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Snorting Oxy vs Ingestion, for pain

Did you try crushing them up before eating the powder? (instead of swallowing the pill) Some people just break down pills differently so this might give you the boost you need.

Props for following advice and trying to cut back/cut out snorting them.
 
To IL2N....when I was snorting, I had to stop for a few days before seeing my PM doc. I didn't want to screw up the levels of Oxy in a drug test. But I think I'm just gonna snort one a day. Tomorrow I'm gonna start doing that around noon time. Just one pill at noon, once a day. I don't think that will hurt me. Being, like most say here, that they are water soluble, it shouldn't hurt me. Kinda makes sense....I think. I'll see how that works on my pain.

To F. Monk, I never tried crushing and eating them. I'll also give that a try. Remember, I'm not looking to get high. I'm just so sick and tiered of living with pain. My PM doc did bring my pain level down, and I do appreciate that. But still, living in even a low 3 - 4 level pain really sucks! People who don't live in pain have no idea what people like me go through. They think it's as simple as a headache....but it's not! Some friends of mine tell me to just take Tylenol. If it were that easy, I would have done that. Only Oxy works. Not even Vicodin works. I have some very serious issues from that fall I took while roofing. If those people could just feel what I feel for only a minute, I bet they'd be screaming like hell! PAIN SUCKS!
 
Trust me, I get it. I was on pain management for several years for stomach pain. I recommend that because I always had to break my pills down before swallowing, otherwise I felt they weren't fully absorbed. I didn't usually chew them because it would get stuck in my teeth, but either crushing them before or just breaking into smaller pieces definitely helped me. I took a quite small dose as well so it was noticeable.
 
Trust me, I get it. I was on pain management for several years for stomach pain. I recommend that because I always had to break my pills down before swallowing, otherwise I felt they weren't fully absorbed. I didn't usually chew them because it would get stuck in my teeth, but either crushing them before or just breaking into smaller pieces definitely helped me. I took a quite small dose as well so it was noticeable.
Ya know what.....I'll try that before going back to snorting them tomorrow. I'll let you know how it works. Pain is just so exhausting. I'm so tiered of it.
 
I think this is ultimately going to be a matter of personal preference, but if it were me and I weren't looking for a purely recreational experience, I would go with the oral route of administration for Oxycodone, hands down, every time. There are several benefits to the route, but honestly, I just enjoy it better orally than I do nasally, although rectal would be my first choice. I think you should give that a try as a matter of fact.

You get a decent boost in bioavailability by going the oral route, also in the duration of action.
This. Oxy has such a high oral BA that going to all that trouble of snorting it, plus the damage it can do, makes little sense. I'm prescribed Oxy 20mg IR, and I always swallow them. They hit quick enough to make any other ROA pointless, IMO. Just my $.02.
 
I guess, OP: It would be good idea to try the parachuting method of crushing the pill, then swallowing it... it really is like a feeling of oral swallowing whole/snorting it mixed together, so it may provide just enough relief to get through to your pain, if just taking them oral in the whole pill, isn't cutting it.. Really from what I have seen, sniffing crushed up pills is really more of something that can cause problems, to people who do it a lot, like numerous times everyday, so as long as you are just doing that one pill, its not THAT bad! not just one pill a day, I mean anything is possible, and it isn't quite as safe as say just taking it orally or plugging it... which seriously is worth the awkward, sticking a small syringe up the booty weird feeling! I don't like to put things up my butt at all, I am a straight male and it feels funky, but for the feeling it gives.. it can definitely be rewarding, even if you aren't trying to get high and just need pain relief!!

I am actually in pain myself right now, after a little accident I just had the other day! I mean its like, my upper back, and lower too when I sit or turn my body any way it doesn't like... IT feels like someone is stabbing me, and unfortunately I don't have any idea what I could do to REALLY stop my pain... another reason I wish I never became an opioid addict, for the high! Now I am, and have been on subutex for years, which does next to nothing for pain, and I have tried taking OTC pain meds, since this accident, but nothing happens, and the bupe does absolutely nothing, except for the initial onset when it hits me after I take it, for only maybe the first 20 mins, then no relief at all.. I think I am screwed if I have to resort to seeing a doctor about this, which I will if it doesn't feel better by next week... but right now, I am a but worried, as I am hurting! and I don't think any PM doctor is going to help me if it does end up being something serious, after seeing I have been on bupe, especially for as long as I have.. What happens in my case, if this pain doesn't go away? would they even give me something like methadone? which can serve as both a pain killer/maintenance drug? or would I have to resort to a 'done clinic? Sorry if I am out of line as I kind of went off topic, just curious, as I am in bad pain every time I sit down, or get up, and move in any certain direction while walking, it feels literally like someone is stabbing me, and well this thread does involve pain management..
 
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This. Oxy has such a high oral BA that going to all that trouble of snorting it, plus the damage it can do, makes little sense. I'm prescribed Oxy 20mg IR, and I always swallow them. They hit quick enough to make any other ROA pointless, IMO. Just my $.02.

Hi Amaraline,

I do appreciate your input. I am back to taking it orally. Sure it works, but not as well as snorting it, (for me). I guess it works different on each person. When I swallow my 10mg Oxy, it takes about 20 minutes before I start to feel relief, and lasts for about 3 to 4 hours. When I snort it, it starts to work within minutes and lasts at least 4 to 5 hours, (on me). It also takes away more of my pain then swallowing them. But this issue is closed to me now. I'm going to take three a day orally, and snort one in the afternoon. I don't think that one snort a day is gonna hurt me. I just want to get the most pain relief I can. And this seems to work for me.

Thanks to everyone for your help,
JJR
 
I already posted earlier in this thread, but there's something I want to reiterate. I say this all the time, but the rectal route of administration trumps all other routes in my opinion to a significant degree. I'm an injection drug user, but I've always found that Oxycodone by injection is an underwhelming and short experience, hence, I have always either consumed Oxycodone orally (when rectal wasn't possible) or rectally.

The onset is faster and - in my experience - the effects last just as long or longer than with oral consumption. It sounds weird if you've never done it before, but if you try it, you won't be disappointed. There are plenty of threads and guides floating around the forums and the internet at-large at places like Reddit. It's easy to do, hard to fuck up.
 
Seriously OP give ^ that some consideration.. that is good advice, what Keif' Richards posted.. Plugging is the best, safest(besides oral, they are both safe, if anything plugging might actually be even safer to do!)and overall most efficient ROA with oxycodone! Works BETTER than IV IME, not sure exactly how that is possible, but it does.. and that is saying something! Oxy is odd, in the sense that IV has a ~100% BA, but it surely doesn't feel as if it does when compared to other ROAs like oral, insufflation(sniffing), plugging, etc... When I became an IVDU, I realized that oxy was better off being taken orally, sniffed, plugged, etc. unless mixed with another opioid such as morphine, dilaudid, or opana in one shot, which to most regular people, would be dangerous to do, I mean IVing pills is bad enough, but mixing different powerful opioids together is risky if you had a low tolerance for opioids, I however did not.. so I did this a lot, when oxy and other pharms were the only thing available, rather than Heroin.. as a die-hard IV opioid/coke addict at that time. If I just had oxy, even being an IVDU, I would usually sniff it(most of the time) or plug it (if possible, it is kind of time consuming, and dependent on where you are when you need to dose with these pill, inconvenient if not somewhere private, like home.), oral worked, but I just never felt totally satisfied taking it orally, even though whenever I did, it worked pretty damn good! It was all an addiction thing... and how I just felt rather "bored" just swallowing the pill, wanting to prep it up some way and then do it, because of the whole damn ritualistic addiction I had with oxy.. I even enjoyed chasing them on foil too, after sniffing one.. but don't recommend this. its about as addicting as IV.. and has a poor BA too, and no one even knows the dangers of doing that yet as far as I know.. but I cant imagine smoking a pill on foil, is any good for you at all! I probably would have never even done it, had not everyone of my friends started doing this around me, and I got curious about it and saw how good they would feel... very popular ROA actually, where I am from... very short acting, crack like, but with a nice rush to it every hit you take, and powerful short high, much like crack does, just doesn't last long enough when only smoked, without also taking one oral, sniffing, or plugging one along with smoking/vaporizing.. oxy is so much different than the majority of opioids if you really think about it, and how most of them have poor oral BAs, but have great insufflation, plugging, and IV ROAs.. and oxy is the only one that actually works when smoked, besides fentanyl(never done it) or heroin, and works a lot better when NOT done IV... and taken oral..
 
^Totally in agreement. Oxycodone is weird. Any other Opioid I would inject, hands down. Heroin, Hydromorphone, Morphine all are "wasted" if they are not taken by injection, in my sick junkie opinion. Insufflation has a faster onset but in turn a shorter duration of effect and also a potential 20% loss of bioavailability. If you're educated, I don't see how you could take Oxycodone by this route, but people do.

The thing is, rectal administration comes on just as fast as insufflation in my experience. Also, you get pretty much the same duration of effect as if you'd taken it orally. The first time I used Oxycodone rectally, I thought it was kind of a crazy idea. I'd read a lot about it on the forums and the net, but I'd never tried it. I was generally insufflating at that point, as that's what my friends did and had instructed me to do. I had become slightly tolerant to the effects and was no longer catching a nod, which I had initially if I smoked a joint after I took the Oxycodone.

Well, I woke up one morning and decided I was going to try it. The dose I had available was 75% of my normal recreational dose. I took it rectally and I ended up nodding out pretty hard.
 
I'm satisfied with eating 3 pills and snorting one pill a day. I just snorted the one I'm going to take per day about an hour ago. I still have zero pain, which I never get from eating them. This is what I'm looking for...zero pain at least a few hours a day. I'm too old and tiered of living with pain...I really am. But getting high IS NOT what I want! I noticed most here, (and I'm not judging anyone), are into getting high on Oxy or any other opiate...I'm not. When I see my PM doctor, I'll ask to be upped to 5 pills per day. I'm sure that will eliminate the snorting. If I don't get the 5, well I guess I'll just continue to do what I'm doing, (eat 3, snort 1). And I really don't feel like going through sticking it up my butt or filtering and all the other stuff mentioned.

There's a lot of abbreviations, and words that I don't understand, like:
ROA, BA, IR, IME, Plugging, Parachuting and a few more.

I really want to thank all of you. And remember...I'm not judging anyone. I was into drugs big time in the 70's, but not anymore.

Thank you all!
JJR
 
I'm satisfied with eating 3 pills and snorting one pill a day. I just snorted the one I'm going to take per day about an hour ago. I still have zero pain, which I never get from eating them. This is what I'm looking for...zero pain at least a few hours a day. I'm too old and tiered of living with pain...I really am. But getting high IS NOT what I want! I noticed most here, (and I'm not judging anyone), are into getting high on Oxy or any other opiate...I'm not. When I see my PM doctor, I'll ask to be upped to 5 pills per day. I'm sure that will eliminate the snorting. If I don't get the 5, well I guess I'll just continue to do what I'm doing, (eat 3, snort 1). And I really don't feel like going through sticking it up my butt or filtering and all the other stuff mentioned.

There's a lot of abbreviations, and words that I don't understand, like:
ROA, BA, IR, IME, Plugging, Parachuting and a few more.

I really want to thank all of you. And remember...I'm not judging anyone. I was into drugs big time in the 70's, but not anymore.

Thank you all!
JJR
ROA: Route of Administration. IE how you ingest it.
BA: Bioavailability.. IE.. how much of the pill is actually absorbed by whatever way you take it, for example.. IV has a 100% BA therefore you are getting 100% of the pill..
IR: Instant Release.. like OxyContin would be ER, or extended release and then Oxycodone HCL(hydrochloride)IR would be instant release oxycodone, which apparently is what you have.. judging by how you can crush, and snort them, as the new OP OxyContin are ER and crush resistant and basically abuse proof.
IME: In my experience.
Plugging: administering a drug, rectally, or up the butt, with a needle-less syringe.
Parachuting: Crushing the pill, wrapping up in a small piece of light paper like toilet paper, and then swallowing it.. You can also use rolling papers, tissues, napkins, any type of light paper.

There ya go! that's all of the info you wanted.. you also said and a few more, so any thing you are stuck on we can help! I will at least! haha..

And, yes Keif' Richards, I too looked at plugging oxy very weird at first, plugging anything for that matter, when you don't normally stick anything up your butt, is kind of weird to do, and to say you do to friends, although its like so good, you don't want to hide it from them lol, but I never told anyone I did this, except for when my parents found out! now that was embarrassing! They started thinking I was gay or something as naïve as they are about drugs, lol, but after some explaining I got through to them.. I kept in a secret, for obvious reasons.. But oxy was the first opioid I had ever tried this with, after reading so many great things about it, and was just absolutely amazed on how well it actually worked! I have had success doing this with buprenorphine(subutex) as well! worked very nicely, and felt nearly identical to IV, without all of the danger involved.. still, being an IVDU, I am stuck.. cant make myself go back to taking my sub, any other way.. its a terrible addiction, just the ROA on its own, despite the drug you are using, some are worse than others..
 
Just gotta say I totally agree with Keif and Ilove2nod; plugging oxy really gives me the best high ... as well as the best pain relief - im a chronic migraine sufferer who medically can't take many of the more common migraine meds.

Sometimes I like to snort it... I like the fast high-- but it doesn't last long enough. And even though the high comes on fast, as far as pain relief goes, I don't think it takes away any physical pain any faster than another ROA. In fact, I sometimes think it's less effective for me to snort it when I'm in pain.

When I eat it, I just don't feel like I'm getting as intense of a high as I do when plugging. But for pain relief, eating it works... but again plugging works best for it all.
 
Haha, "my parents caught me plugging Oxycodone and now they think I'm gay". I found that really funny. A good way to start my morning ;).

JJR56: I think you're right that the majority of us on Bluelight are "recreational" users, we definitely have some members who aren't addicts/heavy recreational users. We also have some members who are a mix of the two, like myself, using Opioids both recreationally and to medicate pain. I just don't want you to think you won't be able to find the information you need here. I've used Oxycodone for pain in the past and definitely found the rectal route to be more powerful, longer lasting and really just superior in most ways.
 
^LOL.. yeah it was very awkward, having to explain plugging to my parents! and more so having them actually walk into my room, because at the time, I didn't have a lock on my door and it was a total accident.. I remember they had just got home from dinner or something, and I thought they were still gone, then they came back, I had some music playing and didn't hear them, and my mother just walked in my room, didn't even knock... right in the middle of the process.. she knows now, as I thoroughly explained to her what I was doing.. at first though.. it sucked! hahaha
 
Hey Guys,

I truly appreciate all the advice, and like I said...I'm not here to judge anyone. Dam, I miss the 70's! Oh man...we had the best variety of drugs. My favorite I think were 714's. We used to call them biscuits because of their size, LOL. Do they still make those, and what the heck were they used for anyway?

The issue with my pain seems to be OK. I take 3 orally, and 1 I snort. Seems to work for me.
 
I think you will be okay JJR56, I have done WAY worse with oxys.. like sniff over 10 30mg oxycodone a day, and on top smoke some more, probably like a total of 12-25 30s a day, or we would do OC 80s a lot too, when they were still around here in the US, before turning them into OPs, plastic horse shit pills, that can really only be swallowed for half of the effect they used to give when swallowed with the old abuseable form, OCs, aka OxyContin.. I used to get them for dirt cheap here in FL, and took advantage of that while it lasted! Everyday after work, I had this one connection I would go to for their super cheap prices on all kinds of pharms, not just oxy, mainly oxy, but also opana ERs and IRs also dirt cheap, and tons of other pharms besides opioids, like Adderall, benzos of all sorts, valium and klonopin and Xanax, for less than a buck a piece, sometimes like 25 cents if they were less than 2mg of kpin or Xanax, and less than 10mg of valium.. But that led to me going off the rails with oxy and other opiates/benzos... not to mention good coke too.. this was not the run of the mill, shady hood connect on the corner, they were legit, and ran that shit like a real business.. but of course shit had to come to an end at some point and it did, when the DEA shut down all of the pill mills, where a 10 year old kid could walk in, say he had a headache, and get a bottle of oxy 30s.. lol... ok maybe not that bad, but you get the point, they were shady, legal drug dealing doctors basically... but now its all heroin here, and pills go for nearly 5 times the price they once were.. so every opioid addict, like myself switched to heroin, and/or got on suboxone/subutex or methadone.. after a long bout with heroin, then heroin/coke shots IV(speedballs) every day, I chose to get off that.. moved on to subutex, and have been off and on with my subs, but the past year haven't fucked up at all.. just subs, no other full-agonist opioids for me.. still mess with coke here and there, and take my other 2 meds I am scripted.. but what I am trying to say is.. That, what your doing, sniffing, one oxy a day and orally taking the rest.. probably wont ruin your life(very slim chance any health issues will arise, like I said I have, and still do much worse shit, like sniff my Adderall and IV my subutex, after abusing every drug I could possibly get for years DAILY, I was a bad drug addict, and have never truly recovered, but you wouldn't know it by looking at me, I just look like a regular person and I feel fine!), as long as you stay that way, and don't go off the rails.. the difference between us, is you take them for pain strictly, not the high.. I didn't have any pain, when I took them, and just loved the euphoria of all opioids, which was the recipe for disaster... Don't worry.. still if you ever have any spare time, again, I would say try taking it rectally, its not AS bad as it seems, to stick a tiny little oral(needle-less) syringe, like an inch or 2 into your butt for less than 10 secs and push the plunger.. and you don't have to filter them when rectally plugging oxy, just add a bit of water, stir, draw up, and put it up your butt lol.. just try not to let any one walk in on you doing this, as I did! LOL
 
Hey There IL2N!

Yeah....I was no angel in my days. I guess I would say I cleaned up after my 3 year bender on crack back in the 90's. Shit....I sold everything for a friggin hit! That had to be the worst crap I ever got hooked on. I stopped after I cooked up an 8 ball and smoked it for 3 days straight. Of course I drank about a half gallon of Vodka and dropped a lot of Xanax on top of all of that. What the fuck was I thinking man?! But that was the weekend I looked at myself in the mirror and saw how fucked up I looked and smelled. I just stopped! Just like that! I knew I was gonna give myself a dam heart attack if I didn't. I even stopped drinking, but I kept doing the Xanax. That came to an end when I couldn't get them anymore after doing them for a really long time. After a few days without them, I had a grand mal seizure and spent a week in the hospital. They knew that there was Xanax in me and asked how many I took. Of course I lied...so I wasn't asked again. Crazy man!

Now....the good ol' daze were the 70's. I LOVED my drugs! There were so many varieties of them. Quaaludes, Valium, Nebutal, Seconals, Tuanols, (spelling???), all kinds of Acid...(blotter, paper, shrooms, tabs), Whacky Weed, THC Tabs, Mescaline, Hash, Uppers, Coke, Speed, and so on, and so on....Shit did I love all of those. Never did Heroin though. Good thing, because all of my friends back then died of this new illness called AIDS. They all shared the same needle. The only reason I didn't try it was because I friggin hated needles. Dam, did that work out in my favor!
So ya see, I was no angel. EVERYTHING stopped in the 90's. I don't smoke pot, cigarettes, drink alcohol....nothing, except the Oxy, which I see a pain management doctor for. In the 90's, I guess all drugs just turned me off. I still feel no urge to use any drugs. The Oxy I need for pain, but my PM doc keeps me on the edge with my pain. Just enough so I can function, but still in a low level of pain, (which I would love to not even have!). So this mix of snorting and eating them seems to work better. I had to find a way for them to work better. I know I will try plugging eventually. I'll probably start with just half a pill to see what it feels like. I don't want to get stoned...I really don't. I'm just not into it anymore.
 
^Damn, some of those drugs you mentioned, like Quaaludes for instance I would have loved to try.. don't even know half of the ones you posted, as I am from the 90s/2000s generation, I am a 90s baby lol.. almost 27 now, so I missed out on the 70s, but wish I could have been around to see what it was like.. My older sister was into shit like that she was born in the 70s, mainly psychedelics like shrooms, acid, mescaline, Quaaludes and then she liked weed, and alcohol too,(and have a suspicion she liked crack/coke as well but she wouldn't admit it) but she just did it recreational.. I do know she had a bad thing happen from doing too much LSD, and it fucked with her head, and made her have tons of flashbacks for years and years after.. she had one with me, and her son(my nephew) who was only like 3 at the time, I was 15 and just got my learners permit, so I had to drive down the interstate because she had such a bad flashback she couldn't drive, or just didn't want to risk us getting hurt, and it was literally like my 2nd time ever driving, and never had I been on the interstate before.. with 5 lanes of crazy traffic, and limited experience, while having to worry about my sister, I was a bit nervous but it all worked out.. and she hasn't had one in years now luckily.

I had a terrible addiction to crack myself, a couple years back.. it was awful.. fun when I began doing it with my suboxone and klonipins at the time, but once I was pawning all of my nice shit, just to get 2 hits of crack.. I knew shit wasn't "fun" anymore.. it is one of the most fiendish drugs there is, maybe even THE most... especially if you are running low on downers for the comedown! worst feeling ever!!! Iv coke is the same way, but just a tad more addicting.. like with crack, but you want to shoot more every 3 minutes and just keep doing shot after shot... its horrible, but so damn euphoric.... really just that first hit with crack, which I make sure is always huge, or its a tease, is the ONLY real fun with crack! when your face goes numb, and the bells start ringing.. IV coke, the first shot, is the same thing, I always do a nice one, that first shot.. after the first hit with either of those, its all chasing a high that wont happen... total money pit and I still cant totally stop it, if I have money, and that shit is around, I am going to get it, whether its crack or powder! but, I usually just take my meds nowadays, granted I abuse them, sniffing my amphetamine salts, and shooting my buprenorphine.. the only one I don't is klonopin, I always just chew it, or parachute it taking it oral.. no use sniffing, or attempting to do it any other way as its not water soluble.. so I am not out of the wood just yet, but am not AS bad as I was..
 
Yeah, crack was a bitch! I only liked the first hit, and didn't care for the ones after....but just couldn't put that dam pipe down. And when it ran out...holy shit! I was smoking things from the rug, LOL. Oh man....just bad times.

But the 70's....the best music, drugs and sex.
 
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