Oxycodone's Deathly Issue (Page 4) (Top voted first)

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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Who made the pills that you took?

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I noticed that sometimes I don't feel as much and other times too much.i am on immediate release.been on them for almost three years.

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Just in case someone else finds this years old discussion... tolerance means a lot with opioids. I've worked down from 30 mg MS Contin 2x/day, up to 75 mg immediate release MS per day so a total of 105 mg morphine possible as the highest morphine equivalent. I'm now to 10 mg ER, 15 mg IR

I wouldn't take the levels of dkludid I took after surgery

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How is that possible if you have a bowel movement every day?

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I think u should have kept that either to yourself. Not to be mean. But opiate addicts are gonna go crazy over the info.

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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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Donna,
I'm responding to your posting which assumed that I had a stomach problem because I underwent testing on my GI track. The reason for the testing was because I had been diagnosed with breast cancer and the Doctor was checking my whole body for the possibility of it spreading to other areas. Fortunately it had not. Since the first posting I made about this drug, I've run into another issue with a generic version of this drug. My pharmacy switched me to a generic form that caused some serious stomach aches when I took it. The following month I requested only the brand form of the drug and the stomach issues went away. Unfortunately, the extra cost for the brand name is costing me a small monthly fortune due to a clause in my prescription insurance which mandates that I must accept generic form when it's available or else I pay the difference between the brand name and generic pills. What a rip off. This is the second generic form of a medication that has caused stomach problems for me and the payment for the brand names are eating up an extra 100.00 per month. One has to wonder what goes into the generic drugs that could cause such a physical problem for a patient and create such a substantial price difference between the same medication? Does anyone know how to get around the insurance penalty for requiring a brand drug because the generic makes you ill?

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Dear Michael and Others:
My last post asked others to experiment with a few of their Oxycontin/Oxycodine pills to see if they are breaking down in the time frame we've been led to believe they will. I've since read up on this medication and found that it is water soluble and has the same molecular structure as heroin. I was never told this when I was put on it for pain. In a four year period between 1996 and 2000, there was a 400% increase in deaths attributed to this drug, and this didn't
include many thousands of ER deaths that could not be confirmed Oxy deaths due to other RX's within the patients system. This is a 7 year old study! Of course the manufactures are claiming that all of these deaths are caused by patients or street users breaking or crushing the pill to get a fast high. I strongly am beginning to suspect that they may have a delivery system issue that is not being disclosed and is easy to hide because most pain patients use other medications concurrently. I've informed my husband to make sure that if I die from an overdose to have the autopsy check to see how many un-desolved Oxy pills are found in my system. I can see how easy it would be to tell my loved ones that I died from an overdose because I had taken too many pills at one time and blaa, blaa, blaa, They would buy that story too if I had never discussed this break down issue with them in detail and shown them some proof. After all, I do take many medications for pain. I've been very slowly reducing the dosage I have been using daily for over a year. I found this difficult, but far from impossible if done slowly and replaced with other pain killers. I've reduced 20mg's in one year. I can't believe that I'm essentially addicted to heroin at 55 yr's old! Michael, whatever your pain level calls for, don't crush or break these pills. Sooner or later it will claim your life and you will just be labeled as another addict who was seeking a quick high. I'm sure that would piss you off knowing that you were only treating your pain level with a prescribe RX. It would for me. I am using Oxycontin at this time, not a generic. I can't wait to hear what your results are from your experimental test on these pills. Who knows, maybe our combined efforts could lead to uncovering a hidden defect. I know how hard it is to give up a few pain pills to do the test, but maybe we will save our own lives, and others, if we discover that this is a real issue. Good Luck to us all.

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Ginny; I was wondering if you ALWAYS swallow your OxyContin whole? When my arthritis gets really bad I find that biting through the tablet (name-brand of course) helps a lot. The effect comes on so much quicker and is a lot stronger; but the time-release mechanism of the original tablets still operates to a degree. I mean it isn't like taking 40mg oxycodone all at once. I wouldn't think you could do that with the American generics, which do not use the m/r system that original NAPP OxyContin does. I find that biting in half reduces the time of effective action to about five or six hours, but it's worth doing if you are bad enough. Remember it's the time-release method that makes branded OxyContin so expensive, so I certainly wouldn't risk doing that with a generic with a standard m/r delivery system. To release all 40mg of a NAPP tablet you would have to crush it into fine powder before taking it and that would be dangerous indeed. Needless to say, I am glad that generics are not allowed here yet. I know how my body handles the ones I get. I found out that OxyNorm, the instant-release form, is SO much cheaper. A box of OxyContin costs GBP£198 (about US$400) for 40mg tablets but a box of OxyNorm costs only £30 ($62) for the 20mg strength.

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