Has anyone figured out a way to simply cut these in half? I like to take 20mg at a time orally and I can't even cut them in half now
I cut an 80 in half just now,using a very small, but sharp knife...almost like a swiss army knife, those little kind with all the gadgets. These new oxies made by purdue are the only ones being sold now, my pharmacist toldme.
Ive got a few to spare to try different ways -- but the advice I get here -- though probably GREAT advice -- is difficult for me to understand.... I am not good at chemesty -- who is except a chemist???!
Right now, I'm soaking on in a half glass of sprite -- the lemon flavored soft drink-- got the tip to soak it in something with acidy citris liquid. the pill has doubled in size -- I didn't attempt to cut it up. I'm just gonna let it sit overnight and see what happens.
My paindoc -- a REALLY cool guys who is ready to quit being a doctor because the gov't cut doctor's medicare pay by 21 perecent......BUt that's another story.....7 years ago, they decided to cut medicare payments 3 percent every year to attempt to lower costs -- but they shelved it again and again for seven years.........This year, they DID NOT put it on the back burner and let it take effect. that's why it's a 21 perecent cut......3x7= 21 ---- It's outragous.
More bad news on the rxd front. The FDA decided to spend almost a year forming a committee to come up with a REMS plan for long acting opiates -- REMS stands for RISK ASSESSMENT MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES. When the pabnel of 20 something brought their recommendations to the FDA honchos, they said it wasn't "STRONG ENOUGH" and didn't go far enough in keeping theclass II long acting opiates from making onto the street. -- so they scrapped the whole idea -- and they are doing to start again next year -- it will be much stricter -- alltheway to the point to where doctors may have to undergo further training in order to even rx opiates -- My pain doc said many docs are just refusing to write for them because it's becoming such a hassle.
AND -- now the FDA has decided to add IR opiates to the list for a REMS study -- For those who don't know, a REMS study is a plan or protocal, I think< that doctors must follow in order to bge able to rx the drugs in the first place -- so here comes MR GOVERNMENT AGAIN,,, peeking inside your medicine cabinet and telling US again what we can and can't take Mr. GOV'T: keep you claws off my medicine cabinet -- I want to move to England..... This country sucks
But I digress. You can crush these things to a certain point -- to where a hammer won't even pulverize them.......then you can take the pieces and manually break them down with your fingers -- but it takes about 45 mkinutes just to get one pill ready to do -- and forget about snorting or IVing -- dont knowabout plugging.....If anyoneis like me and doens't know thefirst thingabout chemesty and science and matrixes and all that stuffpeople talkabout on here, the easiest thing to do is get the pieces as small as you can by whatever means ytou can.....and then take the littel chunks and rolol them between your fingers to break them up even more -- but for somebody who is used to take up to 10 80s a day -- that is ALL i will be doing all day -- breaking up pills.
The goven't really pulled a stupid one this time -- yearh, oxy was killing people who didn't use it right or didn't know how to use it right -- but if you DID then you were safe.......but now everyone willl return back to tar and that stuff will kill you slowlyt in so many ways that there are too many to list.
So in case anybody thinks this is goinhg to CURB opiate abuse, they're fooling themselves -- we're gonna have a tarheroin epedimic like we've never seen inthis country -- and so many more people will die because of this STUPID songand dance the farmacutical companies play with the gov'y
I'm sufferingfrom chronic pain from three fusions a broken kneecap and a host of spinal ailments -- and an incrediable tolerancebecause I am an addict as well, who started slamiming dilaudid at 19 -- I'm 51 now -- and all I want is to be left in peace and be allowed to takie enough "medicine" to keep me comfotable and out of bed.......I don't sell my pills I don't give them awatyl. I don't even tell people I have them...I no longer even know anyone in this town to get street dope from -- I've been on massive amountsof methadone and Fentanyland OxyContin -- and Xanax but I'm off that stuff,thank god == but I feel like we addicts always feel when a reallty good connection suddenly comes to and end and we are left scrambling forwhatever we can get at whatrever price......And I need this stuff tofunction because of mky pain.
God have mercy on my soul -- and anybodty else who had made Massicve Oxy use a daily routine and I refuse to slam tar -- though china white would bne nice.... allgood things come to an end.... sources ALWAYS dry up -- andthis one has for sure......so long OC --