how to detox @ home off oxycodone?

I have never talked or replied to anyone on one of these but your post hit a chord with me. I am married to a wonderful man, a mother of six and have a really great life... Except for this. I had a L4-5 fusion 9 years ago and did really well for the first 4 years after that. Then I had my sixth child and everything went wacky. I had a hardware removal and for the last 3 years I have been on pain meds with the exception of about 9 months last year. I went off all meds cold turkey. It was horrific but I did it. I did great until 2 miscarriages caused me to have to take Percocet for pain and I also have an auto immune disease and a thyroid problem ugh. I just feel like the biggest mess and can't believe I'm back here again, but this time is worse because I had to take a lot more this time. Last time I went off a 12 mg fentanyl patch and Percocet 7.5. This time it's a 75 mg patch and Percocet 10's. I have been trying to reduce for the past 3 months. I've only gotten from a 75 mg patch to a 50 mg patch and just that has been HARD! I don't want to depend on meds to be engaged with my family and live life yet I have so much pain. I know it gets better when I am off the meds. I've done it. It works, but the process is so much harder this time. Feeling scared and hopeless. I wish there was an easier way.

I just want to say i am basically in the same boat to those asking about whether they should taper the pills they absolutely should.  Not for nothing I just picked up opiates after being six years sober. Couple surgeries and right back square one.  The difference is this time Im kicking oxycodone not heroin and methadone and let me tell you there is a difference.  I felt like coming off heroin as I have done it many times was fast and hard for four days yet with the exception of fatigue, no sleep and a few aches and pains the roughest part was over.  I tried to go cold turkey with these but I feel like its worse because it lingers and lingers.  I have definitely just tried see-sawing and it seems to be working.  I by no means feel good because I made a huge cut all at once but first day actually took suboxen and put myself in precipitated withdrawal because took to soon. from that point on basically been doing 2 a day spreading out as long as I can.  going to make jump after 1.5 and im telling you coming off of doing 15 30mg's a day hope will be a little easier.  Its been five days and im actually waking up and waiting 3 hours till feel shi--y then do one.  I usually would have done 6 before noon.  I have kids I have ot get out door for school to so this was only way i could do it.  Anyway for those recently posting keep doing so help each other out.  I think when it comes to a drug man made and synthetic you definitely need to wean if at all possible before you jump.  Wishing this week done and over with for all of us as quick as possible.  Had six years of the best years of my life and i want it back. Thanks.

Unreal, I have been on pain meds since I had my first of 3 surgeries and still need one more since I was 19 and im 30 now. I don't feel any type of high from the meds. I began taking 12 30mg blues a day plus 4 80mg oc's a day about 4 years ago and then also a fentanyl patch 50 mcgh which was worthless if you ask me. Now im screwed in many ways, I made one mistake. My best friend was killed by Florida stupid stand your ground law. No its not the boy from orlando its my friend from palm harbor. I smoked a blunt before I went to see him at his wake because I don't do funerals well and I've been on xanax for too many years that they don't help. Of coarse my doctor was audited and had to drug test everyone, I was honest and told them I was going to fail my first drug test ever since I started pain management and were required to take several. She kicked me out thought of me as another one oh well .. I am so scared she didn't give me any meds, and other clinics will NOT take me now. I have began cutting my meds down to 1 80 cut into 3s a day and im hating life and the pain. I have no other options and its a miracle I cut down to what I have by myself. This doctor doesn't care that I can't go to another clinic, I tried to get another clinic to look at my records to show them I denied pain management in the beginning and to see I never used recreation drugs. They don't care in Florida, im not going to make it by myself and the hospitals see this way too much so they judge and stereotype me. I need a lower mg pill because the 80s are still too much after getting your amount to 3s id try 4s but there not easy too cut like that and hell im not even supposed to cut, chew them in the first place. Please help me im in Florida near Tampa actually palm harbor, I need some help and im doing this myself I think really well to go from 360 blues a month and 120 oxycontins 80s a month plus 50mcgh fentanyl patch ( useless) and now im reducing my xanax to half but still its been a couple weeks and im stuck here.. I don't know what to do now...

I have had one thirty since Thursday and before that nothing since the Saturday before but, I feel pretty bad and have alot of trouble breathing when I stand up from laying in my bed

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.

ACCUPUNCTURE - YOU MUST TRY IT -IT WORKED FOR ME

I know what your dealing with I just quit the same way and this sh*t sucks bad.....I have not got a good night sleep in the past 8 days my legs are killing me right now. I found out that if you take very hot baths it help out or even go sit in a hot tub... I wish I would of never let my doc put me on them(oxycodone 30mg 6 times a day with 3 15mg everyday for two yrs but you have to be willing to handle the pain from the withdraws it suck but it can be done...I did it so you can to.

A little background to my story.....I have been taking pain meds roughly from the age of 20 til now 29. Up until the past two years they have been spriatically and just would take them if one of my friends were to give me their script. Never had any form of addiction or dependacy what so ever. Honestly I thought I was invincible. I was taking your standard hydros you'd get from a wisdom tooth removale (coincidentaly is how I realized my love for them). It wasn't til I found oxi codone that things slowly spirled out of control. As the other pills I started out recreationaly but since I had a strong conect I was able to get them at any point. I stared out taking oxy 5's four times a day. I know that sounds like a little bit but its were it starts. I honestly enjoyed them, truth be told I still do. I have no need for them except they make me happy, which makes my situation rough.  It wasn't until a break-up with a girlfriend that things started getting really bad. I started taking them at work and anything else I was doing. I did nothing without being "high", it just seemed to mask the pain and makes things around me better. Then one day my "guy" ran dry and wasnt going to ever get anymore. No big deal right? Wrong I went one day without taking a pill and I thought my life was over. I was withdrawing and had no idea what was going on. I started reading things about pills on the internet and I got freaked out. I went to get help from a doctor and all he gave me was some anti depresents. This was after being laughed at at the Methodone Clinic for not doing enough. Nobody took it seriously. I got a therapist and not ever her thought it was an issue....Which brings me to today, now i'm doing roughly 3 30's a day and as it may not seem it be a lot but it controls my life. I can't pay my bills bc of the amounts of money I'm spending and my new relationship is failing bc of my action although she has no idea. I'm tired of going into panice mode everytime my "guy" goes dry and I can't get anything. I need to quit at all costs. I tried cold turkey but there is absolutely not way. I'm right now in the phase of weaning off them. I am cutting the pills in half and taking the twice a day, mixed with a half of a valluim to kill the anxiety. The best thing I can say is to just embrace the wds and understand the choices we've made. Nothing is free in this world. If is could give any advice to someone it would be ....

We can beat this, its all about planing how and breaking it down. I have made it a competion within myself. I breakdown every couple hours to see if I can make it. Take this problem minute to minute, hour to hour, then day, to day. Do not look and the end or you can get overwhelmed. Just focus on the goal you make within. Along with a few vallum and the right mind state you can beat thing like I am now. I am currently down to one oxy 15 before bed and that's it. My next step it to cut it to one 5, then none. Be strong and understand you are not alone.....

I quit cold turkey after 10 yrs opiate abuse. Snorting 120mg a day of roxis. Im on day 5 and i feel descent with help from tramadol rx. Tramadol is synthetic opiate so i will have to quit these too but should be easier than stopping roxis

Go to your local emergency room, tell them everything. I was taking all the same as you for 15 years. I am on day 5 drug free but it is tough. They know what to do for you.

Hi.. I'm Chris, 25, with two small children and a wonderful girlfriend who is in the same boat as I am.. I just wanted to post a little bit about me and my situation to get advice and to give praise to each and everyone on here.. Like most of us, I stumbled accross this site after my opiate addication got way out of hand and I wanted my life back.. It is scary just how addictive and controlling pain mess can be..within a year I was up to about 10 30mgs Roxis a day, never from getting a script, always off the streets.. Spending 300 a day of money that I don't have.. I have pawned a lot of the nicer stuff I have and owe thousands to creditors.. The stress that the everyday grind of finding money and then finding pills, the guilt of stealing and lieing to loved ones to get high, the way that they slowly change your behaviorial habits and who you are.. So many reasons to quit but just couldn't until now.. See there's nothing wrong with me, No illnesses no bad car accidents nothing.. I have no real medical conditions, other than te psychological mind state of an addict..always been addicted to something, mostly marijuana but when I got ahold of opiates, it was like I found my true love.. But after living one full year of destructive addict lifestyle, I knew my kids and my family deserved more.. So I managed to get 3 suboxone strips and have been detoxin at home for the past 3 days.. That's right 3 days, goin on 77 hours of no pills and I'm starting to feel a little better.. I've only taken 4 mgs of suboxone today and will take 2 mgs tomorrow and 2 mgs the next day and be completely opiate free.. I just got out of an Epsom salt bath which helped with the achieness and would really love to get some sleep.. Any ideas? I heard melotinin works good but haven't tried it.. Also is depression part of this as well? I've always been a troubled young man but it has been pretty rough mentally lately realizing all the damage I have done at the expense of others.. Any ideas for that? Im also worried for the sake of my relationship.. My girlfriend is detoxing with me, like we have literally been locked in her room for the past week trying to detox.. My worries are that I started doing pills just as I started seeing her, we quickly became very serious and we are both very much in love, I'm just scared that our relationships success was based on pills.. Like all the energy and contentness and happiness and sex.. Wow lol.. I just hope we can grow stronger through this instead of apart.. Anybody been through something similar? Wow so sorry for the long post guess I just had a lot to say.. But thanks to everyone this boards are a lifesaver.. Literally.. Much love, much life

Hello I know this is a bad addiction in OxyContin I'm taking 80 mig 3 times a day my doctor was giving my for two twice a day I started with shoulder pain two hand surgery and now my knees hurt constant Dailey pain so what I Did is go get 40 more from another doctor to keep me pain free daily but now they discover me and my main doctor said she will leave me cold turkey to suffer can she do that I have 14 medadon 5 mg and 7 more oxy can any one pls give me advise

Hello I bbeen taking 80 mug of OxyContin and the problem is that my doctor gives me 120 2 two times a day well that was not enough to keep my pain level good and my jitters thru the day I asked to increase she would not even want to go there so I went to another doctr and was able to get 40 more OxyContin but I gues they found out and he gave me suboxone but the pharmacist won't fill it they said he is not authorize to proscribe that and my main doctor said she is going to cold turkey and let me suffer well I don't blame them but I do have 7 left of oxy and do have16 medadons that I had for a while but scare of them can some one help me on advise thank you

I have the best Husband in the world! It breaks my heart to see him in pain from Digenerative Disc Disease and a bulging disc stemming from fracturing his l1,2 &3 when he was younger. He has for the past 17 years been able to live with it, only going to dr when he had, I call it a flare up, which was usually 3 or 4 times a year. They were managed very well with percocet 10s, 5 days worth, and a steroid injection, the past two years he seems to have more flare ups than not. So his pcp put him on oxycodone 30s 3x/day and Soma 350mg 3x/ day. We were both very naive in the beginning and thought it was GREAT! He is able to do all the work he needs to do as an apartment maintenance man. But now he has flare ups and runs out a few days early. He is thinking that it is all not worth it now! I don't want him in pain! But I am not sure which pain is worse!. How can he come off these strong meds but still manage the pain so he feels like he can provide for our Family? He is due for a drug test and since he ran short this month he is afraid his meds won't be in his system and his dr will not refill them! Already been sick for 4 days and not sure what to do.

hi i am new to this site and I am reading all of this I have been on 60mg every four hrs for about 2 yrs now I have been on persoset for over 5yrs I also have epilepsy and if I dont take these it gets alot worse. I want off!!!!!!! I am tired of these also Have any of you done this at home wout a doct. this doctor here cuts people of cold turkey I cannot handle that i have tried please help me to.