roxicet addiction... *****

[pooey]

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.

[JeriCox]

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

[kmb22]

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....

[mooniemoon]

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.

[ThankGodForNA]

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!!

[ThankGodForNA]

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!!

[Lisa034]

Baby, this is a very old post. Look at the date.  Everybody does want to hear your story and to be there for you.  Copy and paste this and go to the top where it says post a question and click that button so it will show up there.

Lisa
Jacksonville,FL