Man, you are almost home free by the sound of it. 320Mgs a day down to 40? That is a serious tapering success story.



Obviously, you want to stick it out all the way. 10mgs a week will probably be do-able, but you might want to switch to vicodinVicodin
Vicodin tuss for the last few weeks. It may actually be better to go to an "instant release" med like vikes or percs and let your system get used to flushing it faster. HydrocodoneHydrocodone cp
Hydrocodone hd
Hydrocodone-ibuprofen
Hydrocodone-phenylephrine is, theoretically, a milder opiod than Oxycodone, so it might be good to move to it. DarvonDarvon
Darvon compound 32
Darvon compound-65
Darvon-n is milder still, and you might want to consider switching to that for the last week.



As far as withdrawalDelirium tremens, I would guess that you will feel a little at least, some sleepCentral sleep apnea
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Depression and heart disease
Depression and insomnia
Depression and men
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Depression in children perhaps. Just deal with it. It will pass. You are in damn good shape. Most people can't get out as gracefully as you are.

I really don't like taking ultramUltram
Ultram er anymore. I'm getting "twitches" in my faceFace pain .... and I keep hearingAge-related hearing loss
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Cor pulmonale
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Heart bypass surgery
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Heart disease beating. Last night my headHead and face reconstruction
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Radial head injury kinda hurt. I raised the dose like the doctor told me to, but I just don't want to use this chemical anymore. I have to order vicodinVicodin
Vicodin tuss over the internet. If I take one 3x's a day for 2 weeks ... ultramUltram
Ultram er should be out of my body by then. I'll do the thomas reciepe right after that. I have found so much about ultramUltram
Ultram er on the internet. They say that valium binds to the same receptors in the brainAmebic brain abscess
Brain abscess
Brain herniation
Brain surgery
Brain tumor - adults
Brain tumor - children
Metastatic brain tumor
Posterior fossa tumor
Primary brain tumor, and that is why you can detox with valium so easily .... I'm just afraid to put myself through "shockArds (acute respiratory distress syndrome)
Cardiogenic shock
Electroconvulsive therapy
Hepatic ischemia
Hypoglycemia
Hypovolemic shock
Lithotripsy
Shock
Toxic shock syndrome" .... I'm not that young anymore. Is it hard to order hydrocodoneHydrocodone cp
Hydrocodone hd
Hydrocodone-ibuprofen
Hydrocodone-phenylephrine over the net? I don't want to get arrested. They should arrest the drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension company that lied to the public. Don't get me wrong ..... it's a good product BUT, we deserve to know the truth about what we are taking. I would have made sure I didn't become dependent on this by stopping along time ago ..... if anyone can advise me... my email is; ***@**** thanks guys .... and merry xmas

Thanks for the advice. I really haven't got out gracefully though. I just haven't told the whole story about my tapering. It could fill this page! I ended up in the hospital by abulance twiceTwice-a-day over Thanksgiving by tapering too fast. I do not remember a whole week being there! What I do remember is seeing bugs and people that were not there. The nurses tell me I was talking to walls and was fighting with my familyBirth control and family planning
Choosing a primary care provider
Ewing’s sarcoma
Family troubles - resources and friends. They say it was part of withdrawalDelirium tremens. I do not know. I have been sickSick sinus syndrome to my stomachAbdominal pain
Abdominal pain diagnosis
Esophagus and stomach anatomy
Feeding tube insertion - gastrostomy
Gastric cancer
Gastric suction
Gastric ulcer
Ileus - x-ray of distended bowel and stomach
Nausea and vomiting
Roux-en-y stomach surgery for weight loss
Stomach with all the other signs. I just do not want to go through that again. The worst part is the legLeg lengthening/shortening
Leg pain
Leg pain (osgood-schlatter)
Shin splints crampsAbdominal pain
Leg pain
Muscle cramps
Painful menstrual periods
Relief of menstrual cramps! If I can avoid going through all that stuff again it will be great. I do not know if I can get the doctor to write to me a script for vikes or percs. Any other advice you can give to me I will apriecate it! Thank you for your time!

Hey where ya been?



Rex

Regardless of how graceful it was, you are down to 40mgs and that is a miracle. Takes a lot of balls to stick with it. Blowing it now would not be a good idea.



I was taking 800mgs OC a day, and stopped cold after 21 days of methadone detox. I ended up in the ER after not sleepingSleeping difficulty for 23 days straight. Sometimes the painAbdominal pain
Abdominal pain diagnosis
Acupuncture and pain
Ankle pain
Anterior knee pain
Back pain - low
Bone pain or tenderness
Breast pain
Causes of painful intercourse
Chest pain
Chronic pain - resources we go through in withdrawalDelirium tremens is a blessing later on. We know what other people are going through, and we know we don't ever want to go backBack pain - low
Back strain treatment there ourselves. There is a price to pay for this stuff, and the people who can suck it up and hang through the painAbdominal pain
Abdominal pain diagnosis
Acupuncture and pain
Ankle pain
Anterior knee pain
Back pain - low
Bone pain or tenderness
Breast pain
Causes of painful intercourse
Chest pain
Chronic pain - resources are the lucky ones who have a chance to make it out. Staying clean is another beast entirely, but that's another post...



Sounds like you have gone through hell dude. Maybe get your doc to take you down the rest of the way without too much traumaAcoustic trauma
Amputation - traumatic
Ear barotrauma
Facial trauma
Genital injury
Head injury
Head trauma
Post-traumatic stress disorder
Stomach disease or trauma
Tailbone trauma: 10 mgs a week should be fine, but perhaps you should stabilize at 40mgs before you start dropping. What's the 40 like right now?



Are you pschologically addicted? Or are you just physically adcited?

I am doing OK at 49. I am feeling the lower dosage already after one day! My body is physicaly addicted to it. Mentaly I am ready to get off it! I just want to feel normal again or as close as normal can be. Thanks for listening

Sorry... I meant to type 40mg not 49!

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Ultram er?  If you were, email me, I will try to help you because I agree that ulram is an unpredictable drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension. If you were out of control with the ultramUltram
Ultram er it is best you stay away.  With or without my help it won't be long before you find a place to get anything you want over the net.



***@****

For those of you who have not had the experience of oxycontin :



Oxycontin is straight oxycodone. It is nothing like I have ever experienced with any other type of opiate.

The escalation of tolerance for me was unreal. It is also extremely potent and long acting.

I never realized total painAbdominal pain
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Anterior knee pain
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Breast pain
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Ankle pain
Anterior knee pain
Back pain - low
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Chest pain
Chronic pain - resources away, to causing mentalMental retardation
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Acupuncture and pain
Ankle pain
Anterior knee pain
Back pain - low
Bone pain or tenderness
Breast pain
Causes of painful intercourse
Chest pain
Chronic pain - resources that could not be cured anymore. Until I stopped taking it........

This is what happened to me, to ME. It is different for everyone and everyone's feelings on it will be and should be different. Except of course those who have not taken it.

If you sit backBack pain - low
Back strain treatment and say, well its just oxycodone, it should be the same as HydrocodoneHydrocodone cp
Hydrocodone hd
Hydrocodone-ibuprofen
Hydrocodone-phenylephrine, or percocetPercocet 10/650 withdrawalDelirium tremens. IT IS NOT in the least bit the same.

Of course I thought the same thing BEFORE I took it. I figured it would be no problem and just the same. Well, let me tell you it isn't.

It is a unique drugChemical dependence - resources
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Drug-induced hypertension, with a unique set of issues surrounding it when detoxing off it. Since it is long acting, it also takes longer to recoup after stopping it.

So when someone says they are on 40mg a day, sure it is like 8 percocetsPercocet 10/650. YET the withdrawalsDelirium tremens are nothing like going CTAbdominal ct scan
Ascites with ovarian cancer, ct scan
Bronchial cancer - ct scan
Cholecystitis, ct scan
Cranial ct scan
Ct scan
Ct scan of the brain
Hemangioma - ct scan
Hepatocellular cancer, ct scan
Intracerebellar hemorrhage - ct scan
Kidney and liver cysts - ct scan off 8 percs a day. Cause I have been through both. I ALSO figured they would be the same. I learned very quickly the difference. Especially if you are abusing it via snorting, crushing, eatingAnorexia nervosa
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Sweating - absent ectAbortion - elective or therapeutic
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Acute hiv infection
Adenoid removal
Adrenalectomy
Advanced care directives
Anorectal fistulas
Aortic dissection
Appendectomy
Appendectomy - series
Artery cut section. I am sure that is even worse.

This is just to let those people know out there that haven't taken it.........it is not the same and should be respected for that.

I just love to learn the hardway I guess. I read so much before the switch, yet STILL thought it would be just fine and I wouldn't have any problems. Well of course I was wrong...

I guess I will never listen, until I learn for myself. The hardway of course......

Chezz

If you are crushing an OC 40 up, it is exactly like eatingAnorexia nervosa
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Sweating - absent 8 percs, without the tylenolTylenol
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Tylenol caplet
Tylenol caplet extra strength
Tylenol chest congestion
Tylenol cold and cough
Tylenol cold and flu no drowsiness powder
Tylenol cold and flu powder
Tylenol cold infants
Tylenol cold no drowsiness.If that is your daily dose, it should be identical to eatingAnorexia nervosa
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Bulimia
Eating disorders - resources
Necrotizing soft tissue infection
Sweating
Sweating - absent 8 percs. You have beaten the time-release of the pill and get it all at once, the same way you do when swallowingSwallowing difficulty
Swallowing pain or burning percs. Your withdrawalDelirium tremens should be exactly the same as well.



SwallowingSwallowing difficulty
Swallowing pain or burning the dose...well I am not sure about that as I never did, except when I tapered. It is time-released when swallowed, and it's like an onion - layers peel off and distribute the stuff over 8-12 hours. Still, it's just oxycodone, and taking it in time relase fashion is like eatingAnorexia nervosa
Binge eating
Bulimia
Eating disorders - resources
Necrotizing soft tissue infection
Sweating
Sweating - absent a few percs every few hours. I can't see any reason why withdrawalsDelirium tremens would be any different if one was taking equivalent amounts of either.

Well it was for me, and that is all past. I haven't been on them for a while and I was only on them for a month and a half.

I didn't see ANY reason they would be different either. Yet they were. Could be for a variety of reasons, to include that every withdrawalDelirium tremens period is different.

I was just passing along my version of what I went through with the meds and the differences I experieced. Especially since I have been well versed in taking percocetPercocet 10/650, yet that was the firstFirst progesterone mc10
First progesterone mc5
First-progesterone vgs 200
First-progesterone vgs 400 time for oxycontin.

Chezz



My experience was that it was different with the withdrawalsDelirium tremens. That is the bottom line. Whether it "should" have been the same or not, it wasn't...

Not trying to be argumentative, just feel compelled to add my 2 cents to everything today I guess.



I know that my w/d from opiates in general has gotten worse, the longer I have been on / off them. My body has changed somehow,and every Detox is worse than the last. I get addicted much faster and easier as well.



Hell for all I know, Lily, or whoever makes OC's, puts extra **** in them that will **** you up even worse.

Know your havin a tough time lately. Hope you have rounded the corner though...



Let us all know how you are doing...



Rex

I am in full agreement with you. I don't care if it is straight oxycodone it is different. I have withdrawn cold turkey from hydrocodoneHydrocodone cp
Hydrocodone hd
Hydrocodone-ibuprofen
Hydrocodone-phenylephrine and percocetPercocet 10/650 more times than I care to remember. The oxycontin withdrawalDelirium tremens for me was a hell I never want to experience again. enough hell in fact that my Dr's have almost been begging me to go backBack pain - low
Back strain treatment on it and I refuse! Wish I could refuse the oxycodone, well I am working on that! My Dr even tried to tell me that the short acting stuff is usually more addicting etc. I have been through all of it and nothing I have ever been through even compares to the oxycontin. Although as someone else said if you are crushing it etc. it should be just like taking percocetPercocet 10/650. I took it the right way and because it is so long acting the withdrawalsDelirium tremens seemed to be as well. What happened was I was taking oxycontin and percocetPercocet 10/650 at one point and the percocetPercocet 10/650 withdrawalDelirium tremens was severe for the firstFirst progesterone mc10
First progesterone mc5
First-progesterone vgs 200
First-progesterone vgs 400 4 days then because the oxycontin is so long acting the withdrawalDelirium tremens from that seemed to start just as the percocetPercocet 10/650 withdrawalDelirium tremens would normally be easing up a bit. Double whammy sort of. All I know is I wanted to die. I went off oxycontin by itself as well and that was still a Hell I never want to live through again. I told all of my Dr's that oxycontin is a drugChemical dependence - resources
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