LostCheshireCat
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- Apr 7, 2012
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Hey all!
As a chronic pain patient, I was wondering--to those of you whose drugs of choice are opiates, do you remember when your usage started & compare it to where it is now? I was thinking about it the other day, and about 4 5/500 percocets (or 6-7 lortab/vics) would keep me smiling through the worst of days. That was almost 4 years ago. When I knew my treatment would be long term, I wanted the acetomenophin cut out to prolong my liver. So 30mg oxycontin would get me through the day after about 1.5 years. Then, about 9 months ago, I found a doctor that would give me what I wanted: 6 10mg Opana/Oxymorphone per day (insufflated for bioavailability increase, but he didn't know.) That worked for a few months till I found myself running out early. Then we added another 60mg Opana ER/day. Those were still snort-able, but still ran out early.
Recently, I've changed it to 40mg Opana IR, and 190mg Oxycodone/day. It seems that the WD's aren't as horrid with Oxy as with Opana, but I still run out early because my pain is still highly, physically active, so I run out.. Of everything! Is it just me, or is this approaching levels of ridiculousness since I'm not even 30? I hate to think of my doses in 10 years. Any ideas to lower tolerance or anything like that? Also, anyone else's tolerance seem to rocket out of control all of a sudden, without warning like that?
Thanks!
As a chronic pain patient, I was wondering--to those of you whose drugs of choice are opiates, do you remember when your usage started & compare it to where it is now? I was thinking about it the other day, and about 4 5/500 percocets (or 6-7 lortab/vics) would keep me smiling through the worst of days. That was almost 4 years ago. When I knew my treatment would be long term, I wanted the acetomenophin cut out to prolong my liver. So 30mg oxycontin would get me through the day after about 1.5 years. Then, about 9 months ago, I found a doctor that would give me what I wanted: 6 10mg Opana/Oxymorphone per day (insufflated for bioavailability increase, but he didn't know.) That worked for a few months till I found myself running out early. Then we added another 60mg Opana ER/day. Those were still snort-able, but still ran out early.
Recently, I've changed it to 40mg Opana IR, and 190mg Oxycodone/day. It seems that the WD's aren't as horrid with Oxy as with Opana, but I still run out early because my pain is still highly, physically active, so I run out.. Of everything! Is it just me, or is this approaching levels of ridiculousness since I'm not even 30? I hate to think of my doses in 10 years. Any ideas to lower tolerance or anything like that? Also, anyone else's tolerance seem to rocket out of control all of a sudden, without warning like that?
Thanks!