Opioids Opana IR Conversion

[entheoapotheosis]

My PM doctor is switching me from Opana IR 10mg twice daily to 30mg Morphine IR 4 times daily. However I would like to know what are other alternatives to Opana IR 10mg, is Roxicodone 30mg equivalent? What would the equivalent to Opana 10mg be for Dilaudid (hydromorphone or Oxycontin for instance?) I've tried opiate conversion calculators but they don't seem to include conversions for Oxymorphone IR to any other drug. Is this a proper conversion? Will it be as strong? Also I know that the bioavailability of Opana is greatly increased by about 6-7x when insufflated, so say I insufflate my Opana, if I switche to orally ingesting 120mg of Morphine will I get the same effects in terms of euphoria-nod? If someone could convert the 10mg Instant Release Oxymorphone to equal dosages of hydromorphone,oxycodone,morphine, and fentanyl it would be greatly appreciated. Thank you all!

 

[Captain.Heroin]

Thought so, I edited it.

Thanks.

In this case, it's best to talk to your doctor, as it will be up to him to prescribe you something different.

 

[tyrael]

I obviously agree with Captain H, it's definitely best to ask your GP (/script writer ) .... that's what they're there for!

(unless one is well versed in the pharmacology, addiction and rehabilitation procedures, a switch between opiates is more of a(n educated) guess then science! BL has a nice comparison chart/thread which may help (there's a lot of responses and hence tweaking to the chart from BL members!) > The Ultimate Opiate Conversion Chart/Ratio Thread.

Goodluck brother!

 

[MartinFn]

Welcome, buddy..

The fuck is that you can't even use the conversion charts for real results, as every drug is different for every person, makes the things a litl bit hard, as you may have to expirement..anyway, i don't want to worry you, as people above^^ said, you should talk (and try the substances) with your dr, but remember morphine has a very poor orally BA (well, opana too, but you've find the way..), so..Welcome to bl, hope you'll have a good time here, and wish you the best for your pain control.


MartinFn

 

[Znegative]

For oral administration, oxymorphone is approximately 2x stronger than oxycodone, which is approximately 2x stronger than oral morphine. So 30mg of IR morphine would be a little less than what you take now. Also, don't try to sniff the morphine to bump up the BA, because you'll end up doing just the opposite.

 

[helium-4]

If you are taking opioid medication for pain management seriously avoid snorting oxymorphone tablets. Of course you can get more out of them by choosing that route of administration, but if you actually are taking your pain management seriously, deviating from the orders from the doctor is one of the dumbest things you can do. You will end up causing yourself a lot of trouble in the future and will be wondering why the prescriptions you take are not actually helping any or much at all. I've seen on BL many times people putting themselves into idiotic situations because of switching from oral oxymorphone medication (which they either IVed or nasally administer) to an equivalent oral dose of another opioid like oxycodone or morphine. They blame the doctor for not properly managing their pain, but in reality, they chose to take advantage of the huge increase in bioavaliability of oxymorphone taken in other ROAs. This results in the actual equivalent dose of oral oxycodone or oral morphine medication significantly larger than what they are being prescribed and much greater than the what doctor wants to prescribe.

Not that I know necessarily your habit with your medication, but but from what it seems from your single post, you need to re evaluate your pain management/use of your medication to prevent yourself from building up what will be a significant tolerance in less time than you'd probably like hope for, to prevent a large loss in analgesic relief in opioids across the board, to prevent your doctor from realizing that your use is deviating for his order (resulting in possibly a discontinuation of his/her services), as well as to minimize your physical dependency to opioid medication and limit psychological dependency leading to a full out addiction (which is counter productive to any sort of therapy using opioid medications).