Did I cause permanent damage to my brain?

[Scarface94]

Recently I read that if you take more than 40 mg of OxyContin at one time then it can cause death or permanent brain damage. Well when I was ages 14 and 16 I took one of my mom's 80 mg OxyContin pill and I remember I felt like throwing up for like 16 hours straight. I took it in the evening, went to bed, and woke up the next day still very nauseous. I started to feel completely fine about 20 hours after I took it. Just FYI, I had NO opiate tolerance at all as I had never taken anything other than the occasional Vicodin.

Would I have known if I caused permanent brain damage? Can it only cause permanent brain damage if I stopped breathing? (aka respiratory depression, which did NOT happen).  Or is it like heroin where it would destroy your brain cells right then and there?

So to recap, I did this on 2 occasions, one time when I was 14 and one time when I was 16. At the time I did not know 80mg of OxyContin was so much, and I have never done it Since and I will never do it again. I'm 20 years old now btw

[Junip]

I do not think you did any long term damage but 80mg is extremely potent and one of those could have caused an accidental overdose...The first timeI took Oxy it was 60mg and I threw up for two days; that was even with a tolerance to 2-3 Percocet 10/325. That should have been my warning.  Glad you stopped,  never take them again!

[weaver71]

By the way, OxyContin IS synthetic heroin. All opiates and opioids convert to morphine in metabolizing them. The difference, for the most part, is that Oxy is a more consistent, factory and FDA regulated, pure form of the same drug, a morphine metabolite.

[weaver71]

The chemical make up of opiates fit right into the "opiate receptors," of the brain so well, our bodies don't see it as very toxic. It takes high dose for a long time to actually cause permanent damage with opiates. Pure heroin is not even real toxic to the body or brain, it is the impurities, not the opiates that cause damage, mostly. Unless there is some pre-existing condition that the opiates triggered, there really is no scientific reason you would have done permanent damage with pharmaceutical grade opiates. Just my opinion, of coarse.

[Krissy_123]

I'm not a doctor,but I think you'd be fine.