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Nearing end of Oxy taper
by Greif06, Dec 28, 2006 12:00AM
I was taking 80-100mg/day for around a month. I would chew them and stay up all night. I began tapering and am now down to 5mg of Hydrocodone per day. If I try and stop I get sicker than when I went from 40 to 20 which was hell. Any suggestions. I only have one hydro left but have lots of morphine. I never abused morphine but have some left from surgery. Is it possible to taper for several weeks with morphine and reduce dosage. take 5mg then 3 than 1 then off. I have had an excrutiating time with this withdrawl and just want it to end.
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Going from one pill "crutch" to another? I DON'T KNOW...
I (personally) would not, but you are an adult and have to make your own decisions even if it ends up being labeled a mistake. Then you learn from that.
~Lisa
From my experience, after my surgeries, they tapered me off morphine in ICU - and despite being drugged with other pain meds - I can remember the morphine w/d!!!!
It is way tooooooo powerful! DO not use the morphine to help the taper. It will only make it worse!
Try and stay with the 5mg - and then see about getting some time where it is YOU time - and you can work on stopping the 5mg.
That is my experience - maybe someone else has other wisdom to impart - but I'd steer CLEAR of the morphine!
~Lisa
I have to say - i thought it would be easy going from 5mg to nothing - and as it has been said here before - it is different for everybody - and lemme tell you - it was still really hard to go from that little amount to nothing.
I'm not saying don't try - but don't dismiss the fact that you probably will still feel like a**!
Take the advice of everyone here - get time for yourself to feel like **** - and power through it. And know we're here to listen to the vents and struggles. It isn't easy for anyone!!!!
Keep us posted!