MS Contin Side Effects, Cautions
MS Contin side effects most often reported include dizziness and drowsiness.
MS Contin may aggravate and is contraindicated if
the patient has known or suspected:
- Antibiotic-associated colitis
- Diarrhea due to poisoning
- Paralysis of the intestines
- Slowed breathing
- Severe asthma
- Asthma attack.
Adverse MS Contin Side Effects
MS Contin side effects often persist if your dosage
is chronic or high. (More severe reactions are listed
below in bold:)
- Anxiety
- Cold, clammy skin
- Confusion, hallucination
- Constipation
- Convulsion, seizures
- Depressed, changing moods
- Diarrhea
- Difficulty urinating
- Dizziness, drowsiness
- Euphoria or dysphoria
- Exaggerated sense of well-being
- Extreme nervousness
- Fainting, palpitations
- Headache
- Lack of sexual drive
- Lightheadedness
- Light-headedness, fainting
- Loss of appetite
- Memory loss
- Nausea, vomiting
- Pinpoint pupils
- Restless mood
- Severe or persistent stomach pain
- Severe weakness or dizziness
- Sleeplessness, insomnia
- Stomach pain
- Sweating
- Tightness in the chest
- Tremors
- Urinary urgency or retention
- Vomiting
- Yellowing of eyes or skin
This is not a complete list. Lying down may alleviate
some symptoms.
Seek IMMEDIATE medical care for:
- Excessive drowsiness
- Fast or irregular heartbeat
- Hallucinations
- Pounding in the chest
- Seizure
- Severe sweating
- Shock
- Slow or shallow breathing
- Slow or shallow heartbeat
- Sudden chest pain
- Swelling of the face or throat.
- Severe allergic reactions
- Swelling of the face
- Swelling of the lips
- Swelling of the mouth
- Swelling of the tongue
- Difficulty breathing
- Hives, itching
- Redness
- Severe rash
Discuss MS Contin use with your health care provider
if you have:
- Abnormal carbon dioxide tension in arteries
- Addison's disease or other adrenal gland disorders
- Also taking herbal preparations or dietary supplements
- Asthma, COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease)
- Other breathing or lung problems
- Brain tumor
- Certain allergies to medicines, foods, or other
substances
- Current or intended pregnancy
- Currently breast-feeding
- Curvature of the spine
- Difficulty urinating
- Drug abuse or dependence history
- Enlarged prostate
- Epilepsy
- Gallbladder disease
- Heart, liver, or thyroid disease
- History of alcohol addiction
- History of suicidal thoughts or behaviors
- Kidney disease
- Low blood pressure
- Low blood volume
- Mental illness
- Pressure in the head, recent head injury, or
lesions in the head
- Seizures
- State of shock
- Under-active thyroid
- Urination problems
- Stomach blockage, inflammatory bowel disease,
stomach tract surgery
- Swallowing difficulty
- Under current prescription or nonprescription
medicine
- Severe allergic reaction to Morphine or hydromorphone
Verify MS Contin side effects and drug interactions
with your doctor when taking:
Narcotic agonists/antagonists
- Fluoxetine, naltrexone
- Pentazocine
- Rifampin
- Risperidone
Narcotic analgesics
- Talwin
- Nubain
- Stadol
- Buprenex
Barbiturate anesthetics
- thiopental
- cimetidine,
- ethanol
- ketorolac
- sodium oxybate (GHB)
Tricyclic antidepressants
- amitriptyline
- Mexiletine or trovafloxacin
- Compazine or Tigan
MAO inhibitors:
- isocarboxazid (Marplan)
- phenelzine (Nardil)
- rasagiline (Azilect)
- selegiline (Eldepryl, Emsam)
- tranylcypromine (Parnate)
Major tranquilizers
- Thorazine or Haldol
- Librium or Xanax
Muscle relaxants
Sedatives
Water pills
Others:
- pentazocine (Talwin)
- nalbuphine (Nubain)
- butorphanol (Stadol)
- buprenorphine (Buprenex, Subutex)
This list is not complete.
Many treatment patients contact us about rapid detox
because of adverse MS Contin side effects bothering
them due to chronic drug intake.
Learn more about MS Contin side effects and the
Waismann Method of Rapid Detoxification.
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