What are you taking now?percs or oxys?
Im completely off percs and down to 1 40 mill oxy in the morning and 1 40 mil at night and want to keep decreasing but want to know if its best to decrease amount or time in between. someone told me to cut up the 40's in quarters and take one whenever i get the aches but I have found if I wait for the aches it takes forever to get rid of them. the only real pain I am feeling is the kidney stone in my right kidney which is constant but I think is keeping me from going into withdrawal (don't ask me how no idea)
if it was me i would go back to the percs for the taper because percs and oxy are the same narcotic only difference is percs have tylenol and oxy do not and they are extended release. since you are taking 80mg a day you would be safe if you can get some 10/325 percs and the reason i say use percs for the taper is because you will know exactly how much you are taking instead of guessing while cutting the oxys up.
but since you are at 80 now i would not go to 30 in the morning and 30 at night i would go to 70mg a day and i would use the percs and take 7 10mg percs spread out through the day for 4-5 days and then go down to 60mg for 4-5 days and so on until you get to 20mg a day and then i would drop only 5 mg every 4-5 days until you get down to 5mg a day and after the 5mg for 4-5 days just come completely off and you will still have withdrawals but they will be very minor because there is no getting around having some withdrawals but this way makes it a lot easier. If after 4-5 days you try to drop to 60-mg and you are not comfortable with it then you can always change that 4-5 days to 5-6 or 6-7 days whatever you feel the most comfortable with as long as you are able to get enough of the meds to do it that way me personally i droped 10mg every 7 days and if you cannot get the percs you can always do it with the oxys and just cut the oxys in 4 pieces and you can always take more mg at a time and just take it less times a day like if the 10 7 times a day wasnt working you could take 20mg 3 times a day and 10mg somewhere in the middle i just think spreading it out is going to be better because you wont withdrawal in between doses
Good Luck
Abritt
I tried to taper myself off Oxy's and Somas just couldn't do it..So I decided to quit cold turkey and get it over with..I too have had a kidney stone was the worst pain I every had, It took me 3 weeks to pass it. I was taking 120-180 mg of Oxy's a day and 2-3 somas a night for 3 years. Just get some benso like Diazpam 10 mg and some clondine to help you sleep. It's 3-4 days of flu like symtons but by day 5 you should feel better.. I flushed 55 oxy's down the toilet on day 2 knowing if i had them I could get to them..By day 5 w/d start to go away..Then it's the mental demons My doc put me on ant-dep clexa..It takes 2 weeks to kick in I'm 76 days clean and never felt better. Just be honest with your Doc and let him or her know you want off..They will help! Why prolong with taper? Just get it over with..Set a date then do it. If Mr Addictive personally can do it so can you! Good Luck and Keep Posting!
G
thanks to both you guys I really want to do the cold turkey I quit smoking cold turkey after 18 years of smoking and havent touched then in 6 years but I run my own business and can't be down for 5 days without sleep and shaking with aches and pains Ihave gotten in touch with our local addiction medicin program and havent heard back yet from them so Im hoping they can help pain I can handle withdrawal I can't. I do like abrits taper idea I always thought it made more sense to use a little throughout the day then just two lump blocks it makes more sense thanks I am going to take it into consideration and see which way I am going to go.