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roxicet addiction... *****
me and my boyfriend of 6 years are both addicted to roxicets and are looking for a way out. its ridiculous and embarassing for us to be at this point, because we have been recreational drug users for years and have never dealt with a personal addiction of any kind, nonetheless one of this magnitude. we have never been prescribed them, we just started taking them for fun, but i assure you the fun is gone. we are in our early 20's, smart, and trying to move forward in our lives, but due to our addiction, are broke, and constantly spending the last money we have on damned roxicets. he is a little worse off than me, and had been doing them for a year and a half now, whereas i have now been addicted to them for 7 months. i do anywhere from 1 to 3 pills in a day, and he does anywhere from 3 to 6 a day. i guess i should mention that we snort, not swallow them. i cant remember the mg of them, but he says 1 roxi is equivalent to around 6 percocets, soo.. what the hell am i supposed to do? i panic when i realize we dont have any, and ive been known to freak and start swinging on my bf until he finds me some. i am not proud of these moments. when i try and sleep without any, i get an intense case of restless leg syndrome and find myself doing the funky chicken at 5 am, thrashing about in bed, writhing in discomfort, and tears. if i have to go to work woithout any, i start having a nervous breakdown. my sister thinks im a junkie, and others probably starting to think im one too. how the hell am i supposed to cut these blasted little blue pills out of my/our life??? anyone, anyone? any help would be greatly appreciated.
Or Xanax as I heard those withdrawals are just as bad, if not worse. Don't need another addiction to worry about either. Tomorrow is day 1 and I will post my progress. I do feel as if I need a solid support group to get through this. But a discreet one like this is all I can do at this point. If any1 has any suggestions, comments, or questions about my addiction please feel free to comment or message me. I could use all the knowledge and help I can get.
Or Xanax as I heard those withdrawals are just as bad, if not worse. Don't need another addiction to worry about either. Tomorrow is day 1 and I will post my progress. I do feel as if I need a solid support group to get through this. But a discreet one like this is all I can do at this point. If any1 has any suggestions, comments, or questions about my addiction please feel free to comment or message me. I could use all the knowledge and help I can get.
I've been on and off 30mg Roxys for a little over 2 years. Reason I started taking because I was told that it would help control my drinking when I went out, in which It did and I'm sure you all remember how amazing the feeling was your 1st few times. I was almost instantly hooked and it went from 1 pill once a week to everyday very quickly. I have had multiple periods of being clean for a week or two, almost always cold turkey, but always seem to come back. I snort them, but am growing tired of spending ridiculous amounts of money, and the anxiety of just trying to get them. Most of my friends that also used have all pretty much ruined their lives, and many of my dealers have gone to jail. I obviously do not want to go that route and finally feel like I am ready to quit these blue monsters once and for all. Rehab and NA are not viable options for me. And I don't want to substitute them for methadone, suboxone, subutex
there really is no easy way out, ive kicked heroin and oxycontin but only because i went to jail, the restless leg syndrome ***** big time, i got out of prison a year and 3 months ago and swore i wouldnt get addicted but now im addicted to roxy's. im so low that i have been shooting perc 10's just to keep from getting sick, they say that will kill you but im at the point where i just dont care anymore, im ALWAYS chasing that high and i NEVER find it anymore. im seriously at the bottom of the barrel and i feel the only thing thats gonna stop me is death or jail/prison. maybe try suboxine or methadone but thats just another addiction or suck it up and be sick as a dog and **** out your *** for a few weeks, i seriously wish you and your bf all the luck in the world, opiates are truly the devils drug...one love...kris k
Roxy's are a rough drug to get off of. I was snorting a couple of 80 mg Oxycontin's a day and since they quit making the Oxy's that you can snort I am now on Roxy 30's. I haven't actually been high in a while...I only snort Roxy's to feel "normal". I have tried quiting cold turkey a few times and failed. The withdrawals are like nothing I have ever experienced in my life....it is rough. I know that I will quit eventually...I want more than anything to quit but it will just take hitting bottom I guess. I have spent 10's of thousands of dollars to stay supplied with pills during my addiction and I hate that....I have pawned all kinds of things, even pawned other people's things....I have done things too that I am not proud of and until you are put in the same situation, until you have walked in my shoes....don't fuc*ing judge. It's hard....it's a disease and mind over matter is bull s*it when you are dealing with opiate addiction.
I just lost my sister on Friday due to a drug overdose on Roxicet. She was 35 years old and has two beautiful children - a 14 year old daughter and 16 year old son. The funeral is this Thursday. She was scared to die and her liver enzymes were starting to elevate. She was so scared. Then her enzymes started to go back down. However Thursday night she took her coctail (I found out she was taking around 15 - 20 Roxicet's a day plus using Lunesta sleeping pill at night). She was alive when her husband came home. He tried to get her to bed as she was on the kitchen floor but she was too drugged up to crawl so he covered her up on the floor. When he woke up the next morning she was blue. Paramedics did CPR for an hour but her heart never started again.
This is a terrible terrible drug. We tried to get her help but she kept denying she had a problem. I know a lot of you are going to say "I wasn't THAT bad - I only take 2 - 5 a day and I don't take sleeping pills" but it doesn't matter. That's how she started was a few a day. I still can't believe she is gone. She used to say she would never commit suicide because she said you never know - maybe where you end up is worse than your life right now and at least right now you can make a choice about it. You kill yourself and you can't make a choice to get out of it if you end up in hell. She was one of those that didn't think it would happen to her...dying that is from the pills. She knew the tylenol in these were hard on her liver and she knew that they were the reason her enzymes were high but she couldn't stop. What she didn't realize is that she took away her choices by taking these drugs. They controlled her and her life and when she would live and when she would die. She thought she was choosing to live by not commiting suicide but in realty the pills where choosing it for her.
Please, please, please get help. You can do it! Trust in the Lord and find strength in Him! It will be tought but people have done it and you CAN do it! It's your life and you only get one - don't let the pills dictate what you can and can't do...it's YOUR body not the pills!
Jeri
This is a terrible terrible drug. We tried to get her help but she kept denying she had a problem. I know a lot of you are going to say "I wasn't THAT bad - I only take 2 - 5 a day and I don't take sleeping pills" but it doesn't matter. That's how she started was a few a day. I still can't believe she is gone. She used to say she would never commit suicide because she said you never know - maybe where you end up is worse than your life right now and at least right now you can make a choice about it. You kill yourself and you can't make a choice to get out of it if you end up in hell. She was one of those that didn't think it would happen to her...dying that is from the pills. She knew the tylenol in these were hard on her liver and she knew that they were the reason her enzymes were high but she couldn't stop. What she didn't realize is that she took away her choices by taking these drugs. They controlled her and her life and when she would live and when she would die. She thought she was choosing to live by not commiting suicide but in realty the pills where choosing it for her.
Please, please, please get help. You can do it! Trust in the Lord and find strength in Him! It will be tought but people have done it and you CAN do it! It's your life and you only get one - don't let the pills dictate what you can and can't do...it's YOUR body not the pills!
Jeri
ok no, don't take methadone or any other ******* pill to get off of these. this was my pill of choice. i was taking about 2-4 a day (i rarely snorted them though) a couple of times i did take more than 4 in a day and i know they are not cheap at all.
yes, they turn you in to a major tweeker...i know EVERYTHING that you are going through.
you need to take a couple of days of and let yourself go through the withdrawls...every single second of you detoxing is going to be absolute agony.
DON'T TAKE MORE PILLS TO GET OFF OF THEM.
Use your mind, it is your strongest weapon.
you can do it....i did....
yes, they turn you in to a major tweeker...i know EVERYTHING that you are going through.
you need to take a couple of days of and let yourself go through the withdrawls...every single second of you detoxing is going to be absolute agony.
DON'T TAKE MORE PILLS TO GET OFF OF THEM.
Use your mind, it is your strongest weapon.
you can do it....i did....
W roxi equals 3 percs. First, stop snorting them. The good thing is that they last longer and since it hits u all at once either way, why do all the work to snort? do u think u have the willpower to taper down half a pill a day for a wk until ur done? I have this prob too. I take anywhere from 1/4 to 10 a day. One used to be enough but not now. Unless u wanna wind up like me, try to b proactive. If u can't taper a half then do a quarter. If ur at 1-3 a day that's not so bad, so don't feel its hopeless. Unfortunately, this particular addiction grows fast.
the only way is to WANT to desperately be clean, a doctor or treatment to get off the drug (or in my case be thrown in jail and just have to deal with the withdrawls) and then to connect with other addicts because nobody on the outside of addiction will EVER be able to help and identify with you as an addict. Meetings and recovery is the way to go, one disease on program! it's hard, scary, uncomfortable at first but like everything else it gets EASIER!! and can be fun!!
the only way is to WANT to desperately be clean, a doctor or treatment to get off the drug (or in my case be thrown in jail and just have to deal with the withdrawls) and then to connect with other addicts because nobody on the outside of addiction will EVER be able to help and identify with you as an addict. Meetings and recovery is the way to go, one disease on program! it's hard, scary, uncomfortable at first but like everything else it gets EASIER!! and can be fun!!
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Lisa
Jacksonville,FL
Lisa
Jacksonville,FL
I am a roxicet addict as well. I am 27 years old and started using pills when I was 23. I was always the person who said "Why take pain killers? They don't do anything, I'd rather take ecstasy or do coke" I started just by one vicodin when I was at work (I was a bartender and everyone in the restaurant seemed to be taking them) One vicodin led to two, then to five which eventually turned into one perc 10, then 3, then 7 and now roxys (for about 2 years) I sniff them often and hate myself when I do, but feel miserbale when I don't, I was clean for 22 days a week ago then relapsed and went right back to my habit. Its actually 330 in the morning and I just sniffed another. I'm going to try and get clean next week cuz I have work all weekend and cannot go thru withdrawals while working. Withdrawals are horrible, but they can be eased by being with someone and taking about how you are feeling. My advice is to buy a season of a show and watch it while you are withdrawing. It gives u something to do (as you may feel restless but u will experience body aches and pains) My pains were mainly in my lower back. Get to N/A meetings and find yourself a sponsor...I went to rehab in the beginning of this year and came out, was clean for a month and went rght back...My family doesnt understand the intensity of addiciton because they havent walked in my shoes..When I am off roxys I sometimes wish I would just die bc I feel like I may never be happy again...The trick is to QUIT EVERYTHING including alcohol and pot (although pot may help w withdrawals and taking advil PMs may help u sleep) If anyone wants to chat, feel free to email me at ***@**** it's always easier to go thru this with someone to talk to
I am starting recovery today, hope for the best , plz stay away from these. almost ruined my life but i will not let it, so on about 1 and 1/2 days without anything, yes the pain is hard but someone said in this post the other side is magnificent. well i wanna get there, so goodbye blu guys ( I WISH I NEVER HAD MY 1st ONE< TOTALLY RUININED YR OF MY LIFE BUT NOT ANYMORE) I rly hope evreyone can find a way! let you know how its going :) keep smiling all
i can relate so much with you! im 21 years old and i got married a year ago and all together me and my husband have been together for over 3 years now. when i met him i didnt do any drugs. I used to drink ONLY when i went out with friends and not even weed i used to smoke. He was always really bad on drugs. he was doing like an 8ball a day of coke and always always taking painkillers and drinking everyday. we stopped it all in the begging because i was totally against it. after a while i started to try a few drugs as all of his friends was doing it. a feel painkillers and all but i never tried coke in my life because of what he had gone through when i met him. about an year and a half ago he came home with this blue pills so we could do it on the weekend. he had tried it before but i had NO IDEA what that was. Our neighbor was selling it so we started to do all the time. I smoke them because i cant take it (or else i puke) and i dont snore anything. he smokes and take them and started not too long ago snoring them. we have been addicted to it for so long now and i am just so ashamed of myself for been addicted to any drugs. no one on my family does drugs, they dont even smoke cigarettes!!! i come from a great family and a good background but now i live with him in florida and my mom lives in TN and my whole family lives in a different country than me so i only have him in my life. i love him but i love myself more and i do wanna stop this pills so bad, but im starting to think it will never happend if im with him because everytime i decide to stop he goes and buy more and i wanna stop it cold turkey but he cant handle it. yesterday he bought some methadone and said we should take it for less than 30 days so we can stop blues and dont feel the pain and then stop it all! im affraid we will just get hooked on the methadone. i need help! i work full time and none of my family and close friends know about this. only his friends because most of the times we get the pills from them. i cant go to a rehab because of my job and he would NEVER go to a rehad, even tho he need it. please someone that has gone through this addiction please help me! i dont know what to do anymore. i hope we can get through all this together! id hate to leave him so i can get my life back in track but if things dont change i dont know any other way.
I'm Jennifer, I'm 15 years old and i have been using hardcore drugs since i was 12. I've always smoked pot, then it was drinking, then it was coke, after that it was xanax, i got really bad with MDMA powder or exstacy but thank god eventually got over all that. Anyways what im getting at is I started doing blues like 2 years ago and it has gotten really bad. The town that i live in is horrble and what gets me the most is i live in florida on the beach? Everyone seems to be snortin or shooting up blues it's rediculous. I hate the withdrawls and i just want to be done, i am too young to get caught up in this. I just don't know if i should try to detox at home or go to a facility. It's even harder because im still a kid and i try an hide it from my mom so it is not like i can have her support. I let you guys know when i get through this b/c i've finally gotten to the point where the word BLUES makes me sick b/c that iis what my life revoles around and it is sickening. To anyone out there who has never done an opiate DON'T it is deffinatly not worth it. Oxycottin will suck you into a world you don't want to be in. I wish somone would have educated me about roxy's && everything else before guys started breaking me out lines....Maybe the drug sponsors should focused more on pills then they do weed. ya feel me?
ur not alone and neither are your actions.... i didnt read every response word for word but methadone is not the way to go... the w/d is worse from that... suboxine has saved many of my friends and family... if you want to detox and uve only been doing it for 7 months, take suboxine for a few weeks or however your doc prescribes it.. i hear its a miracle... yes im an addict, mostly a legal addict, with a horrible back and leg condition and i have been so sick of opiates for 12 years now, my wreck was 13 years ago, and i have tried about everything but herion and im not snorter... i take it to work and make the pain go away and roxi's do do that but are extremely addicting... i have went cold turkey and tried sub's to see how bad my pain was and couldnt make it much more than 3-4 days b/c of the pain, not the w/d.. talk about w/d i quit 50/mcg/hr fentanyl cold turkey after being prescribed for 3yrs + and it was my idea... well not completely cold turkey i did take vicodin and valium, but i was on a strong dosage for over 3 years and quit on my own with very little meds in place thereof, almos as if my doc was upset i had to quit it, it changed me and gave me horrible ups and downs and anxiety, cold sweats, sometimes it felt like i was in w/d ON it... anyways... but 7 months is so short, suboxine, from everything ive heard and learned about it, will be a miracle drug for you and it is $$ but as much as roxi's and in ur case i wouldnt imagine you taking it more than a few weeks, maybe a month... but im no doc... jus what ive learned and heard from others... and the most important part, you have to stay away from others that abuse it or alike... i lost my fiance over a car wreck involving drugs and i just left my g/f because she wouldnt quit speed and kept comparing it to my vicodin addiction... which is only physical, i would love to stop taking all of it... but being 40% handicap from the wreck and no silver spoon i HAVE to work.... not saying you or others dont... but i have no choice and with pain pills i can work... i wish you and others the best of luck i KNOW how hard it can be.. even the lil speedhead girl tried to compare our addictions.. pathetic.... very pathetic, how would that help her go to work... that would make me quit work.. anyways, good luck and watch 'the secret' - you can do it for real...
My son, freshmen in college almost died of an overdose of this roxi **** and zanax and alcohol. Wound up in treatment program which Im not sure he really wanted to go to. You see in his eyes the mistake he made was taking the zanax, not everything else. The whole experience wasa wake up call for my husband and me. We were told at the hospital that it was alcolhol poisoning not substance abuse, he even had the drs fooled. I played my son and told him we would get the results of his blood and he better come clean with anymore information and he told me what I believe is the truth. He has been using roxicets for over a year and I had no idea. Good grades, went to work, was responsible untill I almost lost him. WHAT A WAKE UP CALL. Now the trust is completely gone and I don't know how to help. I brought him home from school but as he tells me its not college. I don't know besides puting him in treatment what to do. Same friends that he had since kindergaten should not be friends anymore. I don't know. Hopefully outpatient treatment which he will start acutually tonight will help. Please any informantion you can help me with would be great. I don't know it next semester school is a good idea or leaving him home. Hes and adult and i cannot monitor every move. Please help
I have been taking the small round "54 543" pills which are 5mg oxycodone and 325mg apap, i take about 10 at a time.. that is only 40mg of oxycodone, but about 2600mg of the aceipat.... however you spell it.. i like the feeling of the oxycodone as it makes me feel normal due to my addiction but my question is, is taking that much mg of the other stuff bad for me and if so can i die from taking this much?? please help..
mom,
This is an old post why dont you copy your post and start a new thread ...Welcome to the forum :)
This is an old post why dont you copy your post and start a new thread ...Welcome to the forum :)
The easiest way to tell if your son is using roxis is to look at his eyes. His pupils will be very small. He will probably sweat after being awake for a little while, and can become extremely agressive. Also, he will be scratching at himself and will find it hard to stay still to even enjoy a meal or watch TV. Also, he will probably eat late at night and will eat a lot of sweets. Remember, that little blue pill is nothing short of "heroin"-Good Luck
I feel as though I have lost my son, David, to an addiction to "roxi's". I am a frustrated mother who is trying to understand why the drug companies turn their backs knowing this drug was originally produced for cancer patients and are showing record profits while these so called "pain management" clinics here in Florida write scripts for them like it was candy! I'm tired of the pin-dot eyes, the lies, the rehabs....I wish the CEO of the maker of this drug would spend a day with me. Having to lie, cheat, and steal to just try a lead a normal life and get through the day, is a LIVING HELL!!
My 20 year old daughter is 1 week into recovery from these monsters..the little blue pills. She was averaging 12-15 a day, living with the dealer and so was easy prey to the drug. She crashed and burned lossing her job, car, cell phone, bank account, and friends, then in the end trading sex for the monsters...not to mention stealing money from me and my boyfriend to the point that we had to buy a safe and bolt it to the foundation to put our wallets and valueables in. She knew she had to get off of them, or as she put it: didn't WANT to stop using, but HAD to. She made up her mind to quit...started weaning herself off, and did the methadone treatment. I finally forced her (with much anger on her part cuz she said she wasn't ready to go yet) to make the call to the detox center I had already contacted, I was not about to let her go 1 more day living this hell. I drove the more than 1 hour drive to the detox center. She stayed for only 3 days, (minimum was 7-10 days) but because she had already made up her mind to quit, 3 days was enough for her to realize where she wanted to be in life. This after being addicted for a year. She has been clean for 1 week and doing great. She is back home, does experience some w/d, but I bought her L-tyrosine (you can get it at a health food store) and she takes that along with a multi-vitamin (containing copper and folic acid) and a B-complex. These in combination are suppose to help with the w/d. and so far, so good. It has been successful for her so far. The recovering addicts also need to stay busy!! She has yet to get another job, but is looking. She gets a lot of anxiety when she is bord. Keep your loved one who is in recovery busy..it will help! I hope this helps someone...good luck to all.
I am not sure if my son is using these little blue pills or not. He denies using. Myself and his father both have additive personalities. We have beat many drug additions. We have noticed a huge change in his behavior. We own our own business and he has been to college to learn this business. Can't seem to get to work on time. Very irretable, feeling sorry for himself, and spends a lot of money somewhere, sweats, and has stopped taking care of his body hygien. I am not by a long shot stupid to drugs. I am just not down on the new drugs out there. I have tried to talk to him. He just says he can't sleep at nights. I am really at loss as to what to do or say to him. Anyone out there that may be able to help me figure this out. What is the average cost of an addition per day. He is a big guy 6'1 and about 230 lbs. What do you think?
Respectfully,
Hopeful and worried Mom
Respectfully,
Hopeful and worried Mom
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