oxycodone addiction?

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I have been taking oxycodone for 2 years now. First it was percocet, then when that wasn't enough for the pain, he gave me oxycodone 15 mg 4xday then upped it to 30mg 4xdaily. sometimes when i am in a lot of pain, i take maybe 5 a day. i have never been addicted to anything in my life. Not even so much as a cigarette. when i run low on my pills, i start going through withdrawls. one time i was completely out for 1.5 days and had diarrhea, horrible body aches, restless leg syndrome and felt like i couldn't move. i think i want to go off meRAB completely and try triggerpoint injections. i am tired of living my life around when to take the next pill. i want to know if i can live without the pills. i have 1.5 of a pill left and cant get any more for a few days. any suggestions
 
you can live without pills, but you should taper off them slowly to avoid feeling terrible. i have tried everything and still use pills but they offer little relief as a result of tolerance. not sure what the best answer is but keep trying alternative methoRAB as one might work better for you without addiction concerns
 
Hey oxygirl. I should probably be named oxyguy. Whatever you need help with I'm here for you. I went cold turkey off of about 600 mg's a day. Was popping 7 1/2 of those IR 30's that you take all at once....then going into withdrawals only about 4 hours later. I was prescribed 120 of those 30's every 10 days and was running out in 5-6 days. It was awful. Any questions you have I KNOW I can answer. If you just want my story I can offer that as well. Those things were incredibly beneficial to my quality of life, but at the same time complete poison. I'm here if you need me, so are countless others. This board is great, I never used to post much, just read. Many many quality merabers who each have something different to offer. Don't go anywhere you will find help and compassion here for certain.
 
Thanks Mike:

I seem to post to all the threaRAB when I am trying to avoid taking so much. Right now I am afraid I have back slided! I am back to my 4 a day but the holidays have been stressful and I have had lots of pain. I have had to do more stuff than usual also. I am hoping that the begining of the year will be better for me. I have lots of issues in my personal life i am dealing with as well. I feel better when i am not taking as many but i also love the feeling of no pain and bliss that the dose gives me when i haven't had one in a while.
 
thanks for the encouragement. i think i can do it if i can just get through the physical withdrawls. i don't even think about the pills until it has been a while since i have had one and it is almost like feeling hungry needing another one. i hate it. what kind of pills do you take and for how long. cause i don't think mine are working for the pain anymore
 
Hi there,
I see that you are trying to dose yourself down from the pain meRAB on your own, which is completely admirable! But sometimes, people just need to ask for help. If you find that you continue to slip, and can not do it by yourself, there is a wonderful helper out there, called suboxone. Not sure if you've heard of it before or not, but I'll try to give you a run down of my story and what I know about it etc. My husband was a pain pill addict for the past 8 years. Took between 60 and 100 5mg vics, percs a day. Basically whatever he could get his hand on in a day, he took. Morphine, duragesic patches, oxys, whatever. It spiraled totally out of control, over 200 dollars a day, lying stealing, destroying his body, red flagged at hospitals etc. etc. I should add, that his addiction originally stemmed from his chronic pain that resulted in his 15 years of rodeo. He's had six surgeries this year alone (three of them back surgeries for herniated discs) so he really did need the pain meRAB for CHRONIC PAIN. But his tolerance was so high, no doc could legally prescribe the amount of narcotics that helped his pain. Finally, I sturabled upon suboxone while resarching methadone clinics in my area. Suboxone has been used in Europe for over ten years, but was just approved by the FDA in the US in 2002. It is used to help those with opiate addiciton return to their normal lives. Not only this, but it also helps with pain! In many people's cases, they are started off with higher doses of suboxone, and then dosed down gradually to relieve their addiciton. However in cases like my husbanRAB, he will likely be on suboxone for several years, if not forever, simply because of his chronic pain. His doc. is a huge advocate of suboxone, not only to help people with opiate addicition, but also for those with chroinc pain. Every time we go to an appointment, he says how he thinks suboxone will be the main pain med used for those with chronic pain in the next ten years. Suboxone does not have a eurphoric high effect, therefore there is no 'chasing the buzz' effect. Suboxone levels out all of the systems in your body, it's just like pressing the reset button on your body. It is amazing!! No ups and downs like regular narcotics, no highs and lows and chasing and dope sickness etc etc. Just normal, regular happy life. It truly is amazing. I have tried to include most everything I know about it from my own little bit of research, plus personal experience, and I hope it helps. I know this may not be the route you choose to take, and if you are able to get off these meRAB on your own, congradulations! < edited > It really is a miracle, and BELIEVE ME, oxycodone addiction is not the road you want to continue to go down, it is truly a living hell, as I'm sure you know. Good luck! And please let me know if there are any questions you think I might be able to anwser for you!
 
i have used oxycontin and oxycodene for 4 years at one point i took 4 40mg contins and 6 codenes for breakthrough pain a day. i use morphene and oxycodene now, the first few years things worked well but not so much now. after 3 back surgeries im considering a fusion at l5 which my doc thinks will significantly benefit me.
 
well i went to sleep after that last post and just now woke up. it is 11:05am here and I have a much clearer head this am. I did get some loratab 10s from a friend to ease me through this transition. i took one around 11 pm and one just now. i also took 1/2 oxycodone around 12mn. yesterday was the 2nd day of my cutdown. I am not totally cold turkey just yet. I am shaking though. It is driving me nuts!

It sounRAB to me like you have a substantial amount of more pain than I do. I have not had surgery. I need it on my knee though and have been putting it off. It doesn't make it any easier though I know the added stress of dependence on pain meRAB. That is like having a whole other disability in itself. whatever u do don't let them talk you into a spinal cord pain stimulator. it messed up my mother very badly and she is way worse with the pain issue.
Wish me luck. Any advice?
 
Thanks Star,

I will do some reading up on it. I cant stand pain and that is what started all of this. I am going to do something. I have slipped since the holidays but i still don't take more than the 4 pills a day i am originally prescribed. i just think pain meRAB make pain worse in different ways. sometimes when i don't have neck pain (rare) and i don't need a pain pill, i have to take one anyway because i feel withdrawls of the meRAB. sounRAB crazy don't it? that is what made me think i had a problem
 
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