Get off NOW
- 2x40mg Oxcontin + 4x10mg Endone (breath through meds) every day after my third hospitalization due to months of back pain beyond worst imaginable. Minor relief but took the edge off. Life saving really, or so I thought. One year later and many attempts to lower the dosage (too quickly), my brain was a mess. Memory gone, massive anxiety, severe lethargy, depression, always irritable, occasional severe vomiting. Never felt euphoric high like some claim just a mental nightmare. 5mg lowering of dose over a week or two each time is the only feasible solution to avoid severe withdrawals. The experts don't understand/believe the symptoms so you have to be armed with info like this forum. Most people as a whole are too judgmental to care. Over a month off oxy I have my brain back. The worst pain is better than this drug. Increased bowel frequency still a problem but withdrawals gone, anxiety gone, feel great and able to be the happy person I used to be completely uninhibited bar physical pain.
- —Guest Life restored
Worried
- I have been on roxi 15mg IR for 3 years, up to 500 month. I am down to 5 a day taper, but I cant seem to handle it. I wake up all night long with sweats, horrible leg pain that shoots me in the air. I have been up since 3 am. I'm going on a week with this and nothing is helping. I take an ambien to fall asleep, but I could take the bottle and it wouldn't help. My doctor is a real piece of work, I was put on these for back surgeries and I asked to be off of these meds. I tell her what I'm going through and she treats me like a drug addict. It doesn't take a genius to know that being on oxy for three years your body is addicted. I am getting no support from her. I'm on a downward spiral and I'm not sure if things will get better :(
- —Guest joltsinlegs
Aj
- When does it stop? I'm at day 8! sure i am a lot better but i was hanging out for day 7 i thought i would start sleeping and be able to breath properly by now.
- —Guest aaagh!
Trying to cope - the challenge.
- I started off doing norcos about 3 years ago socially, 1 or 2 every other day just when I wanted to feel that euphoric high. That progressed into about 3-4 a day and within a couple months I was at 12-14 a day. Soon after the norcos just didn't do it for me anymore so I tried the litle blue roxi 30mg. Man I loved it! What an incredible feeling it gave me in my brain. I was happy, wanting to do things, talking to people, just all around feeling like a million bucks! Well, as you can see, I stopped feeling like a million bucks within a month or 2 and needed to take them just to feel normal. Before I knew it I was doing about 5-6 30mg roxis a day just to get that little high it gave. I decided to snort subutex for awhile instead and at first I went through hell but then the subs started to work. I just ran out of subs so I bought a few roxi 30s again and before I know it, I'm hooked again! I have ONE roxi left and I'm gonna avoid taking it until I NEED it, then Im going to experience hell
- —Guest Regretful
oxy/dilodid withdrawl
- I feel like I am dying...no other feeling like this.nausia ,cramps,chills,eyeballs pain,anxiety,dry heaves,stiff,poopping uncontrollable..heart coming out of chest can't handle ..I took klonopin n helped my anxiety but still very ill....I have had 6 foot surgeries and I will never take this pain medicine again..nobody tells you the after math...this is pure hell
- —Guest me
Who would have thought?
- I've been on oxycontin and oxycodone for over a year after two major surgeries. I have been steadily lowering the dose but am totally stuck at the lower doses. Have tried to drop from 10mg twice a day plus a 5mg endone for breakthrough withdrawals but cannot seem to get down to the 5mg 3x a day. Am on clonipin and gabapantin at night but come 1am and I'm wide awake, legs twitching, can't get comfortable, popping my joints (shoulder) in and out, in and out. I can't stand it!! Is actually hurting my shoulder now and it's been over a week of trying. Upped the clonipin dose but that just makes it harder to get up in the morning to work. Finally just took a 10mg last nite and slept through. Was such a relief but am so disappointed with myself. Is so nice to know I'm not alone with this and if anyone has any advice for the "last" phase of withdrawal I'm all ears! Thanks guys
- —Guest Over it!!
What is roxi?
- My son has been smoking roxi on tin foil. I don't know what this is! Can someone please inform me so I know what I'm dealing with? Desperately afraid!!!
- —Guest marlene
2 months on Oxycontin & withdrawal
- Recently (Sept 2nd. 2011) I tore the calf muscle in my right leg, 5 inch long 3 inch wide 2 inch deep internal (in the muscle the skin didn't break) injury in the muscle while kick starting my motorcycle. Until a week ago my leg was in a cast and I was on 20mg of Oxycontin every 4 hours. Over the last two weeks I have managed to get that down to 20mg a day and then 10mg a day and now for the last 3 days, 0mg. I am having all of the symptoms described on the 1st page of this site. and some more like painful joints. I will never take this painkiller again, why why why can't we legalize cannabis, there would be none of this stuff.
- —Chaz60
I wish I could make it stop
- Its been 6 years maybe 7, who can keep track these days. My story is a little different. My younger brother is in love w Oxy. It's officially become his entire life. About 4 years ago my brother called me crying told me his entire story, the pain, that he couldn't stop, that he needed help. So he came 2 me, the withdrawals got so bad, I didn't know what i had gotten myself into. He was crying, talking 2 people who weren't there, seeing things, having bathroom issues all over the bed. This was my Baby brother, 24 yrs old, looked like something had taken over his body & he was no longer in there. That night I eventually rushed him to palomar hospital. Desperate 2 get this kid help. Once we got there. They made us wait SO LONG & i mean LONG. Like we were garbage. Eventually they got around to him. It was terrifying. They sent him to a 7 day detox, he didn't sleep a wink for 7 days. They helped him. On the day of his release, he used again, now, 3 yrs later he fights that same battle, no job, no $, no life, just Oxy.
- —molly858
Opiate Withdrawal and the Pain
- I have been a patient with severe lower back pain for years. Opiates were initially the only thing to take the edge off the pain. I remember when it was difficult to distinguish between the pain derived from my back issues or the pain sensation derived from the absence of the opiate. Either way... even though withdrawal is difficult, finding alternatives to opiates for pain management has changed my world.
- —Guest wmontney
I wanna breath fresh air again
- 2 years of snorting eating and loving my Oxys. Me and my woman we spend 900/wk we at each others throats when we in need of our addiction. I've had enough I called family yesterday morning and explained why I've been isolated from them the last 2 years. They lost a friend a month ago who blew his brains out because his doc suddenly just stopped prescribing him Oxys and they don't want me to do the same so they told me to come home. I told my woman who took it personal that I had to go get well. She hasn't come to the fact she has a problem, if though she has been doing oxy 7 years. I told my work and explained why I've been late or sick or a prick and they understood and gave me a medical leave. My family is new to the effects oxy withdrawals can do to a person. They called clinics and were told I need methadone. I explained to my father that methadone is just a way to control the addiction. I don't wanna be taking a drink everyday for the next 10yrs. Aches has begun twitching soon god.
- —Guest Johnny
Foot surgery was that worse
- I was on Percocet for 3 months before my foot surgery that I had to postpone, then in October I had foot surgery and went from Percocet to Vicodin and then to Oxycodone cause nothing was working. The pain was unbearable. I don't get addicted to pain killers, if I have no pain I don't take the drug. So this is the first time in my life of taking daily medicine and sleeping pills to get rest at night. Now after 1 month the pain started getting better and I decided to cut down cause the side effects of taking it aren't good, constipation, upset stomach, always wanting to sleep. So I would alternate from Oxycodone to Vicodin to the lesser, now its been 4 days taking less or nothing. Has anyone felt severe depression, crying every hour, worse insomnia than I had before,chills? I kept thinking this is from my fear of not working since the surgery. I didn't connect it but today I decided to research this and as I read I think it is connected. Any advice?
- —Guest maria
The Best Therapy
- This website is a very good source for self therapy. We all know how difficult withdrawal can be. Many horror stories here. I've been on the oxycotin for over 2 years now, and I knew the day would come when I would want to stop. Understanding what to expect when you do decide to stop, is a big part of success. There is always something positive in any situation. We just need to find it. My big thing is not only to "talk the talk", yet "walk the walk". I have been told by many that I am the strongest person they have ever known. So for me, failure is not an option. I am mid-way through day 4...cold turkey is what works for me. I hope that by thanksgiving, I will be able to enjoy the meal and a glass of wine. as much as I enjoy an alcoholic beverage from time to time, now is not the time. It would just be a crutch. this and other websites have been a godsend for me. I pray for you all.
- —Guest reggie
I can't seem to beat this
- I have been on durgestic patches for 3 years then my doctor swapped me straight over to Oxy, 160mg a day even went up to 200mg a day. I have read all your reviews. God bless you all. I felt before the time to get my hit that I was so desperate and that was before withdrawing. I knew something wasn't right, so I kept on and on at my doctor to help me get of this evil drug. He drew up a plan and started by making me go down 70mgs a week. My god what hell: shivers, sweats, feeling sick, seeing awful evil things that were not really there. My two kids 24 and 27 saved me from honestly trying to kill myself. I gave them life and they are saving me thank god. I have one question to any of you lovely people. I am down to 5mg a day and I feel it is far far worse than I started. Does that make sense? And will I suffer when I have nothing? I feel I am losing it. I cant beat it and I have had higher dosages. Sure it was hell, but this smaller dosages is killing me.
- —gemlost
Day one!
- Detoxing sucks: to be honest had someone showed me a bump I'd snort it in 5 seconds flat. I only got high the first few weeks, 5 or 6 months later here I am freezing and sweating at the same time! I want to be free of them, but withdrawal is becoming unbearable! Good luck fellow addicts!
- —Guest nicole
