Not that my response can help, but I think tolerance may be related to past use of drugs and/or amounts of over the counter meds taken prior.
Even so, it has taken 6 years for my husband to go from Vicodin up to 200mg oxycontin/day.
Ask your doctor, and do a search of "drug interaction oxycontin." There is a website I used to check (when my Mom was on all kinds of meds) to see if new drugs she was given would interact with her current meds. I will look at the papers I got with hubby's oxy to see if there are things you should avoid. If I find anything I will post it.
Strange, though, most docs are afraid to prescribe such strong meds, and yours happily prescribed Oxy? It took us probably nearly a year to get Oxy from Kaiser dr. Can you tell me what type of pain you suffer from?
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I have tried to lower my tolerance by taking less of my meds. In the winter time I have to use the highest strength of my meds. I use Oxys. It is prescribes to use 80mg twice daily. In the summer I can use 4 tablets every 6 hours. Or even only take 3 per day at 8 hour intervals. But in the winter I need the -mg dose and I need to take a fifth tablet per day to not get the withdrawal from when the 80's ware off in the early morning. But When I am able, like Summer time, I simply take less of the meds and lower the tolerance that way.
Don
I use to take alot i mean alot of over the counter pain stuff and they never worked but i kept taking more and more to hopefully get relief,now that i know whats wrong with me i get percribed 80mgs of oxycontin twice a day and 10mgs of oxy ir when needed.and it still does not really help with my pain but better then the lower doses i have recentley been on.Best to talk with your Dr about it and maybe he/she will have a good solution.
AJS
Just try to do your best and keep a positive attitude. It is very hard NOT to increase your meds when you are hurting. But just keep in mind that in the long run it will be much better for you. I always thought that if I kept on increasing my med's, years later I would be taking so much of them I would be sicker and sicker because of so much medication in my system. If you can just keep them as low as possible for as long as possible, it will give you room later on in life to increase it later on.
Opiate Tolerance 
but better then the lower doses i have recentley been on.Best to talk with your Dr about it and maybe he/she will have a good solution.
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