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@jackiet you should have no digestive problems with the opioids themselves. What I think might be your problem is the lactose in the pills. Are you lactose intolerant by any chance? People forget to check the ingredients of their medicine. The white pill oxycodone gives me a stomach ache, which is rectified by taking a Lactaid pill. Everyone thinks that cheap medicines are so great. I just find that cheap medicines bring a lot of ingredients that we can’t tolerate in our older age one of them being lactose the other being gluten. There’s a white pill oxycodone a pink pill oxycodone (I tolerate those very well) and there is the Percocet, which I mainly have used for 25 years and have no digestive problems. Sometimes when the pharmacies change brands, it causes a problem and I always find that the problem is in the ingredients which are overlooked by the cheap proliferation of medicine these days. I hope that helps you PS you could also have a condition called SIBO small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, which requires a targeted antibiotic called Xifaxan. Periodically I have to take that and then I can go back to being a somewhat normal person and just taking the Lactaid pills. I hope that helps you.

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@loriesco Around two months ago I switched from taking hydrocodone with acetaminophen to oxycontin (I understand that's pure oxycodone) Controlled Release, along with some Percocet (the combination of oxycodone with acetaminophen). Correct me if I'm wrong about these distinctions, because I can't follow your pink and white pill references. The oxycontin 15 mg was grey and the oxycontin 10 mg is white. The other pills were always white. When I made this switched to the controlled release (CR or ER) is when I think I started having worse stomach problems.

I had thought that was a good idea because the oxycontin was controlled release and would get me through 12 hours instead of 6, and I couldn't get hydrocodone controlled release because it wasn't being manufactured at the time.

I am lactose intolerant and often gluten intolerant as well. Based on your suggestion I am going to immediately make the switch to taking Percocet twice a day to see if that makes a difference. If it does I'm throwing away the damn oxycontin.

Thank you so much for your input. You would think my doctor could have clued me in.......