Purdue Pharma reported yesterday that five more OxyContin Lawsuits against the company based on claims of personal injuries resulting from use of the drug had been dismissed. According to Purdue, the company paid nothing in settlement of any of the dismissed cases, which bring the total number of court ordered dismissals to 47. Currently no OxyContin cases have resulted in judgments against the company.
Investigation of the facts behind the OxyContin lawsuits has shown that, in some cases, the plaintiffs were not injured as they initially claimed, while in other cases, the plaintiffs had actually developed substance abuse disorders several years prior to their use of OxyContin, Purdue said in a statement.
“Abuse of prescription medications is a grave public health concern. It can cause serious and tragic consequences to individuals and their families,” said Dr. Paul D. Goldenheim, Executive Vice President for Worldwide Research and Development and Chief Scientific Officer at Purdue Pharma. “We are working closely with the healthcare community and law enforcement officials to keep these medicines out of the wrong hands while making sure they remain available to patients who really need them.”
OxyContin contains oxycodone, a very strong narcotic pain reliever similar to morphine. The controversial painkiller is prescribed to patients suffering long-term, severe pain from cancer or other illnesses. The tablet provides 12 hours of pain relief when swallowed whole.
OxyContin can produce a quick and potentially lethal high if chewed, snorted or injected. It has been linked to more than 100 deaths and has the FDA’s strongest warning label, which says the drug is as potentially addictive as morphine.
(via PR Newswire)
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I was perscribed a high and ongoing perscription for oxycontin from a physician for muscle and joint pain relating to neurological lyme disease. I became addicted and needed detoxification at a very high cost that the insurance company wouldn’t pay for.
My father started taking Oxycotin after the doctor determined Darvacet was not helping his pain relief. His pain was related to his neck which had two discs needing fused. He finally recieved the surgery but not after months on the drug, attempting suicide and going through detox and rehab. Now he has to stay away from all pain medication. This has cost our family more than most can imagine. How can any company or doctor prescribe this medication to anyone? The consequences of taking it more than a family can bear!
I was perscribed oxycotin for chronic back pain about 4 years ago. I was started at a low dose, was never really told how addictive the drug was. It was steadly increased and I was perscribed 80 mg every 8 hours. I found myself taking more of the drug on my own for the pain. I tried at least 2 times to go cold turkey and stop the drug, that was the worse thing I have ever gone through. I was never able to kick the drug on my own..my body would not let me give up the terrible drug. Finally I put myself into drug rehab, and with the help of a loving family and good friends, I WILL KICK THE DRUG..ONE DAY AT A TIME! I do feel the drug company did not give enough information on how addictive the drug was, and now many people, just like me are suffering.
has anyone won a lawsuit from taken oxycontin?
I am only taking 20mgs 4 xs a day,and roxicodone 2xs lowest dose,I am lethargic,and just sit all day I cant wake up in the am,and cant sleep at night,my time is switched ,my husband is home to get daughter off to school thank GOD,how can I wean off,I need to know,what to do ,
My husband was prescribed Oxycontin 40mg for an ongoing three years for his back pain, in which he is disabled from. He could not go without the drug after developing a dependancy to it. Our relationship started going “down-hill” because he wasn’t alert enough in his daily life to even make important decisions. After he was in the hospital (for his heart from withdrawals), the hospital even sent him home wihthout the medication, and they gave it to him while in the hospital. I brought him home from the hospital, and he went through the terrible withdrawals again, and with more pain. I personally think they should most definately take this drug off of the market and that Perdue Pharm. should be sued. There has been too many death, and too many good people become drug addicts because of this medicine. I am praying every day that the lawyers get together to stop the manufacturing of this deadly drug !
I have read enough negative on Purdue Pharma to make me sick. All of you who are “addicted” and all who have lost loved ones to Oxycontin have got to take responsabiity for your own actions. How can you consider blaming someone else for your addictions?? That in itself is a drug addicts response to his/her own problems. Read the positive’s from people and find the simularities, ex; You(and only you) must educate yourself on Opiates. If there were not any chance of addiction, it would not warn you right on the freakin manufacture’s box. (I AM STUPID, mistake #1)Why is it the DEA makes Heroine illigal?? Just because your Doctor says take this for pain, you trust him that all will be alright?(I AM STUPID, mistake #2) Are you a sheep in the world or a human? Can you read?? Oxycontin, when taken as prescibed, can be a life saver to most. The handful of incidents are heavily outweighed to the good the pain reliever brought to so many others lives. Don’t ruin it for the rest of the world because your alcoholic Mother ODed on Oxycontin. I am pretty sure she should not have had a drop of alcohol while being prescibed that strong of a drug. Know your body, know your doses. Don’t drink alcoholic beverages with this med. I don’t mean to down you for your lose, but you negatives about something you did not know about is YOUR problem, not the pharma/medical world, and certainly not the people who can resposible use powerful pain medication. There should be no lawsuits at all against someone who comes up with a ’round the clock pain reliever. Human error is the culprit 99% of the time.
I was prescribed Roxidone IR mg 2 tablets 3 times a day for several carpal tunnel syndrome. I took the drug for about two years and when i tried to stop I could not, I had several withdrawls and just craved the drug all the time. Finally i went in a drug rehab & started going to NA meetings, I have been clean for one month and feel wonderful; so if I can do it there is hope for other people. Good Luck
My sister and her husband were both prescibed Oxycotin. At first it helped but they both became addicted to the drug. When their doctors realized how addicted they had become they were both refused any further treatment because they were addicted?!! They found herion was about the same as Oxycotin and began taking that. At the present time my sister is in jail awaiting sentencing.
I feel the doctors, who are so free with this medication, should also be put on trial. In my opinion, they are nothing but glorified drug dealers.
This is to ANON I can’t believe you would right stupid crap.You think that the only people that get additcted on this DRUG is alcohlic mothers please. You must work with the people who make this stuff or your one of the people who can tell people about the positive side of taking this drug. My mother-in-law was diagnosed with cancer a few years ago the doctors perscribed her oxycotin, for awhile it helped then she started taking more and more then was going to different doctors getting more persciptions and even ordering it online. When we realized what was going on we put her in the hospital and talked to her doctors after several weeks in the hospital she was doing great she could walk again go to town, cook with her grand kids which she loved to do her her blood count was good. We thought she was back and strong. Then she went back to the doctor for a check-up(the one we had talked to in the hospital)and guess what the perscription was he gave her OXYCONTIN.It started all over and she went back in the hospital again. we would get her clean and the doctors would keep giving it to her like they did not care (all they care about is the money). Then March of 2003 she went in the hospital for the last time her heart was to week to fight again and we lost someone very special.
To people like ANON yes innocent people get very addicted to this drug not because they are stupid , but because they have never had dealings with a DRUG so addictive and not because they are alcoholics (get a life).I just hope you never have to go through wathching someone fight for their life just because doctors are so free willing to give this DRUG out. This DRUG needs to be taking off the market!!!!!!!!!!!!!
My husband of 22 yrs. started taking oxycontin in June of 1998, for a back injury which led to two major back surgeries. He started out taking a small dose, over the years he needed more and more and it was never enough. I found out he was chewing the drug, after many family members telling him he needed help for they saw the change is his whole persona, he decided to try to go off cold turkey, he became depressed and sucidal which landed him in a psychiatric ward for three weeks. He came home and went back on the oxycontin. Now two years later he is once again trying to come off. We are now separated for I feared the way he was acting, he says he loves our family, but I have had to have removed from the home because of his abusive language and behavior, and I feared for me and my childrens lives, he became very agitated when not agreed with, started hallucinating and became very disorganized in his thinking. To date he is staying in motel rooms, denying he has a drug problem, but the only thing he cares about and defends is his drug. It has ruined our family, and taking away so much of us both emotionally and economically. I feel perdue pharma and the doctors who prescribe it should be sued and take this medicine off the market. I was recently speaking to a friends son who was addicted to herione, and said that herione and oxy has the same affect, but he preferred the oxy because the high was better for you knew what you were getting.
Hello,
My Husband is on oxy. right now and has been for two years now. I am pretty worried about him, His script comes from out of town and it didn’t make it before the weakend. He says its ok Ill make it ..But Im not sure He will..Hes going through withdraws really bad and he doesnt want to go to the emergency room, and Im having a really hard time with this because it has already effected our relationship so much.I thought it was just me beind ugly, But i sit her and read all these stories about all of you and it burns my heart to know its not only me. I dont know what I am supposed to do to help him. He is also paralized from back surger,And it has put him in such a depression. Where do I turn who can I talk to? who has answers? Also the insurance company is trying to take him off workers comp so that means his medication isnt coming….What do I do?….
Very concerned Wife,
What can you say or do about this situation? On one hand it is a miracle drug that takes away the pain without the risks or side effects of most other new experimental pain releif medications ~ on the other hand, it is highly addicting to anyone who takes it for longer than a month or two! I have been on 60mg twice a day, with oxy IR 5mg for breakthrough going on 5 years now, and my doseage was only raised once, from 40mg. Infact he wanted to raise it to 80mg at one point when I was having a hard time with my pain, but I felt it was too high after trying it, and also felt “doped up”, so I left it at 60mg. I have always been honest and took my prescribed doseage, with the exeption a few very bad nights, but I know from running out a few times, and doing my own “come downs” to check my pain index, it is going to be a terrible experience to ever come off of these! I check my pain index time to time because I honestly do not want to be on this medication, and just like smoking I want to quit more and more every day but what is the alternative? I honestly believe this drug should be used only on elderly people, or people in their last days to make them more comfortable, anyone who doesnt have to worry about ever having to be taken off of them. I also do NOT believe in all the lawsuits against the manufacturer, but do believe they should assist in helping to detox anyone who wants taken off of the medication. They should also spend some of those major bucks made from this quite expensive medication to create detox drugs to bring you down easily when its time! I do honestly believe it has changed me and my life to an extent, and even have been told by friends. I also dont know how I would have made it through the pain levels though either, I’ve dealt with quite alot of pain already never having my doseage raised in atleast 3 1/2 years. For anyone reading this that is in my situation right now and having trouble staying “levelled out”, drink ALOT of caffeine every day, and that will help you keep your evergy in place, I drink a gallon of iced tea every day, and still pretty much sleep all night or most of it. Good luck to all struggling with it yourself or with family, if you need someone to talk to write me kevin30_99@yahoo.com – put “Oxy Help” in the subject line and I will try to give you my many years of experience with it and dealing with others. A strong willpower to keep being “yourself” helps also! Take care, ~Kev
9/23/04
I am so glad to find this website–hope that I am able to again. With the exception of Mr. Butthead “anon”, I am actually weeping with shared pain and some joy at finding kindred spirits. I am also trying to gradually exorcise oxy out of my life after 3.75 years,a no good back surgury and following all of the rules. Perdue Pharma was pollyanna in their response, recommending additional drugs to help with withdrawal–gee, do you think Klonadine is one of their products? I asked them if I could help with or participate in one of their studies but apparently they do not feel the need to continue with nor conduct any. HAH! I think that all of us prove differently. I am not an abuser and refuse to go into rehab and be tagged as such. I have reduced from an apperently lethal dose (as my newest work comp. Dr. informed me)of 80mg. 4X day @ 135 lbs. to 40 mg. 3X day over several months. Lots of ups and downs with stress and trying to work AND unstable withdrawal effects. Anyone else experienced this “half-life” latent, after the fact (weeks even) more pronounced withdrawal? Not to mention the complete inability to deal with ANY stress and being reduced to tears for the most mundane reasons? Hopefully this is an exchange where I will hear response back. Guess what!! Consistant mental confusion and nearly nonexistant memory… PLZ respond and best wishes…
I want these folks to know that I feel for them as I went through the same awful things. Yes. When you are on oxycontin you cry, your body hurts all over, you have memmory loss, and you also have other mental things happen within your brain. You can’t see yourself because you are so doped up but your family can and they pay also. Then you go through the withdrawals that equal an illegal drug addict and are treated as such when you actually only took what the doctors prescribed for you. Never mind that you are an honest law abiding citizen you still are treated as DIRT. Then when you are released (rehabilitated) you know and remember how awful you felt on that horrible medicine and thus you are scared to death to trust doctors and to take any form of medicine again. I am. I will never trust any doctor, hospital, or medicine again. I certainly will not be giving any more money to any of them if possible. No I don’t want the drug again, however, I still am suffereing from withdrawal systems several months later..sneezing, memory loss, and on and on. But to all you on here that are suffering — it will get better. Dont go back as you are only giving everyone control of your mind again if you do go back to that hell…doctors…hospitals…purdue….all of them. Stay clean and hang in there it will get better and Purdue will eventually be caught in their lies.. I wish I had just stuck to the Percocets and never let my doctor give me that nasty oxycontin. I beleive human brains cannot take the oxycontin in large doses like this and not become an animal. Perhaps we are just the animals in the experiment.
oxy free and glad!!! i was only on the drug for 4 months and i gave ot back to my doctor and stayed on my percoet and it was hell on me comeing off the oxy and i still feel bad but i am geting better !!! thank god i was not on it longer. i hope or wished that every one could get off the oxy it is a bad drug thanks for your comments it really helps knowing they are other people out there like me!!! in chronic pain.. lee.
My wife has been on Oxycontin for 6 years now and has tried several times to ween off them. Her doctor is no help. She is only laking 20 mgs. a day now but it is near impossible to quit altogether. She is under 100 pounds so this is a contributing faftor I assume? I hear these stories about doctors prescribing up to 8 times more than she took! That is insane. She crashed two cars on this drug, never had a ticket before in her 30 years of driving! Is this all too common? I want her off this as well as her but at what price and what to do for chronic pain afterwards? She has had several surgeries and all have left her with more pain thean before. She is so sick from this drug she will accept pain as a way of life rahter than this dope. Any thoughts?
Hello,
There has been a death caused by Oxycodone prescription & Tylenol misuse. She was turned into a legal drug addict over a 2 year period because of chronic pain caused by a car accident and chronic kidney stones. This person was treated as a drug addict even though she was a pillar of the community. Doing special fundraisers and active in the community. My studies have shown me that Oxycodone creates drug-seeking behavior, intern she resolved to use excessive amounts of Tylenol. The result was liver damage & Death.
The problem is, no one wants to handle this case because of drug seeking behavior. This is caused by the oxycodone usage.
My boy friend was married to her for 19+ years and has 2 sons. I have been researching this because I feel this is a huge mistake. There is not enough information out there about both these drugs. Also there seems to be a drug company cover up.
Please help us with this dilemma.
Thank you,
ShirleyJean
My girlfriend had knee surgery a few months ago and was prescribed the 5mg Oxys without Tylenol (shes allergic to it). She took a few and said it definitely helped with the pain, but she didnt like the spaced out feeling. So she didnt take anymore and they sat for a month or so. Lately, I have had a really bad psoriatic arthritis flareup that regular NSAIDS werent really dealing with, so a took a few of the Oxys. Man, oh man, did they do the trick. I found myself wanting another dose of that the next day. And before I know it, I had taken the whole 24 tablets she had left within a week. This stuff is amazingly addictive. Luckily, there was only a small supply of this for me to get my mitts on, or I would be in a world of shit by now. Stay away from this stuff at all costs or you will be a slave to it in a very short time.
My 19 year old son was prescribed Oxycontin 5 months ago whils in hospital undergoing treatmnet for Lymphoma. The reason it was prescribed was to allieviate the pain of pleural effusion and subsequent post operative pain. The dose was escallated tp 80mg twice a day with 20mg breakthrough doses. It was never discussed that this medication is addictive and that its difficult to come off it in non painful way. He was dishcharged 4 weeks ago with ample supplies of the drug and the dose was not reviewed despite his ongoing symptoms of being lethargic, sleeping all day, feeling nousea and vomiting, loss of appetite and chronic constipation .
I have only read on internet that this drug can cause such symptoms and decided to gradually take him off it.
No help was offered by medical profession. He was almost cold turkey for 4 days after the first dose reduction; to 40mg twice a day. 2 weeks on he is on 10mg a day..the only thing is i give him the dose in the morning and he is suffering at night. Melatonin at 6-9 mg does help. I am astounded that someone like him who was seriously ill with life thretning disease was left to deal with this with no support from medical profession. He is very underweight and badly needs to recover from the harsg chemotherapy so eating is very much an issue.
I intend to publicise the dangers of this drug wherever I can . Good luck to all of you who are trying to discontinue its use. The tips I can offer are: take body building amino acids in high doses, : this will build your own nurotransmiters , and omega 3-6-9 olis in high doses: 10,000g a day – 10 big pills or oil on salads. Tahke a high potency Vitamin supplemets with lots mineral content and increase Zinc – to 50mg a day. Also , if you can take melatonin at night: this is a good way to get some sleep when aggitated. My son is doing OK now after 3 weeks . It can be done. May the force be with you!
Ex
My 19 year old son was prescribed Oxycontin 5 months ago whils in hospital undergoing treatmnet for Lymphoma. The reason it was prescribed was to allieviate the pain of pleural effusion and subsequent post operative pain. The dose was escallated tp 80mg twice a day with 20mg breakthrough doses. It was never discussed that this medication is addictive and that its difficult to come off it in non painful way. He was dishcharged 4 weeks ago with ample supplies of the drug and the dose was not reviewed despite his ongoing symptoms of being lethargic, sleeping all day, feeling nousea and vomiting, loss of appetite and chronic constipation .
I have only read on internet that this drug can cause such symptoms and decided to gradually take him off it.
No help was offered by medical profession. He was almost cold turkey for 4 days after the first dose reduction; to 40mg twice a day. 2 weeks on he is on 10mg a day..the only thing is i give him the dose in the morning and he is suffering at night. Melatonin at 6-9 mg does help. I am astounded that someone like him who was seriously ill with life thretning disease was left to deal with this with no support from medical profession. He is very underweight and badly needs to recover from the harsg chemotherapy so eating is very much an issue.
I intend to publicise the dangers of this drug wherever I can . Good luck to all of you who are trying to discontinue its use. The tips I can offer are: take body building amino acids in high doses, : this will build your own nurotransmiters , and omega 3-6-9 olis in high doses: 10,000g a day – 10 big pills or oil on salads. Tahke a high potency Vitamin supplemets with lots mineral content and increase Zinc – to 50mg a day. Also , if you can take melatonin at night: this is a good way to get some sleep when aggitated. My son is doing OK now after 3 weeks . It can be done. May the force be with you!
Ex
OxyContin is a derivative of opium, which explains the dopey feeling after taking it and the major side effects of withdrawal. I think this drug should be prescribed for very short-term use.
THis drug does more harm than it does good, I can not believe that there is story after story of how many individuals that this drug has forever changed thy’re lives.Yet nothing is done by the FDA to get this drug off the market. I know first hand the damage this drug can do. This year my family and I found out that my 18 year old brother had been addicted to this drug for sometime. Though it took him getting in a head on collision, which was very tramatic, we caught it in time,but even after the addiction was noticed help was very scarce, do to the fact that that he was considered a legal adult very, finally after withdrawling very badly and becoming very violent, we got him the help he needed. This drug affected are lives greatly, and changed them forever. oxy-cotten is becoming an epedemic in the small suburban town that i live in. I tis ruining countless youths lives, and there family’s. Something needs to be done. This drug needs to banned.
I’m only in the first half of may battle on this medicament, as i haven’t yet begun my withdrawl program.
I’ve been perscribed 80mg oxy for only about a month now. My GP has been very hesitant about this and worked me up to this dose after about 2 weeks of trialing lower doses. My need has come in the waiting time for a shoulder reconstruction, and it has turned my life from an absolute nightmare to a tolerable confusion. All the side effects mentioned above are present, but I was lucky that my GP did indicate likelyness of some of these.
I think the drug does have a time and place, but the medical profession may need to be more vigilant with the way it’s prescribed and more compationate about it’s users.
Hi 5 years on oxycontin, 20mg 2x to 80mg 4x. damaged right ankle, both knees, back, both shoulders, neck and head injuries. severe mva..i guess one has to have some disipline when using this med. it’s hard and sometimes most difficult to maintain but the pain is gone, from misery to a life. everyone is different? i will say again, the disipline required with this med is great and most can not do it.
I just wanted to say that I really feel for those who’ve suffered because of this drug.
However, the people who feel it should be removed from the market are unfortunately one-track minded.
This drug saved my life.
I am 25, suffering chronic pain all over.
Without this pill I crawl on the floor, using all my upper arm strength to pull my body across the floor. Screaming in agony all day long. At 25 my wife would wash me, dress me etc.
I look young healthy and fit, so when walking outside all the time people stop and ask me how I am.
I now have an 11month old baby.
My doctors, due to all the fears and bad advertising about this drug, are reluctant with prescriptions….I know this is a good thing.
However for 2 years they told me there is a drug called Oxycontin, which will change and save my life, but they don’t want to give it me.
No other med helped AT ALL.
After 2 years they finally prescribed it.
I hold my baby in pain, at about 3 months he’d become too heavy to hold without being in pain – but it’s worth it.
Without these pills I would never have held my son.
As for addiction – let me tell you all something.
From age 13-18 I was addicted to marijuana, and had experimented with many other drugs and became addicted to them (except heroin)
At age 18, I cleaned myself up,the doctors had tried, rehab had tried, no help at all. In the end I did it by myself, I just stopped seeing all my friends (I learnt in the end they weren’t friends, just drug-buddys). I ceased all connection with any of that life.
I was clean for 3 days and realised that my mind was clear, I could finally talk to people again.
I then admitted to myself I have an addictive personality….and always will. The only way to stay off these drugs, is to find a new one. I found it….it was called life.
I became addicted to being clean, being able to talk and look healthy and normal, clear headed, wake up feeling fresh. I still am.
I was clean from 18 years of age, now 25 and am completely anti-drugs.
I still have addictive personality, am addicted to things like computers, cigarettes etc. but no drugs.
At age 23 I was finally prescribed oxycontin.
By that time i had realised my childhood drug abuse was me merely self-medicating, trying to escape pain that doctors weren’t there to help me with.
REMEMBER – I had gone for 5 years, with no oxctontin or street drugs, so the oxycontin wasn’t a replacement by any means.
It’s very ironic I worked so hard and did so well to clean up, while all my friends from younger times are all dead, locked up, or begging on the streets stoned out their heads.
The doctors are refusing to increase my oxycontin. They give it me for pain, they know that the body builds up a wall against it and it doesnt’ work as well as it did, I’ve been on same dosage for a year now. They know it’s not working any more, they give it me as they know I’m in pain, but because of all the fuss about this pill, they’d rather i go home in pain, not hold my baby, let my wife look after me at the age of 25, like I’m a 90 year old, they’d rather that, than have people question their prescriptions, risk their job, even write the extra piece of paper.
Regarding addiction, I have increased oxycontin to 40mg twice a day (I’m still in pain, but only 10% if that, of what I would be without it) though it is agony that needs more meds.
To prove to myself (the doctors don’t know and wouldn’t approve), one day a week I don’t take my pills. That way I know how bad my pain has got, for real with no masking from meds.
I also once every two months, stop for a week…..just to prove I am not addicted. The week is hell for me, I am in agonising distress, but at least I know I AM IN NO WAY ADDICTED.
I have no yearning for the pill, I have NO WITHDRAWAL symptoms.
Yes, the pill causes chronic constipation, which can be helped with laxatives.
Yes, if I take too much I can feel stoned…..but if a person is taking it when they really need it, the pain is the opposite to the stoned drowsy feeling.
If they are on the right dosage, they are pain-free (as much as poss), and they are not stoned. Too much dosage, and they are zombies, too little dosage, the pain is not managed correctly.
I am so sorry for all those parents who have had probs with their kids on oxycontin, I truly am…..however please please don’t fight for the FDA to stop this pill. It is keeping me alive, more pain and I’ll shoot myself. It allows me to work, to be a father, a husband and a friend. It gives me my life.
You know what??? I AM ADDICTED TO OXYCONTIN. I am addicted to what it does for me, the 2nd chance at life it has given me. The fact my wheelchair hasn’t left its storage place in 2 years.
If you want to fight, have revenge, stop problems you may have had because of it, happening to someone else’s kid.
Fight the education system, help educate people about risks of taking prescription drugs when not needed.
If a child is addicted to it, I’m sorry. The problem is NOT THE DRUG. The problem is the addiction. If oxycontin didn’t exist, I promise you, that person would just have been addicted to something else. Trust me, I know, I’ve been there remember.
Instead people fight to remove this drug from the market, with constant disregard for those of us who owe their lives to it.
With my history, and my addictive personality, if I can control this medication. If I can remain NOT ADDICTED to it, even though it does what it does for me, then ANYONE CAN.
Because people who have lost their loved ones to this drug, or have suffered or whatever, they have made those honest ones among it’s users have a rough time.
Let me paint another picture. I can only get a prescription for 10 days due to all this negative news about the drug.
I fought to have a month prescription. Why??? I am housebound, I can’t get to the pharmacy. My wife who is single handidly raising our baby has to also get my pills. It would be unfair for her to go more than once a month.
The pills are kept in a safe in every pharmacy. Everyone in the pharmacy, INCLUDING the staff, give bad looks when my wife, or I in the past, have collected this pill.
I cleaned myself up from street drugs for one reason only, I was sick of being dirt, sick of people treating me like that.
Now I am clean for 7 years, and I get the same treatment I did when I was an addict.
All prescriptions must be hand-written. When my wife finally has the time to collect the prescription from my doctor, she takes it to the pharmacy. The doctors are so used to printing prescriptions, that they always mess up the handwritten ones. My wife has to sit with the doctor and TELL HIM how to write the prescription.
We get to the pharmacy, because he forgot the date in one of the 3 places it must be, or because he didn’t spell the number as words as well as write the number, or because he forgot to sign somewhere, or stamp somewhere. My wife then needs to make another appointment, tell him how to write again, go back to pharmacy, who finally (this can happen 3 times in one day), accepts the prescription, only to be told they don’t have pills in stock, and because it’s so controlled have to wait for special deliveries.
It is one nightmare after another after another. I am not ignorant.
I understand there must be such restrictions.It is for the good of the public and all that.
But this pill has become too stigmatised. People have begun to use this pill as a scapegoat rather than deal with the real problem. If there loved one was addicted, the problem lay psychologically in that person. If some kid gave their kid a pill, the problem is with that kid.
This drug company were not irresponsible in creating an addictive, or whatever pill.
They created something for those who need it.
Even if it is highly addictive, with a load of side-effects.
Those of us who REALLY need it don’t care about such matters – the pain is worse.
I don’t believe this pill should be given to those with ankle, shoulder injuries of whatever sort etc.
The negative stuff of the pill is not right for them, no wonder they make a fuss.
HOWEVER those of us who live in agony, who’s lives are nothing but pain, who can’t hold their own babies because of pain, for their whole lifes (not two months after an accident at work for example)……then we know the risks of what we take.
It is our problem. Please don’t make our lives worse.
I highly respect what you all do. You are speaking your minds, trying to fight the big companies, standing up for what you’re believing, rather than sitting and just talking.
HOWEVER, please try not to fight so hard you don’t realise every consequence of your actions.
Remember, if it wasn’t oxycontin it would have been another drug. It is the dealers on the streets who you should hate, not a company who was only trying to help people. It wasn’t in their best business interest to create a drug that would be abused. They lose money, they risk losing their product on the market.
We owe them our lives.
Please think about this.
For those who suffered problems with the pill, who were not taking it on the street, but were given it, then please understand we can never trust doctors. They are not saints, merely people who went to medical school instead of studying something else. They make mistakes, they don’t know everything. It is our own responsibility to read the packaging and instructions of anything we are given.
I honestly believe, and it is my final thought, that anyone who is not prepared for the side effects, the risk of addiction, the withdrawal symptoms etc. of Oxyonctin, is a person who is not in enough pain to need it.
When you get to a level of pain such as myself (and there are many much worse, remember a lot of users are Cancer patients etc.), when you get to such pain that it destroys your life, permanently, chronically, not for 2 months of work……..then you’ll do anything to get rid of the pain. I awake with pain in my legs, and ask my wife to get me a knife as I want to cut them off.Seriously. I would rather be paraylsed, I feel agony in every inch of my body and at 25 I can’t use the bathroom normally.
WHen you live like this, addiction, withdrawal, side-effects from a pill you take that actually helps, are a joke, they mean nothing as you are so so so much better than not having the pill to remove the pain.
There’s only one problem with the pill, and that is with any serious painkiller, which is that you are taking it to hide the pain, when really the doctors should be finding what’s causing the pain. You’re in less pain, they don’t have to face you and tell you they don’t know. So let’s just hand out the painkillers and go back to patients with flus, sore throats and the easy stuff.
In summary
1) Oxycontin is not a problem. The problem is with doctors either being too vigilent with the pill that those who need it don’t get it or not enough of it , or not being vigilent enough and giving it those who don’t need it.
2) Oxycontin is not the problem. The problem is with those selling it on the steets.
3) Oxycontin’s addictive effects are not the problem. The problem is with the abuser’s psychological addictive personality. Alcohol is addictive, but many of us drink it without being addicted to it. REMEMBER, guns don’t kill people. People kill people.
If you want to help :-
1) It’s not called help if when helping one person, you’re causing problems for another.
2) Don’t fight the company, they did nothing wrong.
3) Your aim is NOT to remove the pill from the market. Your aim is to remove the pill from the streets, and to make sure doctors educate the patients fully before handing them the pills, and to make sure that doctors are not TOO CAUTIOUS or not cautious enough with Oxycontin.
Please, I beg you think of me and the thousands like me before you start suing and making a fuss.
One final thing I’d like you to think of……
without my pills, I can not push the button to turn on the computer, let alone sit down at the pc, move the mouse, click the mouse button, and DEFINATELY not type a word.
Because I took my Oxycontin this morning…..I have written all of this and my fingers are only slightly in pain because of it.
I thank you so much for taking the time to read all of this.
I am sorry I went on for so long, but I really want people to understand the other side of things, at a personal level.
By the way, NO I AM NOT WORKING FOR THE OXYCONTIN COMPANY, or selling it on the street or whatever!!!!! I am simply a loving parent and husband, who owes his life to the makers of this pill.
Thank you Have a nice day.
right…umm….first of all, Olly, there is no possible way that anybody can be addicted to pot. and why the hell do u ppl keep putting slashes in between words like wouldn’t…that’s just retarded. anyway, im addicted to oxycontin. and im not crying about it like you people are. i dont blame it on the drug. i dont blame it on the company. its my own fault. and im man enough to realize that. im so tired of hear “heartbreaking” stories of all you crybabies who lost you “loved ones” to drugs. just shut up and get over it. if they really loved you, they wouldnt have done drugs in the first place. you all need to kick back and hit up some oxy, and chill the hell out.
I take this drug daily for cancer pain. It
is a true life saver and I will take it until I die. Thank God for this drug. It has made my last dying days into something
good and hopeful.
Dave
1st – Olly, you are addicted.
2nd – ALL READ THIS: The reps for Oxycontin were told to tell the doctors that there was no threshold for Oxycontin. In other words, if you still have pain, take more … no problem. They were WRONG. At 640MG per day your body and mind, as well as your family, starts to fall apart. You have no quality of life mentally and physically. If it wasn’t for prayer and family, I would not be here now. My doctor (once interviewed on 48 Hours) will tell you how they repeatedly lied to him. I currently am trying to use Methadone as an avenue to free myself from the grips of Perdue Pharma’s Oxycontin. I have lost many years of my life because of this drug that I will never again get the chance to enjoy. I will also never have the chance to restore the relationship I had with a girl that I had asked for marriage.
wow! I have never heard such sniveling! And now to add insult to injury…but they way some of these msgs read – people should be spending more time learning to read and write rather than complain. All medicine is only good if used for the right reason and its YOUR choice to decide if YOU can handle the “stong warning” regarding the possibility of addiction when receiving this medicine. I’ve been taking Oxy for 6 plus years (taken myself off it twice two have my children) and still don’t consider myself addicted to the drug. Adicted to the fact that it permits me to live somewhat normally instead of in suicidal pain all day. Yes, if you take too much, you will feel sleepy. But you know when you are abusing something and trying to blame it on the pain. I am beginning to think most people on this site don’t or can’t take the responsibility for their actions themselves or stand the thought that one of their loved ones made a bad choice to misuse this med. Some of these doses are out of control!! Maybe I’m just lucky, but I still haven’t bumped up in dose much even over all these years. Now my new doctor agrees that narcotic based drugs are not good long term pain programs and that is the only reason I’ve going to change meds. I thank god this company made this medicine so I can look back AND forward and know my kids and I have more fun to look forward to. Don’t get me wrong, without this or another med, I think the bottom of a river is where I would be so I’m hoping people will try to at least keep an open mind and recognize that MOST people are not abusing this med and actually need it!!
my boyfriend and 6 month old babies father starting taking oxy and percoset about 2 years ago for chronic back pain hes 35 years old in the beginning it worked but now 2 years into it hes hooked he blows through 90 10 mg in about 1 week. i can no longer let him slowly kill himself its not about the pain anymore its about the high. i finally called his doctor and flled him in because of fear he was driving my baby around. he slowly got hooked but its bad now. he went to the doctor 2 days ago and they gave him Klonadine hes miserable now and pissed at me but oh well he wont die not taking oxy but i fear i will die taking it. both of my childhood friends are dead one from oxy overdose and the other oxy and coc overdose. you think for his daughters sake he would stop but its got a hold on him. he really hit rock bottom (ithink) the other day the day i had enough and called his doc. but now hes withdrawing and pissed but im pissed to that he could allow this to happen. so he can be mad all he wants someday he may appreciate that we love him i want him to live to see his daughter grow up so like i said it wont kill him not to take it but taking it will eventually kill him.
I take Oxycontin and under a doctor’s care and testing. Without it, I could not work or enjoy life at all. You cannot just pop more and more to avoid pain totally, you have to be disciplined and follow what the doctor says like any other drug. I work with a doctor who specializes in handling pain and have been taking it for over a year with no increase in dosage. Life with excruciating pain is no fun either.
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