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Oxycontin withdrawal

I have been tapering my amount of Oxycontin for about a month now. I am down to 10mg in the AM and 10mg in the PM. My doctor had me taking them three times a day before. I really feel the difference with the twice a day dose. He is having me cut down 10mg every week. I was fine until this week. Does anyone have any advice for me? I can not stand the weekness in my legs already and I am not finished tapering. I am really afraid of cutting down to once a day on Tuesday.....help!
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I am in the position as you. I'm down to 10mg in AM and 10mg in PM. He has me on this dose for 3 weeks. I'm on my first week and it's killing me. I tried taking 2 Percocets around lunchtime to take the edge off and I'm also on Clonidine which seems to help a bit. I'm sure the withdrawals would be worse if I wasn't on them. I was on Oxy for medical reasons and had no idea this would happen when getting off them. Try getting Clonidine as I find it helps some. I'm in the exact spot you are in. I can only tell you how im coping and hope it works for you. I have the weak legs and hot flushes and lack of energy to name a few. It's the worst feeling and I hope you get through it. Let me know how you make out. Brandy
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Yeah,I believe so long as this site exists and opiates exist someone will always be searching for help. This site gives insight and hope for many an addict as myself.From personal experiance and reading on several sites !Looks like tapering off is the best/easiest way for most.Its just like anything elese though,YOU HAVE TO WANT IT ! I would try a benzo maybe inbetween.Maybe 1/2 an ambien.The better thing to do would probably be honest with your doctor and ask him/her for help.I know what your going through and hope the best for you.It looks like your someones mom please dont let him/her down.I'm in a huge mess with the opiates too.I have found if you keep giving in to opiates,opiates will keep on taking.Oh yeah ,if you let them they will take your money,love,love life,job,future,children,and every thing in sight.dont let that happen I almost did.Please be strong and be aware this is a desease and can be the biggest monster you have ever seen on screen or off.Get off this ride and stay off! ! ! ! ! Best wishes and stay stong
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is anyone still out there??? these posts are pretty old but I need help...going to try to do this on my own...but only cuz I don't want to tell my family!! They know I have been relapsing but think I am off and I can't stand to see there pain and disappointment..
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I am on mu second day off oxycontins and took suboxone too early which thru me into the worst withdrawal I've ever felt in my life!!! I trusted the subs were going to help but they are the worst thing I've ever taken. I'm going out of my mind & my skin. It's so horrible I can only lay here in pain & anxiety worse than you can imagine!! Help! Should I take Ativan????????
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I am on day 5 of cold turkey withdrawals from 160 mg's Oxycontin and 30 mg's Oxycodone per day, prescribed by my Family Dr for chronic pain. My dosage started off low and was increased over time, over a period of 7 years. I tried to quit once before about 3 years ago, but after a week of incredible suffering, I returned to the med's. This time I went to a pain specialist and asked him what he would recommend to help me with my withdrawals as I felt that I was very addicted to the pain med's. He gave me a prescription for Gabapentin - now if you look up this drug, it will tell you that you 'could' experience depression. Add that to coming off Oxy and you could have a recipe for disaster. The first day was so bad that I couldn't make it without my Oxy - I "had" to supplement myself with a couple of pills as the pain and discomfort was so excruitiating I couldn't bear it. The second day I was dissapointed with myself for supplementing and went cold turkey. It was the worst day of my life, really. I have never been so sick and I wanted to die, literally. I am sure that the Gabapentin was helping as I was not going into convulsions, though I felt like I was on the verge of it all the time. I literally could not function that day and it was horrid. I don't want to scare anyone out there, but if your on this drug, get off it as soon as you can, don't put it off, don't wait till later. It just makes it harder and harder to quit and withdrawal is worse. I was having hallucinations and loss of vision, severe cramps, restless legs and arms, severe diarrhea, no energy, muscle aches and a general "I just wanna die and get this over with feeling". Day 2 was a little better and I could lift my head from the pillow and the hallucinations stopped. Day 3 and I was able to sit up in bed and actually have a conversation with someone. Day 4 and I really started to feel better. Day 5 and I feel worse than Day 3 and 4. I am very jittery and anxious. I have not slept more than 4 hours a night since I quit and I'm exhausted. I am sure that I'm suffering from dehydration and I am shaking and cold, especially my feet. I can't get warm no matter what. I am determined to see this through to the end; I've come this far that I won't quit now. I still have the drugs available and in the house - just in case I couldn't do it again but I won't touch them. I am determined to lick this. I feel it came with a heavy cost as I've been living in a fog for years, aggitated all the time, withdrawing into myself and my pills. I am lucky that I have a great man who has stuck by me through this and stands strong beside me now. I did it for him, but I am doing it for myself. I hope that it gets easier soon. I came on here to see what information was available and have read hundreds of posts while I lie here (again) in my bed hoping to feel better. It has been inspirational and enlightening to read these post's and know that I'm not the only one. That there are people who have suffered as much and more than myself. It helps me to move forward, it reminds me that I'm doing the right thing. I don't know yet how I'll manage my chronic pain. This pain specialist told to come back and see him after I'm done withdrawing and he'll help me find pain management that works for me.

Thank you to everyone who has poured their hearts out in these posts. I appreciate reading all your stories. I wish you luck in quitting and I hope, like me, that you'll never, never want to be hooked on Oxy again.
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ok here goes........ I had a bad fall in 8- 2008 that ended me up having 15 surgerys on my right leg, I live in GA but had to travel to CA to a specialist (he reconstructed my entire leg)  in order to save my right leg, I've had to give myself antibiotics, (veins) due to sever infection, I did this for over a  yr. but guess what I'm getting at is I have never done drugs (not illeagally) but since this accident I have been on masassive amount of narcotics, um... in the hospitals Liquid daladid (cant spell) Morphine, and since 2008 I have been perscribed 40 mg. oxycotin 3x a day, plus 10mg of oxcodone 4x a day I havent  taken any where near what my docs perscribed but I have taken much, and now my docs  (pain clinic doc, not my 2-surgens) is wanting to take me down slowly, she's going down on the oxycotin  (not the oxycodone)  she says that is the worst one is it??? I have a chance to go back to a job I truley loved prior to all this, as I do have perscripions for both oxycotin and oxycodone, I do not want massive amounts to show up in my urine (I have to submitt to a drug test)  so as of today I have stopped all of the drugs, I typicaly took 1-40mg of oxycotin every am before I got out of bed cus if I didn't I felt like **** (guess that's a sign of addition hu) so today I have felt really bad, even felt like I have the flu , cant beleive this drug can do this!!!!unbelievabale!! just wondering how long i will feel like **** even tho I basickly took on a daily basis 1-40mg oxcotyn & 1-10mg  oxycodone sometimes not even the oxycodone but always the 1-40mg of oxcotin am I going to go thru withdraws for days??? does anyone know how long?
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