how to detox @ home off oxycodone?

I was diagnosed with stage 3 melanoma and had what is called,"A Lymph node Dissection " followed by high radiation treatment under my left axilla. This left me with a horrible lymphadima and an ulcerated wound of seven inches which has not healed for 9 years. I 'm one of the lucky ones that have survived this long and hope to continue to do so. Anyhow for the last decade i've been using opiates and nearly killed myself acouple of years ago by way of Chronic intestinal pseudo obstruction, bringing down my weight to 110lbs. I'm 5-10" normal weight-180lbs .I'm now tired of these drugs and i live in fear,anxiety, and depression. It's time to change and would like support. Thanks

This is my first time posting. I became addicted to oxycodone about 2.5 years ago. Me and my buddies started trying mixing them in with our binge drinking on weekends. We would split a 30 MG "blue" on a friday and saturday night. I couldn't get them myself so my friends would get and we'd all split them. Then it became needing them on sundays to combat the hangover. That's how it went for about six months, and then i got the connect and was able to get it on my own. That's when things started to spiral. I have a good job so had money to spend on it. I quickly went from 1 30mg pill on a friday and sat night, to 2 pils, to before I knew it after about 8 months i was doing 2-3 30's of oxy a day. At night only I still made it to work and was a half functional adult. (I"m 30). Then it became after about a year from just weekends I was doing 4-6 30's a day. Or 2 OP 80's which were more time released. Then about 6-8 months ago I was full blown, doing them at work, and now i was doing 10 30mg oxies a day. sometimes more. Luckily I was able to keep my job. It was then that I was introduced to suboxone. Which i'll admit I haven't used as prescribed. It almost becomes an excuse that you can get high for a week and then take a week off knowing you have the subs to get through. But this back and forth became harder to maintain as the subs started to not work as well. It's a trap. I'm about a month in to my serious attempt at quitting. I've gotten high probably 4-6 times on weekends like when i first started doing a few 30's with drinks amongst my friends. It's diabolical how our minds work. I'll go 6 days and then think I can treat myself. But the thing now is I will only binge on a weekend and do 2-3 30's per day but then the withdrawals are almost as bad as when I stopped my 10 pill a day habit. I need a good 6 months off for my body to reset. It's hard. But I'm glad I can read about people with similar experiences who have same addictive minds. I remember when we first dabbled 2 years ago we had a friend that we heard was doing ten roxy 30's a day and it baffled my mind that anyone could do that many when I first started I'd puke off of just half a pill. And a short year later I was doing 10-12 a day functioning at work and my mind was constantly preoccupied with the next fix. Does the NA meetings really help? I mean does talking about it really help deal with it? I just want to transport myself to a year from now where i've been off the stuff for the entire time. It's just so bad. THe depression is awful. Trudging to and from work everyday i'm just in a haze of thought about this problem. I rarely can think of much else, and even my friends get sick of hearing it. They don't understand it's literally ALL you can think about. I stopped caring about getting girls and even hanging with friends, you just want to get high all the time. Even when I was doing 10 pills a day 300mg of roxy it didnt' even give me half the high I got initially off of 2 30's. It's sad. Having a few beers with buddies isn't the same anymore. I'm afraid it never will be. I just wanted to share. Thanks,

Methadone is not the answer believe me . I thought oxycodone withdrawals were bad methadone is 10 times worse.For me getting off opiates is time and patience.There will be days when u just want to crawl in a hole and die.I curse the day i took my first percocet.

I ended up eating 15 10mg oxys a day just to maintain its amazing the tolerance your body has. I am37 and have been addicted for 11 years .I have to do something or i will never see my two daughters grow up.

Bambi. I am really scared. I fell down stairs and basically almost amputated my left arm from my shoulder. I've been tossed out of a moving vehicle by my ex husband etc, but nothing hurt the way this does. I had surgery and 18 screws and a plate put in and I was given 10 milligrams of percocet to take two of every day, no more than 6 a day, so a total of 60 milligrams per day, I just started post operative PT and do not want to stop until I'm stronger. The only thing that tells me in my head that I will need help with with withdrawal ( it's been almost a year) is that one month I ran short for three days and had major restlessleg syndrome. Do you think I can do this with my doctors help (he's great), I guess my xanax will help but I don't want to trade one addiction for another, I also have had 3 heart attacks in the last 15 years, ' I really need some emotional help if you could give it to me, Thanks bambi. I fell good talking about this with someone who's been through it and doesn't look down on me. Thanks, Jenn

Hi I am happy to read your post they are so inspiring... I was going to get on here and lie because I know how ppl feel about the ppl out here with no real pain and just use the pills for recreational use. Well that is me! I'm sorry to all you who endure true pain and I am sorry to myself for even letting someone introduce this c**p to me... However, I recently had a baby in April 2012 and was prescribed Percocet for pain after delivery (whatever happen to plan ol 800mg IB Profen). I enjoyed the feeling so much and was experiencing post partum depression that I began abusing the drug. So now 8 months down the line I am still using and buying the meds from ppl on the streets because here in Indiana they are very easy to cop because every young person I know age 17-35 takes percocets to get high off of. My problem is I don't know if I'm addicted or not? I want a pill everyday, I at the max take 6 -8 750 or 1000mg pills a day. That doesn't sound like a alot compared to others on here. But if I don't have one the next day I feel really weak and have no energy but as soon as I take one my energy comes back and Im in such a better mood. I want to get off these drugs because I don't like the feeling of needin something or having to have it or feeling like I cant function witout it. Do I need to see a doctor or get on Suboxone to get off these drugs what am I to do. I have two small children and a husband that I am neglecting for this medication. I have a good job but my attitudes changes so much that my coworkers don't like me and Im even getting to the point where Im selling things out my house or being behind on bills to compensate my addiction. Please help!!!!!!!

I am 50 yrs old just went thru major L4 -L5 fusion, I have found that being on this medicine helped greatly with moderation and they had me on morphine 15 mg.. I had terrible side affects couldn't sleep , pain and mood was terrible..I am seeing a orthopedic doctor for knee and shoulder I had accident years ago and has torn ligaments..Yeah Worked hard jobs.. Now I finding that with all the overdoses and stuff going on they will not prescribe you nothing but low miiligrams..I don't even like the pill cause it helps for about 1 hour ..10mg oxycodonr then the pain is back.. I have asked for pain management , I want to stop hurting and be able to do everyday things everyone eles is going..I am becoming frustrated.. I haven't even taken the meds today..I doesn't work..

man, don't know the date to this post but i can feel the pain. I had spinal cord injury in 2006 and had 9 surgries on pain pills since. I was blessed by God that my legs woke up but the lower arms and hands didnt. Doctors said the the nerves were dead and they would never wake up, but that isnt what God said. I am writing this today with no sharp stabbing thumping pain in my hands and I dont need to take 6 percs a day with all of the other. meds I am taking.God has healed me. Pray man pray, dont ever give up, i am not. I went from 5-6 on Monday of this week down to 2 and 1/2, I am 5 days in and I am not going to lie, it is tuff as nails. My body feels like it is jumping out of my skin and my legs are very shaky. But I like u do not want to get hook on any thing else, this is the first drug that has to go then i will start on another. I am taking one pill about an hour after i wake up and then about 6 hours later i take a half, about 4 hours later another half and then when i go to bed another half. I am doing this for one week and then cutting down by 1/4 a day and pray pray pray.I am willing to take the time to do it the right way and I know God will get me through this. I wish this drug on no one and wish I would have never taken the first pill. Good luck to anyone trying to get off of this stuff by themselves and with out the help of Jesus Christ!!!!!!

Do not ever cut an extended release medication like OxyContin. I'm talking about the 8-12hour release meds.

I need help for my daughter. Is there any place I can get her help with no money?

hey all. I'm not going to tell my name but you all can call me, JACK..  I had a problem w/ street drugs (no opiates) 25 years ago, got clean and sober in 1988 went to a fellowship for about 19 of those years, things had changed, people came and went, some went and used and died. I watched a lot of good people go out hard. but I never wanted to go back to that life. I had stopped going to meetings. In the last 15 months or so I injured my c spine to t-1 compression with out fracture ( sometimes I wish something would have broke) maybe it would be less pain. found a dr. who put me on oxycodone 10/325. at first it was 60 a month then 120. after a few months he decided or(we both did) that i needed some procedures to stop this relentless pain. PT and CHIRO was not working. He did three nerve blocks then a nerve ablation (RFA) c-5 c-6 c-7 then 2 epidorals. all of this was done in about 6 weeks, a lot of the pain was gone or going away,(and here comes the tornado). now I have been taking about 50 mg a day for 8 months. after the procedures he gave me 30 X 10 mg. and told me I shouldn't  have any pain. they lasted maybe 10 days or so. I told him I had no pills left he said what happened to them. The DEA is gonna question me. you broke our pain agreement! ( just so you know I never signed one and I never took more than I was prescribed). now I had 3 pills left and I was taking 3 a day I knew I was gonna suffer. I took 1 a day for 3 days, that didn't work. By the 4th day I was kicking like Bruce Lee. On the toilet like every 2 hours this went on for four or five more days and just got worse. how could this dr. throw me off a cliff like that, give me this med. and then take me off it with no counseling or a plan or nothing. I think it is totally unprofessional. I went to another dr. who had mercy on me and gave me enough to wean myself off with a plan to do so. AS I am writing this I am down to 1.25 to 1.50 (one and a quarter to one and a half) pills per day still don't feel great and still on the bowl a lot but it is better than before. It seems to be working I just have to stick with it and keep reducing the dose every couple of days. I will let you guys know how I make out in a week or so. seems silly breaking the pills up in little pieces but if thats what it's gonna take. BTW.. I made the mistake of telling the Dr. that I was a former addict, after that everything changed with him. don't do that if you are in a similar situation. To date I have taken no drugs other than the percosets and don't want to get high. If I did It wouldn't be this sh*t!!!

thankyou .i have read all and find it very interesting.but so scared.for my daughter of41.she as had 69 operatations.and is in so much pain and on oxycodone.for 5 years she as no life .i think all the surgery as damaged her body ,she rang to say she as been to c a docter about the drug oxycodone.the docter was rude and offensive .it makes you wounder whos out there to help her .it breaks my heart to c her this way shes never out ot bed.her husband is at work through the day and is so good to her and close.she is having big surgery inmay part of her body taken .the mor i read of this drug the more i feel sick for my daughter please help us .

Hi I also am on this drug and percocets I had no idea my heart can stop I've been on the pills and with my doctor for five years but my job let me go and now no med coverage so I can not get my scrip will cost a 1000,00 dollars so now I was able to get the percocets which helps a little. I found out on my own there is a pill called soboxan any pain management doctor can help with that, thanks for the info about my heart that my doc didn't tell me I will seek help else where good luck and check out the soboxan pills.

my heart just breaks when I hear your stories. Boy those Drs know how to put you on the durgs, but they dure don't know how to get you off them. And worse, they make it look like its YOUR fault!!!! Every single patient should be detoxed in a hospital (in the most comfortable) every 6-12 months, and then re-evaluate dosages, etc. I had a spinal fusion in 1998 and the brace they gave me was too tall so the tbone took forever to fuse and I was in such dire pain but they all theought I was a "complainer". That began 3 year series of suffering until I woke up in the middle of the night and said I'd die if I put another pill in my body. If I wasn't 50, I'd be specializing in that field. The biggest problem is to ERR on the side of BELIEVING the patient, not dismissing.

I have been on percocet since 2009 with MS Contant the percocet helped get Me off the Morphine I was told that tapering is the best way to go and by doing that detox withdrawals are far less severe to the point of mind over matter not sure we'll see. My Dr. is a efing id**t so getting help there is a waste but I'm going to follow advice of the other post about tapering and if that fails then a new Dr. is what I'll get. Oh You may ask why I feel this way insurance pays the Dr. although My pain is very real after 2-failed surgery's and a 3rd I refuse to have it come's down to the almighty $$$$$$$$$$