You may not have some of the problems, but it will be hard to come off of the pain pills even if you took them correctly, I am on day 14 and still have trouble sleeping, I am better but it has been hard. I am going to have another neck surgery to help the pain, no more narcotics for me, I hate having to dance the pain mgmt dance... they all suck
I do have chronic pain...and my attempt to try and quit did not work however, I did cut down to half of what I was doing...I am just letting myself have enough to rid of the withdrawals and thats all...I will seek another way to relieve my pain once I can get to lower more. at 30mg at the moment...going to be cutting corners out of the pills to help me lower and just go week by week...that's all I can do, stopping cold turkey, I got to day three and literally did not even want to be here anymore...couldn't eat, couldn't do anything...I now see clearly this is the only thing I can do..I've read that a drug called "Tramacet" helps a lot in replacing these terrible meds...need to research it more though.
Cynthia how did you get off of them i have been cutting down for 2 1/2 weeks from 60 to 30mg of oxy and need to get as far down as possible before my surgery on june 6th ( l4 l5 with nerve pinched ) if you could let me know please do.
Keep going as best as you can, I've taking Clonidine at night to stop muscle spasms and it really works. I've been racking my brain trying to figure out how to get down from 6-30mg's a day to 0 and not go nuts. Gregg
iam taking 0.2 mg of clonidine at night for the sweats and to get a little sleep not much about 2 1/2 to 3 hours a night would give anything to sleep at least 4 thank you for the reply
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Just checking to see how you are doing with the 2 10 mg aday that is my next step and iam so scared of the w/d please let me know how you are doing
Please tell me how your doing now. I read your post and am really concerned.
greggsplace wrote:
hi greg i came on here hoping for some guildence to i plan on going cold turkey while on vacation from work just scared cus i dnt know what to expect i did quit drinking achohol 2days befor christmas this yr and did it alone but my withdraw was the worst i felt pain weakness got sick in the bathrm every hour im wounderen dose that happen with these 30 i take 10 a day or more smh idk what to do
Desperate to clean up wrote:
The makers of Oxycontin & Oxycodone did know it was addictive, they downplayed & straight out lied about this which is why they lost the court case. 70% of Purdue's almost $2 billion annual revenue was from Oxycontin which is why they lied about how addictive it is. I have kicked several illicit drugs cold turkey over the years and none of them were near as hard as getting off these. The $500 million the US government won from them should have been used to set up treatment centers. I'm trying desperately to ween off these. I've cut back a lot. I'm at the point where either I'm going to get off these or end my life. I'm 43 & can't live like this anymore.
Please tell me how your doing now. I read your post and am really concerned.
hi greg i came on here hoping for some guildence to i plan on going cold turkey while on vacation from work just scared cus i dnt know what to expect i did quit drinking achohol 2days befor christmas this yr and did it alone but my withdraw was the worst i felt pain weakness got sick in the bathrm every hour im wounderen dose that happen with these 30 i take 10 a day or more smh idk what to do
hi gregg
i start every 12 hours tomorrow and not sure how its going to go. Seen my Doctor today and was given prococet to try and go off oxy on sat and take the prococet if i need it just wondering what the w/o will be like going from oxy to prococet. Iam also taking the clonidine at night moe for the bp than anything else, I am just so scared of all this and not sure what is going to happen when i have the surgery.
i start every 12 hours tomorrow and not sure how its going to go. Seen my Doctor today and was given prococet to try and go off oxy on sat and take the prococet if i need it just wondering what the w/o will be like going from oxy to prococet. Iam also taking the clonidine at night moe for the bp than anything else, I am just so scared of all this and not sure what is going to happen when i have the surgery.
I feel like poop. i see another Dr. wed to see if he can get me off Oxy.. Right now cutting out other meds & not sleeping . Just want whine!
hi mariah, im reading all these stories an its scary. i need to quit taking these pills im takng at least15 30mg each day smh i was thinking of taking a week off of work in july when my boss gose on vataction idk if that will be enough time todo it cold turkey with a back up of valums to help with the withdraw it help me with the drinking, i have tried cutting back but i had the runssss thou up cold sweats how long an did it start getting worst on your 3 day?now with alchol i went thou with draw couldnt eat cold sweats shakes by my self i statred christmas eve was sick for a week and 3 days my concern is my job an the time i need dose anyone out there know how long i will withdraw and what will i feel i did make my newyears revoloustion an quit drinking thank god help please
hi gregg i will pray that you get thou this hurtal ,taking a valum when you get your cold sweats helps me a little it takes the egde off but you dnt want too do too many of those ,good luck hope it works out queston what is clonidine and if it helps where do i get some from?
cynthia hi can you please tell me how your withdraw went when did it start getting worst an when did it start getting a little better for you. where u able to funtion work ect my concern is the time reqiuered i have a job i can take two wks to go cold turky is that what you did?did you take anything im taking 15 30 mg a day or more smh i need help i love he honesty on his web
Hi Mariag51
Clonidine is a bp med that your dr will have to give you it does help at night and with the legs and sometimes with the sweats. I have just stopped the oxy and iam now taking the percocet 5/325 every 6 hrs not sure how this is going to work but having a few withdraws like the chillis so i hope it kicks in soon. Iam still at 20mg a day and hope to get to15mg in the next few days anyway ask your dr for the clonidine it does work.
Clonidine is a bp med that your dr will have to give you it does help at night and with the legs and sometimes with the sweats. I have just stopped the oxy and iam now taking the percocet 5/325 every 6 hrs not sure how this is going to work but having a few withdraws like the chillis so i hope it kicks in soon. Iam still at 20mg a day and hope to get to15mg in the next few days anyway ask your dr for the clonidine it does work.
Gregg
Glad to hear you are going to see the dr. to help with the tapering. So far it has worked for me having a little problem today as i started the percocet 5/325 every 6 hours still at 20mg a day but hope to get down even more soon let me know how things go with the dr.
Glad to hear you are going to see the dr. to help with the tapering. So far it has worked for me having a little problem today as i started the percocet 5/325 every 6 hours still at 20mg a day but hope to get down even more soon let me know how things go with the dr.