View All General Comment Abuse Story Death Story Chronic Pain Story       Please sign our Guestbook Name:Shonna Email:[email protected] Type:Abuse Story Date:5/9/2005 My name is Shonna, im 18 years old and i just recently got out of rehab for narcotics abuse. I was using oxycontin every day when one night my boyfriend and I did 5 oxy 80's and I went to sleep and I was fine, really high, but ok...the next morning I woke up in the hospital. My mom came to wake me up for school and I wasnt breathing, my heart wasnt beating either. She gave me mouth to mouth while my boyfriend called 911. All I remember for the next 3 days is them trying to keep me awake and people kept coming in my hospital room crying. I tried to pretend like everything was ok but I didnt understand what had happened and the severity of it all. After my 3 days in the Critical Care Unit in the hospital they took me to the psychiatric center for an evaluation and kept me there for 6 days to detox me and they diagnosed me with depression, which I believe is the main reason for the severity of my addiction. Anyways the terms of my getting out of the Psych center was that I had to go to rehab. I hated it there, I only stayed about a week because my councaler was a prick, but its been 3 months that ive been clean and Im proud of that and hope that other people with this adiction can be so lucky as I am and make it through the overdose if it gets to that point. And to all the people who have lost loved ones, Im truely am sorry, I wish the drug wasnt so easy to get and I wish people would stay the hell away from it.   Name: Email: Type:Chronic Pain Story Date:5/8/2005 Hello, Im 19 years old. I’ve been on Oxycontin and Percocet for 3 years. Ive just started the weaning off. Its very painful. Ive been off for 2 months now and im still going through hell. Bones hurt, runny nose, caughing, stiffness, no sleep. Im at my witts end. I was a firm believer in Oxy. Now after going through this, I think the drug should be taken off the market. My mother is on it due to severe chronic pain so I don’t know what she would do without this drug, shes very ill. But I was 16 when I started it, with a Dr. of coarse but I don’t think I needed to be on Oxy. It’s teared my life apart. It’s been stolen from me countless times because it’s so hot now and it really has destroyed my life and my boyfriends. I left my meds in his car unlabled and he now has a felony on his record. My withdrawal symptoms are so bad I feel like checking myself in a detox clinic. I cannot believe how much my attitude has changed since I’ve been off. I don’t want anything to do with it EVER again. The withdrawals are more painful than the initial pain I had to get on the drug… Please do what your doing and get this drug to be taken off the market. Thank you.   Name:Kelly Email: Type:General Comment Date:5/7/2005 My really good friend Brad just started taking oc's 2 weeks ago. He said he only does it occasionally and it feels so good. I noticed something different with him right after he started doing them, I notice he is more nervous at work, looks really drugged out, and just looks overall in bad shape. He won't listen to me about stopping & that he could die. I just want to get through to him before he kills himself with this drug.

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