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Old 04-01-2009, 06:06 PM
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Oh Justin, I wasn't saying I didn't understand why you posted the information, and totally understand why a doctor needs to slowly titrate a patient onto any new drug. I didn't mean to imply that the information was not helpful or informative.

I was just saying (and kind of in a joking way), that I personally only care that whatever I am taking, works (though it seems scary to me to think that I am taking the equivalent of 80mg oxycontin - is that a high dose of oxycontin?).

I totally understand that if a person has been taking a narcotic and are switching drugs, that it is helpful and imperative to know what the equivalents are, in order to get the dosing correct. And also for the patient who is opioid naive, to slowly increase the dose until it is controlling pain.

Sorry, if I came off the wrong way.
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Currently taking Opana-ER (tapering off) and oxycodone
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