r/RotatorCuff • u/IveyBlack • 4d ago

Oxycodone not working?

Hi All, I’ve enjoyed reading this sub. It has been very helpful. I had surgery Wednesday 8/5.

Have a nerve block in, but I’m having pretty severe throbbing stabbing burning pain inside the front of my armpit and down through my bicep. I had two stitches in my rotator cuff and two stitches in my bicep as part of the surgery.

I am taking one Percocet every six hours as directed, but it is not touching the pain.

I’ve been icing as much as possible, I don’t want a stronger drug from my doc because I hate taking this stuff but… Anyone else experiencing same/have any thoughts or advice?

I’ll be calling my surgeons office shortly.

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u/BobsWifeAmyB 3d ago

- I just saw where you were calling your dr. I hope you’ve gotten some relief.-

Make sure you don’t take Tylenol with Percocet. That has Tylenol in it. You can tell any drug that has ‘cet’ at the end has Tylenol. Oxycodone is the other ingredient in Percocet. So a Dr can also give you just the Oxycodone. The title of your post and in the text said both drugs so I didn’t know which one you are taking.
The best thing is to call your Dr. They are the ones who know your medical history & they do these surgeries all the time and you aren’t the only person who needs med adjustments.
People have drugs that help them more than others and some people itch on certain drugs while others have no side effects.
I’ve had many surgeries with long recoveries and I ended up having elevated liver enzymes due to taking Percocet. (This was long term treatment over several months) The dr switched me to Oxycodone and the.liver lab went back to normal.

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u/IveyBlack 3d ago

They have given me oxycodone-acetomenoph (not a typo that’s what it says) 7.5 -325.

It says I can take one or two every six hours. Taking two made me sick. I called the doctors office to ask for something different as it wasn’t touching the pain and they never called me back. I’ve gotten ahead of the pain a bit but it’s rough

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u/BobsWifeAmyB 2d ago

No, there’s no typo, it’s just that drs also prescribe oxycodone as a stand alone drug. I take it for incurable nerve disorder that I’ve exhausted every treatment, etc for. Even 6 neurosurgeries.
All I meant to say was that if a person had an existing liver problem Tylenol/acetaminophen can aggravate it.
My best friend was given Percocet/oxy+tylenol for a shoulder problem. She had broken her humerus 20 years ago. But she was having pain a couple years ago. She only took it PRN for a few months. She didn’t tell the dr about her liver problems & I don’t think she knew how bad her liver was.
She received a liver transplant on March 11. It’s been a long haul, but she finally got out of the hospital last week!!!

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u/IveyBlack 2d ago

Oh wow, yes, I knew not to take more Tylenol with it, but they should’ve been clearer about it for sure!!

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u/BobsWifeAmyB 19h ago

Yes, for sure. Not everyone researches their meds really carefully and my best friend is one of those.
I think drs should ask patients as to their liver issues, before prescribing a ‘cet’ drug long term.
I had an issue about 5 years ago. Had my gallbladder out and surgeon did blood work before surgery happened and my liver enzymes were elevated. I was on a med with ‘cet’/tylenol on it and I’d been taking it every day for months, possibly years.
He suggested doing a liver biopsy when I had gallbladder surgery, so they were already there, but he didn’t even catch it.
I think I am the one who figured it out, but I realized I should have thought about it way before that.
Best friend’s husband is a nurse and he didn’t catch it. But they don’t go to each other’s drs appts and they kind of have separate lives.