You can, but it's typically not recommended since both drugs are chronic pain medications generally prescribed in their timed-release form. Either one or the other is used - OxyContin lasts up to 12 hours, while Fentanyl, generally prescribed as a transdermal patch, can last up to 72 hours. Oral Fentanyl and OxyContin can used, but again it's generally not done unless the Fentanyl is in pill form and short acting. Fentanyl is more likely to be prescribed as the primary chronic pain med with Percocet (which has Oxycodone, the base drug for OxyContin, the time release version) for breakthrough pain.
As long as you're using one as a timed-release drug and the other in short acting form (4-6 hours), it's okay. It's using both together in timed-release versions where problems can arise.
It is perfectly ok to use both, contrary to above. I suffer from chronic pain, and take 20mg Oxycontin 2 times a day, and apply a 75mcg fentanyl patch every 72 hours. I have been on each seperatly and I find several pain "holes". but on both, I can actually function to 95% of my original capabilities.
Actually the above poster is correct. I take 240mg of Oxycontin a day and my dr prescribed 100umg fentanyl to better even out the levels of narcotics I had in my system. Now this just happened to be what worked for me so you should ask your doctor before trying. Fentanyl is some bad mojo if abused.
No, but, they are both opiates, and are cross-tolerance with each other. But Oxycontin is an extended release pill and fentanyl is most commonly prescribed as a time-release gel-containing patch. But they're two completely different drugs.
is loracet and Oxycontin appear the same on a drug test
yes
According to a well known conversion table on globalrph.com the conversion is 80mg oxycontin is equal to 41mcg of Fentanyl so you would need 2-80mg oxycotin-er and 1-20mg oxycotin- 2-80mg Oxycontin=82mcg of Fentanyl 1-20mg Oxycontin=20mcg of Fentanyl
Yes, they will both show up as opiates.
They are the same just diff name
Not after the first couple of weeks when you get used to the dose. Unlike OxyContin, patch doses are much more steady, and there's no steep dropoff in dosage level like there is with OxyContin as the drug wears off. Essentially, you feel pretty normal, just no pain.
In general, no. This is because OxyContin is itself a timed-release opiate, and many patients who move up to Fentanyl patches have already been using OxyContin for some time and have become more tolerant to it. Fentanyl patch patients will typically use oral Oxycodone (usually Percocet) for a breakthrough medication.
no ms contin is morphine sulfate and Oxycontin is oxycodone while mscontin will show up as an opiate the Oxycontin shows up as oxycodone
They ARE the same opiate. Oxycontin is a long acting oxycodone formulation.
Fentanyl is the generic name of the drug. One brand name for fentanyl is Duragesic.
Fentanyl patches take quite along time to kick in because the drug has to move through your skin and into the bloodstream first. Its possible that 100 mcg/hr of transdermal fentanyl may not be enough to stop withdrawl for someone on 320mg oxycodone per day. There are various ways to speed up the release of the fentanyl / get it into your body quicker, but these can easily kill you (due to an overdose).
Ask your doctor, they are the best ones to advise you on drug interactions.