I started taking 5mg percocets about a year and a half ago. I was taking them for back pain and menstrual cramps. I realized that I liked the feeling so much that I began taking them forever. Im a server in a restaurant and it made me feel friendlier and like a harder worker for some reason. I ended up taking higher doses of percocet till I was taking 5 or 6 10mgs a day...I kept having back pain so I told myself thats why I was taking them. After being on them for a year and a half i looked back on my life and saw what the addiction had done to me. I had lost my apartment, my fiancee, my engagement ring(pawned for drugs), and I quit my job for stupid reasons. BY this time I was buying Roxycontin and Oxycontin and snorting the pills...it was bad. I quit cold turkey and for 2 and a half weeks I was in utter hell..I couldnt sleep, I had cold sweats, Restless leg syndrome, I was depressed about everything, I was irritable...but after the drugs were out of my system I felt a wonderful freedom..like being alive again. I almost forgot what it felt like to be normal. It made me look back at my life and I realized what I had lost. I would be married by now if I hadnt become addicted to percocet...now I have nothing. Its a horrible drug to be addicted to....
I was reading the message board and sayong that you can not get addicted to percocet or that its not a class ll you really have no idea what you are talking about. I am medically retired as a pharmacist from the Army and it is a class ll. I myself have decided to stop taking my prescriptions because its not helping anymore. I am stopping 480 percocet, 60 morphine 30 mg, and 180 valium a month. And yes you withdraw from them the same you would oxycontin or any other drug your body is used too. The 1st 3 days were the worse I took ambien to try and sleep and took lots of jacuzzi baths for the aches.I threw away my medication because it was to hard to have it in the house because I will take it. Also the 2nd day I did have a seziure and kept going in and out and that was extremly scarey for my husband. I also only took as prescribed and never even took the morphine or valium because those were the 2 I was scared off. A week later I still have sweats and chills and horrible headaches but am now taking tylenol only and ambien to help sleep.
I never got a euphoric feeeling or high from it so I thought I was fine but I did take it to go to sleep or when I was stressed out.If you think you have a problem don't do it by yourself have someone with you the 1st few days to help and watch you in case you need medical attention.
I am just glad I am not in denial and have told my husband evrything so he can help.I always was proud of myself because at 30 I never drank or smoked or did any illegal drugs but I was.
I never got a euphoric feeeling or high from it so I thought I was fine but I did take it to go to sleep or when I was stressed out.If you think you have a problem don't do it by yourself have someone with you the 1st few days to help and watch you in case you need medical attention.
I am just glad I am not in denial and have told my husband evrything so he can help.I always was proud of myself because at 30 I never drank or smoked or did any illegal drugs but I was.
to the one who said its hilarious...i never post on these but you are a m***n...ive withdrawn from both oxys and perks...percocet is easily harder and by the way 20-40mgs of oxys is nothing...you are on here with people withdrawing from 100's of mgs of oxys i bet and u laugh...you come on here laughing at other peoples problems when you are addicted to oxy 20-40mg...there are perks stronger!!!! get clean and read what you said again before u insult anyone
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Obviously not or you wouldn't be ignorent enough to say that it's not illegal for someone to hold your meds for you.
WOW... IF YOU ARE A PHYSICIAN, I AM ASTOUNDED AT THE FACT THAT YOU CANNOT SPELL IGNORANT CORRECTLY. DID YOU ATTEND A SCHOOL ONLINE? THIS IS WHY PEOPLE GET DRUGS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR THEM, "IGNORENT" DOCS SUCH AS YOURSELF. GOOD LUCK BEING A GLORIFIED DRUG PEDDLER. AND SPELL CHECK BEFORE YOU PUT AN OPINION OUT THERE. IT JUST MAKES YOU LOOK STUPID... AND UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE, YOU MAY WANT TO "CHECK UP" ON THAT!
WOW... IF YOU ARE A PHYSICIAN, I AM ASTOUNDED AT THE FACT THAT YOU CANNOT SPELL IGNORANT CORRECTLY. DID YOU ATTEND A SCHOOL ONLINE? THIS IS WHY PEOPLE GET DRUGS WITHOUT THE NEED FOR THEM, "IGNORENT" DOCS SUCH AS YOURSELF. GOOD LUCK BEING A GLORIFIED DRUG PEDDLER. AND SPELL CHECK BEFORE YOU PUT AN OPINION OUT THERE. IT JUST MAKES YOU LOOK STUPID... AND UNTIL PROVEN OTHERWISE, YOU MAY WANT TO "CHECK UP" ON THAT!
Hello... This is my 1st time here as I am dependent on Percocet that is perscribed to me However after a year & 1/2 I am naturally dependent on the pills & seriously want to get off the stuff!!!
I have a few comments as I was reading other posts on here & I just had to respond to the person who gave his friend his medication "TO HOLD" Ok 1st YOU cannot blame your friend... You are completely responsible for allowing this to even happen at all.. I would never give anyone my medication to hold.. clearly he was VERY interested in your medication & that should have been your 1st clue.. why would anyone just want to hold your medication knowing that is very illegal... & YES to the other person who wrote that it is NOT illegal for anyone to hold your medication... OHHH hell yes it is!!! Back to the unforgiving friend... You seriously need to accept responsibility yourself & you really have no right to say you can NEVER forgive him for doing that to you.. I mean seriously .. You only have yourself to blame!!! I could not even believe what I was reading because I was completely dumb~founded by what you wrote.. in a nutshell you need to just get over it & try to understand that your friend most likely has an addiction or a problem & dont judge if you yourself are a true friend. It is terrible that you had to suffer however your ok now & your friend may not be!! He clearly has bigger problems than you even are aware of. You seriously cannot put the blame on your friend when you gave him your medication in the 1st place immediatley after surgery & although you may have been doped up still from surgery you clearly remember the whole conversation between the two of you so you were aware at the time that you aggreed to let him hold your meds... who does that anyway???
But anyway I am not here to judge as I am a pretty open minded person but it really bother me when people have to blame others for their stupidity.
Again I am currently taking perscribed Percocet for chronic pain & I am seriously shocked to be able to walk into my doc office every month & pick up my script & there are no other options?? I am just supposed to pop pills for the rest of my life??
I am perscribed 5 a day max & there are times I do take more because my pain breaks thru but more than none I end up taking more because I feel normal when I take them & after a few hours after taking one i start to feel like I am coming down or that i am feeling yuk so I take another & now I am taking 2 at a time because 1 doesnt seem to cut it anymore... so yea I am running out at the end of the month before I go back to doc for my new script & I dont know anyone that I can get them from so I find myself panicing etc & its to the point where I am just over it & I dont wanna live this way!!! It doesnt seem to matter to me thru the month when I know I am taking more & that I am going to run out.. I always think I will cross that bridge when I get to it... & I honestly dont know when I get close to running out where I am going to get any???
So lately I am thinking of just getting off the meds & perhaps discussing surgery in hope there is an option with that?? but again I will be back on pain killers & I am concerned that will start this whole cycle over again!!!
I was thinking that I may go to a detox facility when I am close to running out of my pills... I do not feel safe or comfortable doing it alone. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions that may help me??? I would really appreciate it very very much.. thank you for your time & attention .. Happy New Year, God Bless, Peace , Love & NO PAIN!!!
I have a few comments as I was reading other posts on here & I just had to respond to the person who gave his friend his medication "TO HOLD" Ok 1st YOU cannot blame your friend... You are completely responsible for allowing this to even happen at all.. I would never give anyone my medication to hold.. clearly he was VERY interested in your medication & that should have been your 1st clue.. why would anyone just want to hold your medication knowing that is very illegal... & YES to the other person who wrote that it is NOT illegal for anyone to hold your medication... OHHH hell yes it is!!! Back to the unforgiving friend... You seriously need to accept responsibility yourself & you really have no right to say you can NEVER forgive him for doing that to you.. I mean seriously .. You only have yourself to blame!!! I could not even believe what I was reading because I was completely dumb~founded by what you wrote.. in a nutshell you need to just get over it & try to understand that your friend most likely has an addiction or a problem & dont judge if you yourself are a true friend. It is terrible that you had to suffer however your ok now & your friend may not be!! He clearly has bigger problems than you even are aware of. You seriously cannot put the blame on your friend when you gave him your medication in the 1st place immediatley after surgery & although you may have been doped up still from surgery you clearly remember the whole conversation between the two of you so you were aware at the time that you aggreed to let him hold your meds... who does that anyway???
But anyway I am not here to judge as I am a pretty open minded person but it really bother me when people have to blame others for their stupidity.
Again I am currently taking perscribed Percocet for chronic pain & I am seriously shocked to be able to walk into my doc office every month & pick up my script & there are no other options?? I am just supposed to pop pills for the rest of my life??
I am perscribed 5 a day max & there are times I do take more because my pain breaks thru but more than none I end up taking more because I feel normal when I take them & after a few hours after taking one i start to feel like I am coming down or that i am feeling yuk so I take another & now I am taking 2 at a time because 1 doesnt seem to cut it anymore... so yea I am running out at the end of the month before I go back to doc for my new script & I dont know anyone that I can get them from so I find myself panicing etc & its to the point where I am just over it & I dont wanna live this way!!! It doesnt seem to matter to me thru the month when I know I am taking more & that I am going to run out.. I always think I will cross that bridge when I get to it... & I honestly dont know when I get close to running out where I am going to get any???
So lately I am thinking of just getting off the meds & perhaps discussing surgery in hope there is an option with that?? but again I will be back on pain killers & I am concerned that will start this whole cycle over again!!!
I was thinking that I may go to a detox facility when I am close to running out of my pills... I do not feel safe or comfortable doing it alone. Does anyone have any advice or suggestions that may help me??? I would really appreciate it very very much.. thank you for your time & attention .. Happy New Year, God Bless, Peace , Love & NO PAIN!!!