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alaric
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 Posted: 04/29/07 - 03:52 Post subject: |
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| I wonder which is better MS Contin or Oxycontin. I ask this because I have been using Oxycontin for some time now and now I am switching to MS Contin. Is it a stronger drug? Will it have better effect on me or not? What are your experiences? It seems that Oxycontin is not that good for me, so I am trying something else. I would be grateful for any info you might give me. |
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| Posted: 05/05/07 - 22:36 Post subject: |
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Well, it does seem that you have to change your therapy. As for its effects, you must know that it differs from one patient to another. While it can completly help one person, it might even worse the condition of the other. The same goes for the side effects, which can occur in on patient, but not in other. MS Contin is basically morphine, while oxycontine is narcotic analgesic. MS should be stronger than Oxycontine, but will it affect you in that way, you wont know until you start the therapy.
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| Posted: 01/22/08 - 17:38 Post subject: Oxycontin versus MsContin |
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I was on Oxycontin for chronic pain and had gotten up to 360mg per day
along with Oxycodone 5 9 pills per day for breakthrough pain when my Primary Care doctor at the VA Hospital left and I got a new Primary Crae doctor who despite my history, and it was backed up with an evaluation done at a VA Pain Clinic supporting the treatment plan, decided he was changing the plan because he personally did not believe in using strong narcotic pain medications and a chronic pain patient has got to learn to live with the pain. His choice was to disreagrded all previous reccomendations and to switch me to Methadone for pain cpntrol. I later foubd out that this is the cheapest pain killer the VA can get and is being pushed by the pharmacy for doctors to use on all Patients who need pain mediations. I objected to this doctors attitude and was changed to the head of Ambulatory Crae as my new Primary Care Doctor months later after I had been switched to Methoadone already with disaterous effects gaining 30 poundas and no pain relief. I was switched to Ms Contin which was much better than Methadone and lost 40 pounda had better pain control was tirtrated up to 60mg TID but becam tolerant and the doctor began thinking of swithing back to Oxycontin temporilly and thena back to Ms contin after a certain time. Apparently there is a need to swithc medication every so often as you become tolerant to the medictaion you are on oinorder to get optium benefit. But I have concluded Oxyxonti nis stronger than Ms Contin. |
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