Dilaudid Oral First Time Help

[JusTrynaNod]

What's up guys, I was recently switched 90 15mg OxyCodone a month to 10mg Opana ER that didn't work. I just got back from my doctor & I am beyond angry. I have Degenerative Shoulder Disease & 4 failed shoulder surgeries & this motherfucker sent me home with 30 1mg Dilaudids. I didn't know I was leaving with something so small until I got home. Anyways, on the opiate calculator it states that 1mg of Dilaudid is equal to 4mg of OxyCodone orally. Is this relatively right so to speak? If I'm trying to get like 80mg worth of oxy IR buzz, how many should I take? I have been using opiates since my first surgery at 14, now 21, so I am not an opiate naive person what so ever. Thank you very much.

 

[Albion]

Moving to BDD for ya..

 

[helium-4]

Wow your doctor really fucked you. Would have been better to stay with oxymorphone than to move to hydromorphone, even if you got an equivalent dose instead of the ridiculous decrease you recieved. Hydromorphone also has a terrible oral BA like oxymorphone, and is better taken insufflated as well to increase the BA (outside of IVing). Also hydromorphone as a short duration than the oxymorphone as well... I've never taken them orally, so can't say what would be =80mgs, but it will be quite a large chunk of your script if you try to take it orally. According to a opioid convertor, http://www.globalrph.com/narcotic.cgi you'd need to take the whole script to have a dose that is equivalent to 80mgs of oxycodone.

You need to contact your doctor and let him know you didn't feel anything at all from consuming the scripted amount, and when you questioned why, you went and look for the equivalent dosage compared to your previous scripts. Tell him you saw the 1mg of hydromorphone orally is less than 5 mgs of oxycodone, and needs a big chance in your script.

 

[JusTrynaNod]

this is royally fucked up. all i can do is smoke my MMJ and laugh hard as fuck. you guys really wanna laugh......i started going off on how its ridiculous that oxycodone has become a "taboo" word just because of some people when in reality I'm a 21 year old with Degenerative Shoulder Disease & radiation in my bones with my shoulders detoriating out of my fucking body & teeth rotting out of my mouth (my teeth look good, but they are decaying because of this and I now have to get a crown on every tooth to prevent me having no teeth by 30, keep in mind hygiene means everything to me, this isn't my fault, its genetics). Anyways, he goes "Oxycodone ends up getting used like marijuana". My mom truly got even more mad then me (she doesn't even smoke, she doesn't even drink, but she has seen her son go through unspeakable pain since 14 and prescribed everything under the sun & she has seen me throw up from stopping scripts cold turkey & she has seen how positive cannabis is and how it has no physical addiction or anything bad, period). oh well man, fuck it. i give up. i moved out to california for to medicate cannabis legally, thats what I got. gotta give to get. Looks like this long 6 year road is coming to an end my friends.

 

[helium-4]

It seems like it's becoming even harder and harder to find doctors that actually treat the patients, not follow the path of a paranoid, impersonal prewritten treatment doctor, that is becoming ever so common these days.

I was lucky enough to be referred to a neurologist that believes in finding the right medicine that works for the patient with a personal approach to the whole treatment process, not the other way around. He scripted me methadone when none of the standard treatments worked, and didn't bat an eye when I suggested it. He was actually happy, as he believes it can be a wonderful drug for some patients, and that the stigma behind it is complete BS. He actually spent most of the appointment talking to me about some article in a recent neuroscience journal, and the like. Real cool doc. I feel bad when others go through the struggle of finding one like this, or never do.

 

[flyonth3wall]

Ouch man, I feel for you - You got royally screwed! That's like a near 90% decrease in meds by conversion. I'd get on the phone tomorrow and let him know exactly what I think about this change if I were you.. Really sorry to hear this man, that is truly harsh.

 

[doIhavePotential]

with the opana you might get better bioavailability if you use them intra-nasally but I think they have various abuse mechanisms. You may want to talk to your doctor about seeing a pain management doctor as they have more freedom and experience in prescribing analgesics.