Does the age of a prescription medicine effect the potency?

Question

I am in MAJOR pain. They ended up putting me on oxycodone. I can take 1-2 every 6 hours, but they only worked enough to just hardly ease the pain, but i was happy to be able to move around. I got a new bottle, and it sems to be kicking my butt. I just found out i only need i pill and the one pill works even better than 2. (out of the last bottle). Is it me? Or is it a time thing please tell me, cause i am upset i paid $ and thought something was wrong with me cause the other pills were not helping that much. And no wonder the doc would look at me as a drug addict. I am seriouse! Sometimes i took 3 pills and was better and functional,from the last bottle, but this new one, i took 2 because it was normal and got stoned off my butt, and now taking just 1 works even better than 3 of the other. Is it me?

Answer 1

Well, certainly there are medications in which the active ingredient is a compound that degrades over time, making it less effective as time progresses. I do not know whether oxycodone is such a compound, or if it degrades enough to produce a significant impact on its efficiency.

However, other factors may be at work here. It may be that your body chemistry initially had a high tolerance to the drug, but now that you've taken more of it your tolerance has dropped. Have you taken any of the last bottle's pills since you've tried the new bottle? Are they still as ineffective?

If so, another possibility other than the one you mentioned may be just that the first bottle contained a bad batch of the pills. By the way, those are highly addictive so be careful when using them. :)

Answer 2

Oxycodone has many different strengths. Do you have Percodan,Percodan ES, Percoset, Tylox, or Oxycontin ?
Some are 5mg. and others are 10mg. While Oxycontin come in 10,20,40,80,and 160mg. (strong **** ! )
Personally I've never been able to tell the difference between old and new pills ,but still if you think that could be the case then stay with the "fresh" pills.
First make sure your doc knows whats going on. And ask if he didn't up the dose.

Answer 3

People using pain killers build up a tolerance to the pills so more are needed for the same affect.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

You had been over dosing yourself. If the doctor prescribed 2 or 3, then he did not set the dosage right.

Answer 6

Age can increase and decrease potency. The shelf life is very important.

Answer 7

Ask a doctor alright.