Oxycodone is the BEST pain medication for CHRONIC SEVERE LOWER LUMBAR BACK PAIN! It works a bit less by the 4th year or so, but, at least takes the "edge" off more than any other pain medication. The problem is....many, many doctors will not take you on as a patient for "chronic severe pain" with anything...if you need any narcotic in order to function! They ALL seem to be "FRAIDY CATS" because...
Everyone Who is reading this and taking this drug, get ready for the your life is about to become. If you stay on it longer than 6 weeks you are now in the oxy-head club! Once you reach tolerance level, and taking over what the Dr. prescribes its over, you loose libido, the interest in going out , ya i've heard the whole Quantity over Quality life bit spoken like a true hooked, yes addicted per...
New York | 55-64 | Male | On medication for 10 years or more | Patient
11/29/2023
Condition: severe chronic pain with opioid tolerance
Overall rating 1.0
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Rhodes Pharmaceutical is by far the worst shit I ever took in my life! In 2015 Walmart Corporate changed from Malickrodt to Rhodes I was sick for a month I switched to Walgreens the very next month ..the pharmacists are wonderful I’ve been 8 years but today got Rhodes and went Oh No! And yup took 2 and got nice headache no relief and a rash thanks so much Rhodes peice of shit company …The Worst
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Anonymous | 25-34 | Female | On medication for 1 to less than 2 years | Patient
11/27/2023
Condition: Severe Pain with Opioid Tolerance
Overall rating 3.3
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Will u plz like this if this medication from Rhodes has worked for you? For the first time I have been switched and I'm scared
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Doug | 55-64 | Male | On medication for 5 to less than 10 years | Patient
11/27/2023
Condition: Chronic Pain
Overall rating 1.7
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Little to know relief at all actually more from a spring. I wish I could take a spring but due to stomach issues I can't. It seems that the 5mg you manufacture has very little in it other than something that gives me a headache to beat the band and I'm not even going to get into the stomach pain that goes along with whatever you are putting in this product. Please I'm a chronic pain suffer who has to work even at 59 years of age. Any chance of stepping up to the plate and making a product that has some relief to the consumer?Read More Read Less
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Jm86 | 35-44 | Male | On medication for 2 to less than 5 years | Patient
11/23/2023
Condition: severe chronic pain requiring long-term opioid treatment
Overall rating 1.7
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Rhodes Pharmaceuticals should be arrested for supplying such garbage medication. When I say garbage, that's being nice. The medication is completely worthless. It gives you an IMMEDIATE headache and has little or no active ingredient on the pain/opiate side. My next prescription fill will NOT be this medication. I will go to a smaller pharmacy if I have to. I absolutely refuse to take this crap. I'm on my second month of a sick stomach, headache, and no pain relief.
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Charlie | 75 or over | Female | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
11/23/2023
Condition: Severe Pain
Overall rating 2.0
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This medication makes me feel like a zombie, pain not really gone.
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Mallinckrodt | 65-74 | Male | On medication for 5 to less than 10 years | Patient
11/17/2023
Condition: Severe Pain with Opioid Tolerance
Overall rating 4.3
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I've been on Oxycodone 15mg for 5.5 years w/zero side effects with mfg. Mallinckrodt. All other brands too many side effects especially severe constipation.
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Bea Gut | 55-64 | Female | On medication for 5 to less than 10 years | Patient
11/17/2023
Condition: severe chronic pain requiring long-term opioid treatment
Overall rating 2.7
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I thought there was something wrong with me, but I noticed variable pain relief month to month on the same oxycodone dosage. Some months I could actually take less that prescribed and others it seemed like so matter how much I took there was no identifiable relief. I also suffered from increased joint pain, insomnia, abdominal discomfort, and headaches -- this has happened several times over the last year.
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ves911 | 45-54 | Female | On medication for 2 to less than 5 years | Patient
11/16/2023
Condition: Chronic Pain
Overall rating 1.7
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I'm on pain management. I was recently switched to RHODES Oxycodone because that's all the pharmacy could get. I can't believe they can even sell this product. It does nothing for my pain, gives me severe headaches and actually makes my pain worse? I tried talking to my pm doctor and the pharmacy and theres nothing they can do till next month. I'm basically bed bound with ice packs for the next 3 weeks. Horrible manufacturer.
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Anne | 65-74 | Female | On medication for 5 to less than 10 years | Patient
11/12/2023
Condition: Chronic Pain
Overall rating 1.3
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I have been on 15 mg oxycodone for 6 yrs. Little green thin pill, then a lighter version a little thicker. They worked. Degenerative disk, spinal stenosis, Achilles tendon tares in both ankles, from the top of my neck to the end of my spine pain and left side leg and arm. Even jaw. The pharmacy just changed manufacturer Rhodes. I have a blinding headache nausea regurgitation, dizzy, can't sleep. Forget the stomach. The relief is minimal. Short lived. Dear Rhodes, we did not attack your company. We have been attacked by a stigma as opiate users. We never went after Perdue. You helped us we could no longer function properly with our diseased bodies. The medication worked. But Rhodes, what you are making is now making some of us sick. This product you are sending to our pharmacies is horrible. How much more do we suffer for what addictive personalities did to your company We must pee in cups, every month, as old as we are. We are called opiod users, but the difference is we take our medication as prescribed. We don't abuse our life line. Rhodes please fix your product. For we with chronic pain need our proper meds. Just like people that need antidepressants, must I go on. They are addictive but people on these meds are not treated like criminals, the way we are. And being pushed and pulled not knowing if we can even get our medication due to shortages. On and on. Godspeed. Rhodes your horse pills why are they so big and hard. They are harder to digest, stuck in throat. When other opiod meds are easy to digest. And never did I have these side affects from other oxycodone 15 mgs. Read More Read Less
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John S | 65-74 | Male | On medication for 10 years or more | Patient
11/4/2023
Condition: severe chronic pain requiring long-term opioid treatment
Overall rating 2.0
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I have been taking 10mg oxycodone many years for spinal nerve pain. When I received Rhodes Pharm. R/X, I thought it was Placebo? Had no relief of Pain! ?? John S.
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vkelly | 45-54 | Female | On medication for 2 to less than 5 years | Patient
11/4/2023
Condition: severe chronic pain requiring long-term opioid treatment
Overall rating 1.3
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Was recently given Rhodes brand Oxycodone from Walgreens instead of usual Mallinckrodt mfg because thats all they could get. The Rhodes brand does absolutely zero for my pain. Makes me sweat, dizzy and headache. Called the pharmacist and lucky me, I was the first to get the new brand. Told pharmacist get ready for the complaints lol. Was advised to contact my pain mgmt to see if possible to resubscribe to lower (Mallinckrodt) dose they have in stock. Not gonna hold my breath on that one. Doesn't work at all for me.Read More Read Less
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Mylifeman | 25-34 | Male | On medication for 2 to less than 5 years | Patient
11/2/2023
Condition: severe chronic pain requiring long-term opioid treatment
Overall rating 5.0
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I certainly agree Rhodes is terrible but we need to keep in mind this is Purdue Phamras generic and sister comnpany…They are likely using as least amount of active ingredient as possible to avoid more heat from the world and DEA and probably have been given a lower quota of the active ingredient from the DEA so they are probably just as upset about it as us as they want to make money. I think this is why Rhodes is so terrible as their subutex is the best generic so this tells you something and the story of what’s going on. The best generics are as follows in me experience: 1
1. Zydus- I have never tried this generic but from the feedback from elderly patients and may others who have been lucky enough to come across zydus generic oxycodone or ethex generic are lucky as the feedback and research states beside the brand name 54 199 and 54 710 tablets these are the best generics. I can’t speak to this as i have never even seen them yet tried them but the research shows these especially Zydus makes the best oxycodone comparable of brand name and of ethex, another one I haven’t tried. For the ones i have tried as follows:
1. Mallincrodt
2. Alvogen
3. Aurobindo (all other drugs from them are terrible but great pain meds)
4. Amneal
5. Major
6. Sun
7. And KVK Tech and Camber being the second to worst, which a kvk tech 30mg tablet cost 12 cents wholesale when all other generics cost 56 cents a tablet so what does this tell you as well.
8 Lastly of course Rhodes as I BELIEVE THE DEA is punishing Purdue and giving them the least and last of active ingredients after providing it to the generic companies and keeping a leash on Purdue. They still make the original oc formulation in every country but the United States..what does this also tell us lol. Rhodes buprenorphine is exactly the same as brand name down to the inactive and active ingredients making it the best subutex on r the market for a generic as it’s indentical to brand name subutex. So if Rhodes can do this with their subutex generic i do not understand how they aren’t making the best and most effective pain medication like they do with their MAT medications such as buprenorphine(subutex) which also not everyone takes suboxone and subutex because they have had addiction issues a lot of people start taking it because the drs say its a good one for pain without having to be on heavy opiates then u do it for pain and every one after and dr thinks you been an addict and you have to explain no i chose this for my pain med then have documents to back it up. The medical industry is a wreck right now and the pharmacy industry is running on very thin ice. Medications cost are increasing shortages are crazy there literally is zero oxycodone 15mg tablets at any of the pharmacies in my city called everyone none have them at least for another week and a half that’s crazy how can they leave people a week and a half past their fill because of some fake shortage to make another monopoly or worsen the fetty epidemic on purpose.. its genicide this fetty problem and they rather patients go to the streets. Its insanity. Always get mallincrodt on every pain medication you can unless there is a qualities generic/par or endo one for it otherwise u are getting lower active ingredients. KVK tech is so popular but the fact it cost a pharmacy 12 cents for a 30mg tablet conmpared to all other generics at 56 cents per tablet just goes to show u how cheap and crappy kvk tech. The market placebo effect is wild. It’s even so terrible we have to be here even discussing this. It should be a effective and simple process for us real pain patients and now they rather have us go to the streets like they are going to remove opiates all together its scary and we shouldn’t even have to have this convo. I pray for you all in this life long journey of quality of life and good health and success in life and healing stay up and hope this feedback helps some of you and always remember if you find a good mom and pop pharmacyRead More Read Less
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MAH3412 | 45-54 | Female | On medication for 1 to less than 2 years | Patient
10/22/2023
Condition: severe chronic pain requiring long-term opioid treatment
Overall rating 1.3
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OMG. You don’t know how glad I am to find this website and the reviews. I’m a RN and I’ve suffered with chronic pain since 1998. I have Fibromyalgia, SLE, Raynaud’s and Neuropathy. I totally agree that Rhodes Pharmaceutical is sooooo totally horrible. I would give it a -10 if it was possible. Right this minute I am at work and my neuropathy pain is a full blown 10/10. I told my pain doctor to send my Oxycodone 7.5/325 mg to Kroger which was carrying a different pharmaceutical brand than Encore pharmacy. Once again she sent the prescription to the wrong pharmacy and I’m suffering from it. Rhodes has to be watering down the Oxycodone. My pain doctor will not give me the dose of Oxycodone I used to be on and that kept me pain free. He (husband and wife team and most of the time I see her) once told me my liver was going to shut down from all the meds I take. Well if I’m in severe pain all the time what the hell difference does it make; that is no quality of life and I’d rather be dead. I know there are so many people like me that suffer in pain daily. Read More Read Less
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Umpalumpa14588@ | 35-44 | Female | On medication for 5 to less than 10 years | Patient
10/19/2023
Condition: severe chronic pain requiring long-term opioid treatment
Overall rating 1.7
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Rhodes Pharmaceutical! They are the worst. I swear there has got to be some truth. Since my pharmacy switched manufacturers, I noticed a HUGE drop in quality and effectiveness. It feels most days like I don't even take anything. It barely touches my pain most days. Previous manufacturers quality was leaps and bounds above Rhodes. I don't know what it is but I stand by what I say. My experience has been horrible since the pharmacy switched to Rhodes! Much lower quality for sure.
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Anonymous | 65-74 | Female | On medication for 10 years or more | Patient
10/17/2023
Condition: Pain
Overall rating 1.0
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Recently picked up my 5mg of Oxycodone. Rhodes being the manufacturer . I am miserable as my pain is so bad . The med is not working! I don't know what can be done. This is just wrong ! I will talk to my doctor. As a pain patient I am infuriated that a drug company would cause us to suffer more than we already do!
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M00nbay777 | 55-64 | Male | On medication for 10 years or more | Patient
10/16/2023
Condition: severe chronic pain with opioid tolerance
Overall rating 1.0
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I found a great manufacturer about 6 months ago...Amneal they worked I was happy that I said finally..next week they pulled them and of course the FDA had them change the ingredients because it was real poopy..they told me they were not on backorder they had to take out the REAL ingredient...all the manufacturers are synthetic no more semi synthetic..they are killing us..and they don't care!!!! Oh and kvk-tech changed again last month I take 20mg it felt like a 5 mg tab..and its going to get worse..I feel so sorry for patients that have cancer..people are killing themselves..it makes me sick!!!Read More Read Less
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OkieP | 55-64 | Female | On medication for 10 years or more | Patient
10/13/2023
Condition: severe chronic pain requiring long-term opioid treatment
Overall rating 2.0
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I have been prescribed opiates for over 20 years & I have been on palliative care for the last 7 years, I have been on every brand of the oxycodone 30mlg they make in the last 7 years, & 3 month of that year I could only get the Rhodes brand because that’s the brand the pharmacy’s carry, I even had my son drive 2 1/2 hours away just to get a different brand then it was night & day from this brand I talked to my doctor, nurses & pharmacist & at first they acted like I was just being difficult but finally the nurse & my amazing doctor understood & I had to pay a lot every month to get a different brand but I was able to just save every month to get them, I am also on a very strong long acting Morphine ER ( a 60mlg & a 100mlg) my insurance because of my health being worse they pay for them, but of course they refuse to cover my Oxycodone 30mlg, so this since all the pharmacies are having horrible time getting pain medication I have been going through true hell, ( sorry) but it’s true last week I had to wait 4 extra days longer just to pray the pharmacy received their Oxycodone in, so when I go to get it guess what I could only get RHODES brand they told me it’s either Rhodes brand or nothing & they said they can’t even I wanted to cry & we checked every pharmacy in my area no one will help me because of the amount I am on & mlg I am on so not only is the pharmacy forcing me to take this brand but the government is because of this silly new drug shortage, so for the last week I have been taking them & yes I can take up to 2 every 3-4 hours & I have been trying every 3 hours to take 2 but guess what I feel like I have been taking Tylenol i have been so miserable & it’s so wrong!! The pharmacy is treating me like i am a drug seeker just because this brand is absolutely the worse ever! I wish the pharmacist had to be forced to take them & then tell me they are as good as any of the other brands cause that would be a lie, I belong to a FB pain group most of us either are older or cancer patients, I have bone & lung cancer I shouldn’t have to forced to spend $350 for medication that I can’t get any relieve from! Look at how many bad but true reviews this manufacturer have when or what will it take for the big pharmaceutical or government or someone do something about RHODES, I will do anything I can to help them stop making & forcing us to take this horrible & expensive product!! If u want my 1-10 scale of 1 bad 10 good this is 10 plus BAD product!! If I can write or protest or anything to get this brand of the shelves plz let me know!! Read More Read Less
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Oxycodone 10 | 55-64 | Male | On medication for 1 to 6 months | Patient
10/9/2023
Condition: severe chronic pain requiring long-term opioid treatment
Overall rating 1.0
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I have a disease called CRPS they call it the suicide disease. I suffer from escrutiating pain 24 hours a day seven days a week. The only hope I have is taking medication in order to function simple life tasks. This medication has turned my life upside down. This medication does not relieve my pain at all. I don’t know what they put into it. It’s like just taking Tylenol. This company needs to be reviewed by the FDA because I believe that they are not putting any kind of pain medication in the pills. It is not fair to us that are ill and need pain relief just to be able to get out of bed, I’ve been in bed for two years already and I am in and I am unable to get relief. The only time I get out of bed is to go to the doctors and that is a mission in itself. I don’t understand how this Rhodes pharmaceutical can profit from patients without feeling remorse or compassion for its consumers. This goes to show that money is above honesty, integrity and compassion. If I can and if I could, I would sue this company for pain and suffering because that is all that happens to me I suffer every day and I believe others are also suffering so a message to you Rodes Pharmacy whatever you’re doing stop and undo it get it right and step up to the plate. Read More Read Less
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BLTb4 | 55-64 | Female | On medication for less than 1 month | Patient
10/8/2023
Condition: severe chronic pain requiring long-term opioid treatment
Overall rating 1.7
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Since 9/18/2023, my new script was filled but this time it wasn’t the KVT pink pill but Rhodes RP 10. I now experiencing new pain & feel full, bloated/swollen. Difficulty eating, controlling my bladder.
There has to be something wrong with this formula.
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Alex_ayye | 25-34 | Female | On medication for 5 to less than 10 years | Patient
10/8/2023
Condition: severe chronic pain requiring long-term opioid treatment
Overall rating 2.7
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Finding the correct brand with oxycodone that isn’t garbage has been a challenge. Oxycodone 10mg ir manufactured by Mallinckrodt it awful. They are pink and have a large crack down the center. I avoid them like the plague because they are mainly filler. I get no relief. This month I had no choice because of the shortage of medication and I’m so stressed and angry that these would be allowed on the market. Please avoid this brand if you can.
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