need your help

[lowrider6967]

anyone with some advice or in this current situation your advice would be aprecated. here's the deal , I'm on between the oxycontin and the oxycodone 480 mgs a day they don't work anymore! at one time they worked great but not anymore.my question is could i be switched to something different for a month that would work and then be switched back the next month so on and so on,being switched back from two different meds,i think would bring down your tolerance to them.is this a working idea or am i just screwed.if this is possible what would be a good med to be switched to?i have been going up on mgs for years to get to this point don't really want to go up anymore.thanks for your time.

 

[Ripamaru]

There is no painless way to do that. You now have a pretty heavy addiction.

There are 3 ways you can go. 1. Find harder drugs (Hydromorphone, oxymorphone, heroin, etc). There is no turning back from this and you may destroy your life in the process.

2. Go through withdrawl painfully and be without any pain killers for quite a while until your tolerance goes down.

3. Go on a maintenance drug (Methadone, Subs) which you will feel but never get the same kind of high that OXY has given you. (there is no turning back from this as you will become even more tolerant to oxy).


I was in a similar situation as you. I chose door #3. I have been on methadone for years now. At some point you will have to decide if you want to be on opiates/oids the rest of your life or confront your addiction and quit altogether.


Good luck bro

 

[getnice]

the only way your gonna bring your tolerance down is by detoxing and stayin clean for a while... like above stated there is truly only 3 ways to go about it and i would recommend door #3 because you can taper down and go thru a less painful withdrawl in the future

 

[BrokedownPalace]

I was in your boat as well, many ages ago... Nothing other than IV heroin would keep me happy, and even that lost its touch after a while. Sucked. So I chose methadone maintenance and luckily got my life back on track, but no more getting high on opiates any time soon. Mentally it is still a battle after all this time.

There is nothing you can do for your tolerance other than quit, or maintain. The fun is over. And if you are a chronic pain patient who is prescribed this ridiculous amount of oxy per day (which I find unlikely), then, well.. I guess you could try and get prescribed a large amount of Opana (oxymorphone). May be all that would remotely touch your tolerance.

 

[lowrider6967]

i am chronic pain patent,just looking for comfort now,the good times were over long ago,never thought id live to see this age and at the time was ok with it.then it was just me ,no other responsibilities ,alot of abuse to the body over the years alot of fun at the time and many good memories but paying the ultimate price now.life's short!don't realise it till you have kids and you start thinking of someone other than yourself.yea unfortunately in this stage of the game the meds were not for pleasure, but a necessity to get through a day without crippling pain!THANKS for your comments all. keep on keeping on!

 

[Ripamaru]

i am chronic pain patent,just looking for comfort now,the good times were over long ago,never thought id live to see this age and at the time was ok with it.then it was just me ,no other responsibilities ,alot of abuse to the body over the years alot of fun at the time and many good memories but paying the ultimate price now.life's short!don't realise it till you have kids and you start thinking of someone other than yourself.yea unfortunately in this stage of the game the meds were not for pleasure, but a necessity to get through a day without crippling pain!THANKS for your comments all. keep on keeping on!

Ouch. In that case I am very concerned about you. There just isn't a lot that can be done if you need this kind of medication for the rest of your life.

If you have a high oxy tolerance then you will just have to be moved to a stronger drug or a higher dose.....assuming that any doctor would do that.

I have heard of methadone being used in pain patients but I am not really an authority on that part of it's use.

 

[Alex000]

You could switch to another opiate such as morphine, but if you were taking it orally, you'd need quite a bit to get to where you want to be. There is some cross-tolerance, but it isn't complete, so you would not need exactly how ever many mg of morphine is equal to your current 480 mg of oxycodone. You would be okay with less than what is actually equivalent to the oxycodone, because you haven't built tolerance for specifically morphine. But, you'd likely still need a lot. Oxycodone seems to have lost the magic for you, so switching to morphine might be pleasant for you if the dosage is right. Morphine is a very good analgesic, and is more sedating than oxycodone. It is the golden standard really, and is the "original" opiate. This is why I recommend it if you can find enough. Oral morphine is often considered a waste, because the bioavailability is much lower than that of other methods of administration, but like I have been saying if you get the dose right, it is an option. To get the most of out, you might consider plugging as morphine does have a higher rectal bioavailability than oral, which means more of the morphine that you take is put to use. After switching to another opiate, your oxycodone tolerance probably would go down some if you aren't jacking your opiate tolerance up too much with the new opiate, so you could end up alternating in theory. Just a few thoughts.

 

[BrokedownPalace]

I have heard of methadone being used in pain patients but I am not really an authority on that part of it's use.

I had gone through cancer treatment most of last year, and have pretty serious back pain due to a small tumor on my spine. I am on MMT and Let me just say that Methadone is crap for pain relief. I know it is occasionally prescribed for pain management, but for people with much smaller tolerances than you and I. My methadone doctor even told me methadone wouldn't help me much with my pain, and to go to pain management to get breakthrough meds. I wouldn't go on methadone, unless you wanted to use that as maintenance and have another stronger opiate on hand for b/t pain, such as dilaudid. I was prescribed 8mg dilaudid 4 times a day on top of my MMT for the while, and that just barely helped the pain. Not to mention ruined my tolerance even more, but that's a different story.