Oxycotin Detox

[CHAD FROM PHILLY!!!]

This board was suggested to me by a friend and I am so glad that I have found it. I have read most of the previous Oxy questions but still would like some additional help.
I had back surgery about a year ago and was prescribed percocet for the pain. Eventually my doctor took me off of that and said that he would not ruin my life with pain meds. Now comes the tricky part! I have also been sharing the perks with my girlfriend who consumes the same amount as I. We were now taking about seven perks apiece a day. My Doctor said that he would not "ruin my life" but he knew of a pain managment doctor who would. I went to this doctor and was amazed at how eaisly he wrote out scripts. Immediatly he put me on 20mg 2x a day (oxycotin) and gave me an additional 40 perks a month for break-through pain. Which by the way I have none of. Anyway, we started eating this pills slowly at first but were eventually up to about 80-100mg. a day. Needless to say when you times this addiction by two it gets very expensive when you run out. We took this medication for about four months and then one day last week realized how theese pills were ruining our lives. Everything from not having sex (I am 28, she is 26) to not being able to function without the pills. I am on workmans comp and have alot of free time, she does not work. We would wake up every day...peel two 20's each and chew them up before even getting out of bed. After that we would "fly" around town doing a whole lot of nothing. Sorry to ramble on but we really have no one else to talk to disscuss this with. Today is day seven, we are pretty much detoxed in the sence that we can now go out of the house but my girlfriend still experiences cold chills and sweats during the night but she is slowly getting better. She also takes xanax once in awhile to help with this. Remeber I get 60 oxy 20's and 40 perks a month. Now is the hard part. I have the next two month scripts sitting on my desk waiting to be filled. I want to know what we should do in order to stay off of this stuff? Please do not suggest any AA type support groups as we are not about the whole group thing. We are however very serious about this so please do not take our not wanting to go to NA as a sign of us not wanting to quit. When you consider that if you sit at home and chew a couple of them little devils up EVERYTHING in life is interesting. Without them, we find ourselves bored and depressed. Will this pass? Will we be able to enjoy and be interested in things as we were on the pills? Two nights ago I went to see a concert totaly straight and was bored out of my mind. The show itself was great but I kept imagining how much better it would have been on Oxy's. I would like to know if there is anyone out there that is having the same problems as we are and if anyone got through it to the point were they now enjoy life to the fullist? Thank you so much for taking the time to listen and I look forward to your replies.

[perkomatic]

eat em', eat em'

[heidi]

Chad,
You have no idea how your story affected me!  My husband's sis is on disability for being obese and she has a steady supply of pain killers.  Norco, vicatin, whatever we wanted.  A week ago she kicked down a bunch of oxycotin and wow, they are a blast!  But I began to feel uneasy at how often we (my husband and I) were taking the stuff.  For pleasure only.  So I got on the net and I found this site.  What a wake up call!  I was chilled to the bone at all the stories of all these people trying to get clean from this ****.  And my husband and I are well on our way to major addiction.  I know it.  Right after I get done replying to you, I am dumping the bottle in the toilet and I am going to have a long talk with my husband.  I am going to show him this site.  I am thinking of you and will be praying for you, my friend.  I believe that nothing happens by chance and that I found this site and learned what I did just reaffirms that in my mind.  Life is precious, Chad, even if it may not seem like it right now.  And know that your story had a huge impact on my life and I will never take pain-killers for pleasure again.  Thank you for being so honest and courageous.  Be strong.  I will visit again to see how things are going.

[JADE to CHAD]

Chad
I have been inspired by your story,
please feel that you can come back and share
wantever has happened, even being relapse.
It is best to be open about things to
start to help the problem, just know
that you have inspired me to take a
look at the big picture and my problem
with the OC's.  I did not know you guys were out there.
thank you
Please let us hear from you
jade

[Sally to CHAD]

CHAD
I am a college student
I have read this whole damn list of replies.
This has made me stop and look at the big picture
I hope that you decide to reply
whatever the circumstances are..
you have inspired me to stop taking these damn OC's
for a little while.... at least.
I don't want to have to take an
OC to clean my damn apartment or go to class.
Remember at the beginning when you wanted replies?
I want your reply

[Not a chance]

You think you had it bad.  I was getting sixty loratabs a month and was taking about three 80mg oxycotins (the green bombs we called them) a day.  I had no script for the oxys but I did have a script for the loratabs but I had the money to fill the scrips of oxys for other people that didn't have the money so I would get them at a good price.  I got to the pointe to where I couldn't go to work without taking something.  I don't have a clue to why you couldn't have sex though.  When I was on them I could have sex for seven or eight hours and still never ***!  It was like a godsent for her.  Although for alot of people narcotics have side effects for them but for me they allow me to function better.  I concentrait better and I work better.  I **** better and I think better.  I talk better and can learn better.  But all in all I just couldn't afford to spend about $150.00 a day on pills.  If I had a script I could have afforded them and never had to have gotten off of them.  If they were ruining your life because you couldn't function on them then you need to stay off of them.  It sounds like to me you and your wife are just lazy and don't wont to work and use it as an excuse.  It is a ***** to come off of them but you can do it if you have the time to just sit around and do nothing but recover in bed for a week or two.  It just takes will power.  You and your girlfriend both need to get a job and do somehting productive to get your mind off of them.

[AJ]

ialso been on lortab 10mg for 2plus years for pain i wanted off of them and went into detox for5 days iam having big trouble with pain and nothing iam taking is helping is it better to stay on the drug and tolorate the pain or to suffer with out?