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Discussion => Drug safety => Topic started by: Hawk23 on May 03, 2012, 05:14 am

Title: Oxycodone Hives, Yikes!
Post by: Hawk23 on May 03, 2012, 05:14 am
I took a 30mg IR oxycodone and broke out in hives all over my friggin' body!  Itching, burning and high as hell all at the same time.  So I took an antihistamine (claritin) and it did the trick, they all disappeared within a matter of minutes. Guess I'm allergic. Oh well, coke is my DOC anyway.

I'm curious, does anyyone else have allergic reactions to Oxy or any other drugs? I've been doing drugs for a long time and this was my first allergic reaction. 
Title: Re: Oxycodone Hives, Yikes!
Post by: a_blackbird on May 03, 2012, 07:41 am
Oxy (and most opioids, I believe) releases histamine.  Even if you're not actually allergic and you don't break out in hives, you're still likely to get pretty itchy.  Everyone I've ever known that's taken oxy or hydro has experienced this to some degree.
Title: Re: Oxycodone Hives, Yikes!
Post by: Hawk23 on May 03, 2012, 04:09 pm
Yeah, I've taken lots of percocet. Crazy itch, but I like it.  Never broke out like this before though. It was insane - my whole body was covered, head to toe.
Title: Re: Oxycodone Hives, Yikes!
Post by: GORDENRAMSEY on May 05, 2012, 09:13 pm
Just take an antihistamine like benadryl before you partake
Title: Re: Oxycodone Hives, Yikes!
Post by: winterjacket1 on May 05, 2012, 11:16 pm
I would be careful these allergies can be dangerous - in a hospital they slap you with a bright color wrist band for a reason.

Your probably also allergic to morphine and these allergies can cause your throat to swell up and make it difficult to breath in a worst case scenario. And, you might need something stronger than benadryl like Epinephrine or Fexofenadine. 

My friend developed the same thing out of the blue one weekend, crazy stuff - luckily someone had an epi-pen around and it was all good.