Strong minded "weaning off the watsons..."

[HauntedByMrWatson]

Hello guys and gals. 31/M here. I've had chronic back problems that got really bad back in Late '08. It was to the point where doing the dishes for 10 minutes meant hours of back pain afterward. Around that time, I had my tonsils taken out, and was prescribed percocet and oxycontin. I was prescribed enough to last well-over the time it took for my tonsils to heal. During this time, I experienced no back pain, so I went to a pain doctor and started taking painkillers as part of my daily life. At one point, I was taking 50-100 mg of morphine per day (time release) along with ten norco 10's. I decided to be done so I began to wean off by myself. I have successfully weaned off of the morphine, and am now down to 7 norco 10's per day. I have been cutting off 1/2 pill from my daily intake every 4-5 days. Basically, the WD's that I'm experiencing are irritability, depression, and back pain (even in places I didn't use to have it before taking pain meds). I'm a little concerned that I may have kidney problems. Basically, EVERYTHING seems to hurt more. Is there any signs I should look for to know if I need to go get my kidney's checked out? How about my liver? Other organs? Blood? Is exercise OK? Also, is there any problem with the way that I am weaning off of norco? Is there any saftey/health concerns from those who may have experienced the road I am now walking? Is there any natural supplements that I should be taking to cleanse my blood/organs? I am strong willed. I will get through this. I just want to do it the safest/easiest way possible. I should add, to anyone advising me, that I am sill prescribed morphine, and have an "endless prescription" on norco, so I can wean off as slowly as I need to on the norco, and if switching to morphine is wise, that is an option. But I want to be off as quickly as I can without torment. Any wisdom from those who have experience would be greatly appreciated. Thanks for reading

[dominosarah]

Check out the health pages on the right hand side of the page.  There is a lot of info in there along with the amino acid protocol.  Healthy supplements are very good for us.  Exercise is good so if you can by all means go for it.  Dont have any info on tapering for you as i went ct.....Stick around and let us know how you are doing........sara

[worried878]

Congrats on sticking to ur taper///lot of narcotics u were on...200 mgs?
Morphine has no tylenol//hydro does but u r weaning off and at ur age and only 2 yrs of use u r most probably ok//get ur blood drawn for a liver enzyme test is u feel the need
so u r tapering from the hydro?  In reality the hydro is more addicting for many than the time relaesed morhine due to the fast onset and short duration of hydro//hydro is a severe problem in our country not only for this reason but it is so easily prescribed//changing tho as drs are becoming more and more hesitant to rx this drug //if u notice, over 75% of the peeps on this forum r hydro addicts
I say whatever works for u...tapering did not work for me but i am an addict and had no control/i am also strong willed to a fault!  LOL...hydro was my DOC...i am not sure if u r a mentally addicted individual or not??  either way///what works for u is the way to go..if tapering starts not working for u//then flush and CT////are u planning to stay on the morphine?