yep. I feel your pain (literally). It's almost impossible these days to get prescribed Oxycodone in Ontario unless you're over 65. SWIM, who experiences chronic pain, has to buy Oxy on the street in Toronto to have any kind of quality of life, but it's financial unfeasible to do it for a long time, and even if it were, Oxycodone is getting harder and harder to find anyway.
One guy I know had stomach surgery and was taken off pain management very early...no doctors would help him so he had to go to the ER every 12 hours...just a revolving door method until he finally found a doctor (whose office had a sign saying NO NARCOTICS WILL BE PRESCRIBED...like every other walk-in) who recognized how much pain he was in and prescribed morphine.
Go with what they will offer, Hydromorph Contin when at the correct dosages will not make you want to shoot up. And HM Contins have no stigma to them strangely enough. Same with Dilaudid. But they prefer giving HM Contins and dilaudid if breakthrough pain exists.
I know a 34 year old girl who is scripted the APO-Oxycodone CR 60mg, but we're in QC. Ontario's ex prime minister is the bitch that caused the OxyNeo fiasco and Oxycontin terror stories. Politicians here NEVER speak of medication. My friend had a car accident, got him one hell of a whiplash, had some Oxycontin 20mg and some MS IR 15mg for breakthrough pain for 2 months back 5-6 years ago. Here doctors if you have a reason to have opiates and say already take a strong NSAID, will provide opiates, often in 15 day increments though if chronic. I'm on Suboxone and I hurt myself really bad and as per the clinic's instruction told them I was on Suboxone. So I was prescribed those sublingual fent pills, the doctor then told me only Fentanyl will toss the bupe faster in enough quantity. Was scripted 2x 80mg Abstrals a day for the terrible skin infection in a rather sensible area (beginning of buttcrack, not an STD, a pilonidal cyst that burst into blood and pus and became a pilonidal sinus afterwards, can't get surgery for it, I'm still too overweight because of the methadone weight gain that never went away except for 10 pounds.
The other time I took one violent fall in the bathtub and broke my elbow. Was given 80mg abstrals and since it wasn't going over the bupe fast enough, raised it to the 200mg ones for the whole time I had to put on a caste. It was good to feel a real opiate even if it procures no euphoria, when the stuff did its job enough I forgot about the pain. Going back on the bupe was frustrating but I got no choice, at least it didn't make me need higher dosages, went right back to 10mg a day, and now soon 8mg then after I get my thyroid pills and lose all that water retention weight (in 2 days, I can't believe it, could have been faster, but I was mad at the endocrinologist who almost killed by a fluke bloodwork that indicated low cortisol, she scripted me Cortef and almost had a heart attack, so I kept pushing my appointments until I said, look I'll call you back. When 2 constant blood tests indicated low thyroid and high prolactin, I knew i was going to be given anti-prolactin (goodbye residual gyno because of low testosterone treatment (injecting SC delatestryl caused that), theres a pill to lower prolactin and that will get rid of the residual gyno, which although almost went away completely once I stopped the testosterone treatment, is still there, thank god, it never went to a point where it showed through my shirts.
Oxycodone is more often scripted as Oxy IR/Supeudol here, at first the infection the doctor didnt know about Suboxone at all, so he scripted me Oxy IR 10mg. Oxy IR/Supeudols are common as fuck,especially the blue 5mg ones. They never script Percocets here, they go with the Oxy IR's 5mg, 10mg or 20mg. Man the 20mg footballs are awesome, my guy back then,I had no idea what he had as we drove around talking and then we discussed of the big white 20mg oxycodone and he said yeah I got a lot of those, opens wallet zipper, gives me 10, when I was buying 4, lol.
That was when he was still cool and his own problems didn't cause him to become an asshole which is one reason why I just said fuck it, people inventing debts etc., MMT here I come...and then health problems from MMT and also BMT...yay. Just give me Dilaudid 4's 2-3 times a daygoddamnit, wont make me fat, fuck my hormones, mess up my teeth (like the acidic lemon lime extracts in Suboxone), only had 2 tiny cavities in almost 30 years of living, a little after 2 years of Suboxone, 24 cavities). The only problem I had when I was shooting up Dilaudid was the blackmarket price (a prescription was a gift from heaven, as even brand name Dilaudid costs almost nothing even the 8mg are cheap), which caused me money and eating problems. All this because a doctor treating me with get this, Codeine Contins 200mg (stronger than you'd think, especially if crushed, i think they cannot be anymore effectively, but then yes) every 12 hours and a Percodan 5mg in case of breakthrough retired without warning,and he was a specialist of the Jaw, there should be a medical and not only dental specialization for this, they're called maxillofacial surgeon dentists, and if surgery ain't an option in your case, they will put you on a pain treatment, some NSAIDs yes, but also opiates.
When he quit, I couldn't get help except a few times at the ER where i had all the paperwork but they said, look we'll help you now but the ER is not for chronic issues, gave me 3 months more, and yes, getting cut off the codeine contins 200 (strongest dosage btw) and i'd take 400 a day + the 5-15 oxycodone in the Percodans I was scripted for breakthrough was enough to put me through unbearable withdrawals, not as bad as when suddenly not shooting Dilaudid, but as bad as feeling like a crippling flu wouldn't go away for MONTHS on end, then I made this friend, old guy who worked in construction all his life, these guys are given everything, even Cesamet to reduce the insane amount of HM Contins and Dilaudid he'd take a day.
