Oxycodone is a really cool drug, but I STILL can't figure out why it would be used it recreationally

[HopeHoops]

It does take care of the pain, but it weirds the fuck out of me. Sounds go doofy, eyes play tricks. Long periods of "I'm tryin' to think but nothing's happenin'". I had no choice last night, or this morning for that matter. You can't drive on the shit. Limpbaughs has the stronger version and he does just fine calling upstanding young members of our society "sluts" and "prostitutes", and even if she DID post a video, he couldn't get his Mr. Dinky to respond even WITH Viagra.

I'm thinking I need a nap. Good night Irene.

[kentauros]

1. I only know percocet.

And it doesn't work on the pain of sciatica. I think you need anesthesia to deaden that kind of pain...

[Viva_La_Revolution]

7. Have you tried sleeping on the floor?

I was forced to use an air mattress for a few weeks 5 years ago, but after those 2 weeks I tried to sleep on a new bed and it hurt too bad. I went back to the air mattress, and most of my pain was gone. Then I switched to a futon (traditional style, on the floor) and now I can't remember the last time it flared up. Sometimes my knees make it a little difficult to get up from the floor, but that's a different issue

[kentauros]

9. I don't really have the room to sleep on the floor.

And the one air-mattress I have, my cat poked holes in it. It there's a chance for him to dig his claws into something for a stretch, then he's there

I'm in my third week right now, and it's not as bad as the first day (I went to my chiropractor that day and the following week.) I know I need to replace my mattress and springs, when I can afford it. For now, I sleep with the same old bed, and one of those long body pillows. Only I overfilled mine, so it's nice and cushiony. That helps considerably because I can get the sore leg up over it and at an angle that is pain free, or enough so to be able to sleep

[HopeHoops]

16. Percocet is the brand name. Same thing.

Mines for a fractured spine (which I injured again just by coughing last night).

[kentauros]

25. I may or may not have known that (at one time)

and obviously didn't remember.

I'm sorry you're having to go through that kind of pain. I am reminded of this stupid nerve every time I cough, or worse, sneeze! It is amazing to me how much our muscles tense up when we sneeze to prevent our limbs from just flailing all about with each outburst. I have to hold my left leg down with my other leg or it jerks all over, and causes even more pain.

I hope whatever you're using allows you to function with less or no pain

[HopeHoops]

28. Thanks. Unfortunately, today isn't turning out to be one of those "functional" days.

[WolverineDG]

36. massage & ibuprofen

Worked a miracle when I got hit with that. Hope you feel better soon!

[siligut]

2. Oxycodone makes me puke

Terrible drug for me, though I understand it does work for some people, so there is a need for it.

[HopeHoops]

17. Yeah, I can't to Fentanyl, and Hydrocodone doesn't do enough for the pain.

[geardaddy]

3. Vicodin...

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is the answer.

[RiffRandell]

4. Not to quibble

but it's vicodin.

[geardaddy]

5. Gah!

You're so right. "Spell it out geardaddy, V-I-C-O-D-I-N"

[cliffordu]

24. Or, Vicoprofen

If you don't like the Acetaminophen, preferring Ibuprofen......

200/7.5 yummy.

YMMV

[geardaddy]

26. I can't take NSAIDS.

So ibuprofen is out.

[cliffordu]

31. Heroin.

When you absolutely positively have to kill all the pain in the room....


Just joking....Not really....

[geardaddy]

37. Now you made me think of the Velvet Underground song.

[cliffordu]

39. LOL....

Thanks for reminding me of that tune

[geardaddy]

40. ...

"...it's my wife and it's my life... Heeeroooo-in..."

[HopeHoops]

18. Vicodin is Hydrocodone, not Oxycodone.

[csziggy]

14. It does to me the same as described in the OP

AND gives me a splitting headache.

And my knees STILL hurt all the way through that. I only take it when I just can't take the pain anymore and want to either pass out or be so zonked I don't care.

[geardaddy]

15. I could definitely see how it would affect some people.

I had it after hip surgeries and I tolerated it well.

[csziggy]

32. I've had it after every major surgery - and a couple of injuries

I'll take it when I have to but I hate doing so. In addition to the headache it lowers my IQ by about half for 24-36 hours. Basically I'm not safe to anything more than dress myself and pour a bowl of cold cereal.

I've posted some really stupid things here while on Vicodin...

[dmallind]

6. painkillers are weird things

Percocet and Vicodin I've tried with barely noticeable dimunition of pain and no side effects at all. Dilautid turned off the pain absolutely like a light switch, in not much more time than a light switch, and left me perfectly cogent and functional.

I don't really have an addictive personality. I'm a frequent drinker who frequently goes quite a while between beers but still has a half full bottle of good scotch that's two years old (about 60 really, but been open for two), but if that stuff were available on the open market I can't deny I'd be tempted to use it frequently. No idea of the side effects over time, but I'm guessing they should be avoided so it's a good job.

What works for some leaves others untouched. I've heard people say Vicodin at half my dosage knocks them out, but does bugger all for me.

[n2doc]

8. I think you are right

Oxy seems to work ok on me, but what really works for me is Demerol. Haven't tried Dilautid. I could find myself in serious trouble addiction wise if I had an unlimited supply of demerol, however. Oxy, not so much.

[HopeHoops]

19. Curiously, Oxycodone keeps me awake. Larazapam takes care of knocking me out.

[JesterCS]

10. have done them before

snorted and orally. While I wouldnt recommend anyone snort anything, the euphoria of 2-3 pills is nice. I do it rarely though.

One day I will figure out how to get high from oxygen =(

[HopeHoops]

20. Oh yeah - and a buildup of tolerance. I take breaks between using them.

[HopeHoops]

42. I haven't had through the day need in a while. This is one of them.

It goes from heavy but normal to me know to sharp "legs stop working" incapacitation pain without warning. I can barely walk at all at the moment, but that's just the drugs fooling me.

[LynneSin]

12. Perhaps you'd get a better idea if you posted this at the Rush Limbaugh Fans Forum

Just saying! Go to the source!

[HopeHoops]

22. Too slow. Oxycontin is the time-release form. (same drug).

[libodem]

13. If you have enough real pain

It takes care of the pain first and there isn't enough left over for any recreational experience. If you take that kind of stuff with no pain I think it goes to your head. It gives some folks insomnia and it works more like an upper than a downer for them.

Sorry you've been hurting.

[hifiguy]

21. I had some of that about a year ago when I tore a rib cartilage,

and the doc gave me Valium as a muscle relaxer to go with it. But I was one hurtin'
turtle. I was stuck on the couch for 22 hours before calling the ambulance and they had to give me morphine to get me off the couch and onto the little cart that rolled me down to the gurney.

I took my meds after coming home from the hospital and it was Happy, happy, joy joy. Zonked to the gills for five or six days. I think someone could have hit me with a frying pan and I wouldn't have given a happy monkey fuck.

[HopeHoops]

23. Same basic idea, but Larazapam kicks in sooner as Valium and doesn't last as long.

Hell, a half mg of the stuff is usually enough to knock me out! I don't like the "stoned over" feeling from some of the other bennies.

[NewJeffCT]

27. I took some last year when I had kidney stones

It made me constipated, which is a problem I don't think I've had since I was a child.

I ate a ton of peaches, drank a lot of prune juice and it didn't help me. I finally had to buy a laxative over the counter to loosen things up enough...

I don't recall any other effects, though. Maybe a bit of drowsiness?

[HopeHoops]

29. I get weird visual and hearing distortions. Not as bad as Fentanyl, but still.

I must have been allergic to Fentanyl. The patch area got all swollen and rashed over and I pretty much puked the entire time I had one on. That didn't last three full days before I ripped it off. Oxy just isn't a prescription you want to take before getting in a car. At least it reduces the pain quite a bit.

[LadyHawkAZ]

30. it's one of only two painkillers that work on me

but it makes me go night-night really quickly.

I don't understand the recreational part either. Where's the fun?

[annabanana]

33. ..mostly gives me constipation . .

(TMI?)

[murielm99]

34. It doesn't do anything for me except kill the

back pain I have been having. My back is getting better, slowly. I won't need drugs anymore. I am glad.

[Archae]

35. Codeine really cramps me to hell.

Vicodin doesn't.

Yes, I know I'm weird.

[zabet]

41. Well....

I am prescribed four 15mg oxycodone tablets per day for associated headaches from inter-cranial hypertension (my body makes too much spinal fluid and puts pressure on my brain)....I rarely have to resort to that many, I weigh about 130 lbs and on a bad day, those 4 barely take the edge off and make light bearable.