Has anyone tried to Taper off and WIN?

[cloudhaginglow]

Ok yes I know it was wrong but I called my DR. yesterday and I told her what was going on. She as it so happens is a specialist in detox and drug abuse. Well long story short I Told her how much i was truly doing and she freaked out that i was just trying cold turkey. She said I was truly going to CRASH & BURN maybe even die. She told me my brain and heart could not handle that alone. So she went and prescribed me some pills. I had to take a friend I knew i could trust and she talked to him one on one and told him what to do. Well thank god he don't live close to me but he is to issue me .5 if a Vicodin 10mg in the morning and the other .5 at the end of the day before i go home. Well last night it worked with some help of Nyquil and a Melatonin pill. I slept for 5 hours and than woke up and had to take a very little more Nyquil and slept for 3 more hours before i had to get ready for work. I am sure it will help just need to know if anyone has been in this boat before?

[Florida_Guy737]

I tapered myself for three weeks and still had quite a few meds left over at the end of the taper.  You need a plan and a commitment to stick with it. My diversion was exercise (OCT??) maybe but it worked.

Keep your eye on the prize (sobriety and freedom) and all will be well.

Guy

[fedup710]

calling your doc was not wrong it was the best thing to do!  I just did the same 3 days ago and yes she freaked about the amount i was taking.  she put me on a plan that took me from 200 mg of percs per day to 30mg of vics.  i took my sister with me and she is in charge of my meds and gives them to me on a very tight schedule.  I would not be able to do it my self.

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[cloudhaginglow]

I told the Dr. i never knew you could die and he said with what i was mixing it could be possible to send my self into deep depression or heart issues. I was taking about 40-60 mg's of vicodine and about 30-45 mg's of Oxycodine and if i had any another 20-30 mg's of oyxcotin in about 8-9 hours. I could not take them home to due at night because i didn't want my wife to find out. I even started to use on the weekend away from work which i never should have.

[sway1]

i'm with IBKleen in that i don't get your doctor, but if you can make this work more power to you. have you gone to any meetings or anything? gotta make some lifestyle changes so it will keep on working, right? good luck, sway

[IBKleen]

Tapering is difficult at best and every successful one I know of was done with the help of someone else. If you can have someone hold them for you and give them to you according to the schedule you will have a much better chance of getting through this.

I don't want to go against your doctor but I have to be honest, in all of my many years of being around drugs and drug addicts I have never heard of anyone who died from Vicodin withdrawal. Unless there are some serious underlying health issues you can ct off of them. Is it uncomfortable? You bet it is but not life threatening. There are only two drugs that I know of that can cause death during withdrawal and Vicodin is not one of them.

That being said, I am glad you are following the doctor's orders and getting this done. Keep a positive attitude and try not to think about terrible things and "what if". In a week the physical will be over.

[Hellweek]

I have managed to taper off of my pain meds.  It was not easy and in many cases was just as bad as just going CT.

Your doctor is correct, you will get very sick from quiting, however it is very rare that someone dies and usualy it is because of some underlying condition.

I tappered from 120 MG Oxi down to 5 MG of Norco.  The physical WD's from quiting at 5 MG was bad, but not bad enough that I could not deal with it.

Follow the tapper program, life will get better.  But please understand that you will not get out of this pain free.  Even on tappering you will feal some pain.