Drinking alcohol, taking prescription or nonprescription medications that contain alcohol, or using street drugs during your treatment with oxycodone increases the risk that you will experience serious, life-threatening side effects. Do not drink alcohol, take prescription or nonprescription medications that contain alcohol, or use street drugs during your treatment.
If you are taking the oxycodone extended-release tablets, swallow them whole; do not chew, break, divide, crush, or dissolve them. Do not presoak, lick or otherwise wet the tablet prior to placing in the mouth. Swallow each tablet right after you put it in your mouth. If you swallow broken, chewed, crushed, or dissolved extended-release tablets, you may receive too much oxycodone at once instead of slowly over 12 hours.
This may cause serious problems, including overdose and death. Oxycodone comes as a regular solution liquid and as a concentrated solution that contains more oxycodone in each milliliter of solution. Be sure that you know whether your doctor has prescribed the regular or concentrated solution and the dose in milliliters that your doctor has prescribed.
Use the dosing cup, oral syringe, or dropper provided with your medication to carefully measure the number of milliliters of solution that your doctor prescribed. Read the directions that come with your medication carefully and ask your doctor or pharmacist if you have any questions about how to measure your dose or how much medication you should take. You may experience serious or life threatening side effects if you take an oxycodone solution with a different concentration or if you take a different amount of medication than prescribed by your doctor.
Do not allow anyone else to take your medication. Oxycodone may harm or cause death to other people who take your medication, especially children. Store oxycodone in a safe place so that no one else can take it accidentally or on purpose.
Be especially careful to keep oxycodone out of the reach of children. Keep track of how many tablets or capsules, or how much liquid is left so you will know if any medication is missing. Dispose of unwanted capsules, tablets, extended-release tablets, extended-release capsules, and liquid properly according to instructions. Tell your doctor if you are pregnant or plan to become pregnant.
If you take oxycodone regularly during your pregnancy, your baby may experience life-threatening withdrawal symptoms after birth. Tell your baby's doctor right away if your baby experiences any of the following symptoms: irritability, hyperactivity, abnormal sleep, high-pitched cry, uncontrollable shaking of a part of the body, vomiting, diarrhea, or failure to gain weight.
Your doctor or pharmacist will give you the manufacturer's patient information sheet Medication Guide when you begin your treatment with oxycodone and each time you fill your prescription.
Read the information carefully and ask your doctor or pharmacist if you have any questions. Oxycodone is used to relieve moderate to severe pain. Oxycodone extended-release tablets and extended-release capsules are used to relieve severe pain in people who are expected to need pain medication around the clock for a long time and who cannot be treated with other medications.
Oxycodone extended-release tablets and extended-release capsules should not be used to treat pain that can be controlled by medication that is taken as needed. Oxycodone extended-release tablets, extended-release capsules, and concentrated solution should only be used to treat people who are tolerant used to the effects of the medication to opioid medications because they have taken this type of medication for at least one week.
Oxycodone is in a class of medications called opiate narcotic analgesics. It works by changing the way the brain and nervous system respond to pain.
Oxycodone is also available in combination with acetaminophen Oxycet, Percocet, Roxicet, Xartemis XR, others ; aspirin Percodan ; and ibuprofen. This monograph only includes information about the use of oxycodone alone. If you are taking an oxycodone combination product, be sure to read information about all the ingredients in the product you are taking and ask your doctor or pharmacist for more information.
Oxycodone comes as a solution liquid , a concentrated solution, a tablet, a capsule, an extended-release long-acting tablet Oxycontin and an extended-release capsule Xtampza ER to take by mouth. The solution, concentrated solution, tablet, and capsule are taken usually with or without food every 4 to 6 hours, either as needed for pain or as regularly scheduled medications. The extended-release tablets Oxycontin are taken every 12 hours with or without food.
The extended-release capsules Xtampza ER are taken every 12 hours with food; eat the same amount of food with each dose. Follow the directions on your prescription label carefully, and ask your doctor or pharmacist to explain any part you do not understand. If you are taking Oxaydo brand tablets, swallow the tablets one at a time with plenty of water. Swallow the tablet or right after putting it in your mouth. Do not presoak, wet, or lick the tablets before you put them in your mouth.
Do not chew or crush Oxaydo brand tablets. If you have trouble swallowing extended-release capsules Xtampza ER , you can carefully open the capsule and sprinkle the contents on soft foods such as applesauce, pudding, yogurt, ice cream, or jam, then consume the mixture immediately.
Dispose of the empty capsule shells right away by flushing them down a toilet. Do not store the mixture for future use. If you have a feeding tube, the extended-release capsule contents can be poured into the tube. Ask your doctor how you should take the medication and follow these directions carefully.
If you are taking the concentrated solution, your doctor may tell you to mix the medication in a small amount of juice or semisolid food such as pudding or applesauce.
Follow these directions carefully. Find out how to take it safely and possible side effects. Oxycodone is also called Oxynorm, Oxycontin or Oxydone.
Oxycodone is used for the relief of moderate to severe pain such as after an injury, or operation or pain caused by a terminal illness such as cancer. Like all medicines, oxycodone can cause side effects, although not everyone gets them. Often side effects improve as your body gets used to the new medicine. Addiction is an excessive craving. If you are addicted to oxycodone, it means you are not able to control your use of it. It is unusual for people who are prescribed oxycodone for a short time or for a terminal illness to become addicted to it.
Some people are more likely to develop addiction than others and seem to be very sensitive to the cravings. You may be at risk for addiction if you have mental health problems such as depression or a history of substance abuse, including alcohol and recreational drugs.
Oxycodone is an opiate painkiller. It's used to treat severe pain, for example after an operation or a serious injury, or pain from cancer. It's also used for other types of long-standing pain when weaker painkillers, such as paracetamol , ibuprofen and aspirin , have not worked. Oxycodone is only available on prescription. It comes as slow-release tablets, capsules and a liquid which you swallow. It can also be given by an injection, but this is usually done in hospital. It's sometimes given as a tablet which also has a medicine called naloxone in it Targinact.
This is used to prevent certain side effects, such as constipation. Take our survey. Babies, young children and older people are more likely to get side effects. Oxycodone is not suitable for some people. Tell your doctor before starting this medicine if you:.
Follow your doctor's instructions about how to use this medicine. This is particularly important because oxycodone can be addictive. Take oxycodone with, or just after, a meal or snack as it's less likely to make you feel sick. It's important to swallow slow-release oxycodone tablets whole with a drink of water.
Oxycodone liquid, capsules and injections work faster fast acting. They're used for pain which is expected to last for a short time and often used when you start taking oxycodone, to help find the right dose. Oxycodone tablets are slow release. This means the oxycodone is gradually released into your body over either 12 or 24 hours. This type of oxycodone takes longer to start working but lasts longer. It's used for long-term pain. Sometimes your doctor may prescribe both fast-acting and slow-release oxycodone to manage long-term pain.
Do not break, crush, chew or suck oxycodone slow-release tablets. If you do, the slow-release system will not work and the whole dose might get into your body in one go. This could cause an overdose. How often you take it depends on the type of oxycodone that you've been prescribed:. You can take oxycodone at any time of day, but try to take it at the same time every day and space your doses evenly. For example, if you take oxycodone twice a day and have your first dose at 8am, take your second dose at 8pm.
Usually, you start on a low dose of oxycodone and this is increased gradually until your pain is well controlled. Once your pain is under control, your doctor may prescribe slow-release tablets. This may cut down the number of doses you have to take each day. When you stop taking oxycodone your doctor will gradually reduce your dose, especially if you've been taking it for a long time. If you forget to take a dose, check the information that comes with the medicine or ask your pharmacist or doctor for advice.
If you often forget doses, it may help to set an alarm to remind you. You could also ask a pharmacist for advice on other ways to remember to take your medicine. It's important not to take more than your prescribed dose, even if you think it's not enough to relieve your pain. Speak to your doctor first, if you think you need a different dose.
If you take too much oxycodone you may feel very sleepy, sick or dizzy, find it difficult to breathe or become unconscious. Take the oxycodone box or leaflet inside the packet plus any remaining medicine with you. It's safe to take oxycodone with paracetamol , ibuprofen or aspirin do not give aspirin to children under 16 years of age. Do not take oxycodone with painkillers that contain codeine. You will be more likely to get side effects. Painkillers that contain codeine include co-codamol codeine and paracetamol , Nurofen Plus codeine and ibuprofen , co-codaprin codeine and aspirin and Solpadeine codeine, paracetamol, ibuprofen and caffeine.
Like all medicines, oxycodone can cause side effects in some people, but many people have no side effects or only minor ones. The higher the dose of oxycodone the more chance that you will get side effects. Common side effects happen in more than 1 in people. Talk to a doctor or pharmacist if these side effects bother you or do not go away:. Serious side effects happen in less than 1 in people. Call a doctor if you have:.
In rare cases, it's possible to have a serious allergic reaction anaphylaxis to oxycodone. These are not all the side effects of oxycodone. For a full list, see the leaflet inside your medicine packet. Do not take any other medicines to treat the side effects of oxycodone without speaking to a pharmacist or doctor first.
Oxycodone is generally not recommended during pregnancy or while breastfeeding. In early pregnancy, it's been linked to some problems for your baby. If you take oxycodone at the end of pregnancy there's a risk that your baby may get withdrawal symptoms or be addicted to oxycodone when they're born.
However, it's important to treat pain in pregnancy. For some pregnant women with severe pain, oxycodone might be the right medicine. Your doctor is the best person to help you decide what's right for you and your baby. Oxycodone is not usually recommended if you're breastfeeding. Small amounts of oxycodone pass into breast milk and may cause breathing problems for your baby. Tell a doctor if you are breastfeeding.
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