To a large extent it depends on the individual. Having had the medi-quacks get me strung out on oxycodone. codeine/hydrocodone, and morphine (240mgs daily + Fentora fast dissolvers) I kicked them all and refuse to ever again do any of the "pain management" regimens/protocols.
Those who claim, and that includes neurologists, anesthesiologists, and all their med-allies, that you can't take narcotics long term on an "as needed" only basis and insist that for effective relief you must take the stuff every day are liars and more interested in personal profit of one kind or another than in your better health and well being. When they start telling you this and that and the other ask them just How The F*** do they know, and what kinds of and how long they have been addicted to opioids...
I still take morphine, and only morphine, and sometimes lots of it too, but when and only when >>>I<<< decide I need it, and have been doing so for more than four years now, and have no issues with tolerance resistance or addiction.
Based on my experience, if you want a buzz, oxycodone is it, I can't stand the stuff, but it certainly does put one in quite a dense fog. For me, even in huge doses, it proved not very effective for real pain relief.
Once again, for me, I want real pain relief (NOT a buzz) and I want it when and only when it reaches the point where I absolutely need some help dealing with it, and morphine provides me incomparable relief with the very least amount of functional debilitation.
You need to be aware that morphine for pain relief works best when it is not taken every day. Never take it more than four days in a row, And for every dose you take, take 30 hours off before your next use. So if you do take it 4 days in a row, you have to take five days in a row off. Follow this and you'll never get strung out on it. and will experience little tolerance issues after your first several months following an "as needed only" regimen. And, no matter how long you have taken morphine on an as needed basis, NEVER take more than 120mgs at a time.
No, both are analgesic.. but they're not "equivalent" in efficiency.. oxycodone, at the same dosage, is twice more powerful than morphine. 10 mg morphine = 5 mg oxycodone.
The strength of Morphine depends on the concentration of the drug. If 6 mg Morphine is the prescribed strength, a little over 1/2 a cc of Morphine 10 mg needs to be administered. Morphine is supplied in 5 mg/ml and 10 mg/ml ampules. CW: For water, a cc is (just about) a mg. For stuff dissolved in water, a cc is about a mg. For Hg, doesn't hold.
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5 MG Oxycodone 325 MG Acetaminophen (APAP, Tylenol)
Oxycodone Hydrochloride, USP 5 mg (*equivalent to 4.4815 mg Oxycodone) Acetaminophen, USP 325 mg
The morphine. What you're comparing is 10mg of oxycodone vs 60mg of morphine. Mg by mg oxycodone is a bit stronger than morphine, but 60 mg's of morphine would be about equivalent to 40 mg's of oxycodone, which would be four of the 10/650 pills. I don't have a conversion chart in front of me, but this is a pretty close estimate. Even though 4 of the Percocet would be equal to about 60mg of the Morphine you dont want to take the Perocet for a long period of time because it is only 10mg of oxycodone and 650mg of Acetominophine which you are told not to consume to much of because the liver damage it will cause.
30 mg of Morphine IR is equal to approximately 8 mg of Diluadid, so there is about a 4mg morphine to 1 mg of dilaudid ratio. So 45 mg of morphine would be equal to 5.6 mg of dilaudid. To answer your question, 45 mg of Morphine IR would stronger than taking the 4 mg of dilaudid.
Regular Percocet (Acetaminophen 325 mg + oxycodone 5 mg) is actually the strongest combination. Percocet-demi contains acetaminophen 325 mg + oxycodone 2,5 mg. Regular Percocet (Acetaminophen 325 mg + oxycodone 15mg) is actually the strongest combination. :)
Oxy what? Oxycodone? Oxycontin? Oxytocin? Oxybutynin? Oxymorphone? Be specific dear.
pain killer
nabumetone 500 mg
Oxycodone vs oxycodone with acetaminophine are essentially the same thing. The narcotic in both medications is the oxycodone, the only difference between the two is the addition of Tylenol (aka acetaminophen). The addition of Tylenol does not necessarily make the combo drug more powerful than the straight oxycodone, but is an adjunctive therapy so to speak. The Tylenol can enhance the pain relief of the oxycodone by working with the oxycodone at pain receptors. So to answer the question, no - oxycodone is not stronger than oxycodone acetaminophen combo.