percs make you hot - Pain Management Message Board

gobo · 12-23-2006, 06:45 PM

i have been in pain manag. since june and on percs started on 5 mg but now up to 7.5 every 4-6 hrs. anyways im a naturally hot natured person and also everytime i take the percs i get hot which makes me even hotter i was just wondering for anybody here whos been on percs a while if that ever goes away or does your body ever adjust to it because being hot natured plus the heat the percs give off makes you miserable especially in summer.

zuzu23 · 12-23-2006, 08:03 PM

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Originally Posted by gobo

i have been in pain manag. since june and on percs started on 5 mg but now up to 7.5 every 4-6 hrs. anyways im a naturally hot natured person and also everytime i take the percs i get hot which makes me even hotter i was just wondering for anybody here whos been on percs a while if that ever goes away or does your body ever adjust to it because being hot natured plus the heat the percs give off makes you miserable especially in summer.

I'm not sure what you mean by "hot natured." Do you mean your temper? Because if that's what you mean, I think I know what you mean. I've been on the same as you since March 2004. I also have hyperthyroidism, which causes night sweats, hot flashes, and a higher than normal core body temperature. Even now, almost 3 years later, the percocets do occasionally (fairly often)make me flush (feels like a heat wave, hot flash, like opening the oven door. Other people tell me that when this happens, my whole body turns purple for a while. It feels like your head's going to pop off.

slipperyslope · 12-24-2006, 03:25 AM

I think he means the pills make him hot and sweaty and he is genrally a warm person Not that he is hot tempered LOL. Opiates make me sweat to, it never gets any better in my case, its the nautre of the beast and pretty common.

Shoreline · 12-24-2006, 04:31 AM

I know what you mean. My wife is always cld and I'm always warm in bed with as little blanket on me as possible.

The sweating was a problem with meth that never went away, but it wasn't aproblem with oxy or morph or the meds they ave me on now. I ddo remeber seating uncontrolably after surgery when using PCA dilaudid, but like SS said, that's a side effect of opiates. They do cause flushing. NOw I'm back to just warm naturered, I mighht feel a little ho flash frm time to time from using BT meds, but not the change your shirt 3 times a day because your drencing it sweat. I had to put up with that prior to the pump when I didn't have prescription nsurance. The only med I could afford was meth and sweating was a nasty side efect. Any amount of exertion or sometimes none at all and sweat would soak my hair and drip from my nose and I would have to change shirts.. Keeping your hair short helps a little. I do think this will get better with time and you will be your same old, warm blooded self minus the hot flashes.

I think most folks do accomadate to that side efect. It seems continued problems other than with methadone do tend to deminsih over time. I've read thousands of posts over the last 7 years and it really doesn't seem sweating from oxy has been an onngoing problem or complaint of oxy users. Meth never stopped but the hot flashes of oxy did deminsh with time for me, not that I ever really found a right dose of oxy. The doc that started me onit, had her mental limits. I had to cange docs due to insurance issues and my new doc doesn't prescribe OxyC. I live in VA where th stigma of a few posckests of abuse got media attn annd purdue created the first OPxyC trackng system as a way to combat this. It just draws too much attn from the DERA so he doesn't take that chance. It's his chice to avoid the oxyC radar and I can't blame him for wanting to be able to help everyone that willl benefit from some other drug without the DEA constantly in his ofice.

Not to discont SS, It's nice to hear all women don't have pop cycles for toes and the "I'm cold" complaint year round.

Flushing is a classic opiate side effect. Hopefuly one that will deminsih for all that suffer. I wouldn't be as optoimitisc if the med was methadone, but I had good luck with side effects deminsihing from oxy.

Oxyodone is the med I choose for BT pain with a pump deliverying dilaudid now . Sweating hasn't been an issue for years since the pump was implanted and I stopped methadone.

Good luck, Dave

ozzybug · 12-24-2006, 07:02 AM

Gobo-
I have to agree with you!! Lately, I seem to get really warm, when I am usually more of a cold natured person. I've been getting hot flashes and also sweaty palms (really gross) and thought maybe I was going through early menopause!!! At my last PM appointment, I told the doctor about the sweaty palms and hot flashes and he told me that it is more than likely the narcotic medication he has me on. (Norco) He told me it's not uncommon for narcotic medications to have this effect.

For me, I'll put up with the hot flashes and sweaty palms. I'm ok with the trade off because I'm able to function more than I have in years. I hope your body will adjust a bit more and at least be less prone to being so uncomfortably hot. It must be pretty bad for you especially since you are already hot natured.

Good Luck! Happy Holidays!