Is there a stronger pain medicine I can take besides oxycodone for the pain from my tonsillectomy?

Question

I just recently(about 4 days ago)had my tonsills and adenoids removed and some bone reduction from inside my nose.I'm 29 years old and completely understand the pain is much more severe in adults than it is for children...and trust me,days 3 and 4 have been very severe so far.I was given liquid oxycodone/acetominophen for the pain but this is barely cutting it for me.Plus the medicine burns going down.I seem to be taking more than prescribed to help with the pain which I know isnt healthy but the medicine barely works and leaves me with a huge headache.Does anyone know if there are any other kinds of liquid medication that are stronger than what I am taking and that work better?Plus any other helpful hints to get through this would be appreciated...thanks.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, even if people can tell you about other drugs, nobody on this site can actually prescribe it for you. Anything stronger than what you have is going to need a prescription. Call your doctor and ask what he or she can do for you.

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Answer 3

I've been taking oxycodone for three years, not a high dose though, just 10 mg/325. They work pretty well for me by at least taking the edge off the pain I'm in. The problem is that I sometimes have to take 5 in a day instead of 4 and then I run a day or two short at the end of the month. When this happens my body goes into withdrawls which include horrible restless legs, anxiety, and of course bad back pain. I can't sleep or eat or do anything except try to keep my mind off the fact that I don't have any meds. I hate this vicious cycle of misery.....I just hate it.

Answer 4

Call your doctor but don't be too optimistic that they'll prescribe anything different or stronger. Many doctors care little for pain management if at all.

I live with chronic pain after numerous broken bones and a car accident as a pedestrian. Some things I do are:

Shower and slowly reduce the hot water until you are standing under ice cold water. Stay there until all you can possibly think of is how freezing you are and how badly you want out. Then get out, dry off and cuddle up under a warm blanket. Something about the reaction to cold cuts pain.

Practice breathing exercises - think Lamaze childbirth - look up breathing exercises. It helps with your natural pain response.

Distractions are good. Watch television, read a book, listen to favorite music.

Ask a doctor first on this one but I've successfully alternated ibuprofen with oxycodone to help get swelling and pain under control before.

Sorry you're hurting so bad.

Answer 5

First off, oxycodone does not contain codeine, and morphine is not the same as stadol. Those are 4 different drugs. Yes, there are other drugs stronger and/or different than oxycodone that may help. You are not being a baby, the surgery you had is VERY painful, especially for adults. Call the surgeon and tell him/her that the pain meds are not helping much, they give you headaches, and ask if there is anything else that can be prescribed. They should be able to help you out.

Answer 6

Hey shorty!!!!!!!! Man, i can't believe you are in that much pain from that operation and that they even gave you oxycodone!! I'm not saying that you're pain isn't real but that is a very strong narcotic..........i have to take vicodin (Lortab) and that doesn't cut my pain either but i've tried morphine and methadone and they were both too strong so i just stick to my Lortab and suffer a little. OK, they make morphine in a spray form called Stadol, maybe that would be better and then you wouldn't even have to swallow at all????????? They also make the vicodin in syrup form??????? BE SURE to tell your doc that the med you are on is giving you headaches!!!!!!! It may be the codeine in it cause i doublt it is the acetaminophen (tylenol). So good luck and i hope you find something better but be careful cause all these meds are very addictive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Answer 7

call your doctor, course while on the meds, have someone else call the doc for you, looks better that way, not like an addict begging for something stronger...and have some frozen sorbet till you get the new meds. Make sure the doc knows you are getting headaches and its not cutting the pain, though you are supposed to feel pain during this recovery it should not be enough to stop everyday activities.

Reason for the sorbet is its water based with fruit (antioxidants! yeah!) and better than ice cream. Ice cream having milk can aide in infection due to the cultures and can cause you to cough and have phlegm build up. ouch.

Answer 8

I doubt many doctors will prescribe it for your condition (but hey, I'm not an MD) but you can always ask. It is Dilaudid(hydromorphone HCL) and does come in liquid form.

My mom was given it in tablet form for terminal cancer pain. Her oncologist described it as the closest thing to Heroin available in the US.

As for cocaine...yes it is a legal Schedule II narcotic as is Dilaudid and oxycodone...but I am not sure if it is available in liquid form.

Hope you get the relief you need

Answer 9

Firstly, you should inform your physician that you want tablets, not liquid. Assuming you're taking Percocet, be aware that oxycodone is a Schedule 2 medication. Doctors are scared to prescribe it, and when they do the script is for too few pills with instructions to take too few pills. You have the human right to control your body and be free of pain. If the dosage of oxycodone prescribed by your physician is not doing the job, increase the dosage. I guarantee you that if this physician was experiencing your kind of pain, he would be popping Percocet like M&Ms.

Answer 10

cocaine, but I rarely saw this prescribed ,it comes in liquid and powder form but I only saw the powder form in the recovery room right after surgery and the liquid form on the surgical floors ,one was for a wound cant remember the other, and a doctor used it for my eye once but it can only be used once every 24 hours in your eye cause any higher dose would be toxic to the eye