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How many oxycodone to make oxycontin 20mg? Scared to withdraw

Scaredandalone78

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First I'm on legal meds for chronic pain for my sarcoidosis and fibromyalgia and other illnesses. I take 20mg of oxycontin 2xday. I'm wondering how many oxycodone do I need to not go thru withdrawal as I'm almost out and doc not in to give me my script and I have left over oxycodones. Please help!! Thanks in advance
 
Many variables and unknowns. How long have you been taking them? Do you use any other opioids? Have you ever experienced withdrawal any other time? Everyone reacts differently. Some can quit rather large doses and be relatively ok. Others suffer coming off small to moderate doses.
 
I was on oxycodone for 2 years then 4 months of oxycontin. If I don't take my oxycontin after a while I do feel like. Runny nose etc. I was on fentanyl sublingual spray. .I haven't taken it in few days and did go thru withdrawal. .not sure if I wanna go back on. I'm just trying not to get sick untill my refill date.
 
20 mg ER is not that much. How many oxycodone do you have left over and what strength are they?
 
Cut them in quarters so 7.5mgs. If i was in your situation i would take one quarter and try and make it 6 hours or more before taking another 7.5mgs I would try that it should keep you from being sick but everyone is different 20mgs oxycodone ER is still 20 mgs of oxycodone it just releases the drug slow over a 12 hour period. Everyone is different and it may be hard to push it 6 hours on 7.5mgs of instant release oxy and you may need more to stay out of wd but only you know your body and you can judge how much you need i would just start as low as possible to not feel shity
 
20mg OxyContin equals 10mg oxy IR dosed every 4-5 hours instead of 8-10 hours.
That's for equal pain relief. Now if you want to go as low as you can without WD, you'd need between 5-7,5mg every 4 -6 h as a bare minimum.
Be prepared for mornings to suck . Wake up a little early and dose, stay in bed until it kicks in
 
Thank everyone soo much..the pain will be unbearable but at this moment I'm just scared for withdrawal. I did one time on oxycodone it was the worst. I just beat fentanyl withdrawal and decided it was not for me. Even if I take a 15mg will it still be every 4 to 5 hours? Will my sickness in morning subside fast? I'm going away for weekend with kids and don't wanna ruin there time being in the bathroom.
 
I think you could get away with 5 mg instant release every 2 or 3 hours. However it is really a trial and error kind of thing.

In my experience, I always needed more mg daily of instant release than extended. And that was for controlling withdrawal and not for pain relief.

One last piece of advice, you do not need to redose at the first sign of withdrawal symptoms. It will come and go for a while slowly increasing in intensity yet you can be asymptomatic for up to an hour in between when you get lucky. But it is a fine line because if you wait too long you will need a bigger dose to subjectly feel the sane relief than taking a smaller one a bit earlier.

Good luck.
 
Do you have any benzodiazepines? When I was a daily user, the night was the worst for me...I would wakeup in withdrawal and have a hard time going back to sleep. The hours would drag on. With benzos I could sleep through the night, and it mitigated most of my morning withdrawal. If I did not have a benzo, I would wake up and use what I had set aside for morning, which would leave me in a bad state in the morning. The benzos were more for conservation than sleeping.

It is really not safe to mix the opiates and benzos, but I think in your case with taking a small amount of opiates you may be able to get away with 1mg-1.5mg xanax or equipotent dose of what you have, taken before bedtime.
 
You might need a psychiatrist according to your thread title. 20mg of oxycodone will equal a 20mg oxycontin. You cannot have the same effect from IR to XR releases, sorry, if thats what you meant.
 
You might need a psychiatrist according to your thread title. 20mg of oxycodone will equal a 20mg oxycontin. You cannot have the same effect from IR to XR releases, sorry, if thats what you meant.

That doesn't sound at all like what they were asking. They ran out of ER and had 6 30 mg IR. They did not want to go through WD so they were asking how could they use their left over IR pills to help mitigate the WD and what dosage would be best to make sure they don't over/under do it. It really looks like you didn't read a single word they posted other than the title and their last post. I also find it offensive to somehow imply that a person would need psychiatrist just because they were trying to make a clarification about their medication.

It is this mind set that has this country falling apart when it comes to addiction. There is nothing wrong with people who have psychiatrists, psychologists, or therapists. It means that the internal struggle they feel has grown so large they can not tackle it alone, it means they had the courage to ask for help.

I'm going to my phychiatrist today but she usally gives me clorazapam is that a benzo?

Yes clonazepam is a benzo and I think your best bet with the oxy would be to take 7.5 mg every time you start to feel like you are going into strong WDs, then when you are stable try taking less maybe half that dosage if you can break it down that small. Doing all this will allow you to stretch you medication for quite a while. When do you get your refill?
 
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yeah what 7mg like they all say i recommend and benzodiazepines of any kind can help and in Canada you can Buy Orphenadrine that Inhibits some Enzymes similar to Codeine and Grapefruit and is 100mg in Orfenace Brand in Canada per tablet i dont know if it works well for intended muscle relaxtion but i get euphoria from it when first takin with no tolerance just saying But it should help the oxycodone last longer and maybe help with withdrawal symptoms or to relax a bit more like benzos or especially if lack of benzos.

tAKE Clonazepam 1-3 MG if unless you take more then that usually but if not least 1mg.at the very least loperamide can fill your gut receptors before taking your oxy dosage some swear by loperamide but i never noticed much from it. Read it can be bad for the heart if taken long-term so i only take occasionally.
 
That doesn't sound at all like what they were asking. They ran out of ER and had 6 30 mg IR. They did not want to go through WD so they were asking how could they use their left over IR pills to help mitigate the WD and what dosage would be best to make sure they don't over/under do it. It really looks like you didn't read a single word they posted other than the title and their last post. I also find it offensive to somehow imply that a person would need psychiatrist just because they were trying to make a clarification about their medication.

It is this mind set that has this country falling apart when it comes to addiction. There is nothing wrong with people who have psychiatrists, psychologists, or therapists. It means that the internal struggle they feel has grown so large they can not tackle it alone, it means they had the courage to ask for help.



Yes clonazepam is a benzo and I think your best bet with the oxy would be to take 7.5 mg every time you start to feel like you are going into strong WDs, then when you are stable try taking less maybe half that dosage if you can break it down that small. Doing all this will allow you to stretch you medication for quite a while. When do you get your refill?

The person might have meant clorazepate, which is weaker and a very functional benzo, which would be better for them, judging from the poor motor skills (poor keyboarding is poor motor skills, I don't mean the here and there typos).

I have said to be followed by a psychiatrist for my valium script many times before on these forums, and pain management also, everything was going rather great with what the surgeon who couldn't give me surgery due to the risks and his regimen he had me on of Codeine Contins 200mg every 12 hours with a Percodan or 1 and a half for breakthrough pain + zanaflex + lyrica, all this for the left part of my jaw, the articulation and a nerve which is damaged there.

I'm sorry it really sounded like people who can't figure out Percs are oxycodone + tylenol or aspirin (although in Canada aspirin combos are more common than tylenol ones when it comes to low dose oxy ir pills. But even then, they prefer just giving pure Oxy IR/Supeudol 5/10/20mg pure and not have people's livers fuck them up because they're too dumb to read about how there's tylenol in Percocets (a real bane during the 90's here, and then they pushed people to Oxycontin saying you only need it once a day and its impossible to get addicted." I guess they would be right in the case of 5mg-10mg-15mg Oxycontins as in, the pushback from not having some suddenly wouldn't make one bed ridden and yadayada...Well my doctor retired on me, phone was disconnected and I had no proof but the pharmacists about my treatment for pain and 6 long years of seeing tons of neuros, ER's, trying random walk-in clinics, the 2 other jaw specialist dentists like him who are 2 hours away, he was the only one in my hometown practicing that specialty (maxilofacial dentist). And now I'm on bupe, so yes, I know of every kind of sorts of judgemental behaviour people who just can't imagine what it is you are going through, and at first and for a long time it pisses you off, its what led me to find a pharm selling guy (cos theres no heroin here and thankfully there is none, since all the H in the US except black tar seems safe, couldn't poison black tar with fentanyl and analogs, but I'm on the east coast of canada, black tar is in vancouver and that's it). And he had something that was perfect for me in the meantime, and not too expensive, Oxy IR's 20mg footballs, so I had one or two a day and I was fine, then suddenly the prime minister of ontario (not my province) went batshit insane about Percocet, something that should be only scripted for terminal cancer being used in epidemic fashion!!!!!1111 So Purdue pulled the OP thing on us too, etc. We have generic oxycontin but most people will not be insistent enough even if the "it costs way less" is still the best argument, and it's like the old oxycontins. Not necessarily to get high, although one can, just by chewing it like old times, but it actually works, unlike OxyNeo where pain patients are just switched to HydromorphContins and Dilaudid if they're unhappy with it so then what happens is people shoot up dilaudid and HM Contins (its relatively safe unlike all XR morphine gelcap beads if you got a securicup filter), so, almost everyone who's on methadone or bupe is because they slammed Dillies and HM Contins here, they go up to 30mg, thats a lot of shots for your buck if you got a good price, Jurnistas are a total failure in this country, nobody wants them, like how Biphentin rules over Concerta, take your impossible to digest plastic pills you shit out up your ass, big pharma.
 
I get it filled on monday and thank you. I was scared to post because of ppl like that guy. But appreciate everyone's comments...so thank u.
 
I get it filled on monday and thank you. I was scared to post because of ppl like that guy. But appreciate everyone's comments...so thank u.

Okay perfect, then if you just use them the way we laid out, you should be fine. since that is only four days away you could actually take 7.5 mg x2 daily until Monday and still have enough. Let us know if you experience any WD, I don't think you will, but just in case we are here to help if anything happens.

Also, seeing your user name, if there is more going on in your life and it is not just about running out of the pain pills too soon please feel free to share or PM there is a lot of wisdom on this website do not be afraid to seek help if you need it.
 
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