Has any one here taken Oxycontin?

[trumad]

What's it feel like?

[JVS]

1. I'll ask my dad.

He's on it for terminal cancer.

[Fridays Child]

28. I hope the meds keep him as comfortable as possible.

And I'm so sorry to hear that your dad is going through this. It's very tough. ;(

[Maddy McCall]

2. Nope....

But when I was recuperating from my broken knee (and two surgeries), I took Hydrocodone and Lortabs. They are very mild, but I didn't stay on them long, because I didn't want to become addicted.

[AlienGirl]

3. Like morphine or percoset

It feels like not being in pain anymore, combined with mild euphoria and sleepiness. If you are not in mind-shattering ain when you take it, it's probably one heck of a high.

Tucker

[papau]

17. Rush's 4350 pills over 47 days included more than hillbilly heroin

It appears Rush was into
1.Hydrocodone - a Anti-cough agent and painkiller similar to morphine. Side effects include poor mental performance, emotional dependence and mood changes (morphrine depresses the ability to breathe)

2. Lorcet - Prescribed for moderate to severe pain. Side effects include vomiting, decreased appetite, sweating and itching.

3., various forms of OxyContin - which is a Potent time-release medication for pain, known as hillbilly heroin - Side effects include dizziness, muscle twitches and decreased sex drive.
-large dose can be fatal -

....3A Percodan and Percoset use Oxycodone as their primary opioid ingredient. The difference between the Percodan and Percoset comes in the secondary analgesic which is added to the Oxycodone.....Percodan is Oxycodone plus Aspirin, while Percoset is Oxycodone plus Acetaminophen.

,,,,,3B Pure Oxycodone is available by itself also. There is the regular Oxycodone, plus there is a special time-release version of Oxycodone called Oxycontin.

[phishhead]

4. Yeah.

When you walk you float,, it feels pretty good. You just feel really, really relaxed.

Bad stuff.

[trumad]

5. I'm always amazed that something so good can be so damn bad for you

[Cha]

7. rush must be a bull to be taking it this long..and still be going,

although, Mike Malloy said side effects could include "loosing your hearing"..

[phishhead]

8. Heya zidzi :)

If he's been taking it for a long time, you would think it would be very noticable. When I see Rush, he doesn't have the appearance of a junkie, but anything is possible.

[Search Party]

29. you would be amazed at what the body can endure

several of my family members are addicts, have been for many years, it is unthinkable what they have put themselves through. it's not easy to kill yrself slowly.

[mistertrickster]

6. I took HYDROCODONE for back pain and it just made me fall asleep.

Don't know how you could enjoy any kind of "high" when it just knocks you out . . .

[dflprincess]

9. My mom takes it

She has severe oesteoporsis (sp). She can't figure out why it's so popular. It does help with her pain but she hasn't noticed any high off it. She has, however, become somewhat concerned about addiction. Both her internist and the pharmacist have told her that, when you have pain that is bad enough for a drug like this you don't get addicted. It's when you continue to use a major pain killer when something milder will do that you get in trouble.

It is, however, a pain (no pun) to get this prescription refilled each month. The pharmacy has to have a new written, signed in ink, no faxes script each month. After the third month he prescribed it Mom's doctor had a major hassle with the insurance company over it. He was on the phone for over an hour with them - getting passed up the food chain until he reached some kind of Pubah who believed him when he said the only way my mother will not need this drug is if they start doing spine transplants.

[Maddy McCall]

15. Not addictive??? Pain is subjective....

"Both her internist and the pharmacist have told her that, when you have pain that is bad enough for a drug like this you don't get addicted. It's when you continue to use a major pain killer when something milder will do that you get in trouble."

If I were you, I would be very leary of her pharmacist and internist...this is a very addictive drug, and, as your mother's internist should know, pain and one's ability to tolerate different levels of it is subjective.

[dflprincess]

25. My personal opinion was that

they were trying to calm her fears. Given the condition of my mother's back (she has shrunk 4 inches) and her age (79) she is never going to be off pain killers. I see the same doctor and he's fairly conservative about pill pushing. He tried a variety of less dangerous pain killers on her before resorting to OxyContin. Even with this one she is rarely without some pain but she is able to get around better since starting this one. She's been on the same dosage for over a year and has not noticed any difference in how it works. I have not noticed that it affects her mind at all. In fact, the pain relief she gets has seemed to make her sharper.

She's also on Fosamax in the hopes of slowing down, if not preventing, any more bone loss and has been to an orthopedic surgeon who concurs that there is nothing more to be done for her back. Last year, her internist also sent her xrays down to the Mayo Clinic as they are doing some new treatment on vertabrae damaged by osteo but they came back with the opinion that her back is too far gone for it.

My mother was never one to run to go to doctors on a regular basis - if she was her back would never have gotton this bad. But, she kept writing it off to the aches and pains of aging. Frankly, I was more concerned about the amount of Excedrin she was taking for her "arthritis" (which she thought it was) than I am with the Oxycontin. At least now that she's on that, her doctor insists she come in every 6 months so she is being checked out more often than she used to be.

[Dogmudgeon]

30. Addiction and Pain

I've taken quite a lot of oxycodone over the past 25 years, the result of several operations on my ear for cancer. The disease is gone, but the damage has left me in constant pain.

I have never been addicted to any of the opiates/opioids I've ever taken, though. I used to wonder about this until I started reading "the literature". And true enough, the levels of addiction of narcotic painkillers is much lower among chronic pain patients.

This is not to say that these drugs can be used like candy. Given a forced heads/tails choice, jchild's attitude is more likely to keep a patient healthy.

No need to blame the pharmacist or intern -- what is needed, by all patients who take painkillers, is an understanding of pain and medication management. It is not difficult to get that understanding, and with collaborative monitoring between the patient and physician, pain can be minimized or eliminated with a very low risk of addiction.

My biggest "fear" now is that as a result of Rushbo's self-indulgence, the FDA will impose another "crackdown", scaring physicians, making it tougher to obtain medication without jumping through WOD hoops, and doubling (again) the price of drugs like Percodan, Oxycontin, and other strong analgesics. The $50 per hundred generic oxycodones I pay is a big chunk out of my Bushonomics-modified income.

--bkl

[DoNotRefill]

32. You need to shop at another freaking pharmacy...

For my last script for generic Oxycodone, 30 tabs was under $6.

[Dogmudgeon]

33. Two-bit oxycodone?

Where do you shop?

The $50 price was the second-lowest in my area (suburban Philadelphia); the cheapest was $38, but several of the tabs would crumble in the bottle.

Time for another price-shopping expedition!

Thanks for the heads-up. It will certainly take some of the pain out of pain management!

--bkl

[Snow]

23. Your mom's pharamacist & doc are correct about the addiction

not really being a problem with proper use. I'm glad to see clinicians are finally getting correctly educated on this matter. For the longest time, it was like - "opioids - one hit and you're hooked!" crap.

[tridim]

10. I was just reading about it on Erowid.org

http://www.erowid.org/experiences/subs/exp_Pharms_-_Oxycodone.shtml

[GURUving]

11. I have a client that does

she loves it. I wonder how she'll feel about the real world when the rainbow disappears?

[Diogenes2]

21. real world

one person's "rainbow" is another person's "real world". if the illusion never ends why not just keep it? thus the very affluent & their "real world" of privilege & self-importance: I wonder what they'll think if it ever disappears?

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

24. oh it will, and it will be ugly for them, entertaining for many

and my favorite quote on that sort of thing...

reality is for people who can't handle drugs.

[Rowdyboy]

12. My baby sister (about 40 years old, mother of three)

worked as a manager for Wal-Mart until she hurt her back (I don't know the details). She was put on oxycontin and it was disasterous. She became addicted, lost her children (and her children's respect), lost her job, and was briefly institutionalized.

I don't reccommend it.

[JanMichael]

13. No but my dumbassed, fuck-up, loser, brother in law has.

And it's done little to help an already difficult relationship.

I probably shouldn't post this since my sister reads DU but fuck it. I hate fuckwit slackers with kids.

EDIT! He's a recreational user which means he buys them illegally, crushes them up, then snorts the shit.

No offence to people that may have had a real need for it.

[GURUving]

19. If he's crushing it and snorting it then he has a real need

it's a drag, it sucks, and the people around him better stand back and smack his face,

Dependence on anything sucks. Whether it's drugs, women, music, imaginary friends or ..............

Good luck, and don't be too hard. Dependence creates minds without borders. They will come back with sobriety?

[JanMichael]

20. "Smack his face"? Already did that a few years back.

All that did is freak out my sister who didn't grasp the fact that he tried to "take me". In other words he tackled me while we were trudging up an icy road in Krakow Poland back in 94' (after a few too many vodka shots). Bad move. Unfortunately his head hit the pavement several times till he gave up.

I asked him why he did it and his answer was classic, "I wanted to see if I could take you."...The answer was a resounding NO.

So an ass kicking only backfires on me, I'm seen as the bad guy...Oh well.

I have zero hope that he'll stop being a fuck-up, I've goy 12 years of evidence to the contrary, my greatest hope is that my sister will grow a spine and quit being one half of a sick relationship.

[ForrestGump]

14. It induces uterine contractions

Oh, sorry, that's oxytocin.



And photos of me in my bathing suit, of course... :o

[WHAT]

16. I took it for back pain...

and I feel like I missed-out because it didn't do that much for me...mostly it allowed me to sleep for a couple hours at a time. I think being in pain and not being able to sleep for days was an hallucogen because I kept going in and out of these wierd images/thoughts before medication was prescribed.

I must say, I feel sympathetic towards people who get hooked on drugs in order to control pain. I'm thinking of young people, mostly men, who, in the recklessness of youth become involved in accidents that leave them in pain for the rest of their lives. Also, the young men in combat who have their lives shattered in this way. I have a suspicion that people self-medicating because no effective means of pain control are open to them via health care is more of a problem than the "respectability" of prescription drugs. I especially think of the homeless Viet Nam veterans.

[WannaJumpMyScooter]

18. Best narcotic high I have ever had

without question.

[kayleybeth]

22. Not me

Anything in that family of drugs makes me violently ill. I'd rather be in pain.

[Booberdawg]

26. I have several times over the years

And since I used to be a heavy drinker I have a high tolerance and take the higher recommended dosage when I do. (I guess that's why my tolerance is so high) I can see where it is so addicting - there is a definite "happy buzz" associated with it, although I have not abused it.

I also saw a report tonight, I "think" it was on Keith Olberman program, about the high incidence of deafness amoung Oxycontin abusers. Well well, rushbo's sudden deafness is starting to fall into place. :think:

The drug that puzzles me that is supposedly so addictive is Xanax. I was prescribed it several years ago when going through a personal crisis due to a family tragedy that resulted in a civil action. I was the lowest dose available and I took it a couple times a day and it certainly did take the edge off and I was able to function better.

But after that, any time I took ONE it knocked me completely on ever lovin' ASS - with the hangover effect lasting into the next day. On the rare occasion I do take one I break it in half as they don't come in any smaller dose. That was over 5 years ago and I still have the refill from that first prescription.

I've never understood what the "buzz" is about Xanax or why it is so addicting?? There is no buzz or high that I can feel, and I sure don't understand what is addicting about being knocked on my ass and feeling lethargic and practically catatonic for a couple days. Maybe it just affects me differently than those who are addicted to it, I don't know. I guess I just wouldn't make a good downer addict.

[OneBlueSky]

27. I take oxycontin for chronic pain . . .

under a doctor's care . . . it's basically the same stuff that's in percocet (oxycodone), but in a time release formula . . . if used as directed, it's an effective alternative to percocet and similar drugs, in that you can take your medication every twelve hours rather than every four, and eliminate the up and down, up and down that goes with it . . . the problems come from people who use it to get high by crushing or dissolving it, thus negating the time release function . . .

most pain doctors believe (and I agree) that the danger of addiction is minimal when the medication is being used to control severe pain and not for recreation . . . I've had times when my prescription ran out and I couldn't get another for a few days . . . it was mildly uncomfortable, but certainly not any kind of big withdrawel or anything . . . of course the pain was back, and that pretty much overrode everything else . . .

imo, oxycontin is an effective and useful medication for the relief of severe chronic pain when prescribed and monitored by a pain specialist . . . for me, it's been a godsend . . .

[DoNotRefill]

31. Yup...be careful with it.

I've gotten perscriptions for it for my back. When in great pain, however, taking more than the recommended dosage didn't produce a conventional "high", it just made the pain go away. Of course, being pain-free when you live with it 24/7 can make you feel pretty damned good. I found that taking two doses close together still didn't produce a "high", it just made me want to puke and my skin itch.

I've seen people who are really abusing it while they're abusing it. It's not pretty....the standard response I've seen is drooling and inability to maintain consciousness. Heavy abusers are often unable to talk coherently at all while on it. I once watched a guy pass out repeatedly in front of a judge during a bond hearing on his drug abuse. They'd revive him, he'd drool some more, and fall down again and again.

[Dogmudgeon]

35. Feelin' High

Occasionally -- I mean occasionally -- when I take oxycodone (usually as generic Percocet 5mg.), I'll get high. Yeah, it's kinda nice.

Normally, I'll just get a little numb. Take too many, and I get real numb, and have to "vedge out", usually watch TV or read.

Many people get nauseous, itchy, and some even hallucinate. I have that problem with hydrocodone (Vicodin or Norco).

Heavy-duty junkies have a lot more than just substance addiction going on; that, and our pre-civilized system of "justice" make it impossible for most junkies to straighten up and keep "clean" for very long. (I mean, what can you say when the topic of prison rape causes more tittering laughs than outraged calls for reform?)

--bkl
Hey, Bevis -- he said "titter".

[HEyHEY]

34. You get an overwhelming urge to eat and be a fuckhead

[Swede]

36. You mean like today?

[LosinIt]

37. Had oxycontin after surgery last year.

It helped with the pain and made me sleep(like most drugs do). I have also had hydrocodone, similar effect. I have chronic migraines, one as we speak, and at the moment would give anything for something stronger than tylenol,advil,excedrin, etc. I can't take this much longer. I have a doctor's appointment Monday, but that doesn't help much at the moment.