Oxycontin and anxiety

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I have been taking vicodins for about 3 months and Oxycontins only the last month. The vicodin I was taking about 14 a day 5-500mg and the oxy's 40mg a day. Three days ago I stopped all of the pills and I am severly suffering cause of it, I have had some really bad withdraws (back ache, hot and cold sweats, anxiety, deperrision etc...) What can I by over the counter to help and how long will this last, and will I feel normal again.

I have been addicted to oxycodone and oxycontin for 2 years and i was taking (4) 40mg pills per day, and I stopped for 3 days and went threw pure hell and i had to start taking again, I now take 20mg at about 10 in the morning and i can go all the way to the next morning without feeling to bad but after about 30 hours without anything, I get anxiety pretty bad and then ill take 20mg again. If I just stop cold turkey right now do you know about how long the bad anxiety will last?

I know I can do this, that is what i get though for trying to make new friends, because I have a social phobia and really bad anxiety. I do take xanax for my anxiety, klonopin for my social anxiety, and something called geodon to help me sleep. I just have issues and things were getting better and I know that this is just a MINOR set back. Thanks yall for responding , your input really, really makes me feel like everything will be alright. Have a good night.

I have been using narcotic painkillers off and on since about 12th grade. (I am now 22). I was clean from Feb 2005- August 2006. In the past 6 months I have been taking about 5-6 10mg percocets everyday. Within the past month I have been either doing that or snorting ATLEAST 1 80mg oxycontin a day. My friends finally found out about my "double life" and this gave me a strong incentive to quit. I havent touched any opiates in about 48 hours...

Can you go back to your doctor and explain everything and see if you can get some medicine for anxiety? To me I think if you are dealing with all that short term use of something to help you would help you. In my personal life I have had a lot of emotions that I have never had to deal with and a anti-depressant is helping. Hang in there, tomorrow is a new day and hopefully you will have more peace.

I've been on oxycontin for about two years for pain. I've since had surgery and am coming off them now. I was doing 40mg 3 times a day. My Doctor told me to cut down gradually. So i'm doing 30mg for a week then 20mg for a week 10mg etc. I'm surprisingly still feeling a bit uncomfortable though. My main complaints would be lack of sleeping soundly or for 7-8 hours straight. I seem to sleep for 2-3 hours then i'm wide awake. Also I just feel like I can't fully relax.

If you want to use the Tylenol 3 to get off the oxycontin so that it is easier to quit the tylenol 3 rather than oxy, then yes that is a better plan and you would also be in less severe withdrawl by doing this.. But you do not want to try and replace that feeling you were getting from the oxy with tylenol 3 because no matter how much you take it will never make you feel as strong as the oxy either..

I have been on Oxycontin for 2 years and am going to try quitting cold turkey. Anyone know the best way to quit cold turkey?? any suggestions will help greatly.

I'm wondering if 1 oxycontin (80mg) that my BF gives me every day to assist in my wean will help me. I am having minimal WD signs but the physical pain for which I was initially prescribed 3 Dils (8mgs each) per day by the former doc comes roaring back every morning. I am no longer on the Dilaudids.

ok so i just posted about ritalin but my name is amy and i have been addicted to oxycontin for a year in a half i take 120mg or 100 mgs a day. i cant take it anyore i have tried to go ct and i have tried tapering but i cant seem to stop. my anxiety gets so bad and the rls and depression that i just go back so im thinking o f trying suboxene. i have heard good and bad things about this any suggestions?

I have had (10) surgeries in the past 18 months and have to have number (11) this Wednesday. My doctors have me on Oxycontin 20 mg. and Percocet 5/325. Currently I take (1) Oxycontin 20 mg. a day and (1) 5/325 Percocet a day. This does not totally releive my pain but I don't want to increase my dosage. I have been on the Oxycontin since November, 2008. Prior to that the doctors had me on Vicodin 7.5/750 every 4 to 6 hours. This caused my liver enzymes to rise thus the switch to the Oxycontin.

Ive been taking oxycontin for over5years now. At first it was taken as a recreational thing and while i split with my exhusband which happen was abusive and revengeful it stressed me out and started taking 3-4 80mg a day but that ran out and i went through alot of withdrawls 4 about 2days till i was able to find more. but i was able to get by ok with 1 80mg a day which i had cut in quarters and take them at specefic times during the day.2days ago i lost my only connect and im withdrawling.

Thank you so much for your advise. He is not on any antidepressants...that would be me... I have anxiety/panic disorder. Funny how I have to take pills to be normal & he wants to take them to escape. I am sure he is going to make it through this as well as all of the rest of you on this site. We just need to be strong.

i wishall i had to deal with was a headache when i tried to get off that ****....try anxiety attacks, musclecramps,gut rot, no sleep, sweats,...even seizures...

I am on Oxycontin 200mg, was twice a day, but my GP suggested to take it 4 times a day, which is 100mg 6 hourly. so it is 400mg a day. Could you tell me what is the maximum dose that can be prescribed. Is their a maximum dose? Want to come off it. So a charity who deals in involuntary addiction suggested i do it very slowly. Like 5mg a day for 2 weeks then another 5mg a day for 2 weeks and so on till I am done with the tabs.

Hello doctor, I was just wondering if you could suggest anything that would make detoxing from about 160-200mg of oxycontin a day even slightly more comfortable? I've tried cold turkey before and it was just a bit much lol! The RLS and the aches, depression, anxiety, etc. got the upper hand and I was just hoping there was something I could do to make this process a big more bearable. If not, just have to smile an bear it I suppose.

Detox from Oxycontin in the amounts you wrote, 60-1200mg daily needs SUPERVISED detox...by a MD or facility. Why you'd go abuse the ER and get a lesser opoid is I dont know...you're obviously NOT wanting to get OFF the Opioids. What are you going to do when/if you have seizures...say 5 days down the road when you are out of Percocet? Get your self to a NA meeting and do so for the next 90 days...EVERY DAY.

I go to a spinal pain clinic for my scoliosis,and they had me on Vicodin and muscle relaxers for 3 years,then they changed it and put me on Norco M367 3x daily and Methadone 5mg 3x daily,and got rid of the rest...ive now been on those for 2 years.when this happened they offered me Oxycontin,but i refused very adamantly,ive heard too many horror addiction stories....and although im sure that i must be addicted i dont feel i am.....on my days off i usually only take one of each a day.

hi. I am just starting my withdraw on oxycontin, and I have been reading alot on the internet about it and people have said it takes a month in some cases or longer, and its freaking me out, i was under the impression that it takes 72 hours tops for the drug to be out of your system. and my question is if it is 72 hours for the drug to be out of your system, doesn't that mean the withdraw is 72 hours? i thought when the drug was out of your system it is over.

I wheened myself down to about a 12th or 15th of a suboxin a day and have gone cold turkey since (on my 4th day) how long will these withdrawl symtoms last? I couldn't sleep at all last night, hot and cold feelings and anxiety, but not as bad as cold turkey from o.c's.

I have been taking Oxycontin 20mg 2 to 3 times a day with 10mg Oxycodone for breakthrough pain when needed since January 2006. I started weening myself down to 1 20mg pill a day 4 days ago. My nose runs like crazy and my legs and lower back just ache. Is there something I can do to help this leg ache? I have 8 20mg pills left and many breakthrough pills left. Do I have enough pills left to ween myself off safely? I have a Heart condition with a replacement Aortic valve.

i was taking about 16 80 mg oxycontin a day, and went on a fentanyl binge about a month and half ago.... any way im down to about 9 80's a day. cutting down everyday and still hurting everyday... i was wondering how much i should cut down everyday? last week i was at 12 and now im down to 8....

This is a true story of how terrible and tragic the progressive use of pain meds. can be. They do, however, play an important role in the quality of life of so many. It's just there is a very thin line. BEWARE OF THE DRS WILLING OVERPRESCRIBE OPIATES WITH THEIR INTEREST IN MIND. ALSO I PLEAD WITH YOU ALL TO USE GOOD JUDGEMENT AND NEVER TRUST ANY MD(which in some cases is an acronym for Mentally Deficient). I am a 29-yr-old quadriplegic who sought pain relief Sept. 98. My pain Dr.

My husband smoked pot for years, and when he quit he found out that he was covering up his nervousness, anxiety,and phobia problems. Having mental problems is not the end of the world. It's just getting use to a different way of living. He will still be your son. I pray for his speedy recovery. There is help.

I was a chronic user of both oxycontin and oxycodone. It was prescribed to me for a shoulder injury. I have never used illegally. My dr. never tried to stop or taper me down only the opposite. Within two years I was up to 360 30mg ocodone and 60 60 mg oxycontin a month not to mention soma and 3 xanax bars a day. I never filled the xanax or the soma due to the fact that I had already realized what a monster the pain meds had become (thank god). I had spoken to the dr.

Can someone explain to me wat I will go through and the timetable because I am on hour 11 of quitting oxycontin and percocet cold turkey and iwas taking about 120 mg's a day of either one that I could get my hands on (not 120 mg's of each a day, just 120 mg's of both together) ...any help would be much appreciated. thank you.

I am unfortunately hooked on oxycontin. I have arthritis of the back as well as fractured vertebrae. Now I am ready to go cold turkey. Any suggestions on how to get thru it.

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