About 40% of the time I take my perscribed oxycodone 30mgs bout 6 to 8 pills at once. (I been using for 2.5 years and that is where my tolerance is at. I know its pretty high.) Anyway - sometimes - after the feelings of euphoria are gone I am so "drugged" sleepy, i can't even talk straight. Fall asleep in my soup! Can't hold my eyes open, literally Fall asleep - fast asleep GONE while standing up, like in full-on REM sleep till one of my knees buckle and send me flying. Weeeee! Great way to wake up, i grab my heart thinking, oh i am having a heart attack now!!! The pills are getting soooo old. They make me sooooo lethargic and sleepy. When i fall asleep standing up, like last week i woke up and i was standing at the top of the stairs. I usually jump real hard when i start to fall over, thank God i didn't do that at the TOP of the stairs, i would have killed myself for sure. For some reason, really calmly i just opened my eyes and looked down. It scared the **** out of me!!! Has anyone fallen asleep that way. I can't hold a job because i keep falling asleep during training, it only takes like 3 seconds of being still and i'm literally snoring, drool coming out of my mouth - dead! Im okay if im busy moving, but if i am EVER still I am FAST asleep, even though i have fairly normal sleeping habits. I sleep well and normally at night. This is not funny but I find cigarettes everywhere around me, the carpet where i stand by the window is scorched EVERYwhere! Or a lot of the time when i drive i will nod off for 1/2 sec at a time. I slap myself, pull my hair, hold my eye open with my free hand, anything to just stay awake until i can get home, specially with the boys in the car, it just happens so fast. Again, I don't even feel sleepy until my body is still - makes reading the computer a real *****! I can't tell you how many times i have woken up with the keyboard up my nose! Okay, here's the thing - other times like the other 60% of the time the pills just give me a nice buz, take away the pain and work normally, no extra weird sleepiness. What the heck is going on??? I thought maybe dehydration, but ive tried everything and its like the pills just have a mind of their own as to how it is going to effect my body. ANY thoughts on this subject would be soooooo welcome... I think im going nutz! Please Answer!!!