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bzirk -> Oxycontin (7/1/2008 2:24:10 AM)

We (my husband and I) have some good friends who are dealing with this addiciton. The husband went in for shoulder surgery, and he was put on this drug, and within a week of using it, he was addicted. His wife got scared and flushed the remaining medicine down the toilet, and that prompted the husband to have horrible withdrawals, and then get his dosage upped. He is now caught in this thing. I ask for prayer and also any words of wisdom from someone who has dealt with this in himself or with a loved one.

Thank you.



GrahamCracker -> RE: Oxycontin (7/1/2008 8:47:28 AM)

Something is funny here. If he's addicted, why did the doctor put him back on it? Were they not communicating with the doctor that there was an addiction problem?



bzirk -> RE: Oxycontin (7/1/2008 11:06:07 AM)

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ORIGINAL: GrahamCracker

Something is funny here. If he's addicted, why did the doctor put him back on it? Were they not communicating with the doctor that there was an addiction problem?


Larry,

I'm sorry to tell you that doctors (not all but too many) are a big part of the problem. It can take as little as three days to become addicted to Oxycontin and too often they do not tell families how very powerful this drug can be.

This quick addiction is my second time to see this happen with some friends. Another friend of ours had back surgery, and when they put him on Oxycontin and didn't really give him and his wife instructions about how very powerful it is, he quickly (meaning about 5-6 days) developed an addiction to it, and within a couple of weeks, he flipped out and had to be confined in a mental hospital. While he was there, his wife kept saying it was the drug, and it took two weeks for the doctors to listen to her. It was a nightmare, and I will never forget my husband and I visiting our friend in the mental hospital, and he did not recognize his wife or any family (including his three kids) much less us. A few weeks later he ended up in a rehab unit to be weaned off of it. After he began to be weaned, he started to recognize his wife, and today, he is dumbfounded by what happend but glad to know it can happen and he should be leary of drugs even if they're prescribed by his doctor.

At the time this happened, his wife was completely at a loss and not able to do a lot because he had not been officially declared incompetent. He could still talk and act coherent at times. So she could not make decisions for him as if he were out cold. Again, it was a like a nightmare. It was like being hit by a car you didn't see coming. I knew this could happen with this drug, but I thought of it as pretty rare and therefore figured this was an isolated case.

Now, I have another friend who appears to be headed down the same path, and all with the assistance of his physician. His wife is very frustrated, but she now knows not to completely get rid of the pills and to push for him to be weaned. BTW, he's only been taking the drug for about 2-1/2 weeks, and his situation has deteriorated so quickly, it would make your head swim. This is a person who doesn't drink or smoke, is a strong Christian who is usually joyful and peaceful, and yet this drug has completely changed his personality, and he's a jittery mess, and that only took about 10-12 days.

If it's not obvious, I'm not a big fan of Oxycontin, and I'm really not a fan of family doctors or even orthopedic surgeons prescribing the med. They simply don't know enough about it to prescribe it or they are derelict in describing it and not advising the family of its strength. I'm just sickhearted that people can stumble into this addiciton.

The reason I put up the thread is to hear from others who may have experienced this very quick addiction.



isaacsmom -> RE: Oxycontin (7/1/2008 11:10:12 AM)

I also know someone who is addicted to this. Very sad. A young minister. It has destroyed his life (he was prescribed this after back surgery).

Is this stuff also called oxycodone or is it something different?

I agree that doctors need to be very straightforward about the risks of this drug when prescribing it. I wish it would be pulled off the market. It's too dangerous. [:@]



bzirk -> RE: Oxycontin (7/1/2008 11:15:14 AM)

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ORIGINAL: isaacsmom

I also know someone who is addicted to this. Very sad. A young minister. It has destroyed his life (he was prescribed this after back surgery).

Is this stuff also called oxycodone or is it something different?

I agree that doctors need to be very straightforward about the risks of this drug when prescribing it. I wish it would be pulled off the market. It's too dangerous. [:@]


Oxycontin is the brand name for oxycodone.

Last year Purdue Pharma, who manufactures it, plead guilty to misleading the public about its highly addictive ability. They paid a $600+ milion dollar fine. A slap on the wrist.



isaacsmom -> RE: Oxycontin (7/1/2008 11:21:44 AM)

I looked it up and saw the info about the fine. [&:][>:]. I was prescribed various dosages of oxycodone after each of my c-sections. I did not take them. I wasn't aware of all the controversies at the time, I just have never liked having access to strong pain meds like that at home. Looking back now, I can't believe my docs didn't offer any warnings about the meds they prescribed to me. Grrrr.

I'm sorry about your friend, Bzirk. I don't have any advice, but I will pray.



JimboFletch -> RE: Oxycontin (7/1/2008 11:27:58 AM)

I've only had one experience with someone on Oxycontin and that was on another forum. That poster, after being a regular and "normal" poster, began posting bizarre and nonsensical things that were completely out of character. At one point, he threatened bodily harm to me when I asked him to please tone it down a notch (not that it was possible for him to get to me). I just let it drop because I didn't know what was going on. Someone later PM'ed me and let me know he was on Oxycontin for an injury.

That was quite a surprising introduction to the effects of the drug.



bzirk -> RE: Oxycontin (7/1/2008 11:33:28 AM)

I appreciate the prayers. That's definitely the best thing we can do. I guess I'm waking up to how truly dangerous this is and unbeknowst to most of us. I fell down some stairs in 2000, and had to have emergency surgery. Both feet were messed up and I was in a wheelchair for a month (yeah, I mean I could not walk). Anyway, I was put on this drug while I was in the hospital which was 3-1/2 days. They discharged me and about 1/2 a day later, I had a headache and shakes like nothing I've ever experienced in my life. I was in such pain that I had to call the doctor to get some relief, and I'm one of those people who rarely takes anything for a headache -- even one that's really severe. I usually just suffer through it and rub my head. I've even had tears in my eyes with headaches and never took anything. But this was so much more than that. I could not stand it, and it was the anxiety that made it so horrible. I felt like jumping out of my skin. The doctor did prescribe something, but I still had pain and anxiousness for a couple of weeks before things started to return to normal. Tehre's no question being in a wheel chair made me anxious, but I usually take things in stride, and my personality was so messed up, I was just not myself (not even close) that first week home from the hospital.

A friend of mine who had been a nurse for about 20 years came to visit me due to being layed up from this surgery, and when I told her about the experience, she quizzed me about the drugs, and she told me I was having withdrawals -- classic symptoms in fact. Then she asked what the doctor had given me afterward. He gave me tylenol 3, and she said, "Good! Some of them just give more of the Oxycontin, so your doctor did you a favor."



bzirk -> RE: Oxycontin (7/1/2008 11:44:03 AM)

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ORIGINAL: JimboFletch

I've only had one experience with someone on Oxycontin and that was on another forum. That poster, after being a regular and "normal" poster, began posting bizarre and nonsensical things that were completely out of character. At one point, he threatened bodily harm to me when I asked him to please tone it down a notch (not that it was possible for him to get to me). I just let it drop because I didn't know what was going on. Someone later PM'ed me and let me know he was on Oxycontin for an injury.

That was quite a surprising introduction to the effects of the drug.


Jimbo,

It's stunning what this drug does to someone's personality. My daughters had gone out to our friends' house so they could house sit while our friends go to visit a dying relative, and my girls were really disturbed by the husband's behavior. This is someone who is normally very loveable. My husband and I had both visited with this man a few days before this incident, and he seemed a little weird, and he complained about the drug and that he didn't know what was happenign to him, but he seemed so coherent that we didn't think things were that far gone. Then a few days after that incident, he was a church and really acting strangely. This was right after his wife flushed the pills, and he was repeating over and over (babbling actually) that he couldn't handle her doing that. This was outside after church, and he was so out of it that my husband and I became concerned. Yesterday we talked to his wife who is going to take some action. Please pray for her. She has this on her plate, and they need to go visit her brother who is dying from ALS. Of course we're going to help her all that we can, but I'm angry that this has even happened to these people.



GrahamCracker -> RE: Oxycontin (7/1/2008 7:42:03 PM)

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ORIGINAL: bzirk

quote:

ORIGINAL: GrahamCracker

Something is funny here. If he's addicted, why did the doctor put him back on it? Were they not communicating with the doctor that there was an addiction problem?


Larry,

I'm sorry to tell you that doctors (not all but too many) are a big part of the problem. It can take as little as three days to become addicted to Oxycontin and too often they do not tell families how very powerful this drug can be.


I guess I didn't know the full potential of the addiction. Thanks.



ricegirl -> RE: Oxycontin (7/1/2008 7:48:51 PM)

I know someone I think is on this too. He has a very bad back injury. When at his home his wife told me one time she thinks he is addicted and he changed Dcotors she thinks it is because this other doctor refused to give it to him any more so he switched ot one that is quite free with his precriptions for pain killers. A friend of mines son got hurt on his job and he became addicted ( in a very short time) and had to go in for rehab.



Liveloved -> RE: Oxycontin (7/3/2008 8:49:10 PM)

I've had two surgeries in the past two years and was prescribed oxycodone both times. I never took a single pill. Obviously people have not experienced enough pain. That is truly what I think. I do not understand this at all. In fact, I took NO pain meds---not even ibuprofen.

I know this does not help your friend who is addicted. But I think the problem is that we are a quick fix people rather than an enduring people. Lord help us all!



Ps103 -> RE: Oxycontin (7/3/2008 8:58:27 PM)

I am lucky. Before I ever heard of Hillbilly Heroin or any other troubles with Oxycontin, I was prescribed oxycodone.

I took one and threw it up within fifteen minutes. Never took another.

I didn't realize how lucky I was.



spdrgrl.603 -> RE: Oxycontin (7/3/2008 9:20:53 PM)

what is Oxycontin? what does it do if you do mind my asking (if its private you dont have to answer. i'm just curious what it is)



karlie -> RE: Oxycontin (7/3/2008 9:23:36 PM)

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what is Oxycontin? what does it do if you do mind my asking


It's a narcotic pain killer...a very strong one.



Ps103 -> RE: Oxycontin (7/3/2008 9:33:15 PM)

HERE is an info sheet on oxycodone.

Note at the end that Percocet and Percodan--which used to be prescribed for just about everything--are also oxycodone. It is not just Oxycontin.



lightshineon -> RE: Oxycontin (7/3/2008 9:39:48 PM)

I do not see the power of these drugs, I have never been high on medicine such as this. It does not work like it should meaning, even in the pain killing sense. My epidural did not work, or novacaine (sp) when having teeth done. I wonder if some are more prone to feeling high, or addiction easier. maybe that is his problem, he is pre-disposed to feelings of euporia to these drugs, and is depressed, and it is like a little heaven on earth. I will pray, and not condem.



lightshineon -> RE: Oxycontin (7/3/2008 9:46:55 PM)

My daughter at age 12, had scoliosis surgery, and two steel rods going from the top of her neck down to her tailbone. They first, put her morphine, the oxycontin six of them, then loratab for a longtime. I guess if a 12 year old gets addicted, it really does no good. I cannot imagine her DR. hopping on her bike. She never seemed to withdraw. The surgery took twelve hours, and she lost alot of blood. It wa very painful, so I guess there is a place for it.



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