2006-11-07 23:43:35 · 3 answers · asked by ChaliQ 4 in Health ➔ General Health Care ➔ Pain & Pain Management
Most people think that taking a narcotic is going to completely take away all of their pain. Most doctors or pain clinics that prescribe narcotics will tell you that the best you can expect is a 50 percent decrease in pain more than that and your lucky. I take 80 mg of the extended release a day and my pain has diminished approximately 60 percent for which I'm grateful. Everyone is different and react to medications differently. There are many other narcotic pain relievers that you can try, morphine, methadone, dauladid, Demerol, fentenyl. I have tried most of them and decided on Oxycontin because it causes me the least side effects.
2006-11-08 06:12:01 · answer #1 · answered by paulamcneil1223 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
everything is not gonna work for everyone something that would knock one person on their azz might not do a damn thing for the next guy most medicine is based on the general population and if u have a higher tolerance then some people then it won t help personally never had oxy but i have grown to relize the only pain med that works good for me is percocet and i mean the real percs not the generic
2006-11-08 07:49:07 · answer #2 · answered by glass_city_hustla 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I was given it for CRPS/RSD and it didn't do a thing except make me sleepy. I'm on percocet now (which has oxycontin in it) and its much better. Tell your doc about it and let him give you something else. Yes I think its very overrated.
2006-11-08 13:23:29 · answer #3 · answered by Jilly 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋