Opana 40mg Vs Oxycontin Op 80mg (Page 9)
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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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Jessica
I don't know about NY or MA but I do know that you can use almost any opiate painkiller such as oxycontin, dilaudid, ms contin, etc, to prevent going into withdrawal while you try to find your preferable meds. I don't know if they will be as helpful for your pain but they will prevent the withdrawal from Opana. Hope this helps.

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I just filled my Opana prescription at a Walgreens on 3/8/2012 so they are available

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As of Feb 2012 Opana cannot be filled at any pharmacy because the drug manufacturer is in the process of changing the formula...my pharmacist told me yesterday that it should be any day now. I tried to fill my monthly supply yesterday March 8, 2012 and they still aren't available..I am hoping they come in soon, I only have 2 weeks supply left and this is the Drug of choice for me! Its amazing how much it helps my chronic pain and my spinal stenosis, and it DOES help with Fibromyalgia too, no matter what some of the doctors are telling you! Some are saying Narcotics don't work with Fibromyalgia...what do they know? Ask a patient who suffers from a very severe case of Fibro, I will tell them they are full of crap!!

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Finally an intelligent person. There are so many morons naive people and wannabe druggies its hard tofind helpful info. Everything you said is on money doctors should read this as well as newby patients

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Dr Mom says "find an orthopedist dr that specializes in adult manifesting congenital hip dysplasia. Its kind of a niche, and other ortho docs shy away from diagnosis." How do I do that? I can search for and find docs that specialize in hips, but anything more specific than that...how?

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you wont be sniffing them much longer, they are coating them like they did the oxc"s
so again the sniffers will be out of luck. I used to take ocy"s and when they coated them they made me sick as all get out. I changed to opanas 40 mg and they helped me a lot, now im wondering if the coating will again make me sick, if they do what do i do and what other pill cand i take?

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What would you like to know?
Congenital hip dysplasia can be missed at birth. Later in life, when additional stressors shift the balance of ur weight from ur muscles to ur tendons & joints, ie: deconditioning, weight gain, or injury, you begin to manifest the symptoms of the underlying hip dysplasia. B/c my rt hip was 2 " lower than my left, it torqued my spine & I began to get deterioration of the discs & osteoarthritis of first the left lumbar, then the left cervical, & now L2. It took 5 yrs to diagnose. They kept looking at MRIs, but what they needed to look at was plain films in frog position, etc. i suggest if u have this, or think u do, find an orthopedist dr that specializes in adult manifesting congenital hip dysplasia. Its kind of a niche, and other ortho docs shy away from diagnosis.

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You could go right to the manufacturer's webpage that makes the opana, which is endo.com and you'll get all the info on all the doses you need.

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I am a layman, albeit one with lifelong chronic pain due to childhood Legg Calve Perthes disease. I would like to speak with you regarding your flattened femoral head and acetabular hijinx.

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Now with endo (the makers of opanas) f-ING up and mixing wrong medications in wrong bottles, now us here in ct are temporarilly having to go on something else because they have recalled it and taken it off the shelves, I have gone to their website and they are saying that just the opana er is the only medication that there is nothing comparable, so I have a Dr appt. On Fri, and I'm s***ting bricks because I take 6 40mg ers a day, and I'm nervous about having withdrawl type symptoms, and nevermind the pain that I feel on a daily baisis, does anyone know if this is happening in ny, or mass? And know if there is anything else that really is comparable, that I can ask my Dr for until endo figures this crap out? Oh yeah and they have known about it since 2009 and just decided to do something about it, makes no sense!!!!!

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Katrina, I went from oxy 80's 4x a day to 4 opana 40mg er a day and I did just fine, what your suggesting would be waaayyyy to much opana, you have to realize that an opana 40 er is equivalent to a oxy 80. Google it and check it out, I would just ask for perc 30's for breakthrough pain and you should be ok, opanas rock, I know they made my quality of life a lot better, I'm not saying I don't have my bad days, but a lot less often since I went on the opana. Hope this helps:)

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Opana ER only comes that way...It works better for me since I went up to 30 mg tablets! I find that I need breakthrough medication at about 7 hours! I take 2 10/325 mg of Percocet and 4 hours later I take another Opana ER! I prefer the Percocet but its only a fast acting narcotic and I don't like all that Tylenol on my Liver, so that is why I started taking the Opana Er...the only thing I find wrong with the drug, is that its harder for me to void taking this drug! I just recently saw my very first pain doctor and I am NOT going back, what a quack! To top it off he is a PA which I have met many that were smarter than the Dr. but not in this case..He is telling me that Opioids don't help with pain? "HELLO IDIOT" yes it does! He never looked me in the face and wouldn't allow me to talk...he did all the talking! His eyes were so blood shot, I figured he was strung out on an Opioid! LOL I just wish there was something as strong as Percocet that lasted longer than 3-4 hours for the breakthrough pain..I have built a tolerance to the Percocet I have been taking them for 3 years now!

What is higher than Percocet?

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Hang in there. I am a dr that had to drop out of my residency due to increasing chronic pain- "no one has posterior defects in their hip joint, only lateral defects occur, & while ur cervical & lumbar discs are mysteriously, rapidly degenerating, there's no way its associated to ur minimal hip dysplasia evident on xray - therefore ur pain has no physiologic basis. U cudn't have a labral tear in ur hip joint or u wudnt b able to walk, let alone work 80-100 hrs/wk. (sometimes 40 hr days of running around the hospital forcing the pain from ur mind so u can focus on ur patient's troponin levels). I quote "Either u r histrionic OR u have a major undiagnosed cancer ". Having no other "leads" on the etiology of my pain other than I was "histrionic" (at that point I was considering that my sanity very well might be in question- mayb on some level my brain wanted the drugs subconsciously? But I didnt want to believe their accusations that I had finally gotten thru med school & 3 out of 4 yrs of my residency to suddenly want to play 'the sick patient'' for secondary gain of attention & a buzz to escape my life's reality of the goal that I had been dreaming of & working for since I was 7yo.- I decided to believe in myself instead of the onslaught of lazy diagnosis given b/c my pain did not "fit" into the regular categories, & drs assumptions that my pain couldnt be as bad as I was saying it was b/c I was calmly describing it, working equivilant of 2+ full time jobs & 3 kids w/out writhing in pain & crying , & w/only a mild limp I cud hide most times when I wanted. I finally, found a dr to (reluctantly) operate on my "marginal hip dysplasia per xray" (4 ortho docs said I was 'too young'; 2 of the 4 flat out refused to operate on anyone who was taking meds for chronic pain, despite me saying I was only taking 100 mg tramadol 3-4 x/day; and 2 norco/day, advil 600mg 3x/ day, steroid injections q3 mos which allowed me to work the 80-100hrs/wk.) a dr's saying "If u operate on someone for pain, all u get is pain." when they got in there, they saw my posterior hip dysplasia was so bad it HAD severed my labrum, I ended up w them having to put in a totally new acetabulum & titaniul femoral head b/c I had a flat acetabulum & a femoral head shaped into an impossible flat, sqaurish ax shape instead of a ball. Be's taking my case to the international ortho conference to prive there IS posterior hip dysplasia.
YOU know what's inside ur head. If a doctor can be treated w such lazy diagnosis, anyone can.
Believe in urself! My delay in getting the surgery destroyed about 8 discs that cud have been saved had I had the surgery when I first complained of pain. If this dr doesnt believe u, go to another pain dr. U will eventually find someone who believes in u too!

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no it's not ive been on this stuff 20 years now my dr,was giving me 180 oxycodone per month lortab for breakthough in the last month ive been on Opana er don't help oxycodone 30 er now oxyconin,,i live in Ky looks like im gonna have to move to another state to get meds im a single male but its gotton to where i can't clean my house ,,talk to me people i need help look up Jack Hall on Facebook

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I believe you will be satisfied with the opana as i am my doc had me taking 3 80mg oxycontin per day with fast acting 30 mg oxycodone for breakthrough pain i have discovered that with the opana that i am able to do more and i have more mobility than before the energy level has decreased in relation to the oxicontin the oc brand and i have to agree with those who say it dose work much better than the op brand oxy and this is determined from 4 yrs of use before and after extensive back surgery i will advise you to be a little more careful after the first week of the opana because you will tend to do things you wouldnt normally do because the pain will not be there and you will not realize that you are doing things that may do further harm to an injured area but the opana works i just wish there was some way to lower the price

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Does Opana have oxycodone in it ? what are they anyway and do they have binders like the oxycontins ?

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Does this Opana I'm hearing so much about come in short term usage? I've never understood how er meds help as they deliver small amt's at a time. Does anybody know the Opana equivalency to 110mg. of meth a day? Don't want to tell my doc it's no longer helping, I think he'll cut me off if I complain. What a shame to have to live this way especially when you're broke & barely functional.

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I have been on Oxycodone 30 mg i get 240 a month and Oxycontyin 80 mg, My Dr. Gave me Opana 40 mg but i didnt notice any difference until he told me to take two every 12 hrs . So the Opana 40mg if i were taking 2 of them to make 80mg Opana is that better than an 80 mg oxycontin ?

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I used oxycontin; different doses with relief but as usual the tolerance kicked in & there I was again;back to doubling doses to get the same pain relief. I am presently on 11 -10mg. methadones/day & here comes the tolerance.. So tired of the same old song & dance. On Medicare so can"t even aford any surgeries that might help. Thanks for listening!

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yes the opana 40 mill er's are better i am a dyalisis patient 17 yrs now and i have nerve ending damage in my legs and my dr started me out on percacet 10/325 and that was ok for awhile than a friend told me about opana and i started to see a pain management and he put me on it with the perks but he put me on the perks without the 325 of tylenol in it because i take 40 mills of opana erevery 12 hours and 1 oxycodone 10 every 3 hours and he took me off the 10/325 cause that is to much tylenol to be take for the liver and all this works fine it does'nt take the pain away completely but it makes it so i am able to walk and be comfortable

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