View All General Comment Abuse Story Death Story Chronic Pain Story       Please sign our Guestbook Name:JAY Email:[email protected] Type:Chronic Pain Story Date:4/12/2004 I have been reading your guest book now for about a week, and it has really helped me and my family. My husband of six years has been prescribed Oxy now for about three years due to an injury he got at work and then had to have surgery and now has some permanent nerve damage left over which is where the Oxy comes in to our lives. He started out taking duragesic patches that lasted three days but they made him physically sick so we asked his doctor to change his medicine and that's when he gave him the Oxy's. My husband is 30 years old and a wonderful father of four beautiful little boys and he is a great husband, except now he is totally addicted to this medicine. When he first started taking the med. he did ok with it and then if he had a really bad day pain wise he would take an extra one and there to feel better. I didn't realize how bad it was until I had picked up his med's one day at the pharmacy for him and then a week later I was looking for something and found his medicine bottle 1/2 gone. Of course I confronted him and he told me he would start taking like he was supposed to. The problem is only worse now! He is prescribed 85 20mg Oxy's a month and last month I picked them up for him on a Wednesday afternoon 5 or so and by Monday, five days later he was totally out of medicine. I really didn't know what to do so I just started researching this medicine and found your website which has helped out so much. I printed out some of the stories and took them home to my husband to read and it was a big reality check for him. I have also contacted some doctor's locally that were listed in this area to see about the suboxone and the first doctor right away turned him down because he was legitimally being prescribed Oxy's by a physician(drug dealer). This doctor said he couldn't help us in this situation they pretty much told me that if he was some junkie off the street they would take him right in and help but because he has a doctor that is giving it to him they can't help us. There was only 2 doctors listed in this area that prescribe this medication suboxone and the second doctor that I spoke to is willing to see him but because we don't have insurance they don't know if they will be able to help us either. I really don't know where things are going to go from here but my husband says he wants to be off of the medicine and be normal again, I'm just afraid that by the time we find someone willing to actually help him get rid of this addiction it will be too late for him. Thanks so much for having this website available to people like me without it I wouldn't have known how to try and help my husband. To all of you who have lost someone to this terrible drug my heart goes out to you and your family and I pray every day that my next comment won't have to be listed as a death story. thank you and god bless!!   Name:kathy braddock Email:[email protected] Type:Death Story Date:4/12/2004 Five months ago my son Brent, age 22, died from snorting OxyContin. Brent and his younger brother Mark lived together and were attending college in Tallahassee, FL, three hours from our home. Mark warned Brent the night he died that he was taking too much and was going to kill himself. When Mark got up the next morning, Brent was dead. This has totally devastated our family. Mark stays high 24/7 to escape the reality of his brother's death, trying to erase that vision, trying to resusitate him, seeing him carried off in a body bag. I am worried sick about losing him too. We struggle every day to move forward. We miss him. We never thought anything like this would ever happen to our family. It is such a tragedy.   Name:Maria Email:[email protected] Type:General Comment Date:4/10/2004 I have been using Oxycontin for over 2 years. I'm 21 years old and have 2 children. I'm despretly wanting to stop my addiction but can't find any help. Since I have only state insurance their's a 3 month waiting list to get evaluated for treatment in my town. I've been thru withdrawls 3 times and I don't think I can go thru it again especailly with taking care of 2 little kids by myself, and even if I was to seek help I'm scared of getting my kids taken away from me, cause if that was to happen I wouldn't have any reason to stop my addiction, and I also have absoutly no family or friends for support. I despretly need some help!! Does anybody know how to taper off of oxy's the best way??

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