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Oxycontin (oxycodone) is not especially damaging to the body. If used daily it can cause constipation, lack of appetite, tiredness, loss of motivation, and low sex drive. Of these, constipation is the biggest problem and can lead to an impacted bowel if you aren't careful.

HOWEVER, if you take a lot of Oxycontin for a long time and then stop, you will go through a week of the worst suffering imaginable. You will literally feel like your bones are being crushed and you are dying, and you won't sleep at all for at least a week. Even after that, you won't feel completely okay for months. Whatever you're picturing right now, withdrawal from opiates is worse.

It is possible to use something like Oxycontin occasionally and it won't cause any damage. The danger is that it feels completely harmless, no hangover or anything, and it's very easy to take it too often and get into a very bad situation.

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Actually, going on and off the meds, like drug bingers, can be ever worse in some ways because it's harder on your liver and such.

Also, there is a "hangover" from Oxy's, it's like waking up with the worst headache and body pains, and therein lies one of the problems, because they only way to fix it is endure or take another, and is why it's so easy to get addicted. Occasional use is a very difficult tightrope to walk.

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