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I'm afraid you must have misunderstood the "cat talking" crack I made.

First, I'm not the person who said oxycodone resulted in cat raconteurs.

I said oxycodone left me "out of it" (and I can also add, didn't kill the pain - at once too much medicine and not enough) - drooly, groggy, sleepy, etc.

It was an attempt at humor to bring up how one could not use cat conversations as a test of oxycodones powers on me, since I talk to my felines even when unmedicated.

For the records sake, they generally do not have much to say, at least not in English, in return. :)

So sorry for the misunderstanding, my point just was the different comments here were not a reflection of reality, altho,some docs prescribe higher intial dosages, which was what probably made you sleepy and drowsy.

My great doc told me that the morphine (oxycontin just being one brand) dosages range from 15 mg's to 300 mgs!!!!!
He said if he gave me 30 mgs first off, it would kill me, repressing respiration, breathing. Altho severe pain stimulates respiration, therefore counters a small amount of the effect of morphine.
He "titrates" mg's, which means in narcotic terms, increasing dosages, small mgs a week per increase.
Most people do not know the large dosage range.
That's another reason the media is wrong on their criticism, no one has reported the dosage Rush is/was taking!!! They may have been the smallest 15 mg, sounds like to me, if he took 30 a day of any higher dosage, would not be alive.
The drug users that are seeking a "high" crumble the time-release ones to get the buzz at once. This also was not said about Rush, that he may have crumbled them.
The severe pain user gets absolutely NO high, or buzz, (much verifying research to back up) or any other feeling, quite a mystery why/how the med gets directed to the right place in the brain.
Strange also why I can get a headache, aside from my severe spinal pain, yet the med does nothing for relief, must take aspirin for that. Seems to be able to do only one thing at a time, LOL.