I just had surgery and I got percocet and I love oxy , but I think the acetaminophen helped ease the pain just as much as the oxycodone.
Acetaminophen actually reduces muscle swelling and irritation among other things, which oxycodone cannot do. Oxycodone simply covers pain up, acetaminophen will actually take care of the problem.
Say you have a problem with your joints or back pain.. there's no point in simply taking an opiate because the pain will come back and your muscles aren't getting any help in healing.
Recreationally , it can get in the way , but if you ever have legitamate pain, acetaminophen can relieve you just as much as the narcotic half.
Actually I believe that acetaminophen does quite the opposite of get in the way of an opiate high. If you're not actually suffering from any pain, the acetaminophen takes care of any pain you wouldn't normally even notice and almost enhances the opiate high in a way.
ummm, THE WOOD percocet has the same active ingredient (oxycodone) as oxycontin, but it also has APAP. you'd *much* rather have oxy than percs
Not unless you need a really high dose of oxycodone to get off. The OxyContin time-release gets in the way. If you crush up and snort 20mgs of OxyContin, it only feels like about 15mgs of oxycodone. If you eat it, same thing. No matter how much you crush it up, you can't totally defeat the time release and it takes longer to kick in orally and is more of a groggy high that doesn't hit you as hard as eating the same dose of oxycodone from something like Percocet or Oxy IR.
The only thing that's significantly cool about OxyContin is the lack of acetaminophen, making it a decent candidate for IV use. Although it's still not neccessarily safe to IV because it has insoluable fillers and binders.