Question about Oxycodone Dosage....

[wbracero1]

Hi all. I am a new-poster.....please be kind!

I am 40, male, weigh about 250lbs. I have chronic back pain and have been prescribed oxycodone 5mg pills, 90 at a time (script, not on-board!).

I work in a field where we get randoms.....so when I do the oxy, I do it with care and not around the times when I work the following day.

I had been introduced to oxy in the form of percocet 10/325 a few years ago after a gall bladder surgery and they were great. Then I had back issues and was prescribed more by another dr. What I would do is, on my day off, I would take two 10/325mg percocets in the AM, empty stomach, and riiide the waaave, man. It was glooooorious. Then I would watch tv in bed and have the most wonderful nap for a few hours.

Fast forward to now, I go to a pain mgmt specialist who is really pretty awesome for my back pain. He used to give me percocets 10/325 or 500, and doing what I do (I'll let you guess), I would do some CWE and get out the APAP but that was a bitch.

Then after he and I got cool after me seeing him every month, I asked him for "no APAP" because, as I told him, I didn't want to mess up my liver. True, I didn't, but that wasn't my full motivation.

So he then prescribed me 5mg oxycodone, to be taken 3x a day. So I basically go to him every month and collect a script which i then fill for 90 pills a month, at 5mg each. It is safe to say that I have a LOT at any given time, especially since I don't take the prescribed dose like EVER bc of my job and my random pee tests at my job. I can't have it in me if I should get tested. I should also say that I go to a rheumatologist and am on Tramadol which I do take as prescribed but am on my way off of it, so I am currently on a wean and should be totally off in like two weeks or so. When I do take my oxy, I do NOT take the tramadol.

Regarding the oxy. I have, from time to time, popped one (5mg pill) when i go out with the fam, and I am a happy lovey camper. When I am home alone, I have found that I can no longer get tht mental high or buzz that I used to get a year ago. I have apparently hit the wall.

I have taken a max of 10mg -- I THINK I may have taken 15mg once but I don't remember.....I know, to many of you this is like "what 15mg??? Are you kidding???", but I don't want my pulse to slow to zero if you get my meaning.

I don't want to snort this stuff. Bioavailability wise it's better to eat it anyway. My question is what can I do, safely, to get the buzz on again??? I miss that a lot.

I have also, never found it to be horrific to get off of the stuff. I take it on a day off, like I said, when everything else is under control. I do it in the AM so that by the time school ends for my son, I am on task. I don't do it when I have to work the following day, so that limits me to like maybe 2-4 days per month.

I was on oxycontin, which didn't really do much for me since it was too much to deal with with that coating, and since I can get oxycodone so easily, why bother with the whole coating thing you know?

SO like I said, I look forward to your responses, and again, I am happy to be here!

 

[downerhead]

This is kinda confusing.If your prescription is legitimate then why does it matter if you show positive for them on a drug test at work?It would seem like all you would have to do is show your employer the prescription.Even jobs that drug test can't deny you legally prescribed medication.Also,if your drug tests are random it dosn't matter if you don't take them if you have to work the next day.In most people they will show up 3-5 days later,depending on a variety of factors.In answer to your question,it's odd that you would have built up a tolerance using them only 2-4 times a month.The only way I can think of to get the old effects back would be to take a little more when you do take them.Just be careful and try a small increase at first to see how that effects you.Like you said,you don't want to overdose,especially since you have a family to think of.If 10mg isn't doing it for you,see what 15 feels like.That's a small,safe increase but remember,after a while drugs just don't do for you what they used to.Abstinance makes your tolerance go back down to a degree but after continued use drugs just never feel like they did when you started.

 

[wbracero1]

This is kinda confusing.If your prescription is legitimate then why does it matter if you show positive for them on a drug test at work?It would seem like all you would have to do is show your employer the prescription.Even jobs that drug test can't deny you legally prescribed medication.Also,if your drug tests are random it dosn't matter if you don't take them if you have to work the next day.In most people they will show up 3-5 days later,depending on a variety of factors.In answer to your question,it's odd that you would have built up a tolerance using them only 2-4 times a month.The only way I can think of to get the old effects back would be to take a little more when you do take them.Just be careful and try a small increase at first to see how that effects you.Like you said,you don't want to overdose,especially since you have a family to think of.If 10mg isn't doing it for you,see what 15 feels like.That's a small,safe increase but remember,after a while drugs just don't do for you what they used to.Abstinance makes your tolerance go back down to a degree but after continued use drugs just never feel like they did when you started.

I get this alot. Our drug policy is that even with a script, it's not allowed.

I remember that buzz, and I just want that back. it was great. but yeah, it doesn't do that like it used to. I will try the 15mg....i do recall once that I took I think (4) 7.5/325's of perc's. So that'd be 30. I don't know. Maybe on my next day off I'll do like you suggest. 15 at first.

 

[Bliss26]

Is that even legal for your workplace to have an issue with prescribed drugs? Yikes...

 

[wbracero1]

Is that even legal for your workplace to have an issue with prescribed drugs? Yikes...

Yes. Doing what I do, it could be very dangerous for me to be compromised. Also, if i had an accident and they found opiates in my system, it would open us up to a lawsuit.

 

[crzydiamond]

I knew someone who had that issue--he worked as a steelworker I think--where you have to walk on beams 10 & 20 stories high. I can understand why they don't want someone who does that on anything

Is your situation something similar?

 

[wbracero1]

I knew someone who had that issue--he worked as a steelworker I think--where you have to walk on beams 10 & 20 stories high. I can understand why they don't want someone who does that on anything

Is your situation something similar?

No, I work in a laboratory..

 

[downerhead]

Cool.There are so many things I would like to pick your brain about.I would pm you if that's okay with you.