Good Morning Chrissy, This is Dave and I used to be on 15 ms contin a
day and all they did was to tear up my insides. I also have been on the
oxycontin, however it was as taking asprin because I had such a high
tolerance to the contin family as in it did me no good what so ever. I was at
one tome in so much pain that I was in the hospital for two weeks
experienting with various drugs for pain management, and was hooked up to a
morphone pump the whole time,recieving 10mg of morphine every ten minutes as
well as the drugs that they were experimenting with. I hate drugs and I
especially hae pills because they have to go through the liver, causing
severe damage over a period of time, and they can give you heart and lung
problems as well as slower thinking ptterns ans such. I prefer the cleaner
drugs, which are drugs like morphine and the patch because they absorb into
the bloodstream much faster, as well as the fact that they do not have to go
through your vital organs, and they keep my chronc kidney disease at bay.
Pills can, and will hurt you. That is why many doctors refuse to prescribe
the oxycontin. Besides they are much abused and are the choice of drg
abusers. Please dont get me wrong, I am not calling anyone on this forum a
drug abuser, what I mean by a drug abuser is the people who use drugs for
recreation. I am happy for you that you have found a drug that will control
your pain, however in the near future you may find that you need more of the
pills and then you may want to consider the patches as well as either the
mscontn, or the oxycontin for breakthrough pain. I wish you well and you are
in my prayers. God Bless you and keep you safe. Dave