Very Accurate Answer To How Long Oxycodone Stays In Your System

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The general answer is 72 hours unless you have liver problems. I take a urine test every two weeks at a clinic, very high level testing. They are looking for .001 nanograms of oxycodone in your urine. I took 200 mg of oxycodone on Sunday night and passed with ease on Thursday afternoon. You can calculate the half life detection time by taking the total miligrams of oxycodone you took most recently in a 24 hour period (i.e, 100mg) and divding by 2 until you get to .001. For every time you divide a number by 2, add 4 hours. So it would look something like this

100/2 = 50 4 hours
50/2 = 25 4 hours
25/2 = 12.5 4 hours

and you keep doing this until you get to .001. Once you have that .001, add up all of the 4 hour increments and that is how long you will need to generally pass a urine analysis. Boom!!

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Almost correct. Here's the deal...If you are being tested for oxycodone using high level testing such as GC/MS, the cuttoff is 100 ng/ml to produce a positive result. Now the question is how long does it take to get below 100 ng/ml. The half life is 3.51 but you should probably round up to 4 to be safe. One milligram is equal to 1 million nanograms.

Example:
5 MG = 5,000,000 ng/ml

So in order to figure out how many hours it would take to eliminate/metabolize oxycodone below 100 ng/ml would be to take the five million and divide it by two. then take what's left and divide that by two. Continue this process until you reach lss than 100 ng.

1. 5000000 divided by 2 = 2500000 (4 hours)
2. 2500000 divided by 2 = 1250000 (4 hours)
Continue process until below 100 ng/ml

At 68 hours we have 76.29 ng/ml in the body. I usually would say give it one extra half life (4 more hours) to ensure that their is not excess metabolites left in your blatter. So in this case, if you took a 5 mg oxycodone, your would be technically clean after 68 hours. 72 if you want to play it safe.

Hope this helps someone who is worried out there. I will say that I have read what seems to be every article on the internet regarding oxycodone detection and their have been case studies that state oxycodone levels drop below the detection limit of GC/MS within 2 days. If your are worried about passing I would highly suggest exercising and drinking lots of water. The faster your metabolism, the quicker it is gone.

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Today is Wednesday night at 8:30 pm and my wife took ten mgs of percocet will it show on drug test at pain clinic Thursday morning.

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it sounds good but far from accurate..i get tested at my pain doctor and at work,both expecting different results..i can do 300 mg of oxy one day and two days later piss clean on a mass spectograpy test..d.o.t...

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4003 ng/ml is the same as taking how many 30mg oxycodone

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If I pissed dirty with 133 level and they retesting the same sample next week could levels go down

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If you took 200mg of oxycodone you would be dead! I only take 60mg per day and if I took three times that I would be in the hospital. I call bulls***.

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many people in true pain require 200mg oxycodone (or more). That being said there are people who have chronic (years and years) of pain, so doses get increased due to tolerance. 200mg is a fairly normal dose for those with pain who have taken oxy' over many years. 200 mg will (could) kill someone if they take it as a starter dose, but definitely not after many years of titrating up the dosage curve. Not Bulls*** at all. People in glass houses should not cast aspersions on those in pain. Try a gunshot wound to the hand and see how much oxycodone you may need my uninformed friend.

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Your full of it, it depends on how long you have been taking them and your tolerance. Also, size and muscle mass plus kidney function and other overall health issues play a role in metabolizing. When I was abusing my meds I was taking 450mg to 600mg of oxycodone on top of a 100mg 12hr time release morphine and 3to 6 somas A DAY. AND I FUNCTIONED NORMALLY, HOWEVER I DID HAVE ALOT OF PAIN AND FINALLY HAD SURGERY. NEVER ONCE DID I OVERDOSE, GET SICK, THROW UP OR END UP IN THE HOSPITAL NOT TO MENTION, OBVIOUSLY I'M NOT DEAD.

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TBH this may be true but not for me. Because I took a 15mg morphine and two 10mg/500 or whatever and passed a drug test two days later. And opiates are water soluble but I wouldn't take the chance

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False. My tolerance has been rising for years and I can handle 200 mgs also.

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The problem I am having is the opposite.

I am rx'd 2x 15mg SA tabs every 8 hrs, plus 1 at night for chronic pain. I take the pills as directed but on two blood labs I have come up "negative." This was even with me taking my 30mg dose 2 hours before the blood was drawn. My Dr. Is saying they wont rx me anymore because I showed up negative! How is that even possible!?

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THANK YOU FOR YOUR INSIGHT.. I TOO GET TESTED ALOT AND BROKE DOWN AND TOOK 10MG PERCOCET FRIDAY AM AND GOT TESTED MONDAY AM.. HOPE IM CLEAN, AND ACCORDING TO HALF LIFE STATISTICS I HOPE SO, JUST THAT OXYCODONE METABOLIZE INTO OXYMORPHONE, WHICH CAN ALTER DETECTION TIME.. NOT WORTH THE RISK FOR FEW HOURS OF A HIGH.. PRAY I PASS, WHICH I SHOULD, BUT DAMN, I COULD LOSE CAREER OVER THIS... SO TO PPL OUT THERE WITH LIFE ON LINE.. JUST SAY NO..
BUT THANKS FOR INFO, YOU HELPED MY WORRY A LITTLE. WONT GET TESR RESULTS BACK FOR FEW DAYS.. NO SLEEP AND WORRY WORRY WORRY OVER STUPID LITTLE HIGH

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I know ppl who take upwards of 300 mg a day. Ur trippin

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Wrong, it all depends on tolerance. I am now taking several 30mg Oxycodone at one time and hardly feel its effects. When I was really bad off I took so much over a 24hr period that it almost killed me. This was after multiple surgeries and it took a year to get to the number I was at. My b/p was very high and I had palpitations but no heart attack as per ER blood work.

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I took a total of 17 Percocet about two weeks ago for over a two week time frame. I wanted to know would that be above the cut off level? Also do im you think I would fail the expanded test if that's what they use?

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So if I took a 30 mg Friday at 1pm on Jun 30 I should be clear for a test on Wednesday July 5th?

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I take 30mg Oxycodone 3 times a day and took my last one Saturday Morning but i have to be drug tested on Tuesday. Will any Oxycodone show up in my Urine on Tuesday.

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Thank you so much for this!! I was panicking due to having to drug test tonight randomly. I took 15 mg of oxycodone Monday evening and hadn't cleared 72 hours. With this I was able to determine that in 52 hours I was clean! Thank you so much!!!

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Re: Desi R (# 6) Expand Referenced Message

That's not true. My habit was more than 400 mg a day, taking 180 or more just to start my day

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Yes, you can take 200mg in a day and pass. Why fifty questions but no one bothers to answer with their results because they don't care about one another. They are soooo worried about a response and don't come back till they need advice. ANYONE AGREE, AN ANSWER AFTER YOUR TEST WOULD HELP MORE THAN THE SAME THING... ME ME ME MY PROBLEM. I WASN'T ALWAYS PERFECT. I NEED A DOC WHO CARES ABOUT ME, NOT HIS LICENSE. I AM LIVING IN HELL. SO RESPOND TO WHAT YOUR QUESTION WAS FOR OTHERS. WHY HAVE A USELESS IT IS ALL ABOUT ME DISCUSSION THREAD?

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Re: Desi R (# 6) Expand Referenced Message

Depends totally on each person's tolerance. You maybe dead. I have been on as much as 240 mg oxicontin a day with 10mg oxicodone for break thru pain, and I was able to walk, talk and function

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I take 3 30mg oxycodone everyday as prescribed, I have been taking this dose for approx 5 years, and I recently had to take a drug screen for work(10 panel urine). I took my last pill of the day on Monday at 10PM, I took 3 pills that day just like normal, 8 hours apart. I took a drug screen the next day on Tuesday at approx 230PM and somehow I pissed clean? I am female, 5'3, 214 lbs, obvs overweight, I don't exercise but I do drink a lot of water on a regular basis and I peed several times that day before going. I kept expecting to hear from MRO as I take regular drug screens for my job but they never called and when I asked they just said I passed, super weird but I guess it's possible.

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Re: Desi R (# 6) Expand Referenced Message

I use to do 5 80's a day, back when the OC's were the good ones.

Really depends on what your tolerance works up too.

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Here is a "real world" answer to all the BS answers... Oxycodone will stay in you for 3 to 4 days... If you only took a 5mg it could be out at 48 hrs or less.

Why different detection times? It varies one the test, and your body. IF you are concerned about it being out of your system make sure you drink plenty of fluids prior to the test, start about 8 hours prior drinking lots of fluids so that your pee is clear. Dont just chug a gallon of water, you can actually die from drinking too much water at once...just drink over a gallon in the hrs up to the test, you will have to pee every 10 to 20 mins if you drank enough, and if you only had 5 or 10 mgs in 2 days it 'should' be out of you.... Now, IF you take a lot of oxy im saying over 90 mgs a day and are a person who takes it all the time for pain with a Rx it will NOT be out of you in under 2 days, you need 3 to 4 days minimum.

As far as dosage, yes people can take over 200mgs a day, hell some people are very opiate tolerant and can take over 500mg a day, yes its completely possible... people do build a tolerance, especially those with chronic pain after long-term usage. There is a difference from a drug addict and a person with chronic pain. Having 4 Herniated and 4 bulging discs at one time I was on 30 mg every 4 hours and I can tell you this, I didn't feel high, or light-headed, puke, or even feel sick... I was able to get up and walk. Do you get addicted to the drug... YES, after a couple weeks you are physically addicted, you get very ill when you stop, causing pain, diarrhea, sweats, chills.... it's like getting hit by a truck with the flu.

You can fix erectile dysfunction with a pill, however why is there no opioid for pain with no addiction issues.... money... many back injuries cannot be cured or fixed even by surgery and the only option people have is the pills and it sucks because they get treated like animals so they can live life, or try to live it... I have a friend on them for over 14 yrs, and is not a candidate for surgery, has 7 discs messed up, a shot hip and shoulder and also has MS... What is her option? She fell again and the Dr.s had her on 3x 80mg extended release and 3x 30mg oxys a day, and she could have used more -not kidding.... If she was a horse or dog they would have put her down. They need to come out with more patch type meds that cant be abused so easily, mix naloxone in it so if it's not worn as a patch you kill the painkiller.... they don't need to go crazy with all these laws, just make them tamper proof so addicts dont chop em up or whatever they do with them.... It's that simple.... Think about it, most of the painkillers are over 50, 60, 70 years old... Oxycodone turns 100 yrs old today... It's older than penicillin!

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