Endocet Vs Oxycodone (Page 7)

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I HAVE BEEN ON OXYCODONE FOR OVER 2 YEARS AND MY DRUG STORE RAN OUT AND GAVE ME ENDOCET? SAID IT WAS THE SAME THING BUT MY BODY TELLS ME THAT IT'S NOT THE SAME. HAS ANYONE ELSE HAD ANY PROBLEMS WITH THIS CHANGE?

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You people are a bunch of illiterate, uneducated morons. Percocet is the original brand name Oxycodone, Endocet is Oxycodone as well just the generic equivalent of brand name Percocet (Endocet is made by the same company that produces Percocet).

Any other manufacturer that produces Oxycodone sells generic forms of Percocet just with different fillers.

When I read people saying Endocet is Hydrocodone it just proves that most people are not informed nor knowledgeable on this subject.

Don't even bother posting if you don't know what the hell you are talking about, people come here to get help with medication issues and are met by people that have no clue what they are even talking about.

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Bill I do agree with you on a couple of things. I do agree that Hydromorph is not Endocet they are different. I do agree that people come here to get help on meds. Because they come on there, they are in pain and battling other issues. For you to be on here and name calling is really not fair. Yes, I realize Endocet and Oxycodone and Percocet are one in the same. Difference is generic and brand name. I also know that there is a difference on how the generic brands tackle my pain. It is my understanding that it is the difference on how your liver metabolizes the drug.

As an aside, I also know that there are many people on here that are in real pain and drugs are being changed to stop the recreational drug users from being able to abuse these drugs. It is because of the a users that here in Ontario, we have to show ID to get our prescriptions and looked at like we are criminals if we need a script a little before it is due. My body does ok with Oxycodone. When the pharmacy runs out or low on them, they will substitute with Endocet or another generic brand. Don't know what it is, but I may as well just take Tylenol 3, cause they do not help my pain. It is thanks to the recreational drug users that use these sites that people in pain have to deal with the constipation of the binders and fillers so the drugs supposedly cannot be broken down to IV.

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I just moved to south jersey from delaware, and I'm in need of a pain management doctor who can help me with my meds. Please let me know something. Thank you.

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Jim...im going to assume u had used Percocet that was made by Watson pharmaceuticals. They recently merged with actavis pharm and discontinued making the Watson generic Percocet. Im assuming this becauae i too am having a hard time finding another medication, brand or generic to help manage my pain as well as the Watson generic Percocet s did. There are hundreds of people on this website, other sites and blogs, etc that are having this same issue ever since watson stopped making their drug. Search n u will see there are many who are having trouble finding relief now. For those of u who say all generic s r the same or generic s r the same as brand...etc...sorry but u r incorrect. They are all different from one another, brand or generic. One manufacturer is different from the other. I saw on here somewhere someone said there could be as much as 20% difference below or above...despite what ur all reciting here, he is absolutely correct. When actavis started to produce their generic Percocet when they merged with Watson, the actavis generic was making everyone ill on top of giving no pain relief. Many including myself called the company actavis and the fda to put in a complaint. The rep at actavis revealed that they were receiving complaints like mine. I also asked her about the differences in the makeup between the two and she confirmed what I already knew...she said their could be up to an 80/20 difference. ..I confirmed as little as 80% to as much as 120% difference n she said yes. SO you van all choose to believe what u want, copy whatever information u have in front of u on here....I know what it is and isn't. For all who are learning all this for the first time, I always say do ur research when u come across something u read and r wondering if true or not. Good luck in finding some pain relief jim

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Jen 124 do you know anything about endo endocet vs activis oxycodone. If it's any better then activis.?

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I agree with you. I was taking Oxycodone for the last year and my insurance changed and instead of going to Walgreens, I have to go to CVS. They gave me Endocet and I have to take 2 to get any pain relief.

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I agree, my drugstore automatically switched and I did not realize it until I had suffered for a day. Looked at the label and it was Endocet. I called the pharmacy and told them. Small town, so they let me exchange them for the Oxycodone. The difference was unreal.

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I agree with you guys the generics are not as good as the brand name but my pharmacy made a mistake and when I took my perocet in to get filled and filled half with a white oblong pill and then there were some in there that had a M and a slash in the middle of them it turned they put some methodone in my bottle also saying they ran out of the other white ones and now I am being told I can not go back to my ptc I tried to tell the pharmacy but all she did was to tell me it was a generic perocet and who did the ptc believed them.It was cvs and I have changed cause they mixed up my grandchild meds up and she takes cortef and they filled both her bottles wirh the baflen it was after a dose I found the mistake and they did zero about it but it scared me to death but I did not get an apology or nothing from eirher mistake they made in fact they got mad and I changed pharmacies but it does not do me any good any suggestions please.

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If that was me, I would be finding out who the owner of that pharmacy is. If it is the pharmacist, go higher. If the owner is someone different there, find out who they are and write a polite but to the point letter. That is just wrong! It is getting to the point where pharmacists get away with too much. They should be giving what the script says and nothing more. The whole idea of pain management is to find out what works for you and stick to it, thus, managing your pain and not experiencing the highs and lows thus, quality of life. As for your grand child's meds, that just proves they are incompetent. I would be digging further into these situations. If you don't speak up, they just keep getting away with this and one day it could be really serious if it has not happened already. Good luck!

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Hi Dee.....anything is better than actavis. Do not take them. They have given no pain relief n made everyone sick. I haven't taken the endocet but I did read recently that endocet is the only generic made by Percocet brand drug so its the closest in formula. I haven't tried them so u will have to decide that one if u chose to try them. I am now on my first script of the mallinkrodt generic 10/325 Percocet. It took a few days, but its helping a little. Its not making me sick either so im hoping the longer I take them, the better they're work with giving me pain relief. All our bodies are gonna go thru withdrawals n feel like crap until we get ourselves use to another medication. Keep that in mind when trying something new. Whatever uou decide to try, let us know how they're working.

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yes, yes, yes !!! they are NOT the same as far as I'm concerned. Actually, I prefer the endocet vs oxycodone ... but I guess that's my preference. Oxy makes me itch ... lol ... seriously .. within an hour after taking, I feel like a monkey scratching under my arms, my belly, my back ... but endocet doesn't seem to do that to me. Don't know why, but maybe it's just me ... ??? .. :/

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I get the itching as well as stomach upset, headaches with Oxycodone. When I took the Endocet, the pain got the better of me. It is all trade offs, dependent on what bothers you more.

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Sue, u said the pain got the best of u...does that mean the endocet didn't work for u?

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Yes Jennifer, that is exactly what I mean. That is the very thing with controlling your pain. I find if I have to stay on top of it or it gets me. I have tried many times to go off my meds for fear I was becoming dependent. Actually, like this morning. When the barometric pressure drops, I experience more pain and a difference in pain. My legs become rubbery, the pain is much worse, and most times I become very sleepy and all I want to do is sleep. These are the only times I sleep right through the night. It could be the way my body metabolizes some of the generics. I cannot take gravol, anti-inflamitories, allergy meds, sinutab and some other meds as they make me restless, irritable and very anxious. It could be just one ingredient in it that does it to me.

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The sleepiness is prob from the withdrawals. Almost all our bodies are dependant on the meds....not so much a bad thing as long as we're not abusing our medicine. Its the same as if we drank soda 3 times a day for a few months then stopped....we'd be gettin headaches n dizzy n god knows what. Actavis called me again this morning....I was trying to find out what are the percentages in the active ingredients in the Watson's and the actavis. Lady told me all she could tell me was the only active ingredients were oxycodone and acetaminophen n both were the same n the only differences were with the inactive ingredients. I have a hard time believing that since Watson oxycodone gave everyone pain relief n the actavis didn't help one bit. She couldn't give me any answers as to y...then I asked her if actavis is using the drug deterrent formula in the oxycodone in Percocets? She had no clue what I was telling her so I had to explain to her what I read on HER companies website about actavis using the drug deterrent formula in their oxycotin but then the articles talk about the oxycodone so its not real clear inwhat drug r they using it for....she had no clue so I asked her what dept she was in n she said drug info or something like that...I asked if I was getting punked...I told her how is it possible that ur in the dept for drug information and questions yst all uve told me is I cant tell u that, I don't know, and im unaware of that? How do u not know what information is public on ur companies website or anything about the newspresses theyve had n made public? How is it I have to tell u cause u don't know anything. ..how do I know about the studies ur company did with recovering addicts n how the result is worse than before they started doing trials on their drug deterrent crap? I told her she is nothi g but a message taker n she should Google actavis Percocet then Google actavis drug deterrent formula. ...when she was finished with informing herself about thecompany she works for...then she can call me back with answers cause I dont want to hear I dont know n I dont havean answer... im schooling her on her job... bunch of bs.....so we'll see what happens next

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Good for you Jennifer! These pharmaceutical companies own us! I have been doing some research on pain and cannabis. I have never liked it because of the THC. They are now finding that it is beneficial for pain and seizure activity. In Colorado, the parents of a child put her on cannabis since she was having over 300 seizures a week. Mom said she wanted to stop the seizures but didn't want to get her five year old high. The grower told her that they had some that no recreational user would by because it was low in THC but high in the other active ingredient , CBD. I would love to find some with next to no THC. Here is the link. If you can, watch "Dr. Sanjay Gupta's documentary on Marijuana and Charlottes Web". If you go to UTube, the second documentary is on there as well. They actually named this strain Charlottes Web after the five year old. Have a look at this...if you have time...worth the watch..... It would be nice to have some alternatives to the crap we have to depend on now. :)

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Hi Jen. It's Dee got endocet yesterday. Already feeling relief. I had severe arm pain w/nerve damage. Since taking new medicine nerve pain gone. Still have some musle pain in arm but not as severe. Hoping relief continues. Way better then activis.

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Hi sue...ive seen stories and repirts on tv about that...but I think the one ur referring to with the little girl has to do wirh stoppin her seizure s...they take something or other....a liquid that they extract from the marijuana plants n give it to their child...apparently this liquid doesnt make u high at all. I have heard where people who are receiving chemotherapy will smoje pot to help deal but I dont know the details further than that...I think pot smoking is out of our ballpark. Plus, im a single mom of two 6 yr olds, I could never or would never do anything that would interfere or chance doing something that would come inbetween that. Hense the reason im so cautious and do as im expected to with my pain care. With all ive been readin on the internet, im convinced theres mire than meets the eyes when it comes to why walgreens stopped stocking the Watson Percocet. Possibly something to do with walgreens having to settle n pay a 80 million dollar fine when they were accused of being irresponsible when dispensing pain meds.....who knows? Maybe they swapped meds to see how much of a fuss would watson perc users would make.....like they did this as a study to try n prove how addicting that one med alone is....justs a few suspicions I have....I sometimes wonder if we're falling into the trap they predicted would happen by calling the company directly to complain...maybe thats why theyre so willing and eager to call us so promptly. ....I dont know?....again, just some suspicions I have.

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I got Endocet for now and asked CVS to give me oxycodone w/acetaminophen next time because I didn't feel like they were helping or giving the same relief. The lady didn't question a thing and said that they were perfectly fine giving me that and they wanted to find what works best for me. Let's see if I can feel a difference.

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For sure, will be interesting. Good luck Jen!

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