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Rough Night

Hi All,
I took my last dose of OxyCotin on Saturday morning (about 20mg) and now just taking Percocet 10/325. I took 3 Saturday and 4 yesterday.  Last night I hardly slept, felt anxious and started with the hot/cold stuff. I went from my bed to my boys' beds to the couch. Today I just feel really crummy and I have work so it just *****. I just want to take enough Percocet to be comfortable and not compensate for the OxyCotin.  I have to get through this business trip Thursday/Friday and then I will suffer through the weekend.   I should have logged on last night since I was awake anyway :-)  Hope everyone is doing well. I had a meeting with a law firm we are trying to develop a referral relationship with. When I was introducing myself I kept imagining saying, "Hi, my name is JJ and I am a financial planner and addict." My boss would have had heart failure. :-)
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I know exactly what you mean, like we are prolonging the inevitable but all it is doing is stretching this out for us. It is just so difficult being "on" at work when we want to curl up and shut out the world. Congrats on your Master's!  That is something I always wanted to do but as a financial professional I am obtaining other designations that require a great deal of time (and money) to obtain so that's on the back burner.  Addiction certainly does not discriminate. I pray I never travel this road again.
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And yes we can do this. Even if minute by minute right now....
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Time off would be great! I'm going to try and stretch the time between my doses now too and see if that doesn't help some. I guess I'm trying to take the "a little sick for longer road". Don't know why! I've quit before with success for years but fell off the wagon after many years of sobriety. I just graduate  with a Masters Degree in May....you think I would know better. But regardless here I go again....
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Mlynne, be so nice if we could take time off, wouldn't it? I am so damn dedicated, ironically,  to everyone and everything that I put myself last and would not dream of calling out. But maybe next week I can squeeze  a day in. Good luck to you, I am glad I gave you a smile! We can do this!

Vicki, thank you for being my source of encouragement and my cheering section,  it helps! I am going to try like heck to keep that time frame and grow it. No leaves turned yet but should be soon now that the cooler air is here!
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Okay! It looks like you can handle 6 hours between doses! That's pretty good JJ. It's important not to go any less now; only increase the hours.

A walk through Central Park after work?  Sounds like a movie...lol...are the leaves beginning to turn yet?  I think that would be a perfect thing to do today; very good for your spirit.   And tomorrow some shopping on 5th Ave...hahaha...also very good!!
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I'm in the same boat of trying to take enough to function through work but wanting to jump off! It stinks. I love that you have a positive attitude about it. It brightened my day a little :)
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Thank you so much. I completely get what you are saying.  I absolutely want this overwith but I need to get through this trip to Boston and cannot handle being very sick and being with him almost continually for two days. I am going to try to just space out the time between doses each day. Over the weekend I can push harder. I have a big meeting on Monday next week but I am going to see if I can take a long weekend the next weekend and maybe just stop altogether by then. I feel a glimmer of hope today. I took a pill at 6pm last night and fell asleep with my twins at bedtime. Woke up all sweaty at 11pm and went in my bed. Woke up at 1am and took pill at 1:30. Got called into boys' room at 3 and stayed rest of night. Around 4 had stomach cramps and trip to bathroom.  After that in and out of sleep until 7 and showered for work. Took next pull at 8. Going to try to take half around 2. If I can do that I think I will be in good shape. Raining here now but supposed to clear up around noon. If it does I am going to try to hit Central Park fot a walk after work. Thanks so much Vicki!  Maybe my withdrawal from OxyCotin is going to be a little shorter since I was on it for shorter period this time around.
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You can try splitting them and see what happens. The point of tapering is to lessen the severity of wd's and potentially (nearly) eliminate them. It's done by dropping a small amount of the drug over time. When you drop 50% of the drug overnight...you'll feel it.

I'm not criticizing at all when I say this but if you're in a hurry (and I don't blame you) and take huge cuts in your dose...you won't feel good. Some would say: what's the point of dragging it out?  

But, I think you know all this so right now it's all in what you can tolerate, right? A little sick vs really, really sick...

I hope you sleep tonight and let me know if you need anything, okay?  I'm proud of you!
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Hi Vicki!
Thanks so much for reaching out. Think you are right, definitely feeling the loss of the OxyCotin.  I foolishly took a Clonidine that I remembered I had at work and between lack of sleep and the Clonidine I had to fight to keep my eyes open on my commute home. In any case, I am hoping that the exhaustion works to my advantage tonight.   As for my plan, I think I may try to cut in half again on Saturday morning.  I figure if I am being this aggressive to start I may as well go a bit further.  I need and want this over with. My husband is not understanding that I am experiencing withdrawals from the OxyCotin since I had not been taking them again that long but I definitely feel it. I just took a Percocet and feel better now. I wonder if splitting the Percocets in half will work well to stretch them out?

Thank you for all of your support!
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Hi JJ-   Well, you're feeling the loss of the 60mg Oxy. I wondered if you would but I wasn't sure based on the length of time using.  It's too much of a drop for you because it's almost a 50% nosedive!   Do you think you can handle it for this week?  It's a shame to feel awful. Think about it. You can always compensate with the Percocet, get to a comfortable point, and THEN  begin the taper.

After your business trip this weekend, is your plan to just stop cold turkey? Or are you still deciding?  Remind me...lol... so I can be sure I know what I'm talking about!  

How do you feel right now?
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