Opioids Help with Perocets for pain

Hi, i currently take Percocets 5mg 5x a day for pain in my neck/shoulders and back the dr cannot find a cause for the pain and i have tried tons of meds the pain seems to be muscular but i find after a couple months the pills dont really help at all, im wondering is there anyway to make the pills work better? My dr doesn't want to up my dosage so im stuck but im getting really depressed im sick of being in pain almost the entire day i cannot do anything without being in pain. I have never snorted anything in my life before but would snorting the same dose work better or would it just be the same? Is it more dangerous to snort them then to swallow?

Thank you.

im right there with you,,, a smorgasbord of chronic pain issues, and the same dose a day for a year now... seems unheard of but, nope.

if your MED(morphine equivalent) is at 100mgs or some states 120mg, your PCP is supposed to contact a pain management specialist.
if they wont, ask for a referral to see one, besides more thorough treatment, they have many diagnostic techniques and have seen plenty. although they normally ask for a diagnosis and x-rays etc. before visiting initially, this would be your best route...

i now have to just crash my tolerance...
but its past desperate measures here, heh.


have you seen a neurologist?

keep trying man, you are worth it - its hell and constant but, is not for nothing.! what helped me along, or what could of killed me would be "pity" and "why me's", but why not?

yeah, a sense of humor through out the day could be equal to one of those pills...;-)


snorting them is a waste, im afraid to say - especially using them for daily pain.

stay up man, dont get frustrated get learning.

The oral bio-availability of oxycodone is higher than that of the nasal ROA. Also, the oxycodone makes up a very small percentage of the actual pill, so the binders in the pill will likely block most from coming in contact with the membrane.

There are ways to potentiate opiates, and you can find them here!

it is worth mentioning, that even if you could sniff them successfully, being in chronic pain this would only back fire as the on-set is quicker, but it would ware off in maybe half the time.


do this the right way, or you could find yourself stuck with much less options then before.

Man i'm in the same boat as you when it comes to the chronic pain with no cause found. I definitely would NOT reccomend snorting percocet. They have APAP in them, and i don't think snorting APAP would be too satisfying. Perhaps try asking your doctor to move you to a different pain killer or up your dose to 10mg oxycodone and see what happens then. Pain is not something to be taken lightly, it is a serious disease.

First of all, never snort anything with APAP in it...

Anyawys, it sounds to me like you need a time released/extended release medicine (i.e OxyContin/MsContin/Opana ER/Whatever). You will need to take ER medicine less times per day as ER meds work for 8-12 hours, and if you're not abusing the meds, imo tolerance will build slower with ER meds than short acting. Also, you're taking APAP everyday, which can cause issues of its own when taken for extended periods of time. It's not healthy.

Don't go and ask your doctor for OxyContin 80s or something crazy... I would recommend just telling your doc that you take your meds 5 times a day and were wondering if an extended release medication would be a reasonable thing to consider.

Also, you can check out the opiate potentiation threads around bluelight, which may to some degree help you out in the short term until you figure out a better solution with your doctor. Some people have great results by taking Cimetidine (Name Brand: Tagamet) 45 mins or so before Oxycodone, some people like Diphenhydramine etc etc. Results aren't guaranteed but imo, if you find something that works well for you, it will probably be worth it.