Does anyone have experience with Oxycontin as pain medication for rheumatoid arthritis?
Oxycontin is not meant for PRN pain medication. Your doctor should be putting you on a different drug for pain – here’s why. Oxycontin is a time release medication and the effect builds over the course of 1-2 hours and lasts for 8 to 12 hours. You’re getting roughly the same effect as taking percocet 10 every four hours and are possibly being mildly over medicated. If you need pain relief for 8-12 hours at a time, then you probably are on the right medication. Again, here’s why – oxycontin has no other additives like Tylenol or aspirin which you are probably already taking. People like you and me who have chronic pain need to have the minimum amount of medication to alleviate pain and allow us to function normally. Getting too high of a dose now means you’ll need higher doses in the future. Eventually, you can get to a point where you can’t be controlled by oral medication. Not a big possibility if you’re in your mid forties, but a big problem if you’re only 21. In the end, only you ca
