Switched To Oxycontin From Oxycodone. I Do Not Like It At All (Page 2)

Oxycodone was 30 mg every 6 hours or prn. Oxycotin is one 20 mg every 8 hours. It stops working at 40 mg OR 20 mg at about 5 hours.I had a RouxN Y Gastric Bypass several years ago, and my metabolism is fast. Could it be that time released pill isnt working because of the compromised gastric system?I will always need pain meds due to severe double curve scoliosis. It is so hard to deal with the doctors, yet they whistle when they see my xrays. Why is pain medication here if not for cases like mine? Im mid 50's. Been on pain meds for about 6 years. Hydro first, but they are hard on gastric systems. Oxycodone doesn't hurt the gut at all...Any advice? Thanks..By the way, I'd LOVE to get off pain meds, but it'll never happen, too old for surgery...

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Re: Ghostgirl (# 2)

I’ve come off opiates a few times over the years, only to have someone drive into me again so I start again. (I think I need to paint my car bright orange or something). For you, I don’t know if you want to if you’re in constant pain. The first time I had worked up to 30 mg oxycodone 3x a day. Or maybe 4 (it was 14 years ago) and I distinctly remember having fear that if something really traumatic happened I worried that they wouldn’t be able to control my pain (I am barely 90 lbs, so no judgment on other people’s doses-that was just my fear for me) so I weaned off of them over the course of a couple months. It wasn’t terrible and I don’t at all worry about doing it again. I don’t worry about withdrawals, I worry about losing what bit of functionality I have left. But pills vs patches... idk. My old pain doc switched me to Oxycontin at night a couple years ago & at first it helped a lot. I didn’t wake up in pain, I slept better, but I don’t like the lack of ability to lower my dose. When I was weaning off the 30s I could cut them in quarters, get lower dosed pills and cut them, etc. My idiot doctor told me that to wean off the 10 mg long acting they would have me take one every other day, then one every two days, etc. I almost laughed in her face. Withdrawals start to kick in about 10 hrs after my last dose wears off (it’s supposed to be more like 12 but my fast metabolism doesn’t allow that) so at every other night I would be spending a night and day in withdrawals. F that.
They also kept trying to push a patch on me when I am managing well on 10 mg Oxycontin and 5 mg oxycodone during the day.
It’s borderline crazy to try to take someone from my dose to a Fentanyl patch. Especially after they tried switching me to long acting during the day last year and I was so wasted I didn’t dare drive. It messed up my whole month. Now I found better pain management who doesn’t think I need oxy in my body all the time if I don’t need it all the time. I love him for that and it makes me cry when I think about how much better my quality of life is now that I have a provider who thinks about what works for me, not what the oxy rep told him. (I say that because the old pain doc tried to say the long acting is less addictive because it’s a steady flow rather than the up and down with instant release. That was an element in the fraud case against Purdue, that they settled. It was laughable because I don’t think anyone on pain meds for any length of time even feels that up and down. I didn’t feel anything from my meds. Just pain relief.)
Anyway, sorry about the rant. I came just to say, yes, people get off pain medication. I have a few times. But if your spine is bent and will stay bent, and it hurts, if you’re ok with that you could give up the meds. I just don’t have any advice at all about long-acting weaning, except that from everything I know, my old doctor’s plan was abusive and ridiculous.

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So I recently switched to 10 mg of oxycontin at night to 10 mg oxycodone. I don’t care for extended release medication since I don’t always need the same level of pain control & I also don’t like the plastic pill. I have stomach issues already.
I am so happy I switched. Plus, I think the 5 mg oxycodone I was getting at rite aid was bad-a half a 10 mg works much much better than a 5. And that’s weird. But I am happy.

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