Percocet & Pain Management

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Tammy,

You wrote, " So far, I am getting by on 20-30 mg of Percocet. I'm going to

stick with it as long as I can. "

At the risk of posting duplicated information, it's important to be aware

that Percocet is a medication combined of Oxycodone and Tylenol. The two reasons

why this isn't the best long term medication for chronic pain is that long

term use of Tylenol is toxic to the liver. The other reason is that Oxycodone is

a fast acting version of the slow release Oxycontin. For chronic pain it is

better to 'manage' the pain vs 'chase' the pain, hence the name pain management.

If you wait until you are in pain to take a pain pill it takes a lot more

medication to get the pain under control. You may want to discuss this with your

doctor. Some doctors, however, have a misunderstanding about narcotics and

feel that 'pure' narcotics such as Oxycontin or even Oxycodone are worse than

the

combination medications like Percocet or Tylox, etc. They don't realize, or

maybe they forget that the combination medications do, in fact, have narcotics

or Opiods in them, too.

Karyn E. , RN

Executive Director, PAI

http://www.pancassociation.org

Pancreatitis Association International