Oxycodone's Deathly Issue (Page 4)
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I've been using Oxycodone for five years for pain management. I read about all the deaths that were associated with this drug which were being attributed to intentional over medications by patients in order to get high. I discovered by pure accident that there appears to be a major flaw in this pill's ability to consistently breakdown in the human system like it is intended to do, especially in the time release tablet. As the pill fails to breakdown and release it's medication, they begin to build up dangerous levels within the upper gastrointestinal track. They eventually do release into your system, but not when you planned for it, and sometimes many stored pills open at one time and dump into your system all at once. It could look like an intentional overdose to those who don't know about this issue. Has anyone else noticed that sometimes they feel like they never even took their pain pill? Or has anyone else noticed that every once in a while they seem to get super loaded for no known cause every once in a while? I discovered this issue when I went in for a colon test and after six hours of cleaning out my whole system, I began to notice at the very end that about fifteen oxycodone pills, fully intact, began to pass through my system from the upper gastrointestinal tract. The actual test showed that there were still five more left in my upper gastrointestinal tract. Nothing else in my whole system but those pills stuck inside me. I tried to inform the manufacture, but they did not want to hear what I had discovered. Meanwhile, they continue to blame all deaths related to Oxycodone to addicts who purposely took too many pills to get high. User's beware. I like to hear from anyone else who have noticed some of the oddities I've mentioned about this drug, especially if they have a reason to believe they too had a pill build up.

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This is the first time I ave heard of such an isue. The reason that OxyContin is so expensive is the revolutionary time-release mechanism. You must be talking about som sort of generic version, which are not available in the UK where I live, because our patents last far longer than those in the US. No generic Oxycodone will be on the UK market until 2016.

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Johnny,

I wish I could remember the manufacture of the pills I was using at that time. I do remember that all the talk about the many deaths attributed to intentional overdosing was not narrowing it down to one type of pill of Oxycontin. I do know that four years later I don't seem to be having nearly as much problems with this medication as I did back then. However, I still go through the fairly routine issue of feeling as though I did not take a pill at all. Recently, I demanded that I only get the brand name and that problem has disappeared.

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Verwon seems to be a coordinator or a monitor of some type. He also cruz's thru unanswered questions and replys to them !
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Verwon,
I just realized today that you are responding to many postings related to a variety of drugs. Are you working for the drug manufactures? Why would you know so much and seem to always have answers that explain away a users issues.

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Ginny,
As there are several different manufacturers of this medication - do you know which pills do not break down? I mean from which manufacturer, what dose and what color pill. Thanks.

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ginny,
Thanks for sharing your info about the pain med. I have some info that I hope will help you. I can't take any anti-inflammatories of any kind,NO Aleve,motrin,advil,asprin they all cause me major problems. I took one motrin and ended up in the hospital with a GI bleed. I have several reasons that cause me to be in pain all the time. I was prescribed oxycontin over a period of 3 years. During that time the doctor just kept increasing the dosage because it seemed to lose its benefits. It has a coating that is supposed to allow it to be time released. I can't give you info on how long its supposed to take to release. I would try reading the full and lengthy RX info that is provided with the med. You can look it up online or get one from a pharmacist. I can tell you that I noticed similar occurances as you with regard to the pills not working all the time, sometimes it was like I didn't even take them. I would end up going insane with pain. Sometimes they seemed to build up in my system and release more than usual. That wasn't good either because I would feel so sleepy if I sat down, and totally hyper if I kept going. Also, I used to see them floating in the toilet without the green coating, but mostly the whole pill. Sometimes they came through with the green outer coating. They weren't capsules so I don't think that its possible that it was dissolved on the inside like the other person commented. I have never heard of ghost pills so I can't comment on that. When I mentioned to my doctor that the pills were coming out whole he said I was the first person to mention this to him. Several months later he stated that he had other patients confirm to him that they also passed whole pills. I was taking a very high dose of the oxycontin. I think it didn't work for me because they weren't absorbing the way they were supposed to. I know that these meds cause constipation, slowing down the intestinal tract would slow down the metabollism too. I gained 45 lbs while I was taking the oxycontin. I think the pills are supposed to be absorbed in the stomach and not the intestine but could be wrong on that point. Maybe they absorb in both along the way. While taking the oxycontin I used to sleep walk,sleep eat, and had sleep apnea. I even fell asleep driving, it was scarey. The most frustrating part was that I was still in pain. I could have died or killed someone if I were still taking the oxycontin. If I were you I would try to find something else that works for you. I stopped taking the oxycontin and it was difficult because my body was so used to it. But it was SO worth it in the long run. After the oxycontin I went to using a fentanyl patch in combo with percocet. My lliver didn't like the tylenol in the percocet so now I take it without the tylenol. Its oxycodone. Its not a time released pill. Its much,much lower dose than the oxycontin was. It might be helpful for you to try the fentanyl in combo with another type of pain med. The change in dosage might get rid of the side afects and might end up working better for you. Don't give up trying. Being in chronic pain is hard on your body too. Don't forget the alternative medicine options. Yoga,massage, acupuncture etc. can make traditional medicine and its medications work more effectively. I have learned there is a place for both when it comes to taking care of yourself. Peace to you.

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Verwon,
Thanks for the information you have provided. Actually, I was told that what I probably saw was referred to as a ghost pill. The suspicious evidence that made me doubt they were ghost pills is because I retrieved several of expelled pills out of the group and they were rock hard and felt intact with their medications. How does this evidence correspond with a ghost pill, and how long can these shells remain in one's system? What do you think about this additional information and my theory? Before this happened, I'd never heard of 'ghost pills. What else can you tell me about how the shells remains intact, but the medication is released? Also, can you tell me how the timed release ?mechanism works, and doe's it ever release at different times depending on one's internal system or other med's they are taking? Thanks for any information you can provide me and others with.

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A full pill passing through someone's system DOES NOT mean it hasn't released the active medication.

There are many pills that release the active medication with the outer shell remaining intact. That shell is empty and is not meant to dissolve in your body, it is meant to be naturally expelled.

If you read the documentation from the manufacturer of the pills you are taking, you will see a warning on there about just this very thing.

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I forgot to mention that I discovered this deadly issue with the breakdown of Oxycodone four years ago. Maybe the manufactures have fixed this delivery system problem since then. Has the death rates attributed to this drug dropped since a few years ago? I still am concerned, since someone else mentioned they saw a full pill that passed through their system as recently as an October entry on this page.

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