Re: Oxycontin dosing - janet....

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Hi Janet,

My intention with that post about dosing was to give a different

view to the one that wrote concerning how he interpreted

the mg numbers on the label for oxycodone vs oxyContin. I was

concerned that people would get the wrong idea...I wished to

make clear that an 80mg pill was the total amount of oxycodone

in the OxyContin pill....not that it was releasing 80mg of

oxycodone an hour. I did not mean to imply that there was any

mistake or wrong doing with the dosage that you are

taking....Obviously 240mg of oxycodone a day is appropriate for

your situation...but if we were to interpret your dosage by the

information that was given in the other post by , you would

be taking close to 6,000mg of oxycodone a day (instead of the

240 that you are taking now) which, in my opinion, would be

incompatible with life. I came up with that number by multiplying

80mg by 24 hours times 3 pills a day. You can see how this is

not the way the dosing actually works. Your dosing is 80mg / day

x three pills a day (which is 10mg / hour) - not that unheard of.

Basically you would need to take 24 10mg (240mg total dose per

day) pills of oxycodone to be the same as your 3 80mg (240 mg

oxycodone / day) OxyContin.

Just trying to clarify a concept that may have been

misunderstood by anyone reading the previous posts.

I did not mean to question your situation at all.

Laurie