After reading all comments, I am very scared to begin trying to withdraw from my pain medication, I am a 40yo mother of 2 teenage children. I am on 80mg oxycontin/20mg methadone/25mg amatryptiline and Oxynorm 10mg as required. I suffered a severe car crash in January 07 leaving me hospitalised for >4 months. I am now trying to reduce my pain medication not thru choice but through govt regulations that say after 12 months I should no longer be on these medications. I am still suffering a broken leg, still unable to walk more than 50m and unable to sleep thru at night due to incredible leg pain. The only other option available to me at present is amputation and I am not prepared to go down this path until i am free from all other body pain so I can determine what pain my foot is giving me. To try and raise my children and live a pretty quiet life not always pain free is very difficult, my kids have seen me have enough pain - they don't need to see me suffer withdrawal symptoms. I have read somewhere that increasing my methadone whilst reducing the oxycontin is a better way to withdraw, can anyone confirm this is so.