I have not heard much about it either. It is one of the last two available for me to try so I am curious as well. I thought it was an IR, but maybe it is both?


Sorry, I am no help

Kallie

I've been taking Nucynta for over a year. It is a very effective pain reliever. Some patients even get scripts to treat pain after surgery.

It's sole purpose is to treat pain so no worries of feeling high or "drunk". That's what sold me on it. It's a darned good medication, IMO.

Nucynta does come in both forms IR and ER. It's Tapentadol, one of the newer pain meds. It's gotten the reviews typical of pain meds, for some people its a life saver and some don't get any relief. I've found with most pain meds you just have to try them to see how you react.

There is another med that people don't have a lot of experience with called Nubaine. It's gotten very gould reviews from varying types of pain.

Kat

How would it be any different in not making you feel high or drunk than other pain meds? Is this true? Why can't they do that with the others?

I have not heard of Nubain either but my PM sudggested it a while back. I have not tried it but it is on our short list of possibles. From what I read on both they hae the same side effects as all the others, dp you know what the difference is?

Thanks

MM,
I've been taking NuCynta since early May and it's a great drug- for me. Some people cannot tolerate the side effects from it. I had bad ones early on and wanted to stop it, but my pm doc encouraged me to keep taking it and I'm so glad he did.

I use it in the ER form as a breakthrough med. I'm not sure how long it's supposed to work, but I find I do have to take it every 6 hours or so. Not sure why that is, but obviously my pm doc knew this and so he wrote for it every 6 hours.

I've found that the combination of NuCynta and Opana has really worked fairly well for me.

If you try it, just try to get pass the first few weeks of side effects. They do go away after a time. I can handle them better than pain.

Good luck!
Sandy

Sandy, good point. I found Nucynta ER only lasted 6 hrs too. Had to change back to regular Nucynta taken 3 times a day. Much better.

kat, thanks for the tip on Nubaine. I'll ask my doc about it.

If you're on any anti-depressants..I'd discuss it with Dr and Pharmacist..
Any Google Nucynt a seratonin syndrom.
( Nucynta has slight SSRI and more NRI effects...so..combined with some meds..opiates..tramadol..Nucynta.....
Can cause seratonin syndrom.

Not having " high" effects doesn't necessarily equate to not being addictive.

Good luck..I hope it's something you can try and works well for you.

BTW...it's OK to bring up something that's been discussed before...
The RORs regarding that are just to keep folks from repeating the same topics/subjects all the time.

Hugs....jc

Your post made me look at my current bottle of NuCynta. My pm doc wrote for NuCynta ER, but it was filled as regualar NuCynta. Maybe that's why the pain has been worse the last few weeks. I'm going to give him a call and get another script for NuCynta ER.

thanks for the post! It turned out to help me too.
Sandy

Wow- thanks everyone for the replies. Something must be wrong with my "watch this". I came in depressed that no one had answered me and went through the pages to find it, just to double check that no one had answered.

Sure was suprised there was so many answers!

I think I will ask my pm about this one,as well as Nubaine. She mentioned she might have to move me to methadone for a month to take a break from Opana ER as for some reason it suddenly stopped working on me (which has me in the 10+ pain range and freaked about how it could just stop working all of the sudden). I am terrified of taking methadone as I tend to have the worse side effects of medicine, and I'm allergic to most of them....and that's not so good with methadone.

Anyway, thanks for the input, I really appreciate it. Going through very tough times and not on the computer much due to pain.

MM

mm I will have to just add huggles because your hurting so much....I know nothing of the pain meds for that kind of pain....hugs bill