I have been taking perocect 10's for the last 1yr or so and it is...

Due to a degenerative bone disease in my back, I have had multiple bone fusions from the Sacrum to L1 – beginning in 1965 when I was 17 years old. and my last surgery was in 2004 - this was bone fusion #5. I have developed nerve damage that was unpreventable due to the crushing of the discs and the wearing away of the discs and the bone-on-bong damage. I suffered from pain all over my body, suffer muscle spasms. Years of surgeries, nerve blocks, therapies, etc. have altered my life a great deal. Finally, my neurosurgeon sent me to his pain specialist and the man is a God send. I have been put on a number of drugs now that have relieved to spasms so that I no longer curl up like a person with MS. These drugs also included for pain Hydrocodone at first but after the 5th surgery, the pain increased to the point that I had to step up to Percocet 10/325. The difference in me versus what you went through is that I take them AS NEEDED even though they are prescribed 4 times daily and I have a doctor that very closely monitors me to make sure I still show now ill side effects. You may have been taking them AS PRESCRIBED rather than AS NEEDED. If a drug such as this is taken in this way it very well can become a problem. Especially for a person who has an addictive personality. I have lived with pain all if my life since my first surgery was at 17 and I am 62 now. My sister has the addictive personality and cannot handle medications well. Thank goodness I can and THANK GOODNESS FOR PERCOCET 100/325. I am sorry to hear it was such a problem for you.

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Hers another. I have been using them and oxycontin for over 15 years yes I have to keep increasing doses and yes I would feel like crap if I kept going up and down on them all the time. I stay on an even keel with them. I have severe chronic pain and without these I would take my 357 and blow my brains out because I could never stand the pain. They are the only thing keeping me from this and I have tried many other meds to no avail. They are an unfortunate outcome from my disease but a life saver also.