COMING OFF PERCOCET?

[SAD GIRL]

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.

[Jackie1234567]

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?

[mike195400]

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?

[mike195400]

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?

[angels7777]

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.

[AlexK6]

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

[Pretty521kitty]

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.