Oxycontin and depression

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Avatar m tn Since reducing the Oxcontin I have stared to experience extreme bouts, more severe and more often, of depression since I started reducing the Oxycontin. Is that a normal side affect of Oxycontin reduction? I have read up about the Buprenorphine and discovered that it is sometimes used to help addicts come off herion etc. Will the Buprenorphine help to reduce the withdrawal affects of Oxycontin withdrawal? Hope I am not being a nuisance.
Avatar f tn Hi thanks for the response, I'm really glad you're trying to quit this killer but it's a killer. I'm still somwhat physically ill with chills and I have no appetite so I'm drinking ensure better then nothing, I have to choke it down though. It takes a lot of determination and a good support person to help when you start freaking. My husband flushed every f'n pill down the toilet including some I needed, the clonazepam which is recommended to take.
Avatar f tn I posted and asked if OxyContin could cause depression. I had been on OxyContin for five and a half years and I was very depressed. The members on this forum told me that it does cause severe depression and OxyContin can stop Depression meds from working. I was up to 120mg of OxyContin for pain management. I decided to come off OxyContin because after three years of horrible depression, I was in danger of harming myself.
396099 tn?1216254986 The methadone i have never found to cause ant adverse reactions.I no longer double doctor and buy oxycontin and worry about running out.In my opinion the benefits are worth the risk.
Avatar f tn ve been on medication for depression/anxiety for 6 years and i have been using oxycontin I also smoke weed and cigarettes. I feel like it is too late and i have already hurt the baby. What are the chances that i hurt the baby? Will everytthing be okay?
Avatar m tn m prescribed Tramadol, Clonidine, Mirtazapine, and Lorazepam. I doing very good and have no depression and much less anxiety. (Turns out Lorazepam actually is more effective on me than Klonopin, weird). But has anyone one else had a similar experience? (I understand people have other views/opinions on the use of Tramadol for depression, but please don't post just to tell me I shouldn't be on it.). I am just really interested to see if anyone else out there has a similar story.
Avatar m tn recently ive decided to quit for personal reasons, its my 2nd day off of them now and ive been experiencing pretty severe depression, anti socialness, tiredness, and anxiety. how long do u predict it will take for the depression and anxiety to go away based on the frequency and dosage of my abuse?
526311 tn?1229286330 He is also on oxycontin, both for severe back pain. The oxycontin he craves and is addicted to (currently tapering down from) but the Lyrica he does not crave at all and sometimes doesn't take any at all during the day. Due to the addiction to the oxycontin, we have both spoken to the doc about Lyrica and he has told us that if the maximum dosage is exceeded then it can give a "high" but only in the higher dosage, it certianly couldn't do that at a low dosage apparently.
748895 tn?1233592727 The last thing that people like us need(or prone to depression) is vicodin and oxy, because it will temporarily create a artificial sense of well being and then you will have to keep increasing the quantity because of tolerance issues to keep feeling "better"(I was taking 12-14 10/325 a day at the end) and you will then become a drug addict like I did. Please stay away from the pills they are poison. I am clean exactly 6 months today and I feel great without them.
Avatar f tn I was taking 50mg.oyxcontin a.m. and 40 mg. p.m. I am down to 10 mg. now but I'm so tired. I was also taking Percocet for break thru pain 2-4 / day for about 2 years. The withdrawal hasn't been that bad. Sweats, a bit jittery but mostly fatigue and depression. I don't want to do anything. It's the fatigue that is driving me crazy. Thanks for your help.
Avatar f tn hi,I'm new to this site,I use norco and soma,and I love how I feel on them,I mean LOVE!! I know its a proble,,I know I am a addict.I have been to rehab 2x,but when I go to rehab,I just seem to come out with more info on how to get high more effectivly and intensly and learn new ways to scam.I don't know how I will ever get clean because the intense cravings.they told us in rehab crtavings only last 15 minutes,but that's not what I experience.plusi love how it makes me feel.I love it.
Avatar f tn its really bad because of not having my daily drugs. When i saw him Friday I asked him for wellbutrin and he said he wasn't comfortable with doing that because of the oxycontin. That is why no clonodine either or ativan. I used ambien from another dr and now im out. I have to be able to function that is why I have not thrown out the pills the dr gave me, he decide to do a 15mg extended release every 12 hours. For 1 week. I have not taken it yet but I have a baby here and need to sane.
Avatar m tn I was clean of oxycontin and and lowered my cymbalta with the plan to taper off. I then realized anxiety was a large issue with my depression, so we tried clonazepam. That worked miracles. It may give me bad memory, but it is worth it to live normally. This all happened around Febuary 2008. In January 2009, I stopped using clonazepam. By March I realized I need to be back on it, I had the worst social anxiety of my life. Last friday I was fairly happy with life, back on clonazepam.
Avatar m tn hey skiddy, is it possible for you to get to a doctor to talk to him about depression. it seems that depression and addiction coincide with each other and if you fixed the one problem, then maybe both could be fixed. just a thought, but nobody should have to suffer with depression, there are things that can be done for it.
Avatar f tn This doctor is an ego maniac and whenever I tell him about what my shrink has talked to me about the depression he nods and gets his script out and begins writing. I want off this med (oxycontin) since I have become a slave to it and I am getting no better after 5 operations, 8 epidurals and 1 nerve block. He was the doctor my attorney (and I use that word loosely) directed me to go see.
Avatar f tn The good news is your ready to stop..Not sure how much your using,,But I was using 120-180mg of Oxy plus 2-3 somas a night..You need to ne honest with your Doc, and get some valium and clondine for sleep..First 3-4 days are the worst with flu like symptoms..You may sneeze, yawn alot, and have trouble sleeping, and maybe the runs..Immoduin AD will help..Take lots of hot baths, Vitiamains, and drink lots of water to flush out toxins! I'm 59 days clean and life never looked so good!
Avatar f tn Worst of the physical is over in 4 days normally with lack of energy, sleeplessness, tossing and turning and some depression continuing....
Avatar f tn At first it is a god send for pain relief but sooner then later the opiates turn on you and you end up in more pain in wd half the time due to tolerance and severe depression as the opiates can not keep up with the demand for the feel good endorphin's the opiates where providing it. If you were clean just going for a long walk would satisfy this need.. They also dull our emotions so we are void of deep feelings..
Avatar n tn He had been on and off oxycontin and vicodin for a few years due to pain in his knees. Once I found out, he stopped cold turkey and we found a dream team of doctors to help him. Through the journey with the pain management doctor they ended up putting him back on oxycontin. He also went into surgery to fix his knee. After a 9 month ordeal with the doctors, he had gotten up to 400 mg of oxycontin per day. He finally said enough and worked with his doctor to taper off.
Avatar m tn 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.
Avatar f tn before and this is the least amount of symptoms I have ever had. I have zero depression and I normally get very bad depression (wishing I was dead, urge to do cutting). I haven't had any of that.
Avatar n tn Due to my health, I was on oxycontin and percocet for the last 11 years and I was on both while pregnant with my two children who are 8 and three. With my son, when he was born, he was watched carefullly for withdrawals and same with my daughter but I was also on other meds as well.
990354 tn?1307132886 I will say this, you may think that Oxycontin "cured" your depression, but it only exacerbates it, making it worse. Depression is the result of a chemical imbalance in your brain. Oxycontin gives you those happy chemicals to stave off your depression. However, with long-term Oxycontin use, your brain "gets used to" the Oxycontin supply of happy chemicals, and it starts producing less and less natural happy chemicals on its own.
1034192 tn?1445509784 I used to be a regular member while I fought my demons with the pain pills. I was on oxycontin, percs, and morphine for about 17 years. I was also on 2 antidepressants and tons of tylenol for headaches. Couldn't picture life without them. But here I am two and a half years clean. Took me about a year, some close friends, and a good counselor to do it. It does get better, I go weeks without thinking about it.
539841 tn?1235394722 I mean, lets face it-they picked oxycontin because it is easier on my kidneys than pain meds such as vicodin and percdan and other weaker meds that have tylenol in them- so the way they (oxycontin) kill pain is to shoot endorphins in the pleasure centers of my brain, I.E. getting high...is this wrong? Well, I am taking it this way. As I type this I just crunched one down. I dont become beligerent. I still try to be a father to my son-and it usually enables me to do so. I dont know...
Avatar f tn ive been clean 7 days..i was sniffing about 3 80mg oxycontin a day for about a year..i have a bad case of depression and i don't give a **** about anything anymore..nothing makes me happy and i am so close to making that call to get oc's..
Avatar f tn I went through all of the typical physical withdrawal symptoms and now I am physically fine, but I have been left with almost unbearable depression and constant suicidal thoughts. I have been battling depression for 8+ years now, but the last year it has been hell. Before the opiate use I had about two months of minimal depression, the only relief I had experienced in the previous year and know I am terrified that the deep dark depression is coming back.