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marysayz · 06-09-2008, 01:48 PM

Hi there, everyone, first post here. I was severely injured, broke 13 bones in my right ankle and leg. Was on morphine, then oxycontin (briefly, that one scared me), then got down to percocet 10-325. Quite a few of my friends take them also for one reason or another. I noticed some of them taking quite heavily and noticed that my intake had increased as well. I used to take one a day...if I took two I would feel sick to my stomach. Well, a lot of stressful things happened in my life and I found myself taking them every day sometimes as many as 6-8. One of my friends was taking 20 or more a day and I was worried about her and about becoming like her and she mentioned suboxone as a drug that helped people get off of opiods.

She found a wonderful doctor for both of us, he prescribed suboxone, it helped tremendously (other than the head pain) for me. She went right back to the pain pills and we no longer associate, since I have caught her stealing my meds.

The problem was that I was still experiencing a lot of pain in my leg. I mentioned this to the doctor prescribing me the suboxone and he told me to take the sub and naproxen to counter the pain. After three months of suffering, he put me back on the percocets. I am now getting 275 percocet hcl 15 mg per month. My tolerance is through the roof. So I have found that I have a far worse habit than I ever did before I attempted to quit. I still have half a bottle (120) percocet left and about 30 suboxone in a bottle from a few months ago.

What I was going to try was to get up tomorrow and just take suboxone...try staying on just that for as many days as I can, then if my ankle hurts really bad, take naproxen for the rest of the day, try to go to sleep and if it still hurts when I get up in the am , take percocet for that day, then switch back to suboxone when the pain is gone. Is that just plain stupid?

Can one take percocet say 2-3 days of the week and suboxone the other days??

Because taking just percocet is killing the pain (and everything else) and taking just suboxone is leaving me hurting horribly. It has also made me very suspicious of my friends who are taking them, because of some things that have happened to justify my suspicions. lol, I just reminded myself of that great line Hurley had in Lost this week. He said, "Man I already have conversations with dead people..I don't want to be paranoid too!"

Thanks for your help

Mary

06-09-2008, 01:48 PM	#1 (permalink)
marysayz Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: North Carolina Posts: 6	It was suggested that I move my question to here -Standing at a crossroads, need help Hi there, everyone, first post here. I was severely injured, broke 13 bones in my right ankle and leg. Was on morphine, then oxycontin (briefly, that one scared me), then got down to percocet 10-325. Quite a few of my friends take them also for one reason or another. I noticed some of them taking quite heavily and noticed that my intake had increased as well. I used to take one a day...if I took two I would feel sick to my stomach. Well, a lot of stressful things happened in my life and I found myself taking them every day sometimes as many as 6-8. One of my friends was taking 20 or more a day and I was worried about her and about becoming like her and she mentioned suboxone as a drug that helped people get off of opiods. She found a wonderful doctor for both of us, he prescribed suboxone, it helped tremendously (other than the head pain) for me. She went right back to the pain pills and we no longer associate, since I have caught her stealing my meds. The problem was that I was still experiencing a lot of pain in my leg. I mentioned this to the doctor prescribing me the suboxone and he told me to take the sub and naproxen to counter the pain. After three months of suffering, he put me back on the percocets. I am now getting 275 percocet hcl 15 mg per month. My tolerance is through the roof. So I have found that I have a far worse habit than I ever did before I attempted to quit. I still have half a bottle (120) percocet left and about 30 suboxone in a bottle from a few months ago. What I was going to try was to get up tomorrow and just take suboxone...try staying on just that for as many days as I can, then if my ankle hurts really bad, take naproxen for the rest of the day, try to go to sleep and if it still hurts when I get up in the am , take percocet for that day, then switch back to suboxone when the pain is gone. Is that just plain stupid? Can one take percocet say 2-3 days of the week and suboxone the other days?? Because taking just percocet is killing the pain (and everything else) and taking just suboxone is leaving me hurting horribly. It has also made me very suspicious of my friends who are taking them, because of some things that have happened to justify my suspicions. lol, I just reminded myself of that great line Hurley had in Lost this week. He said, "Man I already have conversations with dead people..I don't want to be paranoid too!" Thanks for your help Mary