Opana 40mg Vs Oxycontin Op 80mg (Page 6)

my Dr prescribed Opana 40mg as alternative to Oxy 80 mg 2 twice a day which I would insufflate - I didn't tell him this of course. he claimed them to be just as good if not stronger can any one share about opana 40mg

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I have taken Large doses of Oxycontin for 10 years now, Recently i was not able to get any more Oxycontin OC brand the OP Oxys made me very sic, Thats another story stay away from them. Anyway the day came this month and i had no choice but to try a new medication and thank god i have one of the best pain Doctor that truly cares and works with the person, The Opana is a wonderful medication as soon as i started taking it there was no problems,if you take 80mg Oxycontin people and the pharmacys claim that Opana 40mg is the same as Oxycontin 80mg, Wrong its about the same as a 60mg Oxy, Two 40mg Opanas will work As good if not better than one 80mg Oxy and no side effects or withdrawal, Its been a week now and my days are better and i know what to expect from the Opanas, every person is different so each has to try the meds to see what will work best, Opana wwill not last 12 hours because of my pain and Oxycontin never did, I get about 5-6 hours and need another dose to maintain a low pain level,and also use breakthru meds in between and im more happy with the Opanas then i was with Oxycontin, As long as people dont try abusing this medication alot of people in severe pain will have better days.

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You are compleatly wrong on both comments.

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I had never been prescribed oxycontin until last week. It was this stuff everyone on here is referring to as having an OP on it. Although I have no previous experience to compare it to, I can however tell you that I had a horrid and violent reaction to it. I literally thought I was going to die. A migrain that still hasnt went away, 3 days later, extreme vomitting, made my internal organs feel very painful, a rash all over and chest pains. Im starting to just now subside with some of it and have now been presricbed opana er. I am hoping for pain relief soon. Sorry for all you that had fantastic results and now have little to nothing. I know that stuff almost killed me. And even though I feel bad for people suffering with addiction on here, as a fellow human being, but its pretty bad that the addicts can shore up the difference with street drugs and chronic pain people, cancer pain people, etc.. dont have that option.

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Trigger:

You feel sorry for me??? That is hysterical, when you talk about things that you have absolutely no knowledge about. There is a time and a place for religion and God, but this forum is absolutely not the one.

I am the one who feels sorry for you. You people are like sheep, believing whatever those hypocritical, evangelical (usually homosexual) preachers are spewing at you. And you take the bait! If it wasn't so sad, it would be comical!

This is a site to help inform people about this subject matter, not to pass out Bible-Pamphlets! Go door to door and do that, or get involved in your local health department's volunteer services, if you truly want to make a difference.

Your religion should not be on this site, as I could care less what anybody's person beliefs are, with regards to spirituality. You have your opinion on religion and I have mine. If you don't have any scientific, empirical information to provide, I would suggest keeping your religion in your pants and doing the right thing.

Unless you can prove it, it means nothing to me.

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the opana is way better than oxy for pain you will not have any withdrawl the pan is equilvelent to a oxy 40 wait two months and ask for twentys opana they will really help more

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Op's are the same as Oc's<----this coming from a guy who used recreationally and was prescribed (legally). Stop crying just cause you cant shove them up your nose

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My sons best friend (early 20's) died 3-11-11 in his sleep from snoting less than a one inch line of this drug. PLEASE KEEP THIS MEDICATION OFF THE STREETS UNLESS YOU WANT THE BLOOD OF OTHERS ON YOUR HANDS! God see's ALL!

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I WAS TAKING 80 MG OC TWICE A DAY, then the new ocys ops wewre a joke . i called my doctor he made me come back in and swicthed me to OPANA 40 MG TWICE DAILY opana in my opion. are alot beeter medication, for sever chronic pain.i hope this helps
you also i use 10 m6 every 8 hours for break threw pain. i take methodone for sever chroincpain in my lowe back .i take four aday. thiis seems to really work for me .good luck.

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VOICE OF TRUTH - ALL THAT CRAP YOU ARE SAYING HOW PEOPLE THAT ABUSE MEDS ARE MAKING IT HARDER FOR YOU TO RECEIVE MEDS THAT HELP YOU - MAKES ME VOMIT AT HOW IGNORANT YOU REALLY ARE. CALLING PEOPLE THAT ABUSE PAIN MEDS LOWER THAN DIRT OR THAT WE BELONG IN PRISON IS REALLY NARROW MINDED. ADDICTION IS CLASSIFIED AS A DISEASE. DID IT OCCUR TO YOU THAT MAYBE SOME OF US WERE FORCED TO RESORT TO ABUSING MEDS BECAUSE WE COULDN'T GET ON A HIGH ENOUGH DOSE TO RELIEVE OUR PHYSICAL PAIN? THINK BEFORE YOU POST STUFF LIKE THAT.

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This is to twankies, oxymorphone is not oxycontin and morphine. Oxymorphone was fierst developed in germany circa 1914 and was then patented in 1954 by Endo pharmaceuticals it is a synthetic morphine called 14-hydroxydihydromorphinone. The name oxymorphone was derived from an analogy of the Nucodan name for an Oxycodone product. Have a nice day!

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Oh hey GUNNEY! take your own advice and know your info before posting. OPANA is a synthetic morphine differing from real morphine by giving you a less euphoric high. Read my earlier post bubba, you shouldnt type in caps when you are obviously not worth bothering with since your I.Q. is probably below 32. Thank you, have a nice day!

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to steveo50 oxycontin has been out in america since 1995 produced by pharma corp and its been around since 1916 look it up. You are taking oxycodone with acetametophin other poople on here are taking oxtcodone by itself so you cant complain that their liver will shut down if they are taking the opioid with out acetametaphin, its the acetametaphin that screws your liver not the opioid.

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Suboxone is an opiate blocker. I dont understand how morphine would help at all if the suboxone is blocking your opiate receptors

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NICK, I'm allergic to MORPHINE, So when I could tolerate OPANA'S, I naturally assumed they contained NO MORPHIN, & if Iam wrong, then I was misinformed! I'm not too big that I can't admit if so ! Being wrong is not a big deal ! NICK, info assimilated, thank u for ur input !

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NICK, I'm allergic to MORPHINE, so when I was able to tolerate OPANA, I assumed it contained no MORPHINE ,& If u r rite, then I was misinformed ! But what's with the telling me my IQ is 32 ? I like typing in caps, as its easier for me to read, as my eyesight is not what it use to be! However, if I'm wrong, then I'm not above admitting so ! If ny IQ was 32, I wouldn't be able to write this reply ! I'm not going to tell u what it is, as u would say I was lieing ! But if I'm wrong, ill be the 1st to admitt it ! If that's the case, why can I tolerate OPANA, when I'm allergic to MORPHINE ? any input NICK would be appreciated ! Thank you !

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GUNNEY:

It's nice that other posters in this forum can cut and paste from Wikipedia, but the answer you are looking for is, Oxymorphone IS NOT Morphine, or made from Morphine. This is why you are able to tolerate Oxymorphone and not Morphine. They are two, totally, different medications (chemical compound).

Oxymorphone is approximately 10 times more potent an analgesic on a weight basis when compared to morphine. It has less antitussive activity than does morphine. Don't let other people tell you what you are taking. Just research it on the Internet and you can learn the facts for yourself. I guess some people just like to hear (see) themselves write!

Don't bother with people who are not educated on the chemical make-up of the medications you take. Opana is Oxymorphone, which has absolutely NO Morphine in it. Again, if you are taking Opana, you are not ingesting any Morphine at all.

Good luck and I am sure nobody minds all capital letters.... Seems pretty petty on this forum.

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I am a 28 year old male that has been suffering from a fairly rare condition called Chiari malformation type 1. It is essentially a herniation of the cerebellum into the spinal canal. I've had 2 brain surgeries one in 2007 at the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota and one in 2010 at the University of Minnesota.

I was diagnosed with the condition in 2005 after having an MRI of my cervical spine/head. I met with a few neurologists and neurosurgeons after being diagnosed, after the meeting with doctors I didn't follow up much for over a year. I started to exhibit more and more symptoms as time went on and they became more severe.

In 2007 I was referred to the Mayo Clinic to see doctors that specialize in my condition; the city I lived in at the time had limited to no experience medically with my condition (i.e, how to treat, care for, help, etc.). Meeting with doctors that specialized in my condition was extremely helpful and informative. A month after my initial appointments I was scheduled to have surgery, the surgery was hopefully suppose to alleviate a good portion of the symptoms and excruciating pain.

Let me give you a small background about me, I was very active as a young man in sports, hockey and soccer. I was active in hockey for more than 14 years, traveled around the country and played in Canada for 3 of those years. Needless to say I've broken a few bones and have had a few surgeries so I got familiar with a few different narcotic pain medicines. Vicodin, Lortab, Norco, Lorcet (those are all Hydrocodone with acetaminophen varieties) and Percocet (Oxycodone with acetaminophen). Although all of the Hydrocodone varieties are made of the same FDA approved medicine I noticed each would effect me differently.

I had decompression surgery for Chiari malformation type 1, they removed portions of the back of my skull to create room for the tonsils of the cerebellum that had herniated out of the foramen magnum. This is when I was first introduced to Oxycontin and Oxycodone IR (immediate release). When I was in the hospital for surgeries, as well as this one, I received morphine, dilaudid, fentanyl and other similar short acting strong narcotic pain medicines through an IV. Anyway, everyone is different and reacts differently to medication. Although, it does seem for most people that Oxycontin works great for long term around the clock pain control for just about most people; before the reformulation to OP of course.

Since having surgeries to help my condition I've been on just about every type of narcotic pain medicine, long acting and short. Fentanyl transdermal patches along with an immediate release pain medicine (usually, Oxycodone IR 15mg) for break through pain works the best. I've tried dilaudid 8mg (highest dosage) but oddly enough they do absolutely nothing, like taking a placebo, literally no effect which sucks. I've tried different dosages of morphine (MS Contin and generics) with no success even on really high doses.

Recently my pain doctor suggested that in my case a lot of his Chiari patients use Opana along with a break through medicine and Topamax with great results. Currently I am taking Oxycontin 80mg OP 2x a day I switched down from 3x a day not because it works better (actually is by far less effective in the reformulation) but because I wanted to try taking less along with Oxycodone IR 15mg 4x a day (taking less of this as well). It works not effectively but I am making it through, for the most part, but I've been reading on here that Opana seems to be a pretty good fit for a lot of people so I'm a little excited to give it a try.

I would go back on the Fentanyl patches but I really don't want to go down that road again they were quite difficult to get off of. Right before my second brain surgery I was on a ridiculous amount, 100 mcg/h transdermal patches and 50 mcg/h transdermal patches with break through pain medicine AND a dilaudid pain pump that was delivering 1-4mg every hour that I could change. Pretty much lucky I didn't kill myself I actually did pretty well with it all. After surgery I was on 80mg OC Oxycontin 3x a day, Oxycodone 15mg IR 6-10x a day AND the dilaudid pain pump giving me an infusion of 1-4mg an hour but I changed the settings a lot an would some times give myself 2-4mg infusions when I was feeling squirrely, hehe.

You may be wondering what I'm talking about when I refer to the pain pump. I had a picc line that went into the side of my left arm on the side of my bicep and i had 100 mg bags of dilaudid (hydromorphone) delivering infusions/intravenous doses of the medicine. The hospital released me with it a few different times before and after brain surgery because of my situation. I was in bad shape, weighing only 120lbs, throwing up constantly, lot of time I couldn't take my oral meds an I contracted pseudomonas in my blood, needless to say that's about as sick as you can get pretty much.

I got off in a lot of different directions but keep posting the Opana information, I like to hear how other people are doing on it and how it works for them. Thanks for all the info and help!

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I agree as a fellow patient i hate the new formulation. not only does it take forever to take effect but when it does take effect its not strong enough to relieve my pain! i have recently switched to opana er 40mg and it is a 100 times better im so happy i made the change. i also take 30mg roxi's for breakthrough and i am pain free.

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Hey Gunney, oxymorphone is a synthetic derivative form of morpine it is an analog synthetic. It differs from morphine in it that it has less side effects than morphine or heroin. It is not morphine but its chemical makeup differs by two strands. if you were allergic to morphine it is rare that you would not be allergic to oxymorphone or hydromorphone unless you were allergic to the histamine effects that the morphine produces.

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Hello everyone, I suffer from a compression fracture, many compression deformities, scheuermanns disease schmorl nodes kyphoscoliosis, I am 30 years old, I was originaly on oxycontin 40 mg 3 times a day, it was ok for the pain. My PM doctor switched me to opana er 15 mg 2wice a day , wow this medication works so good for pain I can actually enjoy my day. My pain levels are 1-3. on 120 mg of oxy my pain was between 5 and 8. I highly recommend switching from oxy to opana it has changed my life for the better. Peace

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