[OxyCrush]

Hello All, I am new here and this is my first post. Well I have been looking around for some good advise on how to get off Oxycontin. I have tried cold turkey and it didn't work very well because I have a full time job that I must have energy for, so I got ahold of some Methadone (3-40mg Tablets). Now my plan is to use up all of the Oxys I have left and then switch to the Methadone for about 4 or 5 days. I am hoping this will be long enough for my body to get over the Oxycontin. Oh yeah I fogot to mention that my habit is about 160mgs to 200mg a day. Now after the four days I am wondering if I will still have the body pains and aches from not having the Oxycontin and will I be able to work ok. My friend told me that I will be depressed for months, ouch!! I am not looking foward to that. Another concern I have is if I will get hooked to the Methadone I will be taking. I am hoping that 4 days of Methadone is not long enough to get hooked on it. If "ANYONE" has any advise for me or has been through this type of treatment please post back. I know everyone has heard this kind of story a million times here, but I dont have enough time to search for the answer that fits my exact treatment. So please feel free if anyone has information for me. Thank You all very much, Josh

[fairygirl79]

Hi, I just wanted to reply to your question. Both my husband and I were doing 4-80's a day for 5 years before we decided to get into a methadone treatment. Now, what we did at 1st because we didn't want to jump from one train to the next is,we checked ourselves into the methadone clinic not knowing that it was just as hard to get oof til we talked to some people outside the clinic that had been there 11 years, some more. So we thought it was just like a month treatment and we'd be out. Well, it wouldn't! So what we did was we checked ourselves in that day from being sick for 3 days not being able to find anything,and we only let the dr. take us up to 40mg, 30mg is the blocking dose, meaning you have to have 30mgnot to crave anything, 10mg will take your aches away and all the withdrawal symptoms though.
But, what we did at the clinic and they didn't recommend this to us, is we just kept detoxing from 40mg 5mg a week and it took us about 1-1/2month. Well, we were good for the first day, and then afterall we had met someone there that would sell it to us, so we did us an oxy, we thought well just one, well just one leads to more than one, you know that, so we ended up buying methadone from this lady for about 1 1/2 years and then checked ourselves back in. Now we have been there almost 4 years and it has saved our lives. But what you've got to think about is, "We are addicts, o.k. it's a disease just like cancer that only 15% of the world can get rid of", so that's why our little rapid detox didn't work. But now we have been clean for 3 years, we have a baby, debt free, etc. What more could you ask for coming from spending so much money a day and not having nothing. I wished i could sit here an explain it to ya, and everyone else on this site but i have no way to post the letter from my dr. on here because it's copied in my e-mail. If you want to read soemthing that's gonna tell you what your disease is and how it works,also something you'd want anyone in your family to read that doesn't understand, give me your e-mail address and i'll send it to ya.

[fairygirl79]

Hi, I will send it to ya right now, it's very, very intersting to you and to those immediate family memebers who don't understand why my daughter is a drug addict, etc.? Now you'll have something to show them, and it's statistics.

[kyhomegirl]

I'd love to hear the letter, my email is hohwmn@yahoo.com, I'm so sick of dealing with this everyday, and feeling like a worthless piece of _! I always wonder why me and try to understand this addiction. I'm so ready for it to be over!!

[fairygirl79]

Hey, kyhomegirl, I live in TN. but i'm originally from KY.,what part of KY. do you live? I used to live in a small town in eastern KY, called Pikeville. It's a small world, just wondering if that may be where you live?

[Ali-77]

Hi Oxy I want to say hi im pretty new here also
When i first started useing it was oxy for about 8 months probable as much as you i went to a ho\spital and detoxed for 5 days with methadone 35mg 30 mg 25 mg all the way down to 0 mg and then was sent home. i was like Great now ill be my old self again everythings out of my system. That was no soo No your not addicted to the meth only agter 5 days but any longer you can get addicted but its really had to stay clean i just didnt feel right i had MAYJOR axieity and a really wierd feeling i couldnt sleep at all you really need a support system even further treatment such as a inpaicent that was the only thing that kept me clean for 3 yrs befor i had the recent relapes i was so dead set about relapeing after all i been thru never thought it would happen to me but it CAN happen to any addict. Now im on methadone maintaince for 6 months in going to try really hard to do the 6 months detoxbut if that doesnt work i will be ohn it for the rest of my life the other members r right it is a disease some DO have to take meds everyday .Also Fairy if your reading this i would like it you can sand the thing you want to post my way i have not yet told my mother about my relapes and meth maintanace she was so proud of me being clean for 3 yrs i dont want to dissappoint here but i dont wanna hid it either so maybe it can help me out in that department my e-mail is Kcorrohs01@aol.com
Thnak you and i wish everyone well
Alicia

[kyhomegirl]

Hi fairygirl,
I live in the suburbs of Louisville, your right it a small world, its
nice to know your not the only one going through hell everyday isn't it? Of course I do believe other people have it worse than me. Like people in pain, I cant even imagine going through what they do. How did you like Pikesville? It seems like I read about that town in the paper every day, but I cant really remember what about. Thanks for the letter from your doc. I've always wondered why some people are addicts and others aren't. Now I know why!!!

[seenitall]

Try the Suboxone route.....it's getting a better reputation than Meth and everyone you talk to has everything good to say about it!....Including myself. It's done very privately usually out of a doctor's office.....no standing in line every morning for everyone in the world to see.(like meth clinics) Go to WWW.SUBOXONE.COM to find a doctor near you who is certified to prescribe this medication. Good luck!

quote:Originally posted by OxyCrush

Hello All, I am new here and this is my first post. Well I have been looking around for some good advise on how to get off Oxycontin. I have tried cold turkey and it didn't work very well because I have a full time job that I must have energy for, so I got ahold of some Methadone (3-40mg Tablets). Now my plan is to use up all of the Oxys I have left and then switch to the Methadone for about 4 or 5 days. I am hoping this will be long enough for my body to get over the Oxycontin. Oh yeah I fogot to mention that my habit is about 160mgs to 200mg a day. Now after the four days I am wondering if I will still have the body pains and aches from not having the Oxycontin and will I be able to work ok. My friend told me that I will be depressed for months, ouch!! I am not looking foward to that. Another concern I have is if I will get hooked to the Methadone I will be taking. I am hoping that 4 days of Methadone is not long enough to get hooked on it. If "ANYONE" has any advise for me or has been through this type of treatment please post back. I know everyone has heard this kind of story a million times here, but I dont have enough time to search for the answer that fits my exact treatment. So please feel free if anyone has information for me. Thank You all very much, Josh

[fairygirl79]

Hey KyHomeGirl, Yes you have been reading in the paper about Pikeville, KY alot. We've got the oxycotin rep way out of control. At one time they had to hire squad units from several different states to come in there because it was soooo bad. I mean honey, 80mg oxy's were and r still going for 120.00. Pikeville has been all over the news for the "Hillbilly Heroin" rise (thats what they were calling it) and it is a synthetic heroin. The reason they were soo much money is because everyone in he town was doing them and it's just a town of maybe 1500 people, so only a few people had them, but kept em at all times, because they were getting them sooo cheap from other people that were bringing them in from out of town. I grew up there all my life until i got married and started figuring out that that was all that was there and we'd better get the hell out or we were gonna go to jail or overdose ourselves. But we moved to Sevierville,TN and they started becoming more popular here and we were getting them sooo much cheaper, needless to say if you live the life of drugs their gonna follow you,it don't matter where you go. I hope everything goes well for ya!!!! And i certainly hope you got some closer from the letter i sent to ya.

[Ali-77]

Holy **** 120 dallors for a 80 here in connecticut there going for 60 but most ppl have turned to hearion because of that. Back in the day 3 yrs ago when i first started useing pills to get high oxy was the thing for me and they were 30 dallors there. Its amazing what ppl will pay for them now!OH and FAIRY if your reading this i asked in another post maybe you ddint see it. Can i Please have what you were talking about the letter from your dr with the information you were talking about for family members. I hope its not a problem that im asking but you made it sould really interesting. Thank You !
Alicia 27-conn.

[fairygirl79]

Hey Ali77, i sent the doctor's letter to you, didn't you get it? I actually sent you 2 different e-mails. What is your e-mail address again? I've got Kcorrohs01@aol.com, is that right? Because I really want everbody who wants to know abou their addiction to read this!!![]

[Ali-77]

Yes i got it Thank you very much.I just signed on and saw that you sent another i will be looking at it in a few mins..It was a great letter and i will let my family read it too when im ready to tell them that i have decided to go on methadone. Thank you for your help!
Alicia
I will right you back later when i read the next e-mail you sent

[PatrickStar]

quote:Originally posted by fairygirl79

Hi, I just wanted to reply to your question. Both my husband and I were doing 4-80's a day for 5 years before we decided to get into a methadone treatment. Now, what we did at 1st because we didn't want to jump from one train to the next is,we checked ourselves into the methadone clinic not knowing that it was just as hard to get oof til we talked to some people outside the clinic that had been there 11 years, some more. So we thought it was just like a month treatment and we'd be out. Well, it wouldn't! So what we did was we checked ourselves in that day from being sick for 3 days not being able to find anything,and we only let the dr. take us up to 40mg, 30mg is the blocking dose, meaning you have to have 30mgnot to crave anything, 10mg will take your aches away and all the withdrawal symptoms though.
But, what we did at the clinic and they didn't recommend this to us, is we just kept detoxing from 40mg 5mg a week and it took us about 1-1/2month. Well, we were good for the first day, and then afterall we had met someone there that would sell it to us, so we did us an oxy, we thought well just one, well just one leads to more than one, you know that, so we ended up buying methadone from this lady for about 1 1/2 years and then checked ourselves back in. Now we have been there almost 4 years and it has saved our lives. But what you've got to think about is, "We are addicts, o.k. it's a disease just like cancer that only 15% of the world can get rid of", so that's why our little rapid detox didn't work. But now we have been clean for 3 years, we have a baby, debt free, etc. What more could you ask for coming from spending so much money a day and not having nothing. I wished i could sit here an explain it to ya, and everyone else on this site but i have no way to post the letter from my dr. on here because it's copied in my e-mail. If you want to read soemthing that's gonna tell you what your disease is and how it works,also something you'd want anyone in your family to read that doesn't understand, give me your e-mail address and i'll send it to ya.

can you send me that literature that assists family members in understading our disease? please send to [deleted]

[eyesbrown]

I am new her also and am wonting to switch off the methadone to suboxone.I did get addicted to meth.suboxone would be a better route since you are on a short acting opiate

[anono2]

Josh,

Read the information here http://www.dpeg.org/treatment/methadone_withdrawal.htm
and when you are done, wisely read it again. You can kick your habit if you want it badly enough.

Fairygirl79,

I'm very interested in the letter your Dr. sent you. If you'd be so kind, please forward to o2bacs@yahoo.com. Thanks in advance

[anono2]

lol this post was in sept. oops

[myphia]

Hello, this message is mainly for the woman who responded to this original post. She said she had an email with information on what differentiates an addict from a person not generally susceptible to addictions. I would really like to know because I am currently going through the same exact thing that everyone else is. It's absolutely terrible. It's crippling, debilitating, depressing, hopeless, constant, expensive....just the worst...

The thing is that I don't do any other drugs and I never have. I don't smoke cigarettes, I hardly drink. I don't even like coffee. I've always been a very active person, super healthy, I come from a very loving and supportive family and I have a huge support system.

So then, why in the hell am I hooked on OC? I'm only doing 40mg, but that's everyday, without missing a beat. I got on these when my boyfriend introduced me to them close to 6 months ago.

Simply, I had tried them initially for recreation. It felt good and I liked the euphoria. But alas, 6 months later and close to $7,000 down the tube and I'm left in a full blown addiction now. I can't even believe this has happened to me, but I know I can kick this!
(Now, just venting)
I just need to either get myself into a methadone clinic (although I heard its better to try suboxine (sp?) rather than methadone because apparently it's very easy to become "hooked" on the methadone, supplementing the oxy's?) I don't want to be hooked on ANYTHING ELSE as you can imagine.
So...to make a long story short. I've signed up for my local clinic...I'm actually on a waiting list because here, in the San Francisco bay area...we have a 3 month waiting period because of the amount of people addicted to this sh...!
So, in the meantime, while waiting (for 3 months) to start my clinical therapy, I'm just going to try and cut back as much as possible, detox with natural herbal treatments and try not to let my boyfriend (who also withdraws without oxy) to in any way tempt me to get "just one more"(and vise versa).
So, that is the plan.
Well, that and HOPEFULLY the woman who posted the reply to this post would be so kind as to email me as well? I know it must be a pain for her to keep emailing everyone...so if anyone else has her information and could email me, it would be greatly appreciated.

myphiathebre@yahoo.com

Thank you for your posts everyone. It's been, if anything, inspiring.

Sincerely,
Sophia

Also, just for your information. I've heard that, predicted, oxy will surpass crack cocaine on the streets by 2011. Pretty sad huh?

[gettingthere]

the initial post on this thread was in 2005--and the last was in 2006...I don't know if they are still out there

suboxine is addictive--you really need to do your homework on the two drugs.

I was on methadone (oxy's for about a year and then methadone--total of nearly a lost decade! (but I've been methadone free for over a month now!)

Methadone Maintenance Clinics--no longer than you have been using and the amount--I would RUN not walk away from mmt!

suboxone is a TOOL to be used for a shorter duration--from what I've seen and what I've read, finding a good doctor that fully understands suboxone is hard to find.

I'm not implying that you should or should not go the suboxone route; I AM saying make sure you fully do your homework before deciding which route to take. Personally, if I had it to do over, I would NEVER touch methadonee! But thats just me.
Make an informed decision. Read, read, read--especially on this forum. These people have "been there, done that" and they have really good advice. For me, almost every time that I have a question I can sign on to this forum and within an hour I'll have the answer.

Cold turkey: there are people on this forum that have been successful going the cold turkey route.

Good luck in whatever you choose to do.

[UserReady]

I just did a cold turkey..i am 6wks. clean Now !!
I did oxy for alot longer than you, plus vics....total time 3 yrs. C/t is do-able!

Have you considered just doing c/t? I hate to see someone go to a methadone clinic!! Its just another drug.! and you don't sound like you need it.
think it over pleeezzz

[bev49]

I woudl think long and hard before going the methadone MAINTENANCE route. When meth maintenance first started (at least here in NY) in the '60s you HAD to be a IV heroin user and prove it. It was never meant for pills. The reason being that people on the clinic STAY on the clinic for years. There are methadone detox clinics where they bring you up to a relatively low dose and after 60 days start bringing you down. They give you 4 months to detox and then you're off. If you choose methadone, I would go the detox route, not the maintenance route with your history. Methadone maintenance should only be used as a last resort, when all else fails. There is tapering off DOC, there is cold turkey, there is subutex, there is methadone detox, and then and only then methadone maintenance. I talk from 30 some odd years of methadone maintenance experience.