how to detox @ home off oxycodone?

hi for name sakes I am going to call me me I wrote the little thing about me on 60 mg of percs (oxys) every foour hrs. I have been trying to quit for about a yr now. I dont know if bambi still gets on here ir not but I want to say thank you. I was an well still am an alcholic sence I was 14. I have know been sober for about 2yrs. this is the only addiction I still have and I need to get off without really telling my doc. cause he will cut me off cold turkey I hav never wrote into a website before but am hoping someone will answer me and help me as much as they can.

I also was on 30mg oxycodone and I am now on suboxone and I tell you what, it will total change yoyur life. no matter how bad the pain is. look down at your belly and think about your unborn child. The suboxone helps!!!!!

I am not sure if anyone can help with this or not...but my husband has a fused spine from a work injury and he was addicted to percocet and oxycontin because the dr.s prescribed it. He recently decided that the addiction is not worth it and he wants off of them so his pain management dr. sent him to another pain treatment center which is sending him to various assessment programs until they can decide the best method to get off the fentynol patch (200 mcg every 48 hours for the last 8 years) and he found out that the center doesnt prescribe the drug and his family dr. gav hime enough for 1 month and then cut him off.His last change was todyesterday and he is scared to death because NO ONE will help him with immediate help. His next appointment is on the 24th of April and his family doc wont even listen to him..I am really scared that this may kill him too...ANY IDEAS scared in ONTARIO CANADA..

Don't be so quick to mention a pill cutter. Oxycontin is not to be crushed or cut. That's why it's not scored. The best thing to do is to keep lowering the dosage. The smallest dose of Oxy is a 10 mg. long acting med. You can get Oxy IR 5 mg., but it is a quick acting. Crushing and cutting these meds is dangerous.

Dear everyone, you can come off these drugs and it doesn't have to be hell, wean down slowly, eat good organic foods, sleep at least 8 hours a night, exercise, and there are many wonderful products at the health food store for every single withdrawal symptom. I just came off fifteen years of narcotics, morphine, oxy, sleeping pills and did it over three weeks, I had to take nyquil to get to sleep, and Melatonin helped alot. Immodium helps with the terrible stomach problems but also helps with the narcotic issue in your brain.  You have to get your body producing endorphins again, laughing, exercising and sex are the best ways to do that.  Dr.s that prescribe these pills never mention what damage it does to your body or how hard it will be to come off and offer no help or information to get off.  Drink tons of water, be strong and remember that you are not alone. I am considering opening up a center to help people to come off all that toxic, addictive c**p that the drug companies are making a fortune off of. God bless

If you find the answers then let me know. I have been on some kind of pain medicine since I was 18 and I am now 47. I am going through withdrawals and dying to me right now seems like a good idea. Although, I could never actually do it on purpose because of my faith but if it were to happen naturally then it wouldn't be my fault. Well anyway, I have a doctor appoint soon or have to decide to check in to hospital but not sure what to do yet. Thanks for listening even though you had no choice. :)

Hi Everyone I'm Gregg

I've tried something was sugested to me buy one of my fellow drug addict friends told me about. If your detoxing or just trying to sleep try taking Clonidine 0.2mg ! It will calm your legs and other muscles and help keep you asleep. It stops the hell your going to go through and helps you sleep through most of it. It's a mild heart med and it's cheap.

ive been on percocet for 2 yrs how should i go about tapering off id appreciate any help thanx

Get some nyquil, melatonin, vitamins, immoduim and just wean down, cut pills in half and half again, you can do it and I have found that my pain is not half as bad off the meds as it was ON the meds... I am still in pain, but I can handle it. I do like the suggestion of clonidine, it does help, any dr will give it to you when you tell them you want to come off of narcotics, someone needs to help all of the poor people that were put on these monster drugs with no way to get off of them.

       Contrary to popular belief, the only drugs you really need to be worried about quiting cold turkey are alcohol and barbituates, oxycocode is niether. I've been trained in chemical dependency and exercise physiology and on a personal level, I have also been addicted to oxycontin TWICE!! Pretty stupid huh? Anyway, you wont die, you just feel like you will. I know its better to wing your self off using just oxy if you have the will power to keep from taking more than the doses you planned on with your taper down schedule. If you are sucsessful in doing so, that would only mean that it will suck less. The First time I quit, I did it cold turkey, 80mgs a day to none a day. I have no idea why people keep on saying that it could kill you. I categoriclly disagree. My rule is, if you have a job that you don't want to quit or loose, then taper off over a month or so, down to about 10mgs of oxy for the last seven days, OR, if you dont have a job or you can get away from any type of resposability for 10 days(like, do nothing for ten days), then just quit cold turkey and get the sh*t overwith and get on with your life faster. I did both and the cold turkey will save you about a month and a half, but WILL be more "shity". One last thing. Any kind of benzodiazepine such as lorazapam(Adivan), alprazolam(xanex),Diazepam(valium) or Clonazepam(klonopin) will reduce the (for some people like me)...the huge amount of anxiety involved with either quiting slowly of cold tukey. Pain associated with quiting is more short lived but the anxiety sticks around a while. Please though, if you do plan on taking some benzodiazepines for anxiety and sleep, use it sparingly. The rule is "no pain, no gain" while quiting using these very addictive drugs. If you use any other substance, legal or not, to help with the pain, LEAVE SOME PAIN!!, otherwise, you will need to wing yourself off yet another powerfull drug. So, cold turkey is best, but a wing off, using no additional drugs, is also good, but, it will take longer. I hope this helps someone, I ufortunately have too much personal experience that I don't want to waste. Cheers, You can do anything you put your mind to!!

I understand you as of today i have been on 40 mg a day 10mg every 6 hours from the 60 i was taking last week but have been having a really hard time with it. If someone out there could give me some help that would be great , iam trying to get down as far as i can in the next 3 1/2 weeks . My surgery is june 6 for my back L4 and L5 with nerve pinched was told that if i didnt get down to a lessor amount that i would have a problem after the surgery. All of this is so scary that iam not sure what to do anymore but to keep trying and hope that one of these days it will be worth it. I have been on the oxy for about 2 1/2 Months so if anyone as advise please please help me.

my 10mg oxy has a score on it so can i cut this one in half. i just start to go to every 7 hrs today and hope i can get to every 8 by end of week i take 10mg each time and need to get down as far as i can in 3 weeks so if you have any ideas that could help please let me know .

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Some things things need to be clarified here.  If someone has chronic pain they are NOT ADDICTED to the Drug they are DEPENDENT on it.....HUGE Difference!  It's idiots out there that snort medication and abuse it and ruin for the people that truly need it.  I have Trigeminal Neuralgia (Suiciden Disease, worse pain anyone can endure).  I refused to take any Pain Medications because of they way they made me feel.  I had to finally give in start taking the Oxycodone combined with Promethezine.  Long Story short I did not abuse the meds, I took them as prescribed and I watched slowly my life detiroriate.  Stopped cleaning my house, my car, going on walks with my dogs, going to the gym, put on 30lbs and craved candy and sugar and that is ALL I ate!   I took the pain meds so I could work on a business with family, and they screwed me over, and once screwed over I said to  myself, ok good, I will start playing with my dogs, go to they gym, clean up everything.  I then TRIED to do this and could not even function.  I used to love the outdoors and smelling the flowers, hearing the birds, loved having a clear head.  That was my wake up call, and I decided to STOP this c**p and get it out of my system immediately, this was just last friday where went from taking 140mg a day of oxycodone to 20 mg...Holy Sh*t, I could not believe the PAIN in my stomach, the sweats, the chills, the burning on my skin,the dizzininess, confusion, etc etc....you name it I had it.  I am SO lucky I do not have an addictive personality.  Regardlesss, Oxycodone is a horrible drug especially when you get on the high doses, you can smell it in your urine, you can feel your body and the toxicity.  I NEVER to the medication to get high, it was PURELY to make the pain go away, the burning in my face from the nerve pain.  But it doesn't matter it was toxic and I should have NEVER gave in, or even let them allow it to get so high.

I saw my Pain Doctor yesterday and he was pissed that I took it upon myself and did not get with him saying it can be dangerous etc etc.... And I told him I didn't care I just wanted to have a clear head and get that horrible c**p out of my system.  Nevertheless, I am on Day 5 now, and I still have withdrawal symptoms they are starting to get better but still bad.  I need to make something clear though, I used the "Thomas Recipe" to withdraw from these drugs and I do take Klonopin and Promethazine, which was my saving grace to help me.  I don't think I would have been able to get this far if I did not have that.  I do reccomend weaning off slow and I can totally see how it can be dangerous.  I have felt like I've been dying for the past 5 days, feels like the worse flu ever!  I forgot to mention my PAIN came back with avengence, HORRIBLE! The Burning was insane, so I made my Pain Doctor inject 10 Shots of Markaine into my face to numb it, and hopefully that will calm things down for a few days, until I get completely off.  What really sucks though is I HAVE to have take Meds for the Pain, and this was the only thing that worked, the ONLY good thing about these Pain Killers was that I felt like a "normal person" again, not disabled.  I was able to speak without Pain, Smile without Pain and Touch my face without Pain.  So now my next thing is to figure out what the hell I am going to at least take this "Suicide Pain" as they call it.  How do you quit pain killers when you have horrible Pain?  I guess I will cross that bridge when things settle down, and I can get back in the gym again as that will help clear out my endorphine of that crapy Oxy....anyway that is my story....if you have Chronic Pain and you are not abusing these drugs, YOU HAVE NOTHING TO BE EMBERASSED ABOUT!!!! Just know that!  I was reading this board, and I noticed alot of people did not say anything about their pain and how they controlled it without the oxy, so I feel a need to put this up because the discussion needs to be about What is next?  How are we going to control the pain WITHOUT these horrible meds...that is the the question...everyone here wants to move forward with the life, and I would like to add to this discussion with that question....Any suggestions?  Good Luck Everyone and God Bless, your are not in this alone.