Day 10.

[really_trying]

So here I am on day 10. Took a sleeping pill last night so I could get a good night sleep. I was exhausted yesterdays night.  I will try half a pill tonight by goal this week is to sleep without any aid. My energy I would say is 75 percent.  I hope by next sunday it will be 100 or close to it. I have to take my daughteer to an amusement park ...it will be hot and I will be walking for likely 8 or 9 hours. Well here is too my first doublw digit day!!

[Lostgal2012]

Thanks for the information. If you crave them when would that start? I did misuse but was not to get high. I have chronic pain with lots of issues but I just want off these things and see what I can tolerate with my pain.

[really_trying]

marycarmel-Great explanation...That is the difference exactly. How was your pain when you came off...my mother has chronic pain and is afraid to come of her pain meds because she thinks the pain will be unbearable. Her dosages have increased so much over the year...at first Tylenol #4 ...then percocet..now oxy and percocet plus sometimes fentanal patch plus a whole pile of other things

[really_trying]

To me they are almost the same thing...I actually do not know what hydrocone is but see a lot of people are coming off it.

[marycarmel]

Physical dependency is when it's only your body that's dependent on the medication.  Anyone that takes narcotics for an extended period of time will at some point become physically dependent.  Addiction is when people misuse/abuse narcotics, whether with a legitimate prescription or through other means.

I am a chronic pain patient and had been on heavy doses of many narcotics over the course of five years and nine surgeries.  I was never "addicted" to my medications.  I never took more than I was supposed to or ran out of my prescriptions early.  I never experienced a euphoria or a high from any of my medications.  But I didn't care for the side effects and I was worried that some day I would wind up addicted rather than dependent.  I always felt that so many people get addicted what would make me any different.  A lot of my pain was nerve pain, which narcotics don't really work well on that type of pain.

When I decided to taper off all my medications, I experienced the same physical withdrawals as some who's addicted versus dependent.  But someone who is dependent doesn't have cravings to do drugs.  They don't think about them or obsess about them.  Dependence is purely physical.

[Lostgal2012]

Well I take 20 a day so I don't have enough to taper. I guess I'm just doing the halfs to hope it keeps from being so sick,don't think it's working.i don't think I could taper if I had more bc I would know I had them. not done this before but guessing by the way I feel now. How do you know if you have a physical dependency or addiction? I didn't know about physical dependecy till I read on here

[really_trying]

I know it is tough,...so you are doing a taper. I couldn't ...if I had a pill I had to have it. Cold turkey was the only way for me. I feel a million times better than day 1-4 but it takes time to get 100% back to the way we were before the pills. Hang in there. Post a way as it really helps. Let me know if I can do anything else..provide any more suggestions

[Lostgal2012]

I have also been tAking 5 years in hydrocodone and doc writes prescription out for 6 months. I been taking up to 20 daily. I was down to 7 pills yesterday do I have been taking halfs. I took 2 pills all tog yesterday, and this morning a half. I hope it don't take to day 10 bc this *****

[really_trying]

Hi. Percoet and oxycontin for the past five years. Stopped several times for Short periods.  I was taking 40 to 80mg plus three or four percocet a day. Every day has been getting better but it is rough. What about you? I had to do this alone as well which had been hard

[Lostgal2012]

Congraulations on  day 10. Can I ask what you are wd from? Wish I was on day 10, one hour at a time for me.