per day for break through pain.I experienced horrific stomach pain with the new formulation as well as very little pain relief. I take them as directed and always have. I contacted my Dr,pharmacist and Purdue. They are all overwhelmed with complaints. It is clear that the re-formulation has caused more problems than solutions.I, like many others are concerned about having to change to a new medication that might not relieve their pain as the old Oxy's did. It is no different than finally finding an antidepressant that works and then having it taken off the market due to misuse. Further, the stigma around patients taking pain medication makes it rather difficult to have needs met without having some judgment imposed. Tolerance occurs with everyone; some more than others, some quickly, some slowly and also varies with different medication. It makes perfect sense that people with FREAK OUT when they are experiencing debilitating pain that they had been able to manage only days before. So, with this in mind, if there are others who have had recent success with a replacement for Oxy, please share with us who have not yet found a solution to our very serious problem of controlling our pain. I will see my Dr tomorrow. I hope there will be some feedback on the success or failure of substitute medications other may have tried. Thanx people. A closing note: Do your best to treat others with compassion, as you would want to be treated...because you never know, you could be faced with a similar or worse situation in a blink of an eye.

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Perdue pharmaceuticals is trying to get a patent so people can't get high, so that messes up chronic pain patient. Uncle Sam doesn't help the people caught in financial delema. They may get $5 to much to get help with living cost & their Dr. Prescribes meds to them, but instead they sell them. That was an article printed in our local newspaper about a year ago. Then we have the FDA who doesn't due all the research, just reads what is given to them. Then you have A few Drs. That make their money by have a full schedule of people, who say they have Fibromyalgia, that they write out scripts and hand them out like coupons so they get any easy buck without doing any work. 1 Dr locally, actually told me my pain was too complicated for him to take me on as a patient but didn't know were to send me. I sat in his office over an hour crying in pain while other younger people, a few couples sat there laughing & joking, & after seeing Dr. Walked out with scripts in hand. They all talked on what they took. Believe me, for what they said was wrong & what the meds were..I couldn't believe it. So I guess what I am saying is there r a lot of people here to blame for the ingredients in oc's to change. I feel more research should be done on these op's. They should be pulled & originals put back at least until all research is done..How many of us have to suffer due to love of money..and the Love of getting high.. Come on FDA & Perdue. Please help the real pain patients have some type of live with dignity...and a special note to FDA, it was you that ok'd silastic sheeting, let medical community do what they wanted with it that messes me up for the rest of my life..Have some sympathy!!!

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My husband has ben taking oc for several years now and these new op brand do not help him at all either. i dont understand why they have to punish the people whoget the scripts for these. there are im sure people out there who snort or sell them, but this hurts the people out there that get them and need them for real

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Keep the coments coming guys well the positive ones anyway. My son has cancer and these OP's aren't helping him at all! It breaks my heart to watch him lay in agony and there is nothing I can do for him. This wasn't the case with the OC's, he was fine and could live normally and, now he's almost bed ridden! PLEASE PLEASE lets try to get something about this, for my son and others.

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The new OP pills are not good...I've had 3 surgey's and I get them wrote to me and the OC actually helped my pain, not because I snort them..I take mine and the new OP's dont help...I dont know whats different but there not helping....

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i have been on ocxycontin for 10 years,this month they have changed my meds to op/ i never knew it until i pick them up.! first day: confusion,palpatations,severe body aches, migraine, bad stomache cramping. second day: alot worse of all the above.we worked for two years(my doctor and I) to find something to aleviate the pain.OMG i'm back to the begining again...i don't abuse these med.I use percocet for brake thru meds.I try to go for ahile in between with the percocet as not to build up a bad tolerence..these new op oxycontin are bad..severe side effects..(pain)different pain too.!! I also had an allergic reaction to the dye in the generic forms of oxycontin they say, well its surely seems just like the same symptoms I'm having with these new op oxycontins..what the hell is the problem they can't find away to fix these so the damn drug users can't abuse them, and the people who really need them don't have to go thru all this bulls**t just to get what we need....

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sorry i didnt mean to single you out mikeeee i included deal with it and get a life in my cosshairs as well. peace.

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hey mikeeee! before you go judging people maybe you should go run around the block and think before you speak!!!!! I have RA and spinal corrd tumors that cannot be removed safely. I have taken oxycontin for years and it changed my life. It enables me to remain independant and work. a few years ago I had problems digesting one of the generic oc's. it had a waxy coating and my system just didnt like them. they would go through me so fast that the pills were still dry and powdery under the outer layer. gross, but that is what the lab at the hospital determined after picking the pills out of my poop! I have medical digestive problems and other people have had similar experiences. the new oc's have the same darn coating and go right through me too and they are not ghost pills.(a ghost pill is the official medical term for a pill that has been digested but maintains it's shape and is degraded on the inside). i am dealing with purdue and the fda about this problem. now mikeeeee why dont you go do something constructive. peace!

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To Deal with it and get a life: I am furious that you say such things about these people with very serious health problems just because they take a cetain kind of medication! To Get a life, yeah thats excactly what you need to do and concentrate on helping your addict son instead of enableing him. You 2 have no right to even betalking on this site.have one word for your son (SUBOXONE)

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Deal with it SAME GOES FOR YOU!!

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