Easiest Way To Remove New Oxycontin 80 Op Coating (Page 12) (Top voted first)

Hey! In all the other threads about the new oxy's -- everyone is stressing the new coatings, it seems. I have found the easiest and most efficient way to get BOTH coatings off is {edited for safety reasons}. Thought y'all would like to know that.

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I have used the Report Abuse link to report 311fan's detailed posting about how to prepare the abuse resistant form of oxycontin for Intravenous drug abuse. Hopefully, it will be removed.

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I did not know that this site would eat my double quote marks, so here is the post again, with single quote marks in their place:

To Pa.girlinpain4life: How can you say you do not abuse oxycontin, when you also say that it took an hour to take effect?

The whole point of oxycontin is no waiting time at all for it to take effect because taken as directed, after the first 24 to 48 hours have passed, oxycontin subsequently maintains a steady state of the drug in your bloodstream so that it never wears off. You don't have to wait for it to take effect. That's what the ''contin'' in the name ''oxycontin'' means. It's short for ''continuous''. The only time it's effect is not continuous is when you defeat the mechanism that makes it continuous, so that it will have ''worn off'' before it is time for the next dose. If you are doing this because you have developed tolerance, rather than to get high, you need to speak to your doctor about adjusting your dosage so that you can have full steady-state round the clock pain relief.

It's understandable that the new drug may be weaker than the old one, but it is still continuous, just at a lower level of relief.

If you have been taking prescribed oxycontin on a continous basis, the concept of it having to ''take effect'' (at all) should be what you would complain about, rather than how long it takes to do so. I know it may sound like a subtle distinction, but anybody who has been taking oxycontin as directed knows exactly what I mean,

Use of the phrases ''take effect'' and ''kick in'' make for an obvious ''tell'', one that is usually coupled with terrible grammar and spelling.

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Actually I see the truth of the matter. Non-Legitimate doctors perscribing the same therapy to over 100 different patient all with the exact same therapy. Those same people come up to my pharmacy asking if I have the 512's or the OC's or have even heard Xanibars all coming in with medicaid insurance which means two things. I am paying for your meds so you can turn around and sell them or abuse them. I do know there are legitamate people on these meds and every one that is a customer of mine that I felt that way before have proved it by using the new formulation and saying it works just fine. Because they use it for pain. not money or the high. until you see it everyday don't reply.

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Pharm Tech, please explain how you are paying for all of our meds.

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that's bulls***!! no doctor would prescribe 540 pills and no pharmacy would fill it. Because being a schedule II narcotic you can only get one month at a time so before you comment make sure you're not full of it.

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Wow - I'm shocked to say the least. Last year I was in Pittsburgh, PA helping my Mother who is terminal with cancer. Although I have had 34 surgeries under general, on total disability and live with pain 24/7 and would rather die on most days (weather changes, rain, snow, increased activity) I loved being with my Mother and taking care of her. I filled my 3 month RX for OxyContin 80mg prior to returning home in September. A few weeks later, all havoc broke loose in my life. Headaches that crippled me and after 22 days of not being even able to shower, my husband carried me upstairs and bathed me and took me to a hospital - they said "migraines" and referred me a neurologist. In the meantime, fever/chills, and all sorts of wild scenario's were happening. First we thought, absolute exhaustion being Mom's caretaker for 10 months 24/7 taking care of her and my body just needed to rebuild itself after enduring that marathon, plus the mental anguish. I've always had low BP, and now it was doubled. Then to an ophthalmologist who wanted to do immediate surgery for glaucoma because my pressure in my eyes were so high - I had seen an ophthalmologist in Pgh and had a clean bill of health. All sorts of things and on top of that - UNBELIEVABLE AMOUNTS OF PAIN. We (husband/myself) filled my next RX in December and things got even worse. Hindsight tells me that I must have had some OP's in the Sept Rx and ALL OP's in the December RX - as the severity of symptoms doubled after December. So we began to wonder if the pharmacy technician possibly could have switched and dispensed fake meds to me (anything is possible in Vegas was my thought) - so after 5 months of agony I googled "Fake OxyContin" and stumbled across this discussion board - I just began crying when I read that I was not alone - I was NOT losing my mind - that this unrelenting pain IS real and all of these horrible things happening to me WERE real and finally something made sense as to WHY. I did check the Purdue Pharm website and under Press Releases, I noted that there were NONE about the change in the medication. I find that appalling. I had to notify my own physician that the drug had been reformulated. I would have thought that if Purdue stood behind "It's the same thing just safer" that they would have had an AD campaign and there "cold callers" at the Doctors' offices would have been knocking at MD office doors letting them know that it was SAFE to prescribe - but notice, that did NOT happen. Hmmmmm. My last job was as a Practice Mgr for 4 Internal Medicine MD's and everyday we had Drug Rep's in our office giving us Post It, Scrubs, patient pamphlets, etc - they should have been flooding all physician offices to boost physician's writing of these new "safe" medication, and how great it was - but they didn't. I worked in Clinical Trials for years and I know for a fact that they take 10-15 years from start to finish for a NEW medication and for a bioequivalency clinical trial (generic as effective as name brand) those usually take 5-10 years and MUST be tested first in the lab, then on animals, then on HEALTH patients, then finally on people who normally take the name brand medication YET I have yet to see how Purdue Pharmaceuticals could have done ANY of this - so how could the FDA have approved this horrible CHANGE in a medication I have successfully been on for over 10 years? I believe that a great deal of responsibility lies on the FDA and we should be addressing our concerns to them, as they approved a medication that DOES NOT WORK the same as the original! I think calling Purdue is a waste of time, when the FDA had the final stamp of approval. I did submit an "Incident Report" with the FDA and encourage everyone who has chronic pain to do the same. These must be logged and tallied and reported quarterly to an Oversight Committee and the more they receive, the sooner something could possibly happen to help us all. I never knew that they changed the medication, I was able to take care of my Mother because of the old formulation and able to "live"; now - well, it's been 10 days since I've showered. It's just too painful to even move on the new version. Now that I know what the "root of my evil" is - I can concentrate on obtaining a new medication that is effective; but I still think something is extremely skewed with the FDA approval of this medication and people are going to die on it; because they are going to accidentally take more - I know I had to finally write down what time I took my last one because I was NOT getting any relief as I used to and therefore, took another one thinking I must have forgotten. So I had NO idea that they changed the medication, and Purdue Pharm. should have sent out patient pamphlets and updated their pharmaceutical flyer (the one in the medication bag from the pharmacy) and notified ALL patients that the medication HAD BEEN CHANGED - but that did not happen either. Way too many things were not handled the way other changes in medications have been handled and the timeline does not add up; nor the public education; patient education; physician education, etc and there are going to be many more patients in the ER, hospital, etc because of their "hiding" the changes in a medication. I am a legitimate pain medication user - I will not lower myself to argue with the pain ignorant people who have written on this site and just feel "what goes around - comes around". After working 20 years in the medical field, I learned a hard lesson. I used to begrudge filling out disability forms for "back pain"; until mine was damaged beyond repair, despite 4 surgeries. So... what I felt about other peoples' pain came back to haunt me and I feel that those that are ignorant of true, honest chronic pain, one day will have the chance to experience it - so ignore their comments and don't take them to heart (as they have none). May God help us all deal with our pain daily and find us some form of relief.

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No true. Ive had a script for 480 pills before. A doctor is able to prescribe as many tabs as he deems necessary. Suppose a patient is going overseas and wont be back for 6 months or longer. Ever thought of that genius. A doctor can call the pharmacy and tell the pharmacist to fill the script because the patient is travelling overseas. The RPH will fill it. They did mine.

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Miss Nurse: DId you ever shortchange a patient by using or diverting some of his medication. If you were/are is such pain I can only assume you did. I would have if I was in that much pain. I could not even work if I was in that type of pain. You know as well as I do there are other powerful opiate painkillers that work just a well. I believe you just wanted the OXY because you wanted to experience the super intense euphoria the other meds dont quit supply as well as the OXY. Get to a pain management clinic and follow the rules.

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Disclaimer: While we try to encourage free speech on this site, we do not recommend following Mike's advice in the previous post. It is dangerous and illegal. This site does not endorse such information and we will not be held responsible for anybody who decides to use medications which are not prescribed to them, or through methods which are outside the drug's intended use.

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if you can just detox from your pain meds and be okay then why are you taking them. It sounds like you have a legitimate injury so why dont you switch to dilaudads or morphine? if you can just detox and be done with it, then more power to you. i believe in some respects I am addicted but the pain is so severe AND new oxys upset my stomach and raise my blood pressure. I pray you are one of those who can detox & handle their pain mentally!! Good luck.

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You people act like a dog chasing his own tail. I'm on 3 60's and two 15 IR a day. I DON'T want to go on morphine or anything else. I am in pain 24/7 and I swallow them as prescribed. I'm NOT looking for that illusive high. I DON'T want to be high, I want to be out of pain! But I do know one thing, one of these days, my number is gonna come up and I want to leave this earth OUT of pain. So you go on morphine now and your body gets used to that and you have lost the ability for your body to process a new pain reliever. We are not gonna change the NEW oxy's (even though they are garbage) but Big Brother knows better for us.

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You are a jerkoff, people are going to do whatever they want regaurdless of your rant about drug heads even though you are one yourself... think about it jack.

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If you suck on the pill or shave it to remove the coating you can actually cook the gel out of them by placing them on a plate in the microwave on high power for 5 minutes then u just peel the gel off the outside and crush them down into powder for your shooting or snorting pleasure...my buddy is in rehab in florida for this so dont be dumb about it...just work better this way than the bulls*** time release

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holy hell!!! reading these comments now have me wondering if it is the op formula giving me horrible migrains, i thought i was getting migrains because the op meds. leave me in pain so long that i get so many more migrains. i told my pain mgmnt. dr. that i just want to be put back on the percocet and he tried to talk me into more of the oxy.op. i have such severe spine ptoblems with numerous surgeries and more to follow, so why the hell torture me more by adding more crappy pills that make me sick and keep me in pain???

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Well how

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I am in pain SEVERE pain all day every day . And these new pills do not help my pain, oh and i have tried every alternative to control my pain from acupuncture to nerve blocks to cortizone shots. I have tried everything and opiate pain pills are the only thing that allow me to function at all. I wish so bad that arrogant know it all's like u could experience the pain im in for just one day and see if ur not willing to do anything to alleviate the pain. It is because of people like u that make it that much harder for people like me with legitimate pain problems to aquire pain pills. i hope and pray that u suffer from debilitating pain someday and u are denied access to the one thing that can help u

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WarWalker - WE DID IT! The last two months I have picked up my script and got the OC's, thought it was from an old batch. This month I picked up my script and it was the OC's again. I asked about it and was told that this is what they are getting again. The OP's
have been recalled and are NO LONGER being made!!! It took us a year of yelling and screaming about the uselessness of what they were dishing out. It caused some people taking their lives and others to seriously thinking of taking their lives (I'm glad they suffered through the storm).I raise my glass to you and all the others that have called Purdue, Doctors, pharmacy etc. But we finally got back what we know will stop the pain! To the man of many hats, I wish I could still talk with you, you have been my strength, my hope in mankind and most of all, I wasn't alone! GOD BLESS YOU, my friend. I will never forget you! Love, Paula

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Junky. Pain is in your head grow a pair and suck it up. You don't need drugs all of you are clowns. Pain lets you know your still alive you wanna live like a zombie for the rest of our life. Idc who you are or what kinda pain your in oc 80s are insane. You all feel like crap cuz your withdrawing from drugs. I've used them recreationally but I'm head strong and if I get hooked I get sick for a week and deal with it. Sober ppl get the flu and deal with it you all should too

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I called Perdue today and BITCHED! I have been taking the 80's for years at high doses and i just got my script filled and i got 540 of the new ones. I broke out in hives the size of lemons. I called this number 203.588.8000 and told the woman what happened and she transfered me to a nurse in the medical dept. I just asked her what the heck they did to my meds. It's the damn binders they're using that did this to me. She asked my name and address and how many i take at a time and IF i swallow them. I would guess if enough people call and report any drug reaction that maybe in the next couple of months they'll change them back. I figured i'd call and get the ball rolling. They tried this crap a few years ago and they ended up changing them back - Every phone call helps.

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