oxycodone for arthritis pain

Oxycodone is a great pain medication. However, it works best for breakthrough pain which is pain that is above your baseline pain level. Typically, a long acting opioid is used for pain relief from your baseline pain levels. If pain breaks through the long acting opioid, oxycodone or some other Immediate Release opioid is used to relieve the breakthrough pain.

when i use restroom its painful and i bleed,my qusetion is what can i do for the pain and why am i always so cold? any info would help thank you and god bbless you all.

I was a teachers aide in special ed and one of my students attack me resulting in fracturing my L4/L5/S1 also I have rheumatoid arthritis anyway I was put on 60mg morphine er twice a day and for the breakthrough oxycodone 15 mg every 4/6 hours. I was doing fine then he started lowering my meds. He put me on 1 60mg of morphine er and oxycodone 15mg every 6 hours. My pain is horrible and put me back in bed.

This is really hard and I feel for you. First, FIND a pain management clinic. EVEN if they don't agree to your oxycodone script continuing. Because what you don't want is to just be out and have to go through painful withdrawal. You need a doctor overseeing how to help you. Unfortunately, doctors do this thing now of abandoning patients when they decide maybe there is a dependence issue.

ve done the research on oxycontin as requested and can see that they most likely are worrying about the dose of tylenol for so long. I do want to decrease pain meds and am worried about addiction. This percocet rx has been ongoing for at least 3-4 years on an increasing dose basis. I have a connective tissue disorder as well as an inflammatory arthritis - various tendon tears/problems, 3 broken metatarsals, back and joint surgeries, etc.

I spoke to another person who said that she takes oxycodone and it helps her with the pain and it does not make her as drowsy. I work in a very stressful position which requires me to make snap decisions so the drowsiness does not help and I also sit at a computer most of the day.. Can you give me some idea of which medication and or other treatments that might help me?. Can you please respond at your earliest convenience. Thanks in advance for you help. P.S. I NEED HELP!!!

for the last year the morphine and oxycodone are becoming less effective, and his arthritis and stenosis is getting worse (his doc was shocked by his most recent X-rays). He used to have 1 - 2 breakthrough flare ups a month, now he has more like 5 - 10. He asked his doctor about a year ago if there were any other options (injections, surgery, etc) but his doc said that he isn't ready for that stuff yet. But his pain is much worse.

I'm 83 years old, female, andhave for the largest part of my life lived with addiction to alcohol and tobacco, but am now off of both with family intervention. Two months ago I had hip replacement surgery with oxycodone prescribed for pain after surgery, and now I can't sleep and have severe muscle spasms if I don't have oxycodone around the clock. I'm going for surgical followup in a few days but need to know how to get off this drug without going crazy.

I also took Darvocet and there is nothing else for my pain except the real strong stuff and I am trying to hold off as long as I can before I would take those, I have osteoarthritis in my joints, I need a hip replacement and I have osteoarthritis in my back also, I dont know what to take for pain.

Hi I was just looking for everyone's personal opinion regarding my history of pain and narcotic meds. My pain is from DDD, arthritis in my back L4-L5, S1, sciatica left leg and also severe arthritis in my knees and I had to retire early as a Firefighter of 22 years. 10 years ago started on Tylenol 3 and slowly went to Percocet, OxyContin then to morphine MS Contin and statex to dilauded and hydro morphing ER to back to oxycodone and now on fentanyl 37 mcg.

Arent they the same thing? Why would I be having withdrawels? I take the meds for real pain, and ran out of the percocet, because I try not to take as much oxycontin, becuase it makes me tired and gives me a headache. Any ideas?

5 s a day when I crushed my ribs in 2001 and found it took care of the fibro pain - and the back pain I was having after a day of physical work. My Dr switched me to Oxycodone after an epidural - it's a terrible depressing feeling drug for me. He won't go back to Norco. Do you think I am having withdrawals from taking 3 tabs 10/325 (I only took a few oxycodone) for 5 years or this is fibro. Without the Norco I am always fatigued, achy, and confused feeling.

My pain regimen includes the Fentanyl patch which I wear for 48 hours along with oxycodone IR for breakthrough pain. I also take Gabapentin, a muscle relaxer, valium, an anti-depressant, and OTC Aleve. The latter list of medications are known as adjuvant medications which help the opioid medications work more effectively.

No judgment here doll, I would talk to your doctor so you guys can work out a plan that will work for your pain and not hurt the baby. I was in a lot of pain when I was Peggi with my last baby, I could barley walk so feel ya. See about acupuncture if that will be okay while pro I have herd amazing things from good friends of mine with bad back pain. there are some other women on here that have or are prego who might bee able to help you too.

Hi everyone :) My Dad recently had a stroke, during which time they found occlusion in one of his legs, causing foot pain. He's currently on Oxycodone. But I'm looking for a better pain management option(s) for him. From what I've been able to ascertain, Vicodin, Celebrex, Darvo- or Percocet have seemed viable options. Can anyone share their opinions on this??? Thanks so much!

I'm 56 years old. I have been suffering with back pain from osteoprosis, a repaired broken vertabra (broke during a seizure) that still hurts all the time, bulging disc, degenerative bone desease, arthritis. I'm on pain medication all the time cause they won't do any surgery to see if that'll help, but sometimes the medicine doesn't last long enough. I've also been having a problem with C-DIFF Colitis and some other kind of bacterial infection.

Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is widely recommended for the relief of back pain and the pain of knee and hip arthritis. But a systematic review of randomized trials has found that it works no better than a placebo. Australian researchers reviewed three randomized trials that compared acetaminophen with a placebo for the relief of spinal pain, and 10 trials that compared their use for easing the pain of osteoarthritis. All together, the analysis included 5,366 patients.

Under my primary care instruction I went to the ER and it was determined that I do have severe arthritis in the neck and spinal area. Some of the vertabraes gaps having arthritis are so narrow that they may be pinching the nerves causing the severe pain in the shoulder. The doctor prescribed Oxycodone, Ibuprofen (800mg), and a muscle relaxer. After takuing two doses of all three since 10AM (12/29/2014). Some of the pain has relaxed.

Yes I am on so many its scary!! I'm on Oxycodone, amitriptaline, omoprazole, sertraline, a water tablet amongst others. I'm almost 14 weeks pregnant and have fibromyalgia and arthritis and also have a slipped disc. I'm slowly coming off of the Oxycodone but I have spoken to a specialist who adviced me to continue with the other meds.

I have taken Paracetamol for a year to help with my arthritis but it took time for me to notice a difference & now I feel it if I miss a dose or two. The anti inflammatories you can buy over the counter at the pharmacy but you can get more potent ones from your doctor. I know this combination at least tamed my toothache & earache during a recent Chest & Sinus infection. I'm sorry I don't have any other ideas.....hopefully somebody else may have something better.

s effective for me may not be for you and visa verse. If your pain is extreme enough to warrant opiates (and I assume it is) then discuss this with your PMP. Short acting oxycodone (Percocet) has never been as effective on my particular pain as hydrocodone. It doesn't make sense I know...but it's a fact. Why a lesser opiate is more beneficial then a stronger one does not make a lot of sense. I simply am proof that different meds work differently on different ppl.

I hope that this can give someone hope. After so much pain for 5 years and trying all sort of procedures, pain meds and surgeries with no relief, I had got to the point of feeling like this was as good as it was going to get ... and it wasn't good. Even the doctors were losing hope that they'd find something that would help a little. This forum has helped me so much over the years ...

Yeah, it's pretty much the opiate count. The /500 is the tylenol and is supposed to help kick in the opiate but I've found that the 2nd number is really irrelevant for someone who has been using for awhile. I take 10mg's of oxycodone 3x a day. There is no tylenol in them.... just the opiate and some other minor additives. For me there is no differnce between a 10mg oxycodone or a 10/500mg percocet even though they are both oxycodone. So yeah....

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