Anyone heard of Hydrmorphone csusing stomach pain/cramps/spasms? Pretty harsh pain enough to have me on the floor just hoping it will stop... Last anywhere from 10 mins to an hour so far..
I have been taking Norco and oxycodone daily for 3 years and they do not cause this. In fact they do the opposite (WD causes stomach issues and taking more Norco or oxycodone stops it).
So tolerwnfe cannot be the issue... Is there something different with Hydrmorphone? Maybe it's the cheap Roxane generics?
And before anyone says constipation, I used the bathroom fully and still had it happen next day. I normally do not drink water but have started, so unlikely dehydration.......If it was me drinking water along with sports drinks would have stopped or at least lessened these "stomach pain attacks" from occurring but they seem to have not, it has happened 7-8 times now over the last month... Once 2 days In a row
I'm confused here. Maybe it's something else and started to happen shortly after I started taking Hydrmorphone?
Yes, me. I have been taking hydrocodone for years for serious pain and the pain clinic tried switching me to hydromorphone ER. I was given the hydromorphone ER 32mg tablets and it was making me extremely sick every day, like you described.
I am trying hydromorphone again with a new doctor, because I am unsure if it was the hydromorphone itself making me sick, was the prescription too low, or maybe was it covid hanging on (we had covid around that time).
Unfortunately, today was the first time I tried hydromorphone ER again (2 16mg tablets at once) as prescribed, and it wasn't strong enough plus it made my stomach hurt. I started going into withdrawal and had runny nose, diarrhea, etc. on top of excessive pain.
I wonder if sometimes those things can get stuck, since I read they don't really change shape in our digestive tracts? I stopped taking them that first time. It hurt so much I told them they'd have to switch me back or I'd be forced to go to a rehab or something to get taken off. They switched me back to the hydrocodone, thankfully.
Did you stop taking them, too? Ever figure out what it was?
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Now a question for anyone else reading this since I'm here:
Apparently 2 16mg ER is NOT comparable to 2 50mg hydrocodone ER capsules. Just in case anyone looks this up in the future... I couldn't find any tables or conversion calculators that would convert hydrocodone ER to hydromorphone ER. Does anyone know what I SHOULD take?
I was on 4 hydrocodone ER capsules a day and 8 10-325 hydrocodone IR tablets for breakthrough pain before the doctor tried to switch it because it isn't enough- it doesn't last long enough and I have 24/7 constant pain.
So the doc gave me these to try: 2 16mg hydromorphone ER tablets plus 2 50mg hydrocodone ER capsules along with my 8 10/325mg hydrocodone for breakthrough pain.
He told me to take the hydromorphone meds and the hydrocodones together, the 2 hydromorphone in the morning and the 2 hydrocodone in the evening if needed. I am out of the breakthrough meds (it's the end of the month and I always run out because my pain is not controlled well yet.)
As stated above, it was not even close to being the same dosage I was taking and I went into withdrawal. So I took 2 of the 50s and it helped a lot, once they started working (they take two hours to work and then only last for 6 hours!) and took two more in the evening. I think this is equivalent to my regular previous prescription because I think the w/d stuff stopped finally and my pain is tolerable, at least.
Any advice on what would probably work better for me? I'm suffering greatly and have been for a year while I was trying to get palliative care and someone to adjust my medicine. (Still don't have palliative care yet, but at least I found this doctor that is trying to help.)
Btw, to be clear - I just want advice on what would work best taking normally. I saw people mentioning snorting and stuff, I won't do that. I just want to be informed when I see the doctor and he tries to fix this rx for me. Please let me know if you can! Thank you!