I've been on hydrocdone (Norco) for over a year now.  I want to get off this sh*t.  When I wake up in the morning I feel awful, then I take my morning tab and feel normal again.

I've had double knee operations a year ago.  My knees and legs still hurt, plus I have advanced disc diesease.  I take my prescribed amount and never abuse them.  I was given an Empi machine to help with the pain, a month, then 1 a daybut I still need the opiates because if I don't take them I feel like c**p.  I would like to slowly get off them but cutting back to 2 a day for a month, then one a day for a month and see if that works.  I was on oxycone after a shoulder operation for about 8 months.  I did it cold turkey and I was a mess, almost hallucinting.  I swore never to take opiates again.  Here I am, after 3 operations, still on opiates - ugh.  I have had several liver tests and my liver is okay.  I just don't want to be dependant on them to feel nomal every day. 

I found that alot of the symptoms were like allergy symptoms so I tried anti-histimes which seemed to help with the runny eyes and nose.