Question to anyone...

[liscamdave]

Does anyone remember how long it took before they became addicted to their drug of choice. I am pretty sure it took about a month or two of taking the oxy's everyday. My friend got a script for oxys, and has been taking them for over two week. SHe is scared she will become addicted but needs them for pain and has stopped taking them. She thinks she is in w/d, but is up and about, I know what w/d is and what it does, she doesn't look that way. Could she be addicted already? She was taking about 2-3 20mg pills a day? Any advice, i can't remember. And everyone is different. I was taking 1000mgs a day, so i know what w/d I went through....

Thanks, Lisa

[grievingwidow]

I can see how addict13 might think you were trying to get info on how to obtain scripts, etc.  Especially as you made it a point to make sure that your original post was not missed.  So you can see how anyone might have thought the same thing.

[beachtowel]

That question is very difficult to answer and there are different stages of W/Ds
Also it depends on the type of opiate used in the addiction.......

If Heroin, Morphine, or Dilaudid addiction W/Ds are very nasty....

Narcotic pain pills can be also but it takes a lot longer before really bad W/Ds start taking place......

In the peak of my addiction I was doing 6 oxys and 30 percs a day for over a year and sometimes even more.........

I was doing this from 2000 through 2005...............

I started doing pain pills and many other things in 1967-68

The first stages of W/Ds for a light user like you describe are very mild .......

A lot of tiredness.....a lot of sleep....things like that......

[megan123]

What the hell are you talking about? I was asking legitimate questions to RSCLady because I was genuinally curious. That's IT. I have ONE doctor, and she is all I need. I am sorry you think otherwise. I'm not 'facscinated' as you put it. I was curious and asked her why she was in trouble with the Health Dept.
Don't start some BS with me, I have seen your other posts to people here and I think you are rude and just plain mean. Don't put me on your attack list because I will not respond to you again. Jerk.

[addict13]

Are you just trying to pump us for information on how to doctor shop? It seems like it to me. You seem pretty fascinated by 'fake scripts' and ask alot of questions on how they are obtained.........hmmmmmmm..........

[liscamdave]

Yeah, I told her that if she couldn't function without the pills, then she was addicted to them. That is how I knew..but I am sure if I had stopped sooner, I would have felt something too. I jsut didn;t think that was enough time to be really addicted to them. but maybe she can be. Either way, if she can stop taking them and get through the pain without them, then more power to her. I know I couldn't do it, if I had the chance, I would take them. but then again, I am an addict talking here....

Thanks Guys...

Lisa

[megan123]

Hey I posted to you a few threads below. I want you to read it before it gets lost cuz this board is getting kinda whacky--lol---there are posts on this page from over 5 years ago! Go read it before it gets removed or something! lol

Meg

[liscamdave]

Thank you for the response. I am going to show this to her. Yes, she used to be able to take percocets like candy a year ago, but that was recreationally. She quit cold turkey and stopped for almost a year. She started to take them again for pain in her knee about 4months ago, she took them every day and stopped again, c/t. She hasn't had opiates in her system for almost two months until she tore her ACL two weeks ago, she had knee surgery and the dr gave her 20mg oxy's. She knows what the percocets did to her and is afraid if the Oxy's. She is smart cause I know what they will do in the long run, ecpecially with her. She will certainly abuse them. She i not taking them now, after two weeks, and thinks she is feeling w/d. I think it is in her head, but who am I to say. She may be feeling something. I dont know. What do u think..

xoxo, Lisa

[RCSLADY]

When I had my surgery in 2005 it only took me two weeks to get right back into my addiction.  I figured i COULD handle Vicodin since I was off methadone and all pills since September 2003.  How foolish to think an addict can ever go back and take pills like a "normal" person would.

Like you said, everyone is differant.  When I have my next shoulder surgery I will make sure they give me something non-narcotic.  

[megan123]

Well, I have been on the norcos now for a couple months. My script is for 8 a day. (2 every 6 hrs.....6am, 12pm, 6pm, and then I take my last dose at 11:30pm so its a half hour early)
Since I have been on this site, and I have read the 'horror stories' I have recently cut my script down to 4 a day. I have had some mild symptoms of withdrawals....at least I think that's what they are. Some chills, some anxiety....you know. So in my case, I guess my body got used to the 8 a day and is normally reacting to being cut down to 4 a day. I'm not anywhere near the misery that I know alot of you are in. But I really do need to take the pills for the pain that I am in, so I can't just stop them. What really boggles my mind is why do the doctors give us these pills if there is such a high rate of dependency? At the same time, I need them for pain----yet it kinda irritates me that I am probably going to be in misery like the rest of you when I stop them altogether. Its really a double edged sword, isn't it?

Meg

[Yoda99]

Everyone is different, but I think it takes longer than a few weeks  to become addicted.  Even with my addictive personality, I could get by on less than prescribed in the beginning.  I can't remember how long it took for me to become totally addicted.  But knowing what we (you and I and other oxycontin addicts) now know about this drug, she is right to worry about becoming addicted to it.  What was she put on the oxys for?  Is there another drug that could give her relief from her pain?  Has she abused other pain meds?  The more we know about her situation, the more we might be able to help.  (I remember those w/d's too.  I'll never, ever forget them.)
Yodes