I have throat cancer and the new Oxycontin 30 mg prescribed by my pain management center in my local hospital got embedded into my tumor for over an hour swelling up like a sponge, making it even harder to swallow. The smaller Oxycontin pill went down easier with 6 to 8 oz of water. There still should make the old formula. I was never an abuser, always following up every month with my PM Doctor at the hospital. The new pills now are no good for any throat cancers. It doesn't make any sense what they did except to take it out on honest people because of others trying to crush it. What kind of country are we? Those that crush it will just turn to heroin while the cancer patients can't deal with the new formula.
Consumer Complaints & Reviews
I am a 100% disabled Veteran. I was involved in a serious accident, broke my left leg and both ankles. I had to have bone from hip put into my leg. I also had to have the entire left side of abs taken out and put into my leg in order for my bone to heal. I had over 20 surgeries at Balboa. I have been on Oxycontin for almost 7 years now. My doctors put me on every medicine on the market and Oxycontin was the only one that worked.
Now that Purdue Pharma has changed Oxycontin, I am in more pain than ever before. It sucks that people like myself who suffer from severe and chronic pain have to pay the consequence because of this horrible change. I don't know what the FDA was thinking approving this? I don't want to live my life in pain and because of this change, I will.
I need L4, L5, spinal fusions, 3 shoulder surgeries, knee surgery, deteriorating disk disease, and gallbladder removed due to taking the pain medicine I have to take. Arthritis in both hips, chronic pancreatitis, acute debutibititis, the list goes on and on. I was doing pretty well until they changed the oxycontin; now it takes longer to take affect at all. It does not last as long and does not help that much. I do not drink at all so that is why I think the oxycontin brought on the chronic pancreatitis and the acute debutibititis. I know it is.
I was never told that oxycontin had heroin in it by anyone. It worked great, but now since they changed it and I have been looking into this I found out that heroin is in it. No wonder it worked as it did. Since they changed it I can not even get in and out of the bath tub with out help. I can no longer play with my 6 grandchildren. I either sit in a chair or lay in a bed and it has caused me to have chronic pancreatitis and acute debutibititis that I had never been bothered with before until I started taking that drug. Now they changed it because of all the junkies and there are a lot of people that are in the same situation I am in. There has to be some thing that does not have heroin in it that is time realized that will work as well as the old oxycontin use to. I can't get any help any where and do not know what to do.
Due to an injury my son was taking Oxycontin. He had made cookies with Peanut butter chips, ate some and became tired and was trying to sleep. My son's throat, mouth, lips and part of his face swelled and he became unable to breathe.
My son was home alone and called 911 and was transported by ambulance to the hospital due to an anaphalaxic reaction. When he arrived at the hospital and they asked him what meds he was on and what he had eaten, he was advised that you cannot eat peanut butter with oxycontin as it can cause an anaphalaxic reaction. There was no warning on the medication and I couldn't find anything online, but the attendant at the hospital was aware of it.
The new formulation of oxycontin OP does not work as well for my chronic pain from 3 failed spine surgeries. I don't know what to do since my case is inoperable. It is going to be very difficult for me to live. I have tried morphine and many other pain drugs. My pain is so severe that I cannot stand or sit for more than 20 minutes. My life mostly consists of lying on my back with my hips elevated.
