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getting off the meds
ok i hope that someone can answer this question for me......i woke up this morning feeling a little jittery....was this because i hadn't taken morphine since yesterday around 1:00 and it had been along time something like 17 hours......what was the right thing to do in this case???? and now i'll tell you what i did do.....i did take 1 morphine 15 mg.....im sure this prob wasn't the thing i was suppose to do and is this part of how i will feel coming off these dang pills......i really have legit pain but i really hate now that the doctor put me on these things.....it made me feel better and no pain.....and i never felt like it was a high i took exactly what he said.....i was really on a pretty good bit not like some others that i have read but I'm down so low now i just want this over NOW.....
i hope you get better really soon and hope you are able to get pregnant and def not while you are on the meds wouldn't be good...this is why i want to get off the pills because i have 2 adult sons and one day i hope to have grand children and i want to be around for all this....i was thinking and i must be wrong that the longer i can go between doses the better but this must not be right....is there a big problem going long between doses??....i am so thankful for everyones advice on here thanks so much....
Hon I just commented on your other post. It is not safe to go so long in between doses when you are only one month post op. If you do not have proper pain control, you will not heal.
As I mentioned, my doctor has me on a very slow taper. She didn't want me to start until my pain was 'stable". This isn't possible though, as I have recently been diagnosed with a condition that is super painful and inoperable except by hysterectomy. As I plan to conceive as soon as I'm off the drugs, I cannot have a hysterectomy. So I am forced to taper while still in terrible pain. This is MY choice and not what is advised but I cannot get pregnant while on drugs....I just can't. My doctor respects this and this is why I am tapering SLOW- I am pretty much healed from my surgery at 6 weeks.
Contact your surgeon first thing Monday. Explain your situation and see if they can refer you to another doctor to manage your pain properly until you are healed.
You need to be safe. And you cannot do this with HUGE gaps between doses.
Okay?
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Lu
As I mentioned, my doctor has me on a very slow taper. She didn't want me to start until my pain was 'stable". This isn't possible though, as I have recently been diagnosed with a condition that is super painful and inoperable except by hysterectomy. As I plan to conceive as soon as I'm off the drugs, I cannot have a hysterectomy. So I am forced to taper while still in terrible pain. This is MY choice and not what is advised but I cannot get pregnant while on drugs....I just can't. My doctor respects this and this is why I am tapering SLOW- I am pretty much healed from my surgery at 6 weeks.
Contact your surgeon first thing Monday. Explain your situation and see if they can refer you to another doctor to manage your pain properly until you are healed.
You need to be safe. And you cannot do this with HUGE gaps between doses.
Okay?
Hugs
Lu
That is a good decision. With your medical issues, and being recently post Opp from a kidney removal, it is a doctor who should be advising you. You need to be careful, and should not be managing this yourself. I really understand that you want to be off of the pills, but it needs to be done the right and safe way, with a doctors guidance. Hopefully you will find another doctor soon.
Take care.
Take care.
i would love it if only i had just anxiety.....that's why i kinda think that since I'm so low on meds now that i praying it won't be bad as i read on others post....
i'm gonna make some call on Monday to try and find someone...the doc that originally started me on the meds since he went to the hospital in administration the docs in his office don't do pain management and never order any narcotics for anyone...or so I've been told...im gonna makes some call like i said and pray i can find some help...not many pain management practices in my town so idk......
my main surgeon that I've seen for my whole life...is retiring Dec 1 and i go back to see the assistant surgeon on Dec 31...ive never seen him AT ALL not even in the hospital.....i hate that my main doc is retiring....ugh
nope.....in terms of meds or what??? didn't give me a thing....sent me home on percocet and that's about it...i did get a sheet telling me what to do and not do but nothing on what i can take...
Only one month post opiates you probably shouldn't be trying to come off your meds now. When do you see your surgeon again?
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With you having a kidney removed you have to be careful and that is why it is important to find another doctor who can guide you on this one. Did they give you sheet that explains what you can and cant take now?
Hi i hope you can find my story it will explain a lot to you.....when i woke up this morning with the jitters i did take 1 morphine 15 mg.......and for my pain I'm having with the kidney i had to have removed 1 month ago i was hurting from that so i took 1 10mg percocet...that is all I've had all day until just now hurting really bad in my side from surgery i took 1 10mg percocet....im out of work from surgery until jan 5 so I'm hoping this all goes away before i have to go back to work...i'll try to give you a short version of my story but if you can find it that would be better.......2006 my GP put me on the meds but not before trying physical therapy and all kinds of non narcotic meds but nothing helped he started me out on morphine and loratab for break thru pain....up until about a month nd a half ago i was taking 3 30mg morphine and 2-3 10 mg loratab...then my doc tells me he will no longer be seeing patients because he was going into administration at the hospital....soooooo he writes me this very nice letter saying that i had always followed his orders never doctor shop or took more that i was suppose to....and he gave me 3 months of morphine and 5 months of loratab then the government changed the laws and i lost 4 months worth of loratab....in the mean time my urologist that I've been seeing for 35 years since i was 19 I've always had problems with my kidney from surg at 19 to stones every 2 years for all this time and my kidney was so damaged and my kidney was not functioning...so it was time to remove it for health sake...when i found out my doc was leaving i started cutting back on the meds went down to 2 morphine a day and 1-2 loratab a day which i thought that was good...so i decided to find another doctor...i thought a pain management doctor was the best but when i saw him he is absolutely useless...he told me nothing to help me taper off and actually told me that he would give me 14 morphine 15mg and to take that for 2 weeks and the take what i have left of my percocet from surgery....what a crock no help at all i thought pain management was that exactly---management....but nothing .......so i decided to try it myself....i stopped taking the loratab all together and stopped taking the 30 mg morphine all together....so now I'm down to 1 or 2 morphine 15 a day somedays i can go at least 15 or more hours between the morphine...which i thought was pretty good....and only took 1 percocet inbetween the 2 morphine......and I've done this for about 5 days now and feel like I'm doing ok....friday i didn't take my 1st morphine till 115 and didn't take another until this morning when i woke in pain and with the jitters so i had gone 17 hours between great i thought...i also took 1 10mg percocet this am too for the pain from surgery....this was at 700 and 815 but about 6 pm tonight i was really hurting from my surgery so i took 1 percocet....i had to was in so much pain.....i did say that this was gonna be short but guess it wasn't but if you can find my story maybe little more details.......let me know if theres anything you can do to help me......i want off these pills sooooooo bad..i have 2 adult sons and want to be around for grandchildren one day plus....it will save me money at the doc and pharmacy and i can't tell anyone I'm to embarrassed and ashamed....so this is why i looked online for someone who understands......i will try the water thing and went to walgreens and bought a bag full of vitamins today to start taking too....but as far as the exercise i can only do so much but I'm gonna try and start walking a little more.....with the surgery thats about all i can do right now...thanks so much for listening...all help and prayers appreciated.....
Hi sweetie: The toughest thing about getting off these pills is that it takes time...and the withdrawals never go away as quickly as you'd like them to.
I also took them only for pain, and only as prescribed. But I took them for 8 years...my body incorporated them into itself as if I were born on opiates. I'm a little over 2 months clean, and it still having symptoms, although it is a million miles better then it used to be.
The jitters were awful; I tried going to work on day 6 and felt like I made a fool of myself because my hands were trembling so hard. I passed it off a "low blood sugar" but it was terrible...luckily that symptom only lasted a few days.
Drink a LOT of water...it helps so much more than you'd think it would.
And ANY kind of exercise will calm you down...my first 4 days I couldn't even get out of bed, but after that, I tried to do something a few minutes every day.
I'll try to find your story on here, so I can respond more thoughtfully...in the meantime, here's a *hug* for you...
-R.
I also took them only for pain, and only as prescribed. But I took them for 8 years...my body incorporated them into itself as if I were born on opiates. I'm a little over 2 months clean, and it still having symptoms, although it is a million miles better then it used to be.
The jitters were awful; I tried going to work on day 6 and felt like I made a fool of myself because my hands were trembling so hard. I passed it off a "low blood sugar" but it was terrible...luckily that symptom only lasted a few days.
Drink a LOT of water...it helps so much more than you'd think it would.
And ANY kind of exercise will calm you down...my first 4 days I couldn't even get out of bed, but after that, I tried to do something a few minutes every day.
I'll try to find your story on here, so I can respond more thoughtfully...in the meantime, here's a *hug* for you...
-R.
Hun then you will just have to go with the withdrawal symptoms. You might not get anything more than some anxiety.
If you were only dependent and not addicted your mind won't try to convince you to take more pills.
Yes taking another pill will stop the withdrawal. But if you want to get off them you will have to go through the detox.
If you were only dependent and not addicted your mind won't try to convince you to take more pills.
Yes taking another pill will stop the withdrawal. But if you want to get off them you will have to go through the detox.
hi roxi thanks for the advice....but I've tapered down so low i don't want to go back up......just want some advice...please do read my story....its called i want to get off these meds myself.....let me know what you think....
that would be great Krissy_123 because i think the more that can read it the better.......THANKS
That's what hope__fully has been trying to do on her own is the tapering. Her story is down a ways in this forum...I'll see if i can find it and bring it to the top so you can get the jyst. Maybe you'll have some advice for her? From what I gather her doctor was no help?
Its not gonna be that easy. You always will have the issue in the back of your mind but if you want to sroo now i suggest spraking to your doctor about possibly tapering down and or maybe another thing like suboxone matinence or even methadone wich i dont like so much due to the more adverese negative affects thats associated with the methadone.
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