What does it matter to you how people take their medication? You're not them, and you're not their doctor. I hate it when people that say "omg Im in so much pain and I take my medicine how I'm suppose to so allow myself to enforce my methods like some kind of nazi or old school crusader upon others!" thats crap. If you don't want to answer the question without placing your own opinions into it, just stfu and go to another topic okay? People's reasons for taking pain meds are different, and there are always going to be people that abuse these medications and your critisism on how people should do something is not help at all. I will state this, not everyone can gain access to the pain medication that they need because not everyone has those "nice doctors" that give out pain meds. I once had a major kidney stone problem where I had a stone so large that I had to undergo an operation to shatter it. I was passing kidney stones for 3 weeks, which I have to say is more pain than giving birth and I've been told so by several women who have given birth and had kidney stones. After the operation I was prescribed enough Lortab to last me a week, but after that I was still passing stones and going back to the surgeon was going to cost me another 900 bucks. So I went to my doctor, and the idiot tells me to take Tylonal and that the pain is mostly in my head lol. So what did I have to do? I had to lower myself to act like a druggy and buy my pills off the street, but it was because I was in such severe pain I could not continue on without the medicine. Once the stones were gone, I quit taking the medication. Unfortunantly when I couldent find Lortab I was forced to purchuse percocept which was said to be the same thing, but in a lab urinalysis it will show up different that hydrocodone and I worked in a state job and could have been drug tested at any time for abuse of my pain meds or any other flippin reason that the state wanted to lol.

Anyway to answer the question, any opiate pill is water soluable. Depending on the amount of water you drink, how many times a day you urinate and the amount of sweat saturation you produce a day can determine how fast or slow it takes for the medication to exit the urin system. If you are athletic and do a reasonable amount of sweating, drink plenty of water and urinate regularly then it will only take like 24-48 hours at tops. If you arnt, and you just sit around getting stoned off of them it still would only take 3-4 days and thats if you arnt drinking any water during these periods of time and are eating a lot of fatty foods which will cause the molecules of the opiate to stick to the body longer.

Any opiate in general only takes around 2-3 days to get out of the system for a urinalysis but for a blood analysis it will take 5-7 days and this goes into further examination of how much of the opiate you take per day.

Anyway I hope miss lady chick can get a life outside of crying about how people take their meds, and I also hope this answered your question. :-)

I took 2 percocet 10 mm on Sunday - will they be out of my urnine by nnon on Wednesday?  I am drinking an average amount of water and eating pretty healthy.  Do i need to buy a detox drink to be on the safe side?

i hear ya dude.....yea that woman is probaly just a huge hypocrit and is mad because she thinks she is rehabilitated and cant "use" or "abuse" like she used to.....but back to tha important matter of helping give someone knowledge, i believe ur right with all ur facts....body size, amount of exercise, LOTS of water.....the only thing i think that only THC is stored in fatty cells......im pretty sure all opiates are metabolized or stored in the liver......but i believe your right about the fat bc ive always heard more healthy people can flush stuff faster.....so whether or not it is good to only eat lean and healthy during times of flushing

I agree with you. In the past 11 months, I have had 3 rotator cuff surgeries

on the same shoulder as it won't heal.  Now I have to have tendon graphs in

hopes of fixing it.  But before that can happen I have to have neck and spine

surgery in 3 days.  The pain has become unreal over the last year.  Doctors

get real touchy about giving out that much hydrocodone and ocycodone.  I

wish I knew where to buy it on the street. It would be cheaper. And by the

way, I have been off work for a few days shy of a year due to all this. I am

paying Cobra prices for insurance and it won't last too much longer!!!!!!!!!!!!

Please think before you judge!

You must be very lucky to sit in judgement of others.  Chronic pain is different for everyone and if for some reason a person's medication is "unavailable" the person doesn't just combust into flames and die - they cope the best they can.  Please try to be more understanding.

first of all.... where do you come off yelling at this person.no matter what situation hes in, you came on his question,and said something totally un realated to what he asked..AND then still didnt answer his question... you may be right,but theres still no reason to talk to someone so disrespectfully for no reason......

and by the way,i believe percocet stays in your urine for about 3-4 days,it depends on how active you are,how much you eat or drink...it varies for each person.but the most common time is 3-4 days.

you are really something. listen to yourself on your soap box.so self rightious! i totaly disagree with what you said he has real chronic pain.how is yours real pain and his isnt? get off you high horse and learn compassion ladie!by the way its spelled percocets.

AMEN SISTA!