The WD hits me after 8 hours or so. I have gone both ways CT and am now trying to taper. Hoping tapering will be less painful. Point is keep trying to get off and get someone to help you if you can. Good Luck

Hi Vicaddict, I do believe in my opinion that if you are not keeping up with your regular dose, you will experience some withdrawl symptoms.  My Dr. tapered me off Percocet and Oxy for 6 weeks.  And I did have night sweats every night.  I have long hair and it was always wet and I would wake up freezing.  After I got kleen, a few times I would cheat thinking I would only use for 2 or 3 days and it would be no big deal.  But the sweats always came within a few hours after taking 2 or 3 doses.  It was like my  body remembered or something.  Keep going.  C/T is tough but is quicker.  I have two young kids and I could not go C/T and had to be tapered off.  However, if I did not have kids and could take a week to myself, I would have chosen the C/T route.  Been through it before and was OK physically in 5 days.  Mentally and Psychologically however that is a totally different story.  Be well!

Thanks guys, appreciate the responses!!! Gonna try hard this time. But man it scares me, to have that feeling already while I am only tapering at this point!

God I hope this works, and I can get off these damn things for good.
Once I do I will never go back to this chit again.

Good luck to everyone, I will be back and forth reading and responding.

I really am starting to think CT is the way to go, b/c I am trying to taper but we all know how that goes! But seeing I did yesterday....I will stay with it for now see if the w/ds become less uncomfortable to where I can get down to maybe just 1 or 2 in a day then finally be able to just say IM DONE. So hard to do as I have kids as well, and for me to just say screw it and try to hide myself and go through it is unbearable and seems   impossible. What a web I have weaved!!!!

God please be with my friends and I during this and help us ALL through. Amen!

Hey girl - hang in there!

I went from 4 to 1/2 tab in about 3 weeks.  Was it easy - HELL NO!  I too felt like dog chit!

All the w/d symptoms - I felt them.  Did it get easier - yes.  The cravings - NO.  My longest stretch w/o any meds was 30 hours.  Then I found out that doing this detox while preggo - NOT GOOD!  So - I've maintained at 1 pill a day, split in half.  So - I'm stuck at 10mg.  Do I want more - HELL YES.  And I found that if I cheat, and do 1/2 pill more - the cravings intensify - and not only that - but it really doesn't do anything anyway.

Trust me - I have two little ones - and there were days that changing a diaper seemed like climbing MT Everest.  Reading a kids book was like learning to read Mandarin Chinese.

The bizarre thing - when I was clean for 30 hours - I felt OK.  Three things triggered me using again - 1)in laws visiting over holidays  2)a headache that wouldn't go away  3)research that said detoxing while preggo wasn't good.  
Bottom line - I'm excited to be done with the pregnancy - as I'm looking forward to joining the ranks of the clean and drug free.  

I will tell you it was harder for me to go from 1 pill to half than from 4 to 2.  Mind games?  Maybe - but it seemed to be worse then!  So be prepared - but each person does handle this differently.

I posted the below in another thread and I gotta tell ya this site has convinced me! OFF WITH THE HYDROS! hope this helps

To a person named Vic, you stated that you loved the hydros and used 2 tabs every other day. Yes this will work for you probably a very long time. Much longer then most. My stint was for about 3 years on and off, after shoulder surgery. However quite frankly you are experiencing, as stated in your post (another thread that was closed), the euphoria that goes along with all of our "love" for Vicodin and there will come a time when 2 just won't get it! (your body becomes immune, my opinion, and "Sweating out the toxins in a sauna does not conteract the "love" for the drug that is physical in your brain) The demon of the drug will talk you into 3... and maybe one during the off day. The reason I know this is that I too had a healthy respect for the drug and found out the hard way. I don't have the horror stories of 100 tabs a day but I'm in the process, as I write, of weaning myself off of the last... I'm at 2/3 the prescribed now and feel the call of the demon believe me. My back hurts and the chiropractor tells me that it is a crime that these pills are even in existence and prescribed.

Suzie, interestingly my wife, with fibromyalgia, can take a 3 a day as prescribed and feels no euphoria... just the lack of pain.... I look at her with shock and awe cause she has no problem with the drug...except one thing that is starting to worry me, she is starting to say that it is not working as well as it used to. She is nursing so her pain specialist want her to stay on that until she stops then they will try an alternative. We have 7 children which the hydros helped me for a long time working a VERY physical job.

I'm saying goodbye to the hydros for one thing because of this site! God Bless you all with your struggles and thanx for everyone telling it like it really is! Gipsee (hope that's how you spelled it) a special thanx to you for your extreme honesty!