Oxycodone question, Do you build up a tolerance to it? What to do when it no

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longer works? ? If someone is given Oxycodone for severe pain relief, And you take it for months and your body builds up an ammunity to it's pain killing effects, what do you do? Do you go off of it for a few months and then start taking it again? Or will your body still have built up an ammunity to it in the past and it will no longer have those pain killing effects even if you stop taking it for a few months and then go back and start taking it again?
 
Yes, I built up tolerance to Oxycodone . It doesn't work on me even a little bit.
 
Oxycodone is very addictive and is a scheduled narcotic. Yes, your body will get used to it. You could try going off of it and going back on it again, that could work for a while, but... I have to ask - are you getting this from a doctor, still, or are you getting it somewhere else?

You shouldn't take more than you're supposed to, though. It's very easy to overdose on perscription pain meds. You could go to sleep and actually be so sleepy that you forget to breathe. It's dangerous.
 
If you've been taking Oxycodone for more than 2-3 months your body has become addicted to it. If you suddenly stop going off these medications so your body can adjust to being drug free again, you can very easily go into horrible withdrawal symptoms. These are the withdrawals that DTs that heroin and crack fiends go through when they try to stop.

You can talk to your doctor about getting on a pain patch and weening you off of the pills.

I'm sorry if you are the one in constant pain, I know how it is. I've been dealing with that and the withdrawal effects of pain meds for a bout 5 years now.
 
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