I just wanted to thank all of you for responding to my post about the
oxycontin. It really has eased my mind alot! I started taking the
oxycontin around the beginning of last summer. I took 10mg twice a day.
My pain management doctor just increased it last visit to 3 times a day.
I also take Zanaflex 4mg 3 times a day. He prescribed me Sonata 10mg to
help me sleep at night. It works pretty well but I think I am building
a resistance to it because it hasn't helped me sleep lately. It could
be the fact that I have been in more pain the last couple of weeks
though. I just can't seem to get comfy enough to sleep. ANyway, about
the oxycontin, when my hubby's friend told him it was derived from
heroin and considered poor man's heroin, that freaked me out a bit. BUt
you are right, I am only taking it because I am to the point of getting
up out of bed, and moving to the couch. Sometimes I get a little more
active. I went to a movie and to eat with my honey tonight! Thank God
for good honeys! You were talking about the pain meds making you more
talkative, well they do that to me too. Ted says that I get alot more
loveable too. I'm always loveable, but I get even more so when my
medicines kick in. I think it is because I am tense from the pain and
when I start feeling better, I go back to the real me. The one thing is
when I first started taking the Sonata I would start saying crazy
things. I fell asleep while eating banana chips with tehm half hanging
out of my mouth. When my kids said something to me about it I told them
I was saving some for them. Then a few minutes later I sat up and
looked at my son and said I'm gonna kiss you between them big 'ole brown
eyes. They said I sounded like a hick truck driver. Well, I am a hick
so that wasn't too hard. At first I really didn't believe them when
they told me that I had said that. But I am sure now that I did.
Sometimes I take Benadryl to help me sleep if the Sonata doesn't work,
especially when I am having problems with my allergies too. Well I
guess it was my time to ramble on. Anyway, thank you all for your
responses.