Panic Attack from Oxy

[Jackie Chan]

I broke off about a 20mg piece of an oxy 80 and snorted it around 6 this evening, was feeling good. Then I took off another piece maybe 20- 30mg and swallowed it around an hour later. Once the effects from the second piece started to come on I got really panicky. I was worried I od'd, I know that's not happened but it gave me a slight panick attack, and it's been more than 4 hours after I swallowed the 2nd piece and I'm still feeling really uneasy from it. Is this type of reaction happened to anyone else. Two nights ago I snorted around 40mg throughout the night and felt fine, then the following morning snorted another 20mg and still ok. But today it just triggered something, I'm not sure if it's just in my head, but it's been 4 hours since I swallowed the last piece and it's left me with a really uneasy panicky feeling. I haven't taken any stimulants or any other drugs besides the oxy so why am I left feeling this way? My hands are quivering my face is twitching and if I'm around family I can't speak normally, it just sounds like I'm really anxious when I talk which is totally the opposite of what opiates do to me. Almost feels like I've taken too much off stimulant.

 

[laCster]

have you ever taken any opiates/opioids before? it sounds like you just got too high

 

[Jackie Chan]

I've taking a lot of oxycodone over the past few months, I've built up a tolerance to where I can handle around 30-40mg. I'm also getting slight chest pains and my vision is slightly messed up, I just can't get myself to calm down at the moment. Feeling really bad about it because some family was just over and I looked really bad infront of them.

 

[verso]

How were you able to break off, then snort a 20 mg piece of an oxy 80? Is it the new formula (with OP inscribed on the pill) or the old formula (with OC inscribed on the pill)? I can't imagine that you could be able to snort any piece at all of a new formula oxy without choking on the snot-like gel that it becomes.

Anyway, I have never heard of anything like this before. If you're concerned, and it sounds like you are, then you should probably seek out actual medical attention. I don't mean to sound snarky, but no one here will be able to help you any better than an actual doctor, you know what I mean?

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

it sounds like you just got too high

^this.


you are fine. if you acted strange in front of your family, life will still be ok. get yourself a glass of water. chill out and watch a movie.

 

[Jackie Chan]

How were you able to break off, then snort a 20 mg piece of an oxy 80? Is it the new formula (with OP inscribed on the pill) or the old formula (with OC inscribed on the pill)? I can't imagine that you could be able to snort any piece at all of a new formula oxy without choking on the snot-like gel that it becomes.

Anyway, I have never heard of anything like this before. If you're concerned, and it sounds like you are, then you should probably seek out actual medical attention. I don't mean to sound snarky, but no one here will be able to help you any better than an actual doctor, you know what I mean?

I live in Canada, there are still oxy 80s here, same as the ones that they used to have in the U.S.

 

[TheLostBoys]

Ive gotten too high on oxy myself. Oxycodone gives me a weird kind of high where im running around with so much energy like ive just taken speed. I HATE oxycodone except for when its a percocet.

Imo, you just did too much, thats all & you should be okay by tomorrow.

 

[verso]

I live in Canada, there are still oxy 80s here, same as the ones that they used to have in the U.S.

Ah! That's right! Lucky son of a...

Well, it sounds like you'll be OK and may have just taken a bit too much. I myself have never experienced anything like those symptoms, and I have taken oxycodone a countless number of times, so I would be panicking too.

 

[Jackie Chan]

^this.


you are fine. if you acted strange in front of your family, life will still be ok. get yourself a glass of water. chill out and watch a movie.

^this.


you are fine. if you acted strange in front of your family, life will still be ok. get yourself a glass of water. chill out and watch a movie.

Thanks, you're right. I really hate myself and feel embarassed but I guess life goes on.

This last week is the first time I've ever used oxies. Before I've just taken percocets and with the percs it's so much easier to know exactly how much you're taking. Not sure if anyone get's what I'm saying but the oxies are so small, you just break pieces off it's hard to know exactly how much you're taking sometimes. Like you break off piece and you think, looks like a third or quarter or whatever, but then after you take it it hits you harder than you thought it would and you think what if it was too much or something and start to worry. And I have this really irrational fear of dieing sometimes, I know it sounds crazy but right at the moment the 2nd piece started to affect me I started to worry I'm going to die or something and my family will know I used drugs.

 

[panic in paradise]

this happens to me as well, and ive known a couple of other people personally who would get a hard stim effect from Oxy. im prescribed it, and its even more of a nightmare because of this...no other opioid ive had produces the same reaction.


i thought thebaine was known for this, though, being stimulating, and that Oxy was a derivative of thebaine.

 

[effie]

Jackie Chan, that sounds like a horrible experience! I think you've got a lot of great answers in this thread, but I will echo that I find oxy very stimulating - have cleaned my flat on it before! So I would imagine that if you took too much, instead of being drowsy like other opiates you may well feel over-stimulated.

Hydro is right, things will be okay, I'm sure they are not as bad as they seem and if you're feeling a bit edgy and paranoid, chances are you think it is a lot more obvious to others than they are

Take care of yourself, take your mind off it with a film or music or something, try to relax - and maybe try to find somewhere away from other people if possible so you feel more comfortable. Take deep steady breaths and keep trying to stay calm. Maybe go round to a friends house to get away from your family, or just hide in your bedroom saying you feel a bit unwell? Good luck!

Just as a quick safety note - I very much doubt the chest pains are anything serious at all, sounds far more panic-induced than anything else, but if they suddenly get worse get yourself to a doctor. You've not had stims even though you feel quite stimulated, and even stim-related chest pains usually turn out to be nothing to worry about, but if you get worried always better to be checked out than sit at home getting more and more concerned about it and ending up really panicking! Doubt there will be any need though at all, hang on in there and you will be fine

 

[wolverhamptonian]

Dont feel embaressed my friend when your in the middle of a panic attack its very hard to calm yourself.Just chill and youll be okay tommorow and remember your not alone panic attacks are more common than you may think be good!!

 

[Korn3x]

yes i've experienced this many times as well. espeically sometimes if i'm pushing my dose higher. i know i didn't take enough to OD, but it's like my body is telling me otherwise, and it can be a pretty scary experience. there was one time i took a large dose very high up in the mountains at a family member's house, and the combination of taking a large dose along with knowing there wasn't a hospital around for at least an hour set me into a huge panic attack that i will never forget. everyone was asleep and i was puking outside, which is pretty uncommon for me. luckily Dokomo helped walk me through the experience as i posted a thread on BL about it as it was happening.

if it happens again, try to take big deep breaths and imagine yourself reliving an old good memory, or imagine yourself at the beach. squeezing your hands and toes really tight together and then relaxing in segments can help too.

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

thread seems to have run its course. OP, if there is anything you would still like addressed, PM me about it.


if there is more to be said about it, the apap debate could go on in the social thread.

 

[hydroazuanacaine]

Jackie Chan PMd me:

I don't know why after everything I went through last night I'd be so stupid to do it to myself again. But I snorted around 40mg throughout the evening. Then late tonight I just wanted to get the feeling back so I started to scrape the surface of this metallic lid that I crush the pills on. Then I poured some water inside the lid and drank it. I also ate all the little pieces of the leftover green coating that I collected, they still had some white part of the pill left on it. So the same thing started to happen again. But around 2 hours ago I took activated charcoal and it's really helped a lot. It's after 3am and I'm still awake, but I still feel nowhere near as bad as I was feeling last night. I was going to post my experience from tonight incase it might help someone but the thread was closed because it was going off topic. If you think it might be helpful to anyone you could add it to the thread.
Thanks

i'm just gonna unapprove off-topic posts and re-open the thread. personally i think the solution is less (or no) oxy, but in case anyone else has experience with this dose/drug-related anxiety and wants to share a get-comfortable strategy for when it's too late for less oxy.