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[Lucky]

Does anyone else think oxycontin doesn't last 12 hrs?

I'm waiting for my doctor to get back to me wether or not Ican take 3 times a day instead of twice. I'm currently on 120mg twice a day & oramorph 3 times & diazepam 2 times daily.

Any thoughts?

What doses are you lot on if any or morphine sulphate too.....

Is it right that 10mg of oxycontin is equal to 20mg of MST making oxycontin twice the strength of morphine sulphare mg for mg?

Cheers all.

[Santa Cruz Soul Surfer (LRO)]

I'd recommend trying to get off them altogether! As you build up a tolerance to pain meds over time , you will find yourself constantly trying to up the dose, up the pain med. The end result, is a serious down hill road both physically and mentally. When you come to the point where you are upping to Oxy and Morphine several times a day, you need to really evaluate what your long term survival goals are.

[eyelookok2blindgurls]

I wont take any pain meds it's easier to live with the pain than have pain meds affecting my limited function apart from that I like to be able to think straight

[cubanito_016]

them bro you must have some bad nerve pain that alat of med what type of pain you have.

eyelookok2blindgurls, on Feb 22 2009, 03:37 AM, said:

I wont take any pain meds it's easier to live with the pain than have pain meds affecting my limited function apart from that I like to be able to think straight

you dont take pain meds cause maybe your pain its not that bad but there are people out there like me that have no choice cause the pain is so bad like rigth now I am in pain and my doctor have me going up in meds till I get some type of relieve.

[twisted_ophelia]

I agree that taking as little as you need of the narcotic painkillers as possible is the way to go. I take 100mg of codeine-contin, 12 hour time release, at night. Usually by 8 hours the stuff is worn off. I--and my doctors--consider my chronic pain to be very bad. If I can't take the pain during the day, I may take an extra 100mg but only if the pain is bad enough to be keeping me at home and laying down. The codeine-contin is not mixed with any other crap, like acetominaphin, making it easier on your system to handle. It also don't make you spacy, zombie-fied, or dopey. It's designed for long-term use. Over the last 11 years, I have tried every painkiller imaginable for my back and none, not even morphine, has worked as well as this without making me into a zombie (or upsetting my stomach, as many narcotic painkillers can do). I do not have an addictive personality at all and I just don't want to be doped up on opiates because they completely mess up your body, organs, and then, of course, there is the addiction and tolerance issue. Like my buddy SoulSurfer said, you need to consider the long-term. Pumping yourself full of opiates is never healthy.

[HandicapHero]

At the moment I am prescribed 50 mg of methadone (5 10 mg pills a day), 180 mg of oxycodone (6 30 mg pills a day), 4 mg of clonazepam (4 1 mg pills a day), and 300 mg of wellbutrin XL. I don't even notice that I'm taking them anymore. Without them however I'm in severe pain..

I've been injured now for about 5 years and I started with only 20 mg of oxyocodone twice a day. I'm to the point now where my daily meds could kill an elephant. It is definitely a downhill ride once you start taking opiates because your body builds up a tolerance rather quickly. But if you are sincerely in pain and only take enough to kill the pain, your head won't be clouded. It is when you let the mental dependency take over and start increasing your dose to "feel" the effects that is dangerous. Honestly, I wouldn't be able to function on a daily basis if I was not prescribed these drugs.

You need to do what you think is right for you. If you need to increase your dose because the drug is no longer killing your pain, then you should. If you are missing the "feeling" the drug gave you when you first began taking it, you might want to reconsider.

[Scribbler]

HandicapHero, on Feb 22 2009, 06:27 PM, said:

At the moment I am prescribed 50 mg of methadone (5 10 mg pills a day), 180 mg of oxycodone (6 30 mg pills a day), 4 mg of clonazepam (4 1 mg pills a day), and 300 mg of wellbutrin XL. I don't even notice that I'm taking them anymore. Without them however I'm in severe pain..

I've been injured now for about 5 years and I started with only 20 mg of oxyocodone twice a day. I'm to the point now where my daily meds could kill an elephant. It is definitely a downhill ride once you start taking opiates because your body builds up a tolerance rather quickly. But if you are sincerely in pain and only take enough to kill the pain, your head won't be clouded. It is when you let the mental dependency take over and start increasing your dose to "feel" the effects that is dangerous. Honestly, I wouldn't be able to function on a daily basis if I was not prescribed these drugs.

You need to do what you think is right for you. If you need to increase your dose because the drug is no longer killing your pain, then you should. If you are missing the "feeling" the drug gave you when you first began taking it, you might want to reconsider.

I agree up to a point but unfortunately once your hooked, you have no self control.

When I was newly injured I was given injections of Pethadine (spelling?) which got me hooked real fast. I didn't even know what the drug was, all I knew was I needed it, just like any addict feels.

Once I realised what was going on, I soon cut it out. All I take for nerve pain now is Gabapentin.

Everyone is different so no one can say what's right or wrong for each individual, I just relate my own experience with drugs.

[edlee]

That's the problem with pain,,,, no objective scale. That 1 to 10 crap is only your own persception,,,, nobody knows what you are feeling and you can't compare it to others,, because you can't feel theirs.

That's why it's so hard to spot drug seekers,,,,, or realize you are one....... Who knows????

I guess that's why I believe in removing all restrictions on ANY drugs,,,,,, those who choose to overuse,,well,, they'll soon be out of the gene pool, anyway,,,, and those that don't will relieve their pain.

Not sure which way I'd flop,,,,,,,but does anyone,,, really???
ed

[HandicapHero]

edlee, on Feb 22 2009, 02:27 PM, said:

That's the problem with pain,,,, no objective scale. That 1 to 10 crap is only your own persception,,,, nobody knows what you are feeling and you can't compare it to others,, because you can't feel theirs.

That's why it's so hard to spot drug seekers,,,,, or realize you are one....... Who knows????

I guess that's why I believe in removing all restrictions on ANY drugs,,,,,, those who choose to overuse,,well,, they'll soon be out of the gene pool, anyway,,,, and those that don't will relieve their pain.

Not sure which way I'd flop,,,,,,,but does anyone,,, really???
ed

I'd be out of the gene pool. Haha.

[ziggy]

HandicapHero, on Feb 22 2009, 12:27 PM, said:

At the moment I am prescribed 50 mg of methadone (5 10 mg pills a day), 180 mg of oxycodone (6 30 mg pills a day), 4 mg of clonazepam (4 1 mg pills a day), and 300 mg of wellbutrin XL. I don't even notice that I'm taking them anymore. Without them however I'm in severe pain..

I've been injured now for about 5 years and I started with only 20 mg of oxyocodone twice a day. I'm to the point now where my daily meds could kill an elephant. It is definitely a downhill ride once you start taking opiates because your body builds up a tolerance rather quickly. But if you are sincerely in pain and only take enough to kill the pain, your head won't be clouded. It is when you let the mental dependency take over and start increasing your dose to "feel" the effects that is dangerous. Honestly, I wouldn't be able to function on a daily basis if I was not prescribed these drugs.

You need to do what you think is right for you. If you need to increase your dose because the drug is no longer killing your pain, then you should. If you are missing the "feeling" the drug gave you when you first began taking it, you might want to reconsider.

Holy shit, that's a ton of painkillers, i'd probably pass out and die. I take 15mg of Oxycodone twice a day and it helps my foot pain, but doesn't take it away entirely. If i took more it might help remove all the pain, but i'm wary of turning into a pain killer junkie.

Do you take all these pills for just the pain or are you addicted to the buzz? Plus, i at times crap bricks because of the small amount of Oxycodone i take, i can't imagine what all those pills would do to my bowels. Are you able to crap normally?

[dustin87]

Get off those pills man, they are no good. Smoke some weed instead. I have had so many friend's lives ruined from taking pills, especially oxycontin. I have a complete T9 SCI. I have been in a chair for one year and am not taking pills anymore. However, I do smoke weed, always have. It is the best cure.

[macad]

Lucky
my husband is on Oxycodine 80mg 4 times a day, and endone 10mg 2 times a day as require ( meaning if he is having an active day)as well as duragesic100 patch he is also on Lyrica 300 in the morning and 150 at night and endep50 at night.
He does not have an addictive personality, he actually despises taking tablets and tried for quite a while on no medication, but he was only getting half an hour sleep at night and that was fragmented, he was very short tempered and irritable (kids do not understand, we have 4) and he was unable to do much of anything.
Now he can go to the public pool and do one and a half hours of hydrotherapy and a light gym program, which he is still wrecked after, but mentally he feels like he has a chane to try and strengthen his body and feels a little better about himself.
Don't get me wrong he still has severe pain even with the concoction he is taking .
by the way his oxy does has been reduced from what he was on.
The docs are now talking about either a spinal cord stimulator or a morphine pump, with the hope of getting him off the drugs, or significantly reduced.