breaking oxycontin in half

i am curious, i take the 12hr timed release oxycontin, ( as directed) and was wondering can i break the pills in half to receive half the doses for the purposes of self desired weaning. or in1/4 i am on 40mgs twice daily. i have gone cold turkey b4 but do not look forward to another bout of WD, and my Dr. tells me i will, based on my cervical spine fusion have to take them for life, and i want to try and see were my pain level is at. thankyou..

It is actually five half lives. This is how it works. You take 10mg. In one half life you have 5 mg left. The next time the period of time passes that is the half life you have 2.5mg left. The next time 1.25 mg. The fourth half life leaves you 0.625mg. The fifth half life leaves you with 0.3125mg of the drug in your system and this is considered eliminated. Remember that the half life is a generic number and everyone's body is different.

Thanks for reminding me. I had planned on that but had forgotten at the momet.

I'm currently trying to help a relative taper off of Oxycodone 80/625. She was taking 160 (2)/day and over a two week period is successfully down to 80 (1)/day. I don't know much about these, but from what I (think) I understand, aren't they time released??? She wants to go down to 40 (1/2) /day BUT my concern is - if these are time released, and the pill is broken in half then isn't the potency increased - no longer time released?

Eight years ago i was addicted to herion and crack but a conbination of jail time , na, aa , family support, and most of all God saved me and gave me years and years of sobriety excluding drinking which never in the least tempted me to use again. In januarry I was in a severe car accident which left me in a coma for a month and most of it was drug induced.

To my knowledge the answer to your question is yes 20mgs of oxycodone/percocet is the same amount of oxycodone that is in a 20mg oxycontin, its just in an extended release formula. I was pretty heavily into methadone and oxycontin(various other opiates) and I still dont know if this answer is correct or not. Why dont you ask your doctor or pharmacist, they would be able to provide you with the info your looking for.

Hi I have been relying on 20mg of controlled release oxycontin to wake-up in the morning for months now. I have been starting with 20 then as that wears of I take another 20. The most I have taken in a day is 80mg. Forgot to mention that I have been chewing them before swallowing. Do you think this will be hard to get off? and what am I going to feel?

decided to quit taking it on a monday felt fine all week untill sun when i went into serious withdrawl! so as far as half life im not sure? but you can bet i was back on it mon! so i guess it was in my system for 6 days after i stopped. p.s.

t seem to work as well, or last as long. Also I have been breaking out in small blisters on my hands. My stomach also seems to be more upset than usual. I've been told that they didn't change the active ingredients. Could it be possible that I'm having an allergic reaction to the new fillers in the medication?

you can google it...oxycontin er and half life.....

Yes you can I'm 8 days free..

today im feeling much better i got out there and ran for the first time in forever and it made me feel great and im only on my 3rd day and in 3 days i've probably taken 6mgs of suboxone the whole time. the only thing im wondering is if the suboxone will give me bad withdrawls if i only take it for 4 to 5 days max. will all the oxycontin be out of my system so that when i stop the 1mg of suboxone i have been taking for the past 4 to 5 days so that i wont go into withdrawls all over again.

t explain how to go about that. My husband cut the oxycontin in half and I took that once at night and once in the morning for 3 days. When I thought about the next steps to get off the oxycodone, I thought to call the pharmacy for advice. I found out that I was on a 20mg time release oxycontin, and that cutting it in half meant I was cutting through the time release shell, and was just getting a burst of the oxycontin. Well, I wasn't going back there, so I just didn't take anymore.

I haven't been here in quite some time, but having a bit of depressive symptoms lately so thought it best to check in. 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.

Oxycontin is oxycodone hydrochloride. It is time release and should never be broken in half or quarters etc..because a fatal dose could be delivered. Percocet, or its' generic Roxicet, contains oxycodone AND acetominophen(Tylenol). It is not time release. So...the difference is Oxycontin is much stronger and does not contain Tylenol; it is time release and is usually prescribed for use every 12 hours. That said...this is a substance abuse forum. Are you having a problem? V.

It is oxymorphone and it is strongest pain medication available in pill form based on pharmacology. The oxycodone in Oxycontin is metabolized by the liver into oxymorphone. Therefore, the Opana ER would be a drug that is very comparable to the Oxycontin, only twice as strong.

I have a disease in the right side of my body called RSD (reflex sympathetic dystrophy) plus bursitis in my right hip. I haven't slept in days and I'm nauseous because of this heat. I just want to be able to sit, lay or even stand comfortably at this point. Everyone keeps saying welcome to motherhood but not everyone has this much pain to deal with. This has me to my breaking point.

If yould even just break them in half it would be good...there is an article on tapering in the health pages and the thomas recipe and amino protocl as well...taking small doses throughout the day is better than taking big doses a few times a day...tapering is hard for some, me included, and i had to give mine to someone to dole out to me as i would end up taking the same amount or more each day due to stressing over it...

Ive been taking about 100mgs of oxycontin a day for about 1.5 month now. What do i do? Quit cold turkey or taper off? I cannot take days off work.

Drugs in general have what is called a half-life in metabolism to active form, and also a half-life for the extraction by the kidneys of the active form. A half-life is simply the time taken to remove/destroy one half of the drug. If T = 3hrs is the half-life to eliminate the active form of a particular drug, then once T hrs have elapsed you have only 50% of the active form left. Once another T hours have elapsed, ie 6hrs, there will be only 25% of the active form left.

Is it ok to take a 20mg oxy and cut it in half. Take 1/2 in the am and 1/2 in the pm.. I am trying to wean off of them all todether. I also take alprazolam(Zanax) mid way thru the day to help with the panic feeling. Again I had 1mg pill so I cut them in 1/2 and take 1 midway thru the day and 1/2 at bedtime. Looking for some help.

I actually know the second in charge to "The Drug Czar" here in Washington, D.C. He was telling me Sunday of numbers in the millions of each strength of drug being dispensed in Florida as well as a comparation to other states. Florida is becoming known as a legal drug dealer state. The numbers are truly mind boggling. This is what our kids are growing up on.

But the thing they check with was half blue and half yellow. So idk.

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