What is the difference between oxycontin 10 mg and 15 mg ms contin?

Oxycontin contains the chemical oxycodone, MS Contin contains the chemical morphine. That is really the only difference. Both are taken orally, both are designed to release over 12 hours (usually given twice a day, however sometimes both are given more frequently), both are schedule 2 narcotics, and have practically identical side effect profiles. It really comes down to patient preference since they are so similar.

Please keep in mind, 1mg of oxycodone is equivalent to 12 mg of morphine. This means that if a patients pain is controlled on 100mg of Oxycontin a day, the appropriate dose of MS Contin would be approximately 1200mg a day. Narcotic Equivalence Calculators can be found free online (http://www.medcalc.com/narcotics.html) and are help-full when changing from one pain med to another.

Oxycontin comes as 10, 15, 20, 30, 40, 60, 80, and 160mg tablets

MS Contin comes as 15, 30, 60, 100, and 200mg tablets

So, 10mg of Oxycontin would be equivalent to 120mg of MS Contin and 15mg of MS Contin would be equivalent to 1.25mg of Oxycontin.

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What is the difference between oxycontin 10 mg and 15 mg ms contin?

The Oxycontin is a time-release praparation, while Oxynorm is immediate release. The Oxyconint lasted 12 hours but the Oxynorm only lasts 4-6. I can't say why the doctor changed it, but if she was fine he probably shouldn't have. If the Oxynorm isn't working as well, she should talk to the doctor and tell him so. The acttive ingredient in the medication is the same, but patients are sometimes given the Oxycontin to take 2 times a day regardless of whether they have pain or not to keep the base level of pain low and the Oxynorm for any breakthrough pain they may have.

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