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marysayz · 06-09-2008, 09:31 PM

Maybe it will help if I clarify a bit. My accident occurred three years ago. It was initially that I was on morphine and then the oxycontin. The bulk of the time I have spent on oxycodone 10/325's. I seemed to be doing just fine with them for a long time. Then I met other people who were doing them and doing it for the buzz not pain relief. I was thankful I wasn't like them. Then, back in October I was switched back to oxycontin..these were 10's. They didn't quite seem to do it for me so I requested to be put back on percocet. Instead they prescribed methadone. I hated that stuff and just left the pain clinic and went back to my percocets.

I noticed in December that I was taking them more and more after years of stability on them. I was becoming the person that I had referred to in the last paragraph and didn't like it. It was then that I went on the Suboxone (January), still felt pain, then switched to Suboxone and Naproxen (Feb). Finally in March I went back to the percocet.....I was prescribed 15 mg. hcl. That didn't provide the same relief and in April I was prescribed 30 mg hcl. When I went back in May I said I felt they were too much and went back to 15 mg hcl....but I got double the amount so the overall milligram intake per month was the same.

I am an accountant and numbers are the way I look at things. For a long time I was taking 1200 milligrams of Percocet per month with no problems. Now after attempting to quit, I am currently taking 4050 milligrams a month. WTF?????

I was hoping that by combining the percocet (for bad pain days) and taking Suboxone (for normal pain days) that I could reduce my overall percocet intake back to 1200 milligrams a month. Or have I now made my tolerance so damn high that I can't go back?

Other alternatives being considered are epidurals. I am scared to death of them....the needle is huge, my mother and my daughter both think I should not try them as they have both had bad experiences with them during pregnancy.

Thank you to everyone who has been trying to help me resolve this. I really want to have mental clarity and be pain free.

06-09-2008, 09:31 PM	#5 (permalink)
marysayz Member Join Date: Jun 2008 Location: North Carolina Posts: 6	Thanks everyone..but I am still confused Maybe it will help if I clarify a bit. My accident occurred three years ago. It was initially that I was on morphine and then the oxycontin. The bulk of the time I have spent on oxycodone 10/325's. I seemed to be doing just fine with them for a long time. Then I met other people who were doing them and doing it for the buzz not pain relief. I was thankful I wasn't like them. Then, back in October I was switched back to oxycontin..these were 10's. They didn't quite seem to do it for me so I requested to be put back on percocet. Instead they prescribed methadone. I hated that stuff and just left the pain clinic and went back to my percocets. I noticed in December that I was taking them more and more after years of stability on them. I was becoming the person that I had referred to in the last paragraph and didn't like it. It was then that I went on the Suboxone (January), still felt pain, then switched to Suboxone and Naproxen (Feb). Finally in March I went back to the percocet.....I was prescribed 15 mg. hcl. That didn't provide the same relief and in April I was prescribed 30 mg hcl. When I went back in May I said I felt they were too much and went back to 15 mg hcl....but I got double the amount so the overall milligram intake per month was the same. I am an accountant and numbers are the way I look at things. For a long time I was taking 1200 milligrams of Percocet per month with no problems. Now after attempting to quit, I am currently taking 4050 milligrams a month. WTF????? I was hoping that by combining the percocet (for bad pain days) and taking Suboxone (for normal pain days) that I could reduce my overall percocet intake back to 1200 milligrams a month. Or have I now made my tolerance so damn high that I can't go back? Other alternatives being considered are epidurals. I am scared to death of them....the needle is huge, my mother and my daughter both think I should not try them as they have both had bad experiences with them during pregnancy. Thank you to everyone who has been trying to help me resolve this. I really want to have mental clarity and be pain free.