Oxycontin no longer works

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My first spine surgery the doctor in training left metal fragments in my spine.
The Second spine surgery I was a guinea pig for them to practice the new XLIF surgery, which made me worse.

I've been on Oxycontin to control the pain. At the end of Septeraber I went in to get my monthly refill and the pills had absolutely no effect. Thank God I found a Doctor that was able to diagnose what was wrong with me, the new Oxycontin does NOT work anymore.

They had to switch me to Morphine. All you on Oxycontin watch out for the new fatter little pills. They don't work. Their new formulation is keeping the body from absorbing the medication. They were forced by the FDA to reformulate the pills to keep people from snorting them.

Now they are worthless little pills and almost killed me. I laid on the couch and my hips got red hot. My legs and back went into severe spasm's. My body was so hot my wife put me in the bathtub with ice cubes. The pain was excruciating.

I just wanted to warn everyone because what I went thru took the doctors quite awhile to figure out what was going on.
 
Good warning. It may be that they changed the release mechanism or the binder. You should report it, that it's not working. Ideally if enough people report it they will change it back. Unbelievable that they are more concerned about a small percentage of people who abuse it rather than the larger percentage that need pain relief. :(
 
while some people are having some bigger issues with this newer formulation, some are not. but for ANYONE who has suffered an event like yours that is simply THAT profound, does need to report this to the FDAs medwatch adverse event reporting program. i can give you the url here since this IS a .gov site to make it easier for you.

the url is: www.fda.gov/safety/medwatch/default.htm

the FDA simply does NEED to know about ANY adverse events that are possibly attributed to ANY actual RX med, but with this newer oxycontin, there just are certain more in depth issues that have to do with certain peoples metabolisms here too? some people just cannot actually break this newer version down right because they do not carry the needed enzyme in their own livers in some cases and other reasons too.

but DO report an event like this one to the FDA. if everyone who has suffered any issues from this newer OC formulation, they WANT to know about it, trust me. and the sooner after it occurs the better.

exactly how did your doc come to the Dx and what was the specific Dx he gave for this called? this is only happening to certain people and not others who are also taking this, thats why i am wondering how he came up with/actually determined the dx and what he called it? did he simply check your blood plasma levels to see if there was or was not any oxy in your system? there is something called 'abstinance syndrome" where the med does simply pass thru a persons body without ever breaking down so they DO go into a WD syndrome of sorts? kind of sounRAB like what occured with you? and this IS what i mentioned above with the metabolization issue?

what dose were you taking when this occured? i am on the 60s and 10s and so far (my doses are 70-70-60), while i did have a two day headache, and am having some strange little vision issues, thankfully the newer stuff IS actually working for me and a few others i have chatted with too? believe me, with my pain i would most definitely have known if this went right thru me when i switched over from the old ones. but i also know a friend in one of my pain groups suffered a horrid reaction to this just like you did too. so it IS kind of an individualized type of reaction issue with certain people and thankfully not all.

i am more concerned about how quickly they got this thru the FDA and as with any med and also i have a liver and kidney disease, worried about how this is going to eventually impact peoples livers mostly since it is metabolized there, but also my lil kidneys too down the road here? from what i was reading about the drug trials on this stuff on purdues own website, they only used 591 or 571(cannot recall exact nuraber but it WAS only 500 something) patients to do a double blind study on. THAT really scares me the most with way too few people? and as usual, we the 'wider population" having to TAKE this new lil med ARE the ultimate guinea pigs, once again.

but please DO report this 'event' to the FDA asap so all of this adverse data simply GETS to who NEERAB to know about it, the FDA, K? you will be doing MANY other people a huge favor by just reporting. sorry for what you had to go thru there guy. marcia
 
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