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I don't think that they would being it's an extremely addictive drug.. Also... are you sure it's addiction? Have you looked up the signs of addiction through prescription drugs?... It's somewhat the same, but somewhat different.. Also, you can keep count of his pills to make sure he isn't taking more then prescribed!.. Hope this helps

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STUPID!!!!!!!!!

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My friends son who was 17.. was addicted to Oxy Cotin.. parents sent him to drug rehabs but he would get out and start again they couldn't keep him off of it... Sunday morning May 22 05 his father found him dead in his bed. So my advise be very careful with this drug if you have to take it..

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You have no idea. My stepson is an addict. He has used everything. Oxycontin was the worst thing he ever did. He was desperately ill trying to stop it and once he was off he started right up again. An addict is an addict. Counting pills won't do a thing. I am so sorry.

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people dont stay off of oxycotin because the withdrawl from it will kill you. Not be bad, or make you sick, it will actually send you into cardiac arrest in many cases. If hes been on the drug for more than 3 weeks, hes completely dependant on it and will need to be hospitalised to come off of it. Opioid medications are extremely dangerous, and require a great deal of self control to keep on a steady pace, if hes come off of heroin then hes strong enough to get off of this. Also, if/when hes ready to quit, ask your doctor about these two medications to help, "subuxone" and "PanlorSS". These will keep him withdrawl free until his body is able to begin producing its own opiate again. If youd like some help, just ask. Ive been there and would be more than happy to help you along. jingram8@carolina.rr.com

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i go to a pain doc and they haveme on Oxy's 80mg 2 times a day and also breakthrough meds but i only and i mean only take the Oxy when the pain is bad that nothing helps and that is maybe once a wek if that. oxy is a very addicting drug and you have to use caution when taking it. i have a bother that has MS and has been on this drug for a few years and as long as it is taking as directed it is a very useful drug that will help with pain and if it is abused it is deadly.

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Iewp...FYI withdrawl from Oxy will not kill you. you will feel like you would want to die but it will not kill you. please if you have any actual proof of this please share. i am a member on many many prescription drug boards and have read up on lots of meds. i also use to work for a pharmacutical company and the one med that really can kill you if you quit cold turkey is benzo's like xanax and such because quitting those cold turkey can send you into grand mal seizures. please share what info you have on Oxy's withdrawl resulting in death...thanks

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Hi,
I would like to know what kind of a doctor would precribe oxicontin to anyone knowing the dangers it causes. With all the other benficial drugs out there. why that one. The fda should be pulling that one off the market. I would worry more about this one then aleve. I am sorry for your loss of your son. My heart goes out to you. God bless you and your family!

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Well if you have a good doctor that understand that fibro is a very painful thing. i have a wondeful pain doc that rx's me roxicodone 30mg and oxy 80mg 3 times a day. and to be honest i have less pain than i have ever had

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Hi,
I am glad that you found something that helps. Just out of idle curiousity? How long have you been on these meds? My husband has severe degenerative arthritis. The doctors would put him on this for pain and then after a couple of months the doctor decided he was on it too long and took him off of it with nothing to replace it. He went through pure hell. he finally has a wonderful doctor who has redone all his meds and now is at least comfortable where he can function during the day. I hope and pray that your doctor doesn't do this to you. God Bless Karen

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In my view of oxicontin it works for a time then you need to go up in the amounts you take to get the same relief .then up etc etc also the doctor willput you on break though med's . My self even though there is alot of pain and (RSD) Reginal pain complex syndrome
, etc , Cancer. Dont get started on the oxicontin if you can help it . I dont like the fact that its time released and is most always in you system , that makes you addicted mentally and physically . If you miss a dose your body will put you through
some bad time . After time you, your
system just doesnt feel right , or good .There is a site braintalk communities in which a person has decided to get off the oxicontin even though he's in pain . I believe its intitled Oxycontin Home Detox Diary .Its a good read to see some of the thoughts and feelings of those on or that have been on the oxy . I myself would like to stop taking it . I have gone down alot on the amount but do not know how to get below what I'm now talking .My doctor didnt/ doesnt like the fact that I want to try to go off the medication .He didnt like the fact that I've gone down on the meds. Its bad enough that I have pain and other illness but to have the ill effects of the medicines on top is even worse .There was a person in the Detox story that was mentioned I would like to talk to but I can't seem to be able to post on the site BrainTalk Communities even though I have registered etc . IS any one on this site a member of Brain Talk ?

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Hi there, I am new to this site and to this addiction to Oxy. Is there anyone out there willing to talk me thru this. I'm on day 2 and feel like death all over

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I cannot believe that a good md would prescribe oxycotin for fibro in the first place. narcartiocs only mask the pain, the best way to deal with the major pain is taking some advil and trying to relax. I have suffered from fibro for more than 5 years and I have pain that is so bad some days that I can't even get out of bed, but I refuse to take the narcs because they are so addictive. I sure hope before anyone decides to take them that they consider the long term effects of them.

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I agree. A good md will not give narcs to someone with fibro. Aleve or advil work just as well and are non addicting. Ibuprofen works also somedays. There are doctors out there too willing to give narcs just to make there patient happy and don't consider the long term affects. Then all of a sudden the poor patient is hooked on them and that same doctor decides maybe it wasn't such a good idea and cuts them off. Now, not only does the patient have to fignt the pain but the affects of coming down off the drug. Its one viscious circle. I am glad that I have a doctor who doesn't prescribe things like that.

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you people dont know shit about this drug

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I know enough to know. I lived through it. Have you? try coming off of it sometime. Cold turkey! Maybe your the one who doesn't know =--- about this drug. ever consider that?

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I am so glad that advil or aleive is good and works for you...but some people can not take that junk...aleve in the long run as well as alieve will causes bleeding ulcers.which that causes deaths...read on it.google it.and when taking Oxy...why in the world would you stop cold turkey????that would make it hell you are suppose to lower it not just go cold turkey.I dont understand why if something works good for one its like a bad bad thing we should just stop taking this med because the ones you are taking helps you...YUCK...give me a break...if the narcotic meds are taking as directed and not abused your are less likley to become dependant on them...read up on that one to.doctors who do not treat your pain IMO are good for nothing and send you home with a freakin script for motrin!...yeah right!...like that o nes really gonna help....sorry to vent but people who do know or use or just hear this and that about Oxy really upset me because they dont know

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edit to my previous post
Advil and alieve will cause bleeding ulcers if used for a period of time

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acetaminophin can be lethal. Coming from a tweaker, someone who stays a half a dose away from death at all times, oxycontin is the most depraved drug on the planet. Either take it as directed, or stay the hell away from it.

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I met a person that was on oxycotin for more than 5 years. She snorted it up her nose. When she was taken off the drug and turned to meth as an alternative.
She went from being a an author, and a model citizen to a person that now has her home trashed, she dumpster dives, never cleans her home, she wont shut up when spoken to, she believes that satellites are looking down on her, says her phones are all tapped, things in her home have been removed and/or replaced, (even a pantry door was literally moved from its original position), and confines herself to her home for many days at a time. She believes no- body is listening to what she is trying to say. The CIA has gone as far as putting a restraining order on her. Her family got her committed for 7 days and they let her go because she was not a threat to another human or herself. She also has convinced herself that all the numbers in her life have some type of connection. I feel sad for her but she, and she alone must seek the help. She believes everyone else is crazy for not listening to her. I did finally find her mother's phone number and spoke to her and this is where I got most of my information. Her family is helpless to the situation at this point. Any suggestions?

P.S. Keep in mind this all started 5 years ago and has progressed to this point.

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I was wondering if anyone has contacted the department of human services. This lady sounds like she needs alot of help. She is a threat to herself. If she truly thinks that saucers etc are looking down on her, what's to stop her of being so frightened with things like that around her that she doesn't try to take her own life. She isn't taking care of herself. If she gets more dillusional, she may think people are trying to kill her and hurt someone to protect herself. Someone needs to intervene here. I am sure someone from human services could suggest what to do. It is really sad that she has to live like that.

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I am in the UK and have been on Oxycodone (not Oxycintin) for two years for a very severe nerve entrapment. This is the liquid they use for breakthrough pain except that I'm taking it every 3 hours instead of the slow release version, Oxycontin. I was first given morphine for the pain but was allergic to it. I have had absiolutely no problems taking this drug and it does work, bith for the nerve entrapment pain and for the Fibromyalgia pain.
Research has proven that people who take opioids for chronic pain very very rarely become addicted to them. In fact they try to get off them as fast as possible and that's where the problem lies. Both Oxycodone and Oxycontin remain in your body for a very short period. The only side effect I've had is constipation and very slight drowsiness when I started taking it.
Like any drug, if you reduce the dose gradually and sensibly you should have no prblems stopping it.
I was originally put on Neurontin and had horrific depression , almost to the point of suicide BUT when I came off it, I did it the same way I went onto it;- gradually reducing the dose over several weeks. I had no withdrawal symptoms and no further side effects.

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Shay and Karen, if Aleve or Advil are giving you pain relief, then you DON'T have FMS. I use a Duragesic 75 mcg/hr patch when I'm in a flare, plus 10 mg Lortabs during the day and 10 mg Percocets at night... but when I come out of the flare, I don't take ANYTHING. If you have addiction problems, there are websites for that. However, this is a fibromyalgia board, with patients who have legitimate reasons for taking narcotic medications. If a google search brought you here because you were searching for narcotic addiction sites, please go elsewhere.

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Maybe your the one who doesn't have fibro.
Everyone on this board has a right to an opinion. Are you a rhuemy? This is what my rhemy recommeneded. If it doesn't work for you that doesn't mean we are looking through google for medications becasue we are addicted to something. Maybe you should consider giving your opinions to someone else who cares to hear them. And for your information we as fibro sufferes have a right to be here whether you like it or not!

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and I incidentally was not addicted to oxycontin. Someone in my family was. watching them come down from it was awful so whether you believe that or not I could care less!

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I just beat oxy's cold turkey and i was doing about 240mg a day in it took me 24 days where i was perfectly normal, The only thing that kept me going was my supportive family. I have now been clean for 2 months and feel great about it.

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I am very happy for you. It is a stuff struggle but with a supportive family it makes miracles happen. Anyone that does not beleive that you can't become addicted to it has never been there.

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I was told to take Aleve, Motrin, Advil, Anaprox and none of them even help a little. I have tried Physical therapy which has helped until I have a flare and then I am right back where I was. There are days where I can garden all day lift heavey things and work like a teenager again with no ill effects but let the weather change and I am crippled again. I have severe abdominla pain from several surgeries adhesions and myofascial pain. Right now I am on Duragesic patches 50mg, they keep my leg pain at bay until a flare comes but they have never helped the other pains. Recently I had a hysterectomy trying to relieve some of the abdominal pain, but it has not helped, they gave me some vicodin when I got out of the hospital. That on top of the Duragesic seems to help enough to let me keep house and paly and go for walks with my three year old. Nuerontin helped some symptoms for a while like the fatigue and the facial tic, but quit working last November. I WISH that I could take Advil and Aleve. I WIsh I didn't have to take anything. It is very hurtful when people tell me about others with Fibro who get along just fine and keep going anyway. I want to so bad. I try every day. Has it occurred to people that there are different levels of pain and symptoms for different people with fibro. Many also have myofascial pain, some have Lupus or MS and other things. Just as there are different levels of progression in Cancer or Rhuematoid Arthritis or the flu, there are different levels of progression or pain as problems progress with Fibromyalgia. I know that they say that Fibro is not a progressive syndrome but at least if it is combined with other problems it sure seems to be. Plus everyones phyisiology is different. No disease or syndorme or whatever they are calling it now can possibly be the same for everyone or respond to medications the same way.

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Good Afternoon "Me" I feel for you, I too know what you are going through. I have degenerative disc disease and Fibro and I was once on Duragesic 50mg. along with Lortab 10mg. peoples bodies are all a little different and some people take certain meds better than others, I feel that whatever works for you then stick with it, I have been battling this miserable pain for over 6 years now, I use to work construction and now I have a desk job but guess what??? I have more pain now than I did working construction! I am currently taking Oxycontin 40mg 2x a day and Percocett 10 for breakthru pain. Now here is how things go with me ..... I am not trying to tell anyone what will work for you but I know what keeps my life a little more pain free, I was on the Duragesic and when I came off of it I felt like I was going crazy, I couldnt stay still,my whole body was very nervous so YES!! narcotics are very habbit-forming but the way I look at it ..... without the narcotics my body is in so much pain, with the narcotics I have less pain but I am hooked and I have had people ask me "just take a tylenol or Aleve ......... c'mon now, yes they are wonderful anti-imflamatories and great for mild pain but until you have pain associated with fibro or disc disease you don't truley know what daily pain is, pain that is with you 24/7,man it aint no life,neither is knowing that you have to stay stocked up on narcotics or your system will go into shock, so I stay on the narcotics because for me that is the most pain free situation.

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