Addicted to Percocet

[miss_june14]

  I am a 27 year old mother, who has been addicted to Percocet and Oxycontin for the past two years.  I have taken large amounts of both pills, and when I say large I mean very large amounts.  I started out taking only one percocet in the evening to relax.  I do have medical problems, but nothing to severe to be taking anything.  I started getting both the pills from my mothers friend, and soon I started getting them from my own Doctor by making problems up.  In the last 8 months I was taking up to 70 Percocet each day and up to 10 40mg Oxycontin each day.  A few weeks ago I did go through the withdrawal for about the tenth time, but this time I made it 8 days, the longest I have ever gone.  I couldn't handle the deppression and the cravings so I gave in and went back to the doctor.  2  weeks later I am trying to do it again, I took my last Percocet at about 3 pm yesterday afternoon.  I woke up this morning and the strangest thing I was not having any withdrawal symptoms.  What is happening are the withdrawals going to come later on today or not at all?  I am not complaining, but I still have a anxious feeling in my stomach because I am still waiting for it to come.

[Wondering198]

Dang and I thought 6 to 7 lorcet a day was bad. Hang in ther this forum is wonderful. I did have a friend that had a liver transplant due to abuse of pain med. but I never knew how much he was taking. Good luck and try to keep posting. I have been trying to taper but I haven't managed to do it.

[liscamdave]

As everyone who answered you is right, your liver will shut down taking that high a dose on a daily basis, no one seemed to answer your question.

What you are experiencing is delayed withdrawal. It will come, I am sorry to inform you. Being that you quit not too long ago, your body is used to the shock from just quitting. So it will come, just not as quickly. Maybe I am wrong, and i will pray that you skip it, but be careful. That used to happen to me all the time. Some times when I would quit I would be in hell. Then sometimes I would quit and the first day I would be ok. Not great, but ok. And i would be like "what the heck is up here, why do I feel ok" then it would hit me the next day or later that same day.

So be careful. I too was on high amounts of Oxy's. At one point I was taking double what you were taking in Oxy's a day. I could eat 10 80's a day. And more...so I know what you mean. Good luck...please call on us if you need to

[GoingToMakeIt]

Please please be careful. The Tylenol alone will shut your liver down. You can't live without it!

[dominosarah]

Please please stay here and keep posting.  That amount is very dangerous.  You will have alot of support here.             sara

[johnnykelly]

YOU are in dangering you health,the thing that will happen is (LIVER_FAILURE) the percocets have oxycodone,thats not the problem,its the TYLENOL the liver can only metabolize 2grams a day that somewhere in the neigbourhood of 7-8 pills at 325mgs of acetamedafine (spelling) I know this as i was treated at a liver clinic for hepatitis and they told me about the dangers of tylenol,its not the narcotic,its the tylenol.Call a liver clinic,moreover go and get a blood-test. I wish you well john

[crispie]

HANG IN THERE...every day is a struggle when your trying to kick an addiction...its a hard thing to do but you really have to want it...i am clean now for 33 days and i swear this week is worse than 2 weeks ago...go figure??? we are all different so its different wds for everyone...i was on percocets for over 5 yrs and i stopped cold turkey july 12 i will remember that date for the rest of life...now i am tring to deal with past demons so to speak...i have lots ..trying to sort threw all of them... i have back and kidney problems,also had cancer  thats how i got on them...they ruined everything i loved now i am seeing that cause i am straight..it is what it is...this place will be great for you...its helped me alot evn just to vent

[rue10]

Keep posting.  There are tons of knowledgeable and supportive people here.


Welcome.

[miss_june14]

Honestly I am not sure what I am going to do, right now I am just going to take it day by day, right now I guess it's min by min.  Oh and it was either 70 or 10 whatever I had, another thing is my family thought I was off months ago so I do feel like I am doing it alone.

[worried878]

70 percocet? and 400 mg of oxy.....that is alot....i am not sure but i would count my blessings and hope for the best....the forum is a great place to be right now for you...what have you got planned to help keep u going thru detox?