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Oxycodone Tolerance Question

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rg.1672

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Can someone who has experience in taking Oxys for a long, long time, Say 5+ yrs, help me? My quest is this...I've been Rx'd Roxys for very long time but they no longer work. No matter how much I take, I feel nothing. So I started taking more & more, built huge tolerance/dependence/addiction...what ever u want to call it. Please, no lectures abt addiction, suboxone, etc etc. I'm not asking for that. What Id like to know is, since oxy is not working anymore, can I just stop taking it? Or will I go into wds? What do ppl do when it stops working but are already addicted? Just keep taking it to prevent wds? I don't want it anymore but am afraid to quit bc I not sure what will happen. And don't want subs bc they are just as addictive, I don't want to trade one addctn for another. Anyone who says otherwise, that subs aren't addctv, doesn't know what they are talking about. Thank u for ur feedback.
 
What Id like to know is, since oxy is not working anymore, can I just stop taking it? Or will I go into wds?
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From what it sounds like, yes, you will go into withdrawals. Like you said, you've developed a tolerance which means you'll go into withdrawals if you just stop taking your oxycodone.

What do ppl do when it stops working but are already addicted? Just keep taking it to prevent wds? I don't want it anymore but am afraid to quit bc I not sure what will happen. And don't want subs bc they are just as addictive, I don't want to trade one addctn for another. Anyone who says otherwise, that subs aren't addctv, doesn't know what they are talking about. Thank u for ur feedback.
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Suboxone is addictive, yes, but it's withdrawals are less intensive than that of full-agonist opiates (such as oxycodone, heroin, morphine, etc). You will either have to go through withdrawals or taper down. There isn't any other way to do it. You can't just decide to stop taking oxycodone one day and expect nothing to happen. That's just the way it works.

We need more information about your usage history, dosage, etc, before we can give you any more answers.

I'm going to edit your thread title for easier searching in the future. If you have any questions, feel free to PM me about it. :)
 
Trying to stop cold turkey after using for 5 str8 years is insane. Like the Hood said above, you will have to taper down no matter if you cant get high anymore. Your body will still need it to feel normal so look into a tapering schedule.
 
My usage is ridiculously high. As high as anyone else's I've read on here. I can go thru a bottle of 120 30 Mg roxis in one week. But I'm fully functional. Have been ever since this nightmare began 5 yrs ago. I don't get high. I know nobody will believe that, but the high stopped yrs ago. I only keep taking this ridiculous amount out of habit and to keep me feeling normal. I'm the classic story saying I take it just to feel normal. Is weaning down my best bet? What taper schedule is best? What are others experience w tapering? Did it work?
 
I can believe that. It's called tolerance.

Is weaning down my best bet? What taper schedule is best? What are others experience w tapering? Did it work?
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Weaning down is more or less your only bet.

I have experience with tapering, but I use Suboxone/buprenorphine.

How much are you using per day, etc? 120 30mg oxycodones per week isn't enough information to even give you a rough tapering schedule.
 
On a good day, 10-12 roxys 30mg. On a day when I'm not paying attention, 20 pills. I only take roxys. Nothing else. Did the prev post say he tapers w subs? Meaning tapering off oxy w subs? I thought u could die mixing those two drugs? I tried subs twice and hated it!!
 
Tapering with Suboxone isn't mixing Suboxone with oxycodone just like tapering with methadone isn't mixing methadone with oxycodone.

You replace your drug of choice with the tapering drug, you don't mix them.

So you're using between 300 and 600mg per day?
 
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So I don't even know where to start my taper from. Start at 20 pills/ day, 12/ day??? What is safe, what will work? If I could get to my Rx'd amt/ day of 4-6, I'd be happy. FYI..,I did not start taking these for recreational purposes. Not that it matters bc we aren't supposed to be judging ppl here, but I take these for a failed back fusion when I was 26. I'm a clean kid, never a drug in my life but here I am all wrapped up in oxy hell. It's my fault, I should have known what I was getting into. Trying to get off this ride is hardest shit I've ever faced!
 
Yes. That's about right. I had a doc tell me once that wds are all mental. I'm assuming hes terribly wrong
 
It doesn't matter if you started taking them for recreational purposes or not, correct, we're not judging you here. Most people that have opiate addictions started using the opiates in question for a medical reason. I am one of those people.

Yes. That's about right. I had a doc tell me once that wds are all mental. I'm assuming hes terribly wrong
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That is not completely wrong. If you were to stop taking it abruptly you would go into physical and psychological withdrawal at the same time.

As far as tapering goes, can you take 300mg in a day and feel fine? What about 275mg a day?

Oxycodone is much harder to taper with compared to longer-acting opioids such as buprenorphine (Suboxone) because it is shorter-acting. The range of dosages that you've described is actually quite large, so we need to narrow it down. Between 300 and 600mg daily is quite a big range.
 
neighborhoodThreat has the right idea, the only way to do it comfortably is to taper, and remember if you cut out 25 mg don't cut it all out of one dose if you take 30mg at each dose and take it 5 times a day then cut 5 mg out at each dose. I realize the above is not really you dose but just trying to give you a example. If are only body dependent and not mind dependent this should not cause to much trama to you. Then in a few days cut your dose again, you may be a little uncomfortable but it should not be unbareable or stop you from doing daily things. I would not quit Cold Turkey after taking them so long on such high doses. That could or might be dangerous to your heart. Whatever you do go a slow as possiable or as fast as you can stand cause that part of taper is up to the one who is doing it.
 
Thanks guys for all the help so far. A typical daily dosing routine for me is 2-3 30mg pills every 3 hrs usually over a 12 hr span, so say from 9am to 9pm. This is not set in stone, just a general idea. Some days I cheat and re dose after 2 hrs. But that is how my intake varies so much. If I dose 5x per day 3 pills per dose, there is my 450mgs per day. If I dose an extra time for 6 per day, thats how i get to almost 600mgs/day. U see, I'm all over the place.
 
The really f'd up part is this. I can Take 300 or even 240 per day....occasionally, gun to my head. But am very uncomfortable. But when I'm running low, I start to freak and it becomes so mental. I take more and more. But when it's on my terms, I can ramp it down and be ok. It's so f'd up!! That's why I asked how much if this is mental. It's all so discouraging to me bc I can't get it figured out
 
skip the extra dose if you can live without it and cut back 5mg on each dose. Use a pill spliter and just take a little less then a quater of the pill off. anyone who has ever taken opiates for a extended period of time knows it hard. I believe the most important part of it is mind set. Mentally prepare yourself. Tell your self its just a little bit that really helps. If I stop of my meds and I don't mentally prepare myself I can't even move. I feel every bit of it. But it seems if I tell myself its no big deal it tends not to be. This don't help as much with cold turkey methods. if you get to the 3rd or 4th dose of the day and the cut is really bothering you then go ahead and take the other 5mgs. Its all about your comfort level.
 
Also, can someone help explain a working dosing schedule to me. In other words, is the fact that im taking this every 3 hrs a waste of pills? Since they are not working, and i keep taking so much, am i just wasting the pills by taking so many so often? What type of dosing schedule would help fix this?

Here is a typical day for me, if that helps:
8am - 30mgs
10am - 90mgs
1pm - 60/90mgs
4pm - 60/90mgs
7pm - 60/90 mgs
9pm - 30/60 mgs
 
Has anyone had this expericnce..... like i mentioned before, i typically take 2/3 roxies at a time, and i really dont feel anything. then there are rare times i get pissed bc i dont feel it like i used to, so ill take 5 to see if ill feel that (this is only very occasionally bc when i do that i run out of pills early, and i suffer later. im sure you know that drill....), and nothing....i feel the same as if i took 3 pills! how is that possible? if im consistent, taking 90mgs each dosing, then double my next dose, and i feel nothing. how is that possible??? not many ppl can even take 1 30 mg roxy and function! how is it that I can take 150mgs at once and function? does anyone else here have a tolerance this high? am i the only idiot that does this? Please help me understand this drug!!!
 
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Has anyone had this expericnce..... like i mentioned before, i typically take 2/3 roxies at a time, and i really dont feel anything. then there are rare times i get pissed bc i dont feel it like i used to, so ill take 5 to see if ill feel that (this is only very occasionally bc when i do that i run out of pills early, and i suffer later. im sure you know that drill....), and nothing....i feel the same as if i took 3 pills! how is that possible? if im consistent, taking 90mgs each dosing, then double my next dose, and i feel nothing. how is that possible??? not many ppl can even take 1 30 mg roxy and function! how is it that I can take 150mgs at once and function? does anyone else here have a tolerance this high? am i the only idiot that does this? Please help me understand this drug!!!
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Well, if taking 5 pills feels just like taking 3 then just take 3. No reason to go higher. And no, your not abnormal, there are other people out there who take 600mg of oxycodone (or even more) and don't feel anything. I stopped at 400mg because the pills became way to expensive and then switched onto a higher equivalent dose of heroin.
 
I think most people that have taken any kind of an opiate for a long time will tell you that it stops working.My habit was heroin and after years,I very rarely got high.I understand you not wanting to switch to Suboxone but you could switch just for a week or two to get over the major withdrawals.Going on Suboxone for such a short time is NOT going to give you a bad addiction to it.very mild,if anything.

Being you take differing amounts of pills,I don't see how you could withdraw from them.Addiction is mental and physical,they both play with each other.Like say you physically feel a bit sick,your mind will probably not be able to stop thinking about it,which,of course,will make you more likely to take another pill.
 
And, what are your guys thoughts on my goal being to get down to 6 pills per day? Am i just wasting my time bc im technically an addict and will get my tolerance back up to where it is now bc i wont be able to control my intake? Or, is it possible to get it down and stay there?? What is your experience w. trying to do this?
 
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