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i really need to take opiates at times. Oxycodone is the best of a bad bunch for me. I'm still undertreating my migraine pain but seems that I have stumbled on the best answer for me at this time but it isn't perfect.
I take half a pill or one pill depending on how much pain I'm in and make myself get up out of bed. If I can stay upright my migraines tend to resolve quicker. I know that's weird as most people go to bed with a migraine and painkillers to sleep it off, but very often sleep plus migraine can equal extreme migraine pain for me.
I dread it if the worst of the pain has not passed and I have to lie down because I can't sit or stand or move around anymore. Because I know if I lie down to rest or sleep I'm going to wake up with a horror migraine. I used to be like most people and would take meds and sleep the pain off but this changed over a decade ago.
I've tried all the mig. preventative meds and as the neurolgist put it 'there's nothing more to try, maybe it's time for fentanyl' but I've resisted this as I just don't want to take another drug on a timed regular basis which I will become dependent on. Oxycodone taken when I really need it usually helps okay, but admittedly it still leaves me wide open to very bad migraine pain occasionally.
However, my doc is a refreshing doc. He says it's my pain and by now I know how to treat it best with what is on offer. That's pretty brave of him considering that docs are becoming afraid to treat pain because they may be reviewed. I can't but think what is wrong with a society that would let its citizens live in pain rather than allow prescription of a pill at adequate levels to treat a persons pain.
I know there are drug seekers out there. But it's very short sighted to just clamp down on docs prescribing pain meds to people that need them just in case they prescribe to a 'drug seeker.' The drug seeker is seeking for a reason and obviously needs help as they have some sort of problem --psychological or physical. Or they wouldn't try to be getting 'out of it' in the first place. That's how I see it anyway.
Why do we have to see drug seekers as 'bad' but rather people that need help and why can't our society provide that help rather than leaving them hanging. Providing the right sort of help to drug seekers would leave doctors free to prescribe as their patients need.
Not sure about anyone else, but the constipation that I suffer from oxycodone is so bad there's no way I'd take it unless I needed to kill the pain in my head that is worse than the pain in my gut. I sometimes wonder what individuals that are drug seeking and addicted are doing for their constipation? if they have something that works for it?
It is a horrible shame to have to suffer with sooooo much pain. On top of that, we are lucky to even find a Dr. that will actually care enough about our pain to prescribe what WORKS for us. To be made to feel less than human because of our meds is just not right. As for the constipation,,,,,I take a fiber laxative every morning. Drink tons of water. If I do that daily, I at least have a BM. If I do not take it,,,,I don't have a movement at all. VERY uncomfortable. Also try yogurt. It works wonders for regularity. (haven't been regular for YEARS!) I have Fibro, Degenerative Disc Disease and rhuematoid arthritis. Also have DEPRESSION! Do not take any meds for that. Can't afford it. Cymbalta (no insurance) runs about $130 per month. Try to have a good day. Think positive and turn it over to God.
Thank you for this information . I know there has been some concern amoung us cronic pain persons . as several people have posted on my on line support group.And I must say Thank God for them , As I am not able to get out as much anymore. Life has changed for me since Fibro. and everything else. So much of me and my old life have been taken away . as my fellow Fibro , CFS . frineds can vouch for .
I personally have been Dx'ed with Fibro ,CFS ,Disk D in my neck and back,. Arthrits in my feet, hands,knees,and now told my back. there is not a place on my body I do not hurt during a Flare. the Good days are far and few . But we take one day at time.
I am always searching the web for new infomation ,and Poss ways of helping myself.
Thank you , I will be back to read some more of your Blogs.
Be Blessed 
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I can't wait until the day that the drugs are ALL like this! I'm 26 and because of my age I feel I am always being looked at as a drug seeker. I know people that have died misusing pain medication. Something that should have been thought about 10 years ago when I read an article in Time magazine about Oxycontin being the "hillbilly heroin".