View All General Comment Abuse Story Death Story Chronic Pain Story       Please sign our Guestbook Name:ava Email:[email protected] Type:General Comment Date:4/27/2004 hello again everyone. i wrote about a month ago about how i started the methadone maintenance treatment. every morning while im there, i see all these people who have been off and on methadone for most of their lives. i'm one of the few people who are there for oxycontin abuse. these people and how god awful they look... it seems like they would step on and over your head to get to the dosing window faster... and you can tell by looking at them that they have lost everything. i dont want to ever end up like that so i promised myself i would not stay on it for more than 1 year (the maximum suggested time). i am scared that i wont be able to keep my promise to myself. it seems like right now, taking pills is the least of my problems. honestly, sometimes i really cant see myself ever quitting. everyday i search for the strength to be able to deal with my never ending problems the sober way, the way the rest of the world does.   Name:N/A Email:[email protected] Type:Abuse Story Date:4/27/2004 I am writing here because i have been addicted to Oxycontin for about 3 years now... i think.. In 2001 I suffered a serious neck fracture and was first introduced to the drug. During which i realized what the drug was.. and then decided to snort it instead of take it orally. I then decided to ask for bigger doses and so on... It is now almost May of 2004 and i have had a very good job which i will lose if they find out what i am addicted too.. so the only real thing i can do is try the self-detox...i have friends that went through the DR. assisted detox and they will help me... It has been about 48 hours since i have done one.. its now 3:29am EST and i feel worse then ever, it feels like the worst flu minus the fever..but like i said if i admit to my boss what im addicted too i will lose my job.. it sounds odd, but because what it is they can fire me if they chose to do so.. please email me with your ideas and if you have survived self-detox, tell me how long, and what to expect....   Name:not given Email:different story-family destroyed by theft of rx Type:Chronic Pain Story Date:4/26/2004 I have diabetic neuropathy, cronic pain which makes walking feel like I am walking over flaming broken glass all day. Just feeling bed sheets touch my feet or lower legs is living hell. I found out the hard way that my teenage daughters have been steeling my oxycontin which I take with neurontin (2700mg/day) & dalmane (hypnotic) & atavan (tranquilizer) among others for the lost ability to sleep more than 1-2 hrs. a day, high blood pressure, going deaf, loosing sight, all due to becoming a diabetic. As I am divorced & have full custody I have sent the last 2 girls (18 im one month) to their moms' home to live. A simple lock or storage where they coulden't reach this rx would of prevented this. As is I am going thru the hell of withdrawal alone, my daughter won't talk to me but her girlfriend told me she is trying to buy it thru the druggies at her school. Had I been advised by a doctor in the begining 5 years ago I would of made massive changes in the way I handeled this drug. I will never be drug free or pain free, no one can help there. BUT, protect the young who want to experement with drugs. Don't wait till it is too late, doctors do not tell you what it can do to a family! I really hope no other family has to go through this. Sorry for any typos as it's 3:00 am & as usual I am dead tired & in great pain, but, can't sleep. God bless & keep you all.

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