OXYCONTIN - some iteresting storys

I found this on internet,

somebody hear of this stuff??

http://www.wellsphere.com/fibromyalgia-article/oxycontin-the-closest-thing-to-a-cure-for-fibromyalgia/435087

AND one interesting comment under this story:

melanie911
For years, my daughter has been suffering with unknown symptoms. At first, I felt she was over-reacting since she was always an athlete. She never took pain meds, nor desired it. She's tall, slim, was very healthy, and also has severe ADHD, and being treated for it. When she turned 10, she caught an unknown disease now known as Lyme Disease. She was treated, but it cannot be cured. She was fine for years later. Then when she turned 22, she started looking for pain meds from friends and trying to get them thru doctors. She was taking my husbands meds, known as OxyContin, 40mg, and we noticed they were always missing. She ended up getting into trouble here and there and we were sure it was a drug problem. She is now 32, and lives with us still. After going on State Assistance, we sent her to the best doctors in the area, and outside the state, taking money from our pocket because she has no health assistance. FINALLY they realized that as a result of the Lyme Disease, as a developing child, mixed with her ADHD, she developed severe Post Trauma Stress Disorder. This was a result of us not believing her and thinking she just wanted to get high. She really was in pain we later found out, and because of us not being supportive, she will never be the same. Now we do all we can to help her. Last month, she was disgnosed with the entire reason of her seeking desperately for OxyContin. She wanted nothing but just OxyContin, and when we gave it to her, she acted like the Melanie we remember. She was Disnosed with Fibromyalgia - a very serious and chronic pain disorder, that can only be treated by Pain Management. They tried all kinds of other meds. We have always been dead against a young person taking such a highly addicting pain med, but now we must say, it has saved her life. She would make up in the morning sweating with pain, cranky, begging us for something to help, and constantly going to the emergancy room with a huge bill, and no diagnosis. Thanks to the right doctors, we have target the exact problem, and she now takes 2 OxyContin 40mg a day, and one 30mg IR Oxycontin at lunch, for the last 4 years, and is now working, finished college, got married and has a beautiful daughter, who they carefully watch to make sure she doesn't get what she has, which was passed to Melanie thru her Father's genes. If it wasn't for this Natural Opium Pill, she would be a junkie, dead, or in jail. And to this day we will always feel horrible how we never believed her, or listened to her. She's a strong woman, and very althletic again. If we kept ignoring her, she would still have Stress Disorder. The OxyContin has cured the Post Trauma Stress, and all her symptoms. She wakes up every day as the little girl we always remembered. We have her back. So to all the parents out there - if you notice a huge change in your kid and ignore it, you may be sorry someday. We almost lost her forever. Her anger towards us was severe and she would break things and scream to listen to us to help her. OxyContin saved her life. It truely is a miracle drug.

I agree with you, Girlie and only read the majority of the comment - my eyes are at it again (thanks Lyme!), so reading online is hard.

I used some fairly strong pain meds in between the abx trial and the herbal protocols I used, but when I was offered Oxycontin, I told the doc that I quit. I refused to go up on that high of a pain pill and started searching for ways to get off of all pills at that point - I was taking around 12 'scripts at that point and couldn't take it any more since I didn't really feel much better.

I was thinking that they surely pushed the Lyme out of the way quickly and focused on the Fibro - which doesn't have a cure because it's a set of symptoms - most everyone that has pain with their Lyme would be diagnosable as having Fibro!

I am not a medical professional but have a lot of experience with this topic. You know what also causes sweating and a cranky person demanding oxycotin, an addiction to it. Oxycotin and other opiate prescriptions like it ruin lives. It doesn't just relieve pain. It systematically attacks your immune system.

If she really is doing so well in her life with it, ask her to taper down at least 30% and see what happens. If she is shaking, sweating and cranky from not having her medicine tell her to tough it out for a couple months. I would bet my life that if she really is benefiting from it, she will benefit even more from tapering down to a lower dosage. 110 mgs a day is too much in my opinion. And again, Im not a medical professional, but if you do not have a tolerance to opiates, a 5mg oxycodone will provide a lot of relief.

When you get into that high of a dose of 110 mgs a day you are putting your kidneys, joints, liver, brain, lungs, and heart through hell. There is a wealth of evidence to oxycotin, which is merely a sustained release form of oxycodone, so both of them, causing an array of terrible symptoms, which the medication masks with its pain relieving effects.

A woman can lose her ability to ovulate, become infertile, lose her hair, shortness of breath, sleep apnea, a fatty liver, kidney and liver failure, cognitive dysfunction, nervous system dysfunction, the list is endless.

Please if you love her, look up why the only drug company that is licensed to produce oxycotin is constantly being sued to release the chemical makeup of the drug and how they keep paying court fines to extend their patent. And why patients from all over the world are saying they became so addicted to oxycotin it ruined their health, lives and family relationships and why they believe the chemical makeup of oxycotin is at fault.

Something tells me you need to hear this. If you love your daughter talk to her about at the very least taking less. If she needs to supplement it with medical cannabis, kratom or other natural pain relievers, great. But oxycotin has most likely never saved a life, only shortened it. I know many people on high dosages of pain medication and they are a mere fraction of themselves and all of them are sick.

But here is where you need to pay attention and learn the difference between the symptoms caused by a disease and the symptoms caused by a pill. If she has only taken it for four years, check her out in another four years, she will definitely be on an even higher dose, and most likely you will notice things are not so beneficial anymore.

This is just my opinion but sometimes people need to hear someone else's point of view to see what is really going on. I truly hope you and your daughter have the most exceptional health and lives possible, that is why I am so willing to write this for you. I realize your reaction may be, I am wrong, so please, look it up.

Post Edited By Moderator (Traveler) : 10/17/2014 1:32:19 PM (GMT-6)

Razzle said...
A doctor spoke at a local support group - she said 95% of those with Fibromyalgia test positive for Lyme, and most of those who are treated for Lyme also find their Fibromyalgia disappear.

I had a Fibromyalgia diagnosis. But when I was told I needed to take Magnesium supplements, I discovered that the Magnesium seemed to make my Fibromyalgia symptoms go away. Fibromyalgia is a waste-basket diagnosis - basically, a way for doctors to tell the patient that they are too lazy, dumb or clueless to figure out what is REALLY going on with the patient, thus they can give the Fibro diagnosis and pass the patient off to Psych, Neuro, Rheum., or some other specialty. And the drug companies are the only ones who benefit.

I have to also agree with Roots Ruderalis - this story reads like a description of a drug addict who's family is unaware of the physical dependency that opiates cause. Just because someone claims or appears not to have a psychological addiction, does not mean their body has not become dependent on the drug. Withdrawal is he#@ from what I understand (no first-hand experience, thankfully).

Razzle gets it!
IMO, Lyme is also a combination of microbes causing issues. One study showed 48% of the people tested PCR positive for borellia but only 16% showed any symptoms of Lyme. It's more than just borrelia.