I know a lot of people are complaining about the new (OP marked) Oxycontins, but as someone who took them for the first time, I'm here to say that the new formula is perfectly fine with me, as I'm not trying to abuse them. I want them to last as long as possible as I am dealing with round the clock, 24/7 pain. I'm even going to be looking into applying for permanent disability coverage, soon as I can. If anyone also has advice about that, they want to PM me with or whatever, that would be much appreciated as well.
I suffer from Piriformis syndrome, which is sciatica basically. I'm 29 years young, 6'5, about 250 but not too overweight. I try to take care of myself, but as this issue has been going on for several years now, of documented treatments, nothing has really worked as far as PT or medicational therapy (nerve medications, muscle relaxers, etc.) And in all these years, no one has mentioned a miracle surgery option, for someone with my condition, as I don't think there really is one, as they can't even really figure out what causes piriformis syndrome. Any advice on how to make my meds last longer in my system, as I am VERY prone to WDs after X# of hours off my medications. Since, I already suffered from heavy anxiety, battling PTSD most of my life. I don't like feeling that dependent on my medications, as sometimes how much I need, varies from day to day, and can sometimes be more than what I'm given (currently 180mg of Oxycodone IR a day). I just don't know if anyone else has had a similar situation like mine, where their insurance won't cover the long acting medications that I need. Although, I think Oxycontine is the only one they wouldn't cover because no one is making a generic, with Perdu Pharma bogarting the rights to their formulas? I'm not even sure what's up with that 100% myself, tbh. Has anyone else had similar luck with other medications. I guess it doesn't matter which I'm prescribed, as they all are going to have the WDs if I don't continue to take them on a schedule. My doctor is honestly willing to pretty much write me a script for anything at this point. When I go back, I'm pretty sure at this point, I'm going to ask for something else like MSContin (Morphine ER) since I've never tried that before, but have tried IR Morphine, and had a bad WD when i ran out early, I heard Morphine is one of the worst ones for the WDs. Maybe MSContin and an Oxycodone for breakthrough pain. I just don't know how long I can keep upping the doses, hoping to find one that stays in my system as long as Oxycontine did (4 hours for me) 40mg of that, 4-6 times a day, with like 10-30mg Oxy IR 4-6 times a day, with the Oxycontine to help with the BT pain. And that worked great. I slept better than I even have in my life. Not having to wake up in a cold sweat, from sleeping more than 8 hours, and not taking a dose in between. It was amazing. Honestly, if I was rich, I would just keep paying 800-1k a month on those scripts, just to have the med that worked. Thanks in advanced for helping with any info you guys can provide, that can be of any assistance to me.
