Dont you wish someone would have told you about tolerance!!!!!

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I mean, the first percocet it took, i loved it, and the second one I loved even more. They made my day go by as if I was in cruise control.

Dont you wish tho, whatever your drug of choice is or was, that someone would have told you:

"HEY YOUR NOT GOING TO FEEL THIS GOOD ALL THE TIME, AS A MATTER OF FACT SOON YOU WONT BE ABLE TO FEEL THEM AT ALL.......BUT YOULL STILL DISH OUT 300-1000 BUX A MONTH TO GET EM!!! COOL HEY?!....THEN YOUR GOING TO BE KEELED OVER IN PAIN CRYING ASKING PEOPLE ON A MESSAGE BOARD HOW THEY COPE WITH THEIR WITHDRAWALS!!!!!!!!!!!!!...DO YOU STILL WANT TO TRY THIS DRUG?????????????????????????????????????????????????"

why doesnt this person exist???!!!
 
The odd thing with me is that in all my years of abusing the oxy/hydrocodone...12 years on and off, my tolerance has never increased. I have stayed within the 60-100 mgs a day range the whole time and have never taken more than 10-15mgs at once
 
I don't mean to be rude...I honestly don't....but I think most people just aren't listening. Be honest. Did you not know the drug was addictive?
 
well i knew it was potentially addictive, but I didnt know that at some point you wouldnt feel it anymore.

and the post was half jokes.... lol
 
wow thats wicked! im envious i started on percocets and within a year an a half was doing an oxy 80 a day, and i wouldnt get a high, it would just get me to where i felt normal. Youre lucky (not sure if lucky is the appropriate word, drugs and luck dont seem to mix well, but u catch my drift).
 
i knew they were addictive but i had never had any addiction problems in my life and am 42 years old. i always thought addiction was almost like a choice. boy was i wrong. i am physically addicted and somewhat emotionally addicted. however, i only take what is prescribed and never go over my amount of meRAB allotted for a month. it still is a problem for me because i feel the need for a oxycodone pill before i feel the pain that i take them for. something is wrong with this picture for sure.
 
My biggest and first question during my first appointment with my pain specialist was...

"What is the plan for ending my use of pain medication?

I did not have that high feeling on the first one, it simply eased my pain. My doctor and I have a exit route all planned out, and I feel very comfortable with both taking the medications and stopping - without undue withdrawals. We will instead take plenty of time to step down.

It is the same method I have used over many years of treatment with other medications, each change requires time to undo one, and begin another. Although these are non narcotic, they still have serious possibilities of danger if stopped cold turkey...I am speaking of blood pressure meRAB in particular.

Did you have a similar chat with your pain doctor? Is he involved in you attempt to stop the medication? It is never advised to stop or start medication without the prescribing doctor's advice.

I hope you find the answers you are seeking...
 
oxygirl...do you still get a high when you take them, or do they just rid of your pain?
 
well my first encounter with percocets wasnt through a pain specialist. So i guess thats why i was naive to the fact that one day, it may not have the same effect. I thought wow i found this percocet and im gonna have one everyday cause they make me feel like everything is 'smooth' and 'carefree' so to speak.

then one day i took it in the morning, and i was crabby still! WHAT!!?? this cant be! I took my miracle pill!!!!!! crabby.....but ....why?????

im being fecetious but really, i didnt know at the beginning, that a tolerance would form. i figured percocet 4 life. then i found the oxy 5 with no liver-damaging acetaminophen, then the 10, then 20! which i could break and it would last ALL DAY!!!!! then 40!

then one day, a 40 didnt give me that euphoria feeling. at the price i was paying, it ticked me off. --->Thats the part i wish someone had told me about in the beginning..

theres some days where ill do 50 mg or morphine and still be achy and feel completely sober. i hate that, so ill pop a codeine pill to add on to the morphine in my system, and still nothing. One thing i wont do is go back to oxys tho; too hard for me to get off. this morphine habit i think i can kick real soon, because mentally im already used to feeling 'sober' all day. im glad i made the switch, and cost-wise oxys are 4 times the amount. i was dishing out 300 every 2 weeks to maintain my oxy habit. now i spend 100, if that, to keep me feeling normal. Very soon i will be free of the hold it has on me and my wallet! its 130am now back to bed, n no med!
 
second go, they don't make me high like they used to, unless i have went longer between doses then they make me a little high but not for very long. they do rid the pain. sometimes i have to take a few advil if i am really hurting but i am not supposed to because of my stomach problems. Which makes me think that there is probably something else non addictive that we could take for pain. but lets face it, doctors want to make money and how many times are you coming to see them if they say take advil, naproxen or tylenol.
 
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