Short answer: Yes, oxycodone and balance problems are a well-known pairing. The drug can make you drowsy, slow your reactions, drop your blood pressure when you stand, and dull your vision in low light. Each of those chips away at the systems that keep you upright, so the chance of a fall goes up, especially …
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It is 9 p.m., the kitchen light is dim, and the print on your prescription bottle will not hold still. You tilt it, move it closer, move it farther away. The letters stay soft at the edges. If you started a pain medicine recently, the obvious question follows: is this oxycodone and blurred vision, or …
Day two after surgery. The pain is finally under control, you have just settled into the recliner, and then it starts: hic. Six seconds later, another. Every one of them yanks at your stitches like someone tugging a drawstring. By the third hour you are typing into your phone with one thumb, asking the question …
