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Oxy to Vicodin
by Chas, Feb 06, 2001 12:00AM
Ive been snorting oxy contins for almost a year now. Recently Ive been doing about 40mg a day of the oxys. Ive tried to quit a few times, and the withdrawals are too unbearable to stay with it. I cant function enough to go to work every day for 9 hours. SO i have never been successful quitting them. I absolutely cant miss time at work and my job is extremely important for me right now. Recently i found someone with some vicodin 750s and i have some of those. I have been doing 2 or three of those a day for the past few days and not any oxy's at all. Im hoping that going to a couple vicodins a day will make the withdrawals much more manageable. With the vicodins i dont really get 'high" or anything, but I dont feel the need to get the oxys. I feel like i can bring myself down to 1 or 2 vicodins a day very soon. Just wondering if i am wasting my time? WIll the withdrawals be just as bad when i stop completely??
I dont get that great feeling from the vics - but i can function and get through the day. It is going good. I take one hole in the morning and then swallow a couple broken up at night, that satisfies my urge to "get high" and gives me a little of that warm fuzzy feeling. I hope i can stick to this but I dont have enough vicodins! I really hope i can find some more (or percocets) so that i can stay off the oxys. Otherwise this may not work. I only have enough of these to last 4 or 5 days if i take 2-3 per day. So I may slip back to the OC's if i cant get more. I wish i could just get 1 script so i could complete the tapering process. Plus my birthday is next week and I have lots of other plans. When my vics run out im going to have to get something!
I heard snorting oxycontins just wreaks havoc on your nose.
Is your nose all stuffed up or bloody?
At least I dont inject them into my arm like other addicts I know. Oxycontins will give as intense a high as heroin and are just as addictive if you abuse them - and believe me, if you get the high that first time - you always have that urge to feel it again no matter how bad you want to rid yourself of it.
I would take your question seriously but the "hows your nose" thing kinda made me think different. Im looking for some support here, not wiseguys.
but I am a new computer student and don't know much about making contact with people on line. I have some serious problems with oxycontin. I need to talk to someone. I cannot do that in this small town. Is there a way we can communicate. My address is Rose ***@****
we can chat. Add me to your buddy list and IM me anytime!
is your screenname roseedgell? If it is i will add you to my list. I am online (w/ AOL) usually after 6pm most everyday. (eastern time).
I don't think that Bill was making a wisecrack. It's a good question. We know that snorting cocaine messes up your nose, so perhaps he's wondering if snorting oxycontin does the same thing.Good luck with your tapering, tapering never worked for me with the oxy's. I ended up going the in patient detox route. Keep posting, these people are incredibly supportive but also at times, curious too. I don't think he meant you any harm.
I'm wondering what oxycontins are and what the difference is between them and percocet. I take percoset and I heard opiates are the hardest to get off of. But earlier you were saying you couldn't get vic's (percoset), and I was wondering how powerful are oxy's if percoset is something that can be weaned off of more easily? I am having a very difficult time tapering myself off of percoset. I tapered myself somewhat like what steve did but now that I am down to my last 1/2 pill/day, I can't stop taking it every morning. I get too scared or I dont want to or something along those lines, I haven't quite figured it out yet. Sorry for the overabundance of questions, but I am also curious as to what vicodin and it's purpose is?
Thanks,
Tara
To be honest I have snorted oxys and they tend to clog up my nose unlike cocaine. The high was stronger that chewing them but honestly I am suprised if your nose was not effected by snorting them.
I would never make fun or joke about addiction buddy!
Just looking to find some answers as I have been there as well.
Take care.
Oxys come in 10,20,40,80 and 160mg tablets. I usually get the 40mg or 80mg's. I dont take them as they are supposed to (they have a time release coating which i remove) and compared to percocets and vicodin which are usually 5mg (hydrocodone) they are much stronger. So i end up doing much more opiate wise when i do the oxy's. For instance a 40mg oxycontin tablet would equal about 8 percs or vics. When i have the percs or vics I never do that many in a day. I usually will do about 3 or 4.
If you are down to 1/2 of a percocet you are in great shape to compeletely kick the habit! You will have some minor withdrawals but nothing that will be too bad at all. Sounds like it will be more challenging mentally for you to quit all together. My goal is to get where you are - but the problem is its harder for me to get the percs/vics than the oxys (I buy them off the street). So if I had more I could taper down more successfully - but I end up running out and cant find more so I end up doing the oxys.
In general people who are prescribed painkillers are given oxys if the vicodin or percocet doesnt kill the pain without taking a large amount of them.
for some time. i started taking percocet to get throught the day
because i had alot of severe back pain, several surgeries, and
several years later i'm still taking vicodin and percocet. i hate
what i've become i don't know how to feel anymore. i used to
work for a doctor who gave me all the medication i wanted, and
then deceided to be super doctor and stop. now my life is find
one doctor after another who will help. i really want to stop i
want to feel good without the medication. i just had cervical surgery
last tuesday jan 30th aqnd it hurts like hell, i have a surgeon
who only believes in darvocet for pain, as you can imagine i'm
going through my own private hell. please share your stories.
You could tell him that the Darvocet makes you sick to your stomach, dizzy and claustrophobic -- all commonly known adverse effects of this drug), which might convince him to give you, a least, some tylenol#3. (He sounds like a tight ass with the drugs -- you have my sympathy). I use a plain form of darvon to stave off withdrawal from my opiate dependence, but, as a pain killer, darvocet's a pretty poor choice. He must believe that your particular surgery shouldn't be causing much pain to only give you Darvocet for it. Good luck. Hope this helps.