Oxycontin/Methadone withdrawal

[Traumagirl]

After reading all comments, I am very scared to begin trying to withdraw from my pain medication, I am a 40yo mother of 2 teenage children.  I am on 80mg oxycontin/20mg methadone/25mg amatryptiline and Oxynorm 10mg as required.  I suffered a severe car crash in January 07 leaving me hospitalised for >4 months.  I am now trying to reduce my pain medication not thru choice but through govt regulations that say after 12 months I should no longer be on these medications.  I am still suffering a broken leg, still unable to walk more than 50m and unable to sleep thru at night due to incredible leg pain.   The only other option available to me at present is amputation and I am not prepared to go down this path until i am free from all other body pain so I can determine what pain my foot is giving me.  To try and raise my children and live a pretty quiet life not always pain free is very difficult, my kids have seen me have enough pain - they don't need to see me suffer withdrawal symptoms.  I have read somewhere that increasing my methadone whilst reducing the oxycontin is a better way to withdraw, can anyone confirm this is so.

[crazylady43]

I feel bad for you and your pain.  I sincerely recomend that you try to get off the pain medication and go on clinical methadone to help determine how much of your pain if from the accident and how much is from the highly addictive pain medication that you are on.  My husband got addicted to pain medication and is now on clinical methadone and it has changed his life.  I wish you much luck and my  thoughts and prayers are with you

[worried878]

Where do you live?   I had not heard of the govt having control over pain medication in the United States..insurance companies i have heard of doing stuff like that....let someone with methadone experience help you....from what i have read no one would recommend upping your methadone dose to get off of anything...some on here take suboxone to get off of high doses and others taper down then quit...have u looked at the health pages under DISCUSSION and got the infor for detox?