View All General Comment Abuse Story Death Story Chronic Pain Story       Please sign our Guestbook Name:Katherine Mahieu Email:[email protected] Type:General Comment Date:9/10/2002 I work at a nightclub in Las Vegas Nevada, and one night I was talking with a coworker, and was telling them about a headache I had. Well, she told me she had a painkiller to get rid of it, and told me it was like taking a valium and I have taken valium before so never thought about it. Come to find out it was oxycodone. I had taken the pill at 2 am and did not start feeling the effects until 4. When I had gotten home, every part of my body was shaking and it was hard for me to breath. I was so tired from work, but everytime I would start dozing off I could feel myself stop breathing, it scared me to death, I didnt know what was happening to me. After a couple hours the effects wore off and I was finally able to go to sleep. When I woke up I decided to look up oxycodone on the internet to see what it truly was and found this website, It scared the living daylights out of me reading what could have happened to me. I now know to NEVER take anything from people, even my close friends, without knowing what it is and how it can effect me.   Name: Email:[email protected] Type:General Comment Date:9/10/2002 I just wanted to say that I live in Philadelphia and being a 18 years old I can tell you that this drug is so big. Bigger than I could ever dream or anyone else. It had never really affected me because I never knew the teenages dying from oxy O.D.s. But recently my boyfriend of 2 years had been arrested and I learned he was badly addicted to them. He was even snorting them which scared me, because I knew people were dying from this. Right now I know it is best for him to be where he is because he is in a controled environment. I just worry about him alot because I know that Oxycontin is a hard drug to get off of. I want to be there for him but I don't know how. I know being 18 I am still very young and can find a person who is better for me. (And this is what alot of my family is saying to me.) Yet I know him being only 20 he still has his whole life ahead of him, and if there is any chance I can help him I want to. After learning about his addiction I have noticed that it seems that ALOT of teenagers I know are taking these every weekend (sometimes more). I feel like everyone around me is taking them and its made me feel so bad. I guess what I'm trying to say is that if you know anyone who is younger it would be wise to talk to them. Maybe you could show them this website and let them read some of these stories. If someone would e-mail me I would like that I could use someone to talk to right now. Thank you for all of your time.   Name:Jen Smith Email:[email protected] Type:Chronic Pain Story Date:9/7/2002 Has this also happened to you? I am 31 years old and I have had CP for 16 years now. I'm currenly taking 100 mgs of Oxy twice daily. They do not make Oxy in 100 mg pills, so for more than a year now I have asked my Dr to write the Rx for 300 each 20 mgs pills (I took 5 in am and 5 in pm). This was never a problem before. Now, because of recent local press about abuse, all of a sudden my Doctor "Doesn't feel comfortable" writing a script for 300 pills, so he now is writing me two prescriptions, 60 each of 80 mg and 60 each of 20 mg, which is the exact same doseage as before. Here's my problem. I pay a co-pay of $30.00 per perscription. So because he's more "comfortable" writing two scripts for 120 pills total as opposed to one for 300 pills, I pay a double co-pay for OxyContin. I am extremely angry because I now am forced to pay double for a medication that has allowed me to live a life that is worth living, just because some people abuse the drug. I'm being punished, yet again for the abuser's supidity, poor judgement and ignorance. I already have to suffer with the pain, take nine different medications along with all their side effects, be subjected to tests, and nerve blocks, and treatments, and dragging my HUGE envelopes of MRI films, X-Rays, Bone Scans, Mylograms, CT scans etc. to all of the consults with Doctor after Doctor that never can help me. It sucks that I again get the dirty end of the stick. Instead of making it more difficult for legitimate CP patients to get the medication they need, why don't they focus on the CRIMINALS? Not us....we have more than enough to deal with. Eventually, the Doctors will be too scared to write the scripts for Oxycontin and we'll all have to suck down pain pills every 4 hours again instead of every 12 hours. When I took those meds I had to set an alarm clock to take pills so that the meds were at a constant level in my system. I'm sure you know that sleeping is difficult when you're in pain...imagine having to wake up once or twice for pills when you have such a hard time sleeping in the first place. Anyway...as I step off my Soap Box... has anyone else has their Doctors adjust your Rx as mine has? Thank you for your time.

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