Doctors claim oxycodone exacerbates pain but nothing else helps

This is what happens when government gets involved in (between) Dr. and patient.

I took Suboxone for my chronic pain from DDD for over 10 years. It worked great, was easy to get compared to the way they treat opiods today. However, my pain eventually got worse and now on Fentanyl patch. The good thing about it is it seemed to work fine at the same dose for over 10 years. Opiods cause us to build a tolerance to them, we'll require more and more to get the same relief...if you can avoid this, DO because today the Dr.s cannot treat their patients based on what's best for the patient, they have the government strictly monitoring them and t he restrictions are GOVERNMENT imposed...NOT necessarily what your Dr. thinks is best for you. Maybe when enough of the moms, brothers, sisters and kids of these legislators get denied treatment or under treated)for their pain....maybe things will change. For some reason folks who suffer the most with pain just...suffer. It seems nobody is "fighting" for PATIENTS rights, but for drug addicts...who have a much easier time getting drugs on the street than we do in the pharmacy.

@fairymystry you should consider using buprenorphine patch which provides 24/7 pain relief instead of oxycodone. The doctors are correct the drug is most likely no longer efficacious and is making her sicker. It’s certainly doing a number on her gut taking into consideration all her other conditions too. This might help too. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC4675640/
Since you didn’t mention it I presume she’s not a surgical candidate? She might also consider seeking care at a major medical center with many options.

I have just begun taking Suboxone and am currently titrating up to a dose that I can both tolerate and will help my pain.
Suboxone is actually a medication used to get people off opioids without experiencing withdrawal, but is used off-label for pain control. It works with some patients.
I’m hoping the Suboxone will help me. So far I am taking just a small piece of a pill three times a day, but I should be taking a stronger dose soon.
I am hopeful that the Suboxone will help my pain.
I suffer with extreme lower back and leg pain and have for many years.
Hydromorphone helped for a while but I developed a tolerance to it and it stopped working.
50 mcg of Fentanyl does nothing.
Gabapentin helps the neuropathy in my feet a bit.
I will keep you posted.

Wow,do you have to stop oxycodone before taking Suboxone?

I'm so sorry for the delayed response. I have taken oxycodone in the past (years ago) but at that time I was struggling with addiction. I always felt like I needed more and more since my tolerance kept increasing. I found that I do way better on Suboxone. It helps with my pain and it has a half life so it stays in your system longer which is good for easing my pain. J definitely still feel pain but it's normally at a manageable level. Also I personally think it has less side effects. The withdrawal from it is way longer than oxycodone is. It's reallmh6 the n

Here are my suggestions. I’ve taken Percocet for 20 years and recently switched over to the same amount in the form of oxycodone. The Tylenol in the Percocet was irritating my gastrointestinal track, and my urethra so I gave myself a break and just take the same amount in in the oxycodone without the Tylenol. It’s a little less effective because the Tylenol gives the extra boost in a non-narcotic way.
From what you said the first thing that occurs to me is your friends not drinking enough water. Have her try a lot more water and take it with food. The second thing is to make sure your friend doesn’t have a lactose intolerance because guess what the oxycodone has lactose in it! You didn’t say how much your friend takes, but it doesn’t take much to get stomach aches and damage your stomach, intestinal track from having lactose when you are intolerant and may not know it. Recently I was switched from the pink pill to the white pill and the white pill gave me stomach aches, and the pink pill didn’t. The white pill probably has More lactose. So now I drink more water and take with food and made a big stink so I could get the pink pills. We better face it. We’re getting cheaper drugs and they are gonna cause consequences if you happen to have lactose or gluten intolerance so you’re going to need to check your medications and maybe take lactase pills with it. So please tell your friend to start taking lactase pills and then see if her ailments are any better if so, it might mean that she’s lactose intolerant and doesn’t realize it. Lactose intolerance and gluten intolerance extends to our medication and nobody looks at our profiles, even if we do have it in there. When I get stomach aches after my diet has been clean (I’m on the FODMAP diet at Monash university for six years (it’s free), which solved all my IBS problems with food. It didn’t solve it with medication’s. There’s also something called SIBO small intestinal bacterial overgrowth. Your friend needs to be tested for that. I went to two gastroenterologist, and they were completely useless when it came to the kind of problems I was having with diet. All they want to do is test for finding tumors and physical obstructions, but the pain you have from improperly digesting foods and medicines can be just as painful. Again, let me reiterate telling your friend to take extra fluids for a while and a little food with her medication and getting the test for SIBO and looking at IBS and other food intolerances might go along way to healing her. As well as there are great acupuncture and deep tissue massage treatments, which go along way to relief in the interim good luck.

Did they suggest you take Suboxone for your pain? or are they simply taking you off the pain meds with it? I also now have a Fentanyl patch 50 mcg, it helped at first but not anymore.
Please let me know how the Suboxone works, and is your pain Dr. prescribing it? Here in California I have learned that the Paid Dr.s don't use Suboxone, only certain Dr.s who get people off of opiods. I would have loved to stay on Suboxone...I was taking 2 sublingual strips per day (my Primary Dr. prescribed it) which I think is the maximum.

Don’t know if you are talking about subono whatever it is, but there is nothing worse than constant pain.

I have tried all,but oxycodone works. Some people. E
Need it 3 surgeries and 35 epidurals plus all those you mentioned did not help. Do not feel guilty about opioids.