On 10/13, I had total knee replacement. They put me on lots of pain meds including morphine, percocet and oxycontin. I am home and have to go to PT twice weekly which is quite painful. I went to my surgeon on 11/2 and he said to wean off of oxycontin and oxycodone. He didn't explain how to go about that. My husband cut the oxycontin in half and I took that once at night and once in the morning for 3 days. When I thought about the next steps to get off the oxycodone, I thought to call the pharmacy for advice. I found out that I was on a 20mg time release oxycontin, and that cutting it in half meant I was cutting through the time release shell, and was just getting a burst of the oxycontin. Well, I wasn't going back there, so I just didn't take anymore. I tried to reduce my oxycodone to morning and night for a couple of days, then didn't take one at all yesterday. I've spent the past week crying and nauseas and last night was horrible. My legs were both bothering me, and had nothing to do with knee replacement. My husband suggested I take one of the 5mg oxycodone this morning, and of course, I feel somewhat better today. Will probably take one every 6 hours when I take my 800 mg ibuprofen. I'm thinking that I should continue with the oxycodone while I'm going to PT for the next few weeks anyway. From reading these boards this AM, I've figured out I'm not superwoman, and am not going to wean from these in a couple days time. But when I want off them, how do I do that? I hate the way I feel. It's worse than the knee replacement. Help?