To All of My Fellow Addicts on Oxycontin......PLEASE READ!

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For nine months I was abusing oxys. In the end, right up until the the time my wife drove me to the treatment center, I was crushing a 20mg oxy every other hour, needless to say, my wife only thought that I was losing my mind! I had tried for almost two days to cut myself off cold turkey, because I am an addict, the taper method did not work for me. Instead, my disease, and my sickness progressed to the point where my life was in danger. Anyone who is crushing a time released tablet and getting the full strength at once is putting a life at risk.

I had to pick up after two days, until I was admitted to the treatment center where I was detoxed in 72 hours. NO! It was not an easy thing to do to pick up a phone and call a treatment center and beg for help! NO! It was not easy telling my two daughters ages 19 and 26 that I , there Father, was  abusing Oxycontin, NO! Its was not easy telling my wife that I relapsed into my addiction for about the fifth time in five years on opiates!
  
I was detoxed on the following meds: Darvocet,Catapress,Robaxin, and finally Phenobarbital. Please hear me when I say it was totally physically painless! But understand also that I was physically, spiritually, and mentally beaten when I arrived at the treatment center. The most important thing is that they took my vitals every four hours!

A miracle happened this morning, a week later, I got out of bed without taking a drug, and feel pretty human....see you all in Narcotics Anonymous!

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Sounds like you got throught it relatively painlessly.  YOu are one of the lucky ones because it takes a lot of people much much longer to recover.  Good luck to you.  You sould very positive and happy to be free.