I am finally at day seven. Had to count the days backward, because as horrible as it has been, I am suprised it was a week already. I am finally feeling better. I did call my doc yesterday, and told him about my decision to detox. He was suprised. He is the one who prescribes the Percocet (180 a month) and Norco (90 a month). My insurance company is nice enough to charge me ten dollars for them. He said, "why didnt you discuss this with me", and then he said, "well, OK, but what are you going to do for pain? You still are going to have chronic pain!" I felt pretty angry at first. How could he be so non-chalant about it. I told him that it has gotten out of control, 10-15 pills a day for the past two to three years. He told me that he could have give me something to help, and also Clonidine, but then he told me "you are probably over the worst of it." I guess I felt hurt. I have been asking him over the last year if he thought it was a problem, he kept saying, "no, you don't have a problem. You aren't selling it, buying it on the street, its prescribed." I don't think he understands. I feel angry. He is also the doctor of my ex husband and my best friends boyfriend, and both of them are on numerous narctoics he prescribed. His wife is also on tons of narcotics. He is my friend as well as physician which I think is one of the reasons that angered me most. I have an appt monday to talk about it more. The sad thing is, I am a RN, and everyone knows the docs that freely prescribe. Every overdose (pill wise) that comes into our ICU is usually followed by one of the three "easy RX docs". Its sad.
What does everyone else think?