i've been taking percocet for the last 7-9 yrs...started out with a legit scrip for a minor mva i was in, and really i was advised by socalled friends to elevate my pain, and got prescriptions for a few months and eventually was cut off...even tho i wasn't taking the whole scrip....i was sharing while going out to bars and such....which during this time i had a drunken fall that severly injured my tailbone area and i suffered for over 6 months....so i just suffered thru and took percs whenever i had them or socalled friends had them.....then my husband any I got together and he had a big accident and he was started on the script of percocet and eventually percocet along with oxy's.....so now i had this drug available all the time.....he was given 3, then 4 a day of the percs.......i have NEVER in my life taking an oxy, even tho it is in my home, and i should mention that he only took the odd perc in the beginnning after the accident and then stopped.....so he is still getting the scrips to this day.....he knows i take the percs and he feels i have major emotional outbursts on them, and i do feel hot tempered sometimes.....i was up to 4 a day in the summer of 2008, when i got pregnant....i quit smoking cold turkey and weaned myself down to 1-2 a day, i always had to have one in the morning as soon as i open my eyes., and still the same today....i take my second befor lunch and sometimes a 3rd mid afternoon....and not again til morning usually.....now a little background to add.....when i started this meds yrs ago.....i was fairly thin and fit....over the last 8 yrs, have steadily gained 10pds a yr and now am about 100 pds heavier than i was than....i have been diagnosed with arthritis in my tailbone by MRI and a little bulged disc....which i can assume is from my fall......so the pills gave me energy, and sometimes, or most times, i always felt i had to eat after taking a pill, so i don't feel too much of the jittery feeling and to lessen the high i guess....as i gained weight, my back got worse, the perc does seem to help temporarily, really briefly, but while gaining weight, i became less active and the weight is now killing my back more.....and when i have tried to work out or even walk or even vaccumm for 20 mins, i suffer big time....feel like a concrete block on my lower back.....and all i can do is lay on the couch the rest of the day....i will admit that i prob take the pills a lot as well when i'm stressed....def a trigger for me....and the fact that they are in my house available all the time, its so easy to reach for another......u may wonder why my hubby doesn't just get rid of them, or stop getting the scrip, well he knows deep down i am physically dependent and thats only the little thing i need to get thru my day to do what needs to be done....taking care of 2 kids and him and home.....so while i was pregnant, i didn't have my family MD, the same as hubby, because i wanted a midwife....so i admitted to the midwife about my addiction and she referred me to the high risk clinic at the univ hosp....so they also knew about the pills as well....all the while i'm hoping and praying that correspondence with that info doesn't get back to our fam MD and he figures things out and cuts my husband off......which didn't happen.....so by the time i was 9 months preg, i was back to about 2-3 a day and my daughter after being born had to be put in the nicu for observation with a breathing tube in her nose into her throat to be monitored for withdrawl symptoms....all because of my sick need to be high thru out the day and thinking this is helping my pain.....in the end, she did not need anything to counteract the withdrawl and she was realeased after 5 days.....and no one offered me any help on how to get off these damn pills.....breast feeding for 3 months also helped her get weaned off as well they told me.....so after 3 months she was born, i started feeling really nasally, sinusy, sneezing, and getting progressively worse over the next couple months....had a sunus xray, NOTHING, antibiotics, NOTHING.....finally 3 months later again, i was sent to a allergy doc...low and behold...the pregnancy screwed my immune systom and now am allergic to my pets.....i have 2 cats and a small pomeranian....no way i was getting rid of either......had no benefit plan so had to just stick with over the counter allergy meds....DAILY......so when i have tried to wean myself off, i feel these symptoms 100 xs worsel....and the nurse at the meth clinic told me, withdrawls can mimic allergies too....so double whammy.....i can only take so much antihistamine.....so my husband just got in a union, and we are waiting for benefits to kick in...as soon as that does...there is some kind of med i can take daily for a couple of months,costs 20.00 a day , but is not addicting in itself like methodone, and will get rid of the symptoms...so i pray this is covered and will be my miracle.....i need to lose the weight, trying to save 6000.00 to go to mexico for the weight loss surgery, and hopefully that will help my back as well.....and of course i'd love to have my next child....but feel guilty making it go thru what my daughter went thru.....i just don't have family to take the kids for 3 or 4 days, so i can detox myself and just stay in bed dealing with it, and if i was to tell my husband to take the pills out of the home, he would....he would love to see me off them as well......and the other funny thing is, whenever i have a cold or flu, just viral or whatever, i hardly take the percs.....because i am soo scared of mixing them with too many other meds, whether over the counter or scrip.....sorry for this being so long, but i had to set the picture up so if there is anyone who can relate to all or some of this story, and dealt with getting off them, please talk to me.....i think i need to start getting the shots for my pet allergies as well once we have beniefits....but i don't know what to deal with first and i sure know i don't want to be FAT anymore!! so plz send me your comments if u manged to take your 5 mins or so to read my whole life story.....lol......oh and my sleeping has been horrible since i was pregnant, maybe even before that....but i rarely sleep 3 hours straight of good quality, always 10 hrs or whatever of broken sleep...and my best description for how i feel when i wake up, is i feel like tin man from wizard of oz....lol
danielle
oh and i just started smoking again 2 months ago after 3 days.....because of my job......which i take an extra perc or two while working.....i drive a taxi for 11 hrs starting at 4 pm til 3 am , and i get up the first day at 7am , so its like a 20 hr day for me and the sitting kills my body.......so the answer is more pills :(