Does Oxycodone Increase Blood Pressure?

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General educational information only. It does not replace advice from your doctor or pharmacist. Do not stop, start or change any medicine, including blood pressure medicine, without medical guidance. Oxycodone is a prescription-only controlled medicine. You take your oxycodone as prescribed, later check your blood pressure at home or at the pharmacy kiosk, and the …

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Oxycodone and High Cholesterol: Statin Interactions Explained

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“I take a statin every night. Is it okay to take oxycodone too?” Pharmacists hear some version of this question all the time, usually from people who have just left an operating room, an emergency department or a dentist’s chair with a new pain prescription in hand. It is a smart question. Cholesterol medicines are …

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