pain
"I have needed to opiate meds to manage my pain control for many many years.  I have a clotting disorder that had caused high levels of pain for my entire life.  I can remember taking liquid TyCo at 9 or 10 prolly earlier.. Anyway, as a teen, I would use TyCo 3 or vicodin.  It go to a point where I needed way too many to adequately control my pain.  I was switched to OxyContin and had started taking 20mg 3 X day.  Over 8 years, increased to 80mg X 2 day with OxyCodone for breakthrough.  Eventually I was up to 100mg X 2 day.  Changes in providers caused me to change from OxyContin to Opana ER.  I have been started at 50mg X 2 day.  It is just enough to help and take the edge off, but it is no where near as effective (for me) than OxyContin is"