Oxycodone scare for 3 years, feeling awful now, dizzy, lightheaded, foggy - Pain Management Message Board

tbreeze27 · 01-24-2008, 06:57 PM

Hello
I have been on Oxycodone 512 60 a month for almost 3 years. This past summer, about or around late July, I started feeling different on them. This was not every time, but more then I wanted to deal with. I would take two, 20 minutes later, followed by dizziness, lightheaded, the feeling of something rushing thru me, sweating a bit. . . And, this would go on for a hour or two. This didn't happen every time. November rolls around, this weird feeling from it is happening almost every time I take it. I have actually back pain, but that "better" feeling was gone. I have now been placed on Oxycontin, 10mg 60 a month along with Hydro 5/500. Stupidly, I chewed an oxy only to find out. . . That dizzy feeling and everything that went along with it was still there. I generally take my meds as prescribed by the Dr. I will admit that I have made bad descions and ate 60 oxy in less then a week. Last time I did that, June I think. . But I am tired of this. As I'm sitting here, I feel foggy, confusion, lightheaded. What changed? What went wrong? I do not, and have not craved a higher does. In fact, my fear of what it does to me has made me not take it for 5 days now, until tonight. I have not found any posting or anyone having these same results or symptoms. How does it go great for 3 years and then down hill from there? I got excited when I read about oxycontin and TEVA, thinking it was generic related. Soon I remembered Percocet 512, 60 a month for 3 years. My pain is awful, but I can't take these spells Oxy has placed on my head each time. I feel lost sometimes. I have no stomach pains, nothing other then feeling like I have helium in my head for an hour. My eyes whites look clear, I'm not a druggy so liver problems is out of the question. One thing to note. . . I was in the hospital two times in 2007, March and April . . . Viral Meningitis. Morphine helped for a day . . . Then started to last only 15 minutes. . . Dr placed me on MScontin, that did not one thing, Dr placed me on MScontin and Percocet, again, nothing, finally, Dr placed me on Dilauded, that worked. . . again, for a short time. He mentioned to me that I was far and few who tolerated the amount of Dilauded that I was getting. 1 full injection every hour. Nurses said that to me as well every time I got it. I left after seven days. Dr sent me home with Hydromorphone, 25 pills. Felt not one thing with those. The narcotic bit was the same second time around with meningitis. Back to oxycodone 512, 2007 July, comes the weird change from oxy. I do not feel this way from Hydrocode. I tried a fent patch two months ago, 50mg, felt wonderful the next day, bam, second day, dizzy, light headed, just weird. Please do not jump to call me an addict. There is something else going on. If I were an addict, I think I would have taken a handful to see if that cured the head float. . . I chose in fear not to take anything. I do not crave either. If I can not find an answer or suggestion, I honestly will have to stop taken them. Answer or back pain I guess.
Tony

HappyFlower · 01-24-2008, 07:27 PM

Hmm...welcome to the boards. I have never experienced what you are describing and have no idea what it might be. There are many smart people on this board with knowledge far above mine. I hope one of them can help.

I do know that you are not supposed to break, chew, or snort Oxycontin. I think it has something to do with the extended relief make-up....although I don't think you are supposed to chew any drug except those which so say on the directions line.

Best of luck and I hope you find the answers you are looking for.

tbreeze27 · 01-25-2008, 09:44 AM

Thanks so much for replying. I do now that I am not suppose to chew them. Oxycontin is XR so I stupidly chewed to see if it gave me that dizzy feeling, sweating, and foggy head. . . It did. There has to be someone out there who's had this before. I get that feeling now almost every time I take any form of Oxy. It's getting so bad that my prescription ended Dec 31, 2007. . . I went all the was to Jan 21, this year because I just didn't wanna deal with it. I went 18 days with no pain meds. It was awful to have to only use IB because that does not help with me back problem. I was a gymnast for almost 9 years. I was extremly hard on my body, sports wise. I made the choice on Jan 21 to hold off on an SI FUSION. . . taking the meds rout. I will do it sometime, but I'm 28 and I don't think I want to jump into a surgery like that with all the different outcomes that came come from it. As for this Oxy problem Im now having. . . I don't want to say anything to my Dr because I don't know what he will be thinking or do. I can't talk to him about going "narcotic" shopping . . . trying to see what doesn't make me feel this way anymore. I'm on a strict program with med. Getting 60 Oxycontin a month and 60 Hydrocodone. I do not know what to do or who to ask or how to find answers, someone who can tell me what is going on with the way my body is matabeliztion Oxyconde in percocet or oxycontin form. I know it's not withdrawls because I can go a very long time without any form of narcotic. If I took four percocet, I would get the feeling, if I took just one percocet, I would get the feeling. I guess I'm the only one who feels this. I just think it's very weird that I have been on Oxy for 3 years and this July it decides to do a 360 on me and my head. I do still get my pain relief from it. That has never distand or not work. I think anyone who has every been on Oxy knows that. . .when you take them, it gives you that burst of relief and that great feeling about 30 minutes later. I had that for 3 years. . . now I get the burst of dizzyness, foggyness, sweating and confusion for an hour instead of the good feeling. It does go away, like I said, in an hour or two. . . I do respond in full to the medication itself. I do not need it to be strong or anything like that.

RetiredDirector · 01-25-2008, 02:44 PM

Two things come to mind in reading your posts. I don't know if they have any kind of validity or not, but I'll pass them along to you anyway.

The first is the Meningitis just prior to these episodes starting. You could do some online research and see what you can possibly find out. Probably the best and fastest way is to bring it up to your doctor. He can either switch you to maybe Duregesic (Fentanyl) patches or Methadone and maybe refer you to another doctor (sorry, I'm not sure what kind) to get a second opinion.

The second thing I thought of, did you possibly start getting your Percoset from a different maker. Were you on generics or brand? Maybe your reaction is from the fillers or something. If you use the same pharmacy (I assume you do) it would be easy to find out if they have changed the brand of their meds.

Whatever you decide, I think you need to bring it up to your doctor. Good luck.

Arthr Itis · 01-25-2008, 03:08 PM

I know this might not be proper for me to submit to this board but it has been bugging me all day. There are many good, decent people on this board who are getting all kinds of crap from their pharmacy's for nothing they have done wrong.
When I read that you chewed your oxy, even though it is common knowledge that we don't do that, even though it is usually on the label, even though doctors [at least mine did] tell you not to. Do you think that this kind of activity is one of the reasons why we get treated like junkies by our pharmacists and doctors!
I had better let it go at that before I get banned from the board.

Fred