Hey folks ...

My fiance has been prescribed Nucynta for a serious back injury. Since the drug is so damn new, not ONE doctor - albeit a surgeon, GP, specialist, or whatever ... seems to be confident in this medication.

She was tapered WAY DOWN to Hydrocodone, which was just stupid, by one doctor because he had no clue what it was. Anyway, she's back on Perocet 10mg to control her pain because the Nucynta seems to have very mixed results. Considering she's only on 50mg, which is the mid-range doze (it ranges from 0 to 100), can ANYONE PLEASE, PLEASE ****PLEASE*** share their experience with this medication.

Thank you all!

I was prescribed nucynta for failed back surgery. For my experience at least, I'm not impressed. I had previously been on vicoden then darvon. Neither of those worked very well, but the nucynta was useless for me. It seemed to have an effect of making me seem as though I suffered from major ADD without any pain relief. Gratefully for me I'm now on morphine. Not that I want to be on anything that addictive, but it seems far better than the nucynta. I would have been happy to just go back to the vicoden. I certainly can't speak for your fiance, but if it's not working....ask for something else. Let the doctor know it's ineffective and go back to the hydrocodone or something else. Don't waste time horsing around with it either. Don't suffer if you don't have to. I wish you both and all of us the best of luck.