tapering off painkillers

[Joanne]

can anybody out there give me some info on tapering off percoset?  i am down to 3and one half a day, but don't know how long to wait before cutting dosage down and how much to cut down.  please, i need advice.

[Jon]

Hello everyone. I just found your website because i was intentionally looking for websites on Hydracodone/Vicadin/Opiate
addiction. I am someone who found the "love" after a car accident in 98'resulted in a prescription to Vicadin. I never new Opiates could feel so Goooood. I re-upped as many times as I dared. Who needs love when things feel so right! I wasn't able to get a steady supply until my son went into the hospital for orthroscopic surgery on his knee. They sent him home with a bottle for possible post-operative pain. I still don't know what is more amazing/shocking, him not asking for any or me eating those pills until they were all gone. There were thirty. I took one a day until they were finished. I told him some bullshit that
they had fallen in the sink. Even in that small dose they just make me float. I feel like a pat of melted butter. Warm, safe,
free from my anxieties. They make me feel right. I would probably take one now if I had it. This weekend I attempted to recreate that feeling by buying a twenty dollar bag of chiva on the street.I have never done that. It was real but I cringe at the risks of buying dope so easily cut with who knows what. I "wish"
I could get a script so i wouldn't have to think about going to such extremes.I don't like/really use chiva I prefer something more "safely" pharmacutical. Please don't rip on me too bad. This
life just feels so hard. Too hard, I'm afraid. Sometimes it
seems like the lesser of two evils. Seeming suicidal depression
being the second. I'm just reaching out. Peace,Jon (jon_bd***@****)

[Jon]

Hello everyone. I just found your website because i was intentionally looking for websites on Hydracodone/Vicadin/Opiate
addiction. I am someone who found the "love" after a car accident in 98'resulted in a prescription to Vicadin. I never new Opiates could feel so Goooood. I re-upped as many times as I dared. Who needs love when things feel so right! I wasn't able to get a steady supply until my son went into the hospital for orthroscopic surgery on his knee. They sent him home with a bottle for possible post-operative pain. I still don't know what is more amazing/shocking, him not asking for any or me eating those pills until they were all gone. There were thirty. I took one a day until they were finished. I told him some bullshit that
they had fallen in the sink. Even in that small dose they just make me float. I feel like a pat of melted butter. Warm, safe,
free from my anxieties. They make me feel right. I would probably take one now if I had it. This weekend I attempted to recreate that feeling by buying a twenty dollar bag of heroin on the street.I have never done that. It was real but I cringe at the risks of buying dope so easily cut with who knows what. I "wish"
I could get a script so i wouldn't have to think about going to such extremes.I don't like/really use heroin. I prefer something more "safely" pharmacutical. Please don't rip on me too bad. This
life just feels so hard. Too hard, I'm afraid. Sometimes it
seems like the lesser of two evils. Seeming suicidal depression
being the second. I'm just reaching out. Peace,Jon (jon_bd***@****)

[tom to About Tom]

no offense taken, my friend. Actually, you asked some good questions that made me think. How did I miss out on the oxy's? For starters, I don't know anyone with street connections, plus I never quite had the physical "proof" to persuade an MD to part with the triplicate stuff, except for once in a blue moon. That Schedule II thing is a real threshold with the docs because of the good ole DEA getting a copy of every triplicate they write. That would freak me out, too! Every time they write one, their medical diploma probably passes before their eyes. Considering what it takes to become an MD, I wouldn't want to risk it, either.
Did you go to that "oxynightmare" web site? What's up with those guys? They even have a "turn your MD in" page. What a low thing to do, rat on the guy who, out of compassion for your pain, gave you what you wanted. When I was busted for rx forgery years ago, I could have walked if I'd turned rat on my doctors -- all of whom where perfectly legitimate MD's (I was the crook!). Strange web site, anyway, very "shrill" in tone. Take care. Good to hear from you.

[loanne]

thanks for the advice brian.  ineeded numbers and percentages and details and you gave me what i needed.  i am down to 2 perks a day tken at 4 hr. intervals.  i am doing it for a week and then cutting down to 1 1/2 a day.  i know this is a 25% decrease and i amy experience some withdrawl, but i'm hoping it will be manageable.  what do  you think?  i love this forum.  i'm not alone.  thank you.

[to chad]

Not to get personal there buddy but i'm curious. Now that you are clean is the ol libido coming back.Do you have a turtle or a hanger dude.That's what sucks about opiates.Limpo dicktamitis.Any action going on in the crib. Need some encouragement.I'm still dreaming of the return of Mr.Hardon.Good luck bud, have a laugh, stick it in bro...

[About tom]

Tom my post wasn't meant to put you down. You have been the most helpful person here to be honest.It just seemed odd, like you were sitting waiting for a different addiction dilemma to pp up for you to discuss rationally. When I first came here, I crawled on to this post, didn't know where or how to post...didn't give a damn, just wanted HELP!!! I didn't want to access archives. But Now I see what you mean...It's hard getting a new question on, for whatever reason, and forever to get an answer. I feel like I know some of you. I thought youwere tired of people coming on talking about same thing, early withdrawls. Now I see your problem is wit the site management and I agree. My apologies.I didn't have any oxys that day either does that explain it..ha! how did Tom his holiness of opiates avoid oxys...man that's a question of the ages. This is THE opiate. The hotbaths are a joke for this one pal...maybe a hotplate to the face to take your mind off it..bad humor..well Tom my friend, just wanted to clear up my post...I'm sure I didn't succeed...but we your people thank you...sincerely. I feel honord to be counciled by an opiate addict of your status...this is not sarcastic Tom..I know you have a sense of humor.You have made me chuckle on day 3 of an oxy withdrawl...that's an oxymoron in itself.Goodnight to my dysfunctional family out there. Thank you all !!!!