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Tapering off Oxycontin
by cetiya, Jun 19, 2003 12:00AM
Now that I am off the Fentanyl patch, I am left with an addiction to Oxycontin. I am taking two 20 mg oxycontin twice a day. I would like to switch that to taking one every six hours for a while, and then try to drop one here and there. These are capsules so I can't cut them in half. Is this the best way to taper myself off these? I found out if the opiate level in my blood gets too low, I start to feel anxious, but have to get off these one way or the other. I still have some oxycodones left, maybe I can substitute some of the SR's for the shorter acting stuff and cut back that way. I can't take any more time off work, and I am finally feeling good, so I don't want to screw things up, but how else am I going to get off the oxy's? My doc knows I am taking them to ward off the withdrawals, I was honest and told him my pain isn't that much, I just can't stop the oxy or I'll get sick. He gave me lots of Oxycontin, so maybe I can taper off one way or the other. He was just gonna leave me on this for a couple months, but don't know what his plan is from there, maybe go down to Vicodins instead of the heavy stuff. Thanks for any suggestions you may have.
lee.
Linda
is tapering with another drug like vike's
when you switch to vike's the problem
is you feel like you are taking nothing .
going from such a strong med to a weaker
one, the trap a lot of fallinto is we start taking a lot
more of them per day then we should.
when we switch from oxy to vikes to taper .
we have to stick to a strict regament.
8 a day for a week then 7 then 6 and so on.
a lot of us have little sucess with tapering .
and find that it is easier to just go cold turkey
and deal with the week of with drawls.
then the depression and lack of energy after week 1.
the thomas's recipe helps a lot with these symptoms.
l-tyrosine 500mg 8 a day week 1, 4 a day weeks after.(some people may want to ajust the l-tyrosine .
b-6 100 mg 2 a day
calsium-magnisum
a strong multi vitamine
vitamines -A-E- and C\
copper, magnesse, zinc, phospours,
imodium for the runs.
something for sleep week 1 xanax or valium.
lots of hot baths for restless legs there is a med for restless
leg ( cinemet) there are others..
lots of water or gatoraid.
exersize is very good , the more the better.
keep posting
peace hippy
P.S. you can look that up on the web for a store
near you
Does this site somehow make it so you can't post questions after awhile? Or like if you don't pay, you are automaticly set to have that "sorry, the post is full,no more questions today,blah blah blah"? I had NO problem with the first 2, I even got 2 in a row and one right before that. Just curious KimH
from lots of pills to none at all , one extreem to the other.
that is our nature,its all or none. that is our nature.
.
as for posting questions , they take 2 questions a day ,
and that window is open around 8 am to 11 am est.
latley there have been days where there has only been 1 question taken.
i think that was due to some of the disunity 2 weeks ago.
the question are free. but should be geared twards the doctor.
i think it is fair to say if someone has a question and can not post it at the top. they should just post it on any thread.
and someone will answer it. thats what we do , we help each
other and share our experence and hope.
we just need to always respect each other , we have a mix of people here , some getting clean and facing withdrawls.from pain meds and trying ti find a way out of the hell of addiction to pain meds,
some who have been clean for a while and share thier experence.
there are also chronic pain patients who have to take medacation, and deal with the problems that may arise in thier
situations like reactions to certian medacations and finding
meadacations that work and are safe..
peace !hippy
I think the copper and manganese (along with the vitamins) are part of what your body needs to help re-route & reconstruct your brain synapse around the center that died. When we take opiates for an extended period of time, our body reacts by stopping production of dopamines: The pathways die. That's one of the main reasons we have feelings of detox, weakness, fatigue, etc.
Plus, 99 (if not) 100% of the time, good ol' Mr. Diarreah comes to visit for an extended period of time (much like inlaws) and depletes our body of the nutrients we need to get healthy again.
It's just too bad a multi-vitamin doesn't deliver a buzz. Man... I could sure go for a good multi-vitamin buzz right about now. And wash it down with a copper chaser. Mmmm.... Copper.
Peace,
Methman
If you want to hear about clean time, Today is one month for me from Methadone. The only "withdrawl" feelings I have are the shivers (goose flesh) and the occasional using thought but even that is getting less and less. I still only sleep about six hours a night.
Talk to ya later, Greg