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COMING OFF PERCOCET?

I HAVE BEEN TAKING PERCOCET FOR ABOUT 2 YEARS NOW, EVERYDAY! IT STARTED FOR BACK PROBLEMS AND THE AMT. I WAS TAKING WAS OKAY IN THE BEGINNING, THEN I STARTED TAKING MORE AND MORE THAN I SHOULD.  IT IS NOW TO THE POINT WHEN I DON'T HAVE ANY LEFT, I AM RUNNING AROUND WORRYING ABOUT WHERE I CAN GET MORE, I AM EVEN GOING IN DEBT FROM BUYING THEM OFF THE STREET.  I AM SCARED AND DON'T WANT TO BE IN PAIN ALWAYS, BUT, I WANT TO BE ABLE TO COME OFF THEM WITHOUT HAVING HEART FAILURE OR WHATEVER.  IS SOMEONE JUST ABLE TO STOP COLD TURKEY? OR, DOES ANYONE KNOW IF THERE IS MEDICATION I CAN ASK MY DOCTOR FOR TO HELP ALLEVIATE SOME OF THE WITHDRAWL SYMPTOMS AND GET ME EITHER TOTALLY OF THESE THINGS OR AT LEAST BACK TO TAKING THEM THE PROPER WAY? I NEED SOME HELP. THANK YOU.
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I would also like to mention that for the past cal weeks I have only been using perks but at high doses ranging from six to ten a day
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Good day everyone my name is Ryan and I'm an addict to perks oxy and fentenal.  I am tearing up my family and relationship because of the use. I've beem addicted for about two years I am in debt because of it. I'm lost I say I want to quit and I only fool myself and get more is there any suggestions to help with withdrawls. Keep in mind I am in the military and I cannot seek medical help without possible career implications. Any advice would be appreciated thankyou
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Good day everyone my name is Ryan and I'm an addict to perks oxy and fentenal.  I am tearing up my family and relationship because of the use. I've beem addicted for about two years I am in debt because of it. I'm lost I say I want to quit and I only fool myself and get more is there any suggestions to help with withdrawls. Keep in mind I am in the military and I cannot seek medical help without possible career implications. Any advice would be appreciated thankyou
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9880688 tn?1414115647
Hi!  This is a very old thread.  If you go to the top of the page and click on Post a New Question you can start a new thread.  Nobody is going to really notice you on this one and we would really love for you to join our family.  Lots of love and support here.  Please post a new thread :-)
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Thanks for that info!!! How are you doing now? I am wanting to come off the Peres I have been on for years for terrible pain from broken back and surgeries and I have a hip replacement coming up in the new year. Do I try coming off these now or wait til after the surgery?
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I need help coming off them too without it affecting my day to day life. I'm so scared. I'm reading all these comments and feeling better about it though. We can do this. The trouble is I have a hip replacement surgery coming up and I wonder if I should wait til after the surgery to come off?
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It seems ridiculous to ask this question based on the amounts that I am reading here, but how bad, if at all, do you guys think withdrawals off of 20-30mg of Percocet a day be?
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BTW your posting on a string that was posted 5 years ago. Click on the "Ask Question" bar at the top of the screen. I know what your going through, are you out right now?
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4465616 tn?1365972424
Is that the only hospital you can go to? If you have been on that high of a dose for 5 years it will be tough. Maybe you could call your new P.M. doc and explain it to him?
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I have been taking 240mg of oxycodone plus 240mg of oxycottin for 5yr. For my back surgery that is not healed correctlt. My pain Dr. got in trouble & i couldn't get my scripts before he closed his office. Now I went to my family Dr & they won't help me, they told me I just had to deal with the withdrawals..I can't go to the emergency room because I'm n emt classes & hav to do my clinicals @ the same hospital. That would  not look good for me. I only hav 3 weeks of class left. Plus a family &a full time job I'm really @ my last straw I love my kids & my husban. I don't know if I can deal with this any more. I do have an appointment with a new pain Dr. in 15 days. I can't take any vacation because the other girl in my area is leaving for 10days & I can't take off.  Any suggestings. Please. Just trying to survive to make matters more ironic my name really is Angel but I really don't feel like one.
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Has anyone heard of the Thomas recipe. I'm trying to taper down in order to relieve the withdrawls symptoms . Can someone help me with how to taper down? Do I decrease by 1 pill a day? I'm on 10 oxycodone a day. Thank u very much
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I want to destroy even the idea of opiates. I know that it is unrealistic. If there had not been any such drugs I have no idea how I would have survived 3 different surgeries, one involving the removal of a BODY ORGAN. I was dying, there wasn't a choice. But, being on opiates for 18 months for 4 herniated discs in my spine was a ridiculous idea. Why didn't the doc tell me the possibility that getting off this **** would be more unpleasant than living in chronic pain?  He didn't even make the decision. I said to him myself that the pain is better than the f-ing side effects of this stuff. Sometimes that is not the case, as when my cousin was dying of cancer. He needed the meds more than anything else. It would have been horribly in humane not to drug the living hell out of him IMO. But me?  I've been tapering for 8 months!  Off the morphine, off the dilaudid, now on about 10mg of Percocet/day. I just want to stop and go to zero but that is not an option for me. I also have multiple sclerosis. I NEED to be on an immuno-modifier. If I go underweight, I am pulled off my treatment. Meaning, I'm already feeling like hell and am so sick of this ridiculously drawn out process, but if I can't eat or sleep for 5-7 days, I risk getting pulled off my MS meds, which is not anywhere close to a viable option. I don't want to die, and don't feel depressed or suicidal over this withdrawal. I feel ANGRY and vaguely HOMICIDAL towards others.
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4341997 tn?1514588688
hi and welcome dswift...this is an old thread so you should post a new one....got to the top of the page and click "ask a question".  It doesn't have to be a question....just post for support....we can help you thru the WDs...this site is awesome for support and info....just let us know what your symptoms are and we can help you get thru them.  It will be a tough few days but you can get thru them...we can help....it's kind of slow tonight but someone will post when you start a new thread....good luck and just hang tough!!  
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IM 25 yrs old and I'm addicted to percocet. I've been addicted for a year and I snort them about ten a day. I want off and I don't think I'm strong enough I have three young kids to take care of. The worst part is feeling sick at work. I can't take time off  because I can't afford it. I want my life back but I don't know how to do it. my kids need me and I need the old me. Can anyone help me with advice please I'm struggling for help. I don't have insurance so I can't afford medicine
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My comment is this....  I am 14 days clean from percs.  today.  I started like everyone else does.  Back pain from years of construction. 5mg 3x a day to 1-1/2 years later 180 10mg per month was not enough so I became to buy 30s behing my docs back. At my peak I was at 180-10s, 30-45 30s and 35 5s per month. The real trouble began when I started mixing the sleeping pills.  At the end of my journie I ran out, couldn't buy more and my script wasn't to refill for a week...  I made the decision to stop then. I figured I would go cold turkey and if I took sleeping pills I could cover the pain from the W/D.  NOT!!!!!  I woke up in the hospital with tubes in me!   14 days later I am clean and feeling better.  Still not 100% but better and more important alive!  I did go to the doc for help and with clonidine for the shakes and Advil to try to cover the pain you can do it to. Everyone is different and my addiction is my own experience however, going thru this opens a new door for everyone.  You can do it and need to do it fast. If not, look forward to 2-3 weeks of complete HELL!!!!    Good luck. Stay strong, stay positive!  
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Everyone that has problem with getting off of pain meds use Ativan that is what they use in most.places to get you off pain med 2mg every 4 to 6 hour for the first two days then go down to 1mg every 4 to 6 hours for two days now I am not a doc but it works
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GO TO THE CHRISTIAN BOOK STORE AND GET THE RECOVERY BIBLE WHEN I LOSS MY SON  THIS AMAZING BOOK GOT ME THROUGH , LET GO AND LET GOD !!! PERCOCENT IS NOT LETTING YOU LIVE FREE ITS BONDAGE  HOLDING YOU BACK FROM REAL LIFE!! LIFE IS TO SHORT  ENJOY LIFE AND BE THANKFUL EVERYDAY , THERE ARE  PEOPLE  WHO WISH THEY HAD A CHANCE FOR LIFE!!!!!! GOD BLESS
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Never thought I'd be lookng on a page like this,Wow are these things bad news.
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Hey, im currently on day 4 of cold turkey. There's no sense in feeling like this. I was snorting 25 to 35 a aday of 10/650 percs. Is there any thing I can help my energy. Im self employed and i can't miss anymore work. Any advice would be so helpful thanx
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HI I WAS ON PERCOCET SINCE 2008 BECOUSE OF A CAR ACCIDENT AND ONE DAY I SAID STOP TO MY SELF THIS IS MY 4 DAY I AM USING ROBITUSSIN NIGHT TIME AND IT HELPS ALOT NOW I FEEL PERFECT I DONT NEED TO USE ANYTHING AND THE PAIN IS GONE
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hi, i am new to this and i need help.i want to quit for good but i cantgo to a treatment facility because i have to take care of my sick wife. i am 60 years old and have been taking percoet for 5 years i average 5 pills a day 10mg/325. i almost got off them  over 5 years ago when i changed taking the pills from 9 am to 930 next day and a half hour added to each day i got to 4:30 pm and thoght i had it licked.my pain is not that great i am very mad at myself for letting this go on . i dont want to come clean with my doctor because of various personal reasonss. tommorrow i am going to try drinking more water.also believe it or not one of my doctors suggested i take a percoet to go with my ambien to sleep at night. i am a very positive person in this very negative situation. any suggestions will be appreciated.iguess i will sign this as :"disappoinet in myself"
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I stopped taking 10MG percs this February and while sometimes ill pop a few here and there for the most part I stopped taking them. You can stop these if you want. Stop being a prisoner in your own mind and body.

I will always be an addict and if you are reading this then that means you are to. Just because you stop taking **** to get high doesn't mean you are no longer an addict.

Talk to your doc & get help. If you don't have a doc, then drink plenty of water and get active. The more active you are the better. If you can get outside to a warm climate that will work also.
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i have a problem with depending on percocets to keep me going. i always run out a few days early and it terrifies me. i also suffer from PTSD and it seems like having withdrawls from percocet makes it worse. I feel down anxious and don't want to be around anyone. i have loose my sexual desire everytime i run out of my percocets to early. i usually run out like 5 days early. and so i have to go through this alot. i have told my dr. but she doesn't care. she says i must be selling the medications because even though i take extra amounts of percocet it doesn't show up in my urine. this has got me going crazy. i separated my shoulder in service and have a swollen disk in my neck. even though the dr. started me on percocets she says that my shoulder being separated should not be causing me that much pain. i don't know what to do they won't fix my shoulder but they said they want me to stop taking percoset because of the fact it's not showing up in my urine. i am sick , cold chills, feel disoriented. don't know what to do.
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everybody try the herbal pain killers, willow bark, cayenne, valerian mix with passion flower,  mix and try to see whats good for you, its better than that ****,
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