Oxycontin withdrawal

[Oxyclean]

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!

[mellie4]

Not sure if you realize the original post here is from 2003.  You might do better to post a new question; you'll probably get more responses.

[sockitahme]

Hey Everyone thank you for all the support on this forum. My bf and I are tyring to quit Oxycontin. Today is our first day without anything. We split one Valium & a hydrocodone earlier but are still feeling anxious and restless. We were spliting about 80 mg (4-5 pills) a day. Tapered ourselves off and did about 60 mg (2-3 pills a day), lowered 60mg (2 pills a day split), then 30 mgs,

This is tough. I feel so restless, anxious, runny nosed, and sleepless which are the only things that are bothering me. My poor bf has the sweat/chills, restlessness, anxiety, everything. At least we're doing to this together and supporting each other so that helps a lot.

Now that Thomas Detox...does it really work and how long should you do it to help relieve some of these withdrawal symptoms we are going through? Anyone have personal experience with the Thomas Detox?

[Addictedtoeverything]

There in virtually NO WAY to get off Oxy's by tapering. You must get Suboxone.

I am only 7 days off the Suboxone right now-I tapered the Oxys down to 80 MG from 180mg/day and then started on 2mg Suboxone twice a day. After 2 weeks, down to 3mg/day and so forth until after 2 months or so, i got down to about 1/10th of a 2 mg/day. I know this seems a miniscule amount but i was unable to quit that amount for at least a month. On this dosage i still had some WD symptoms. I was freezing in 76 degree temperatures for one.

Finally i flushed my remaining Subs and forced the issue- had bearable but still pretty rough WD's. If i hadnt flushed the Subs i would have taken them for sure.

Luckily I had Ambien and Lunesta for sleep but unluckily I am addicted to them also and they are the next thing for me to quit.

The DRs i have spoken too have NO CLUE about addiction at all. You will get better advice here or at Topix-Just search 'topix oxycodone forum' 100 times the size of this board.

Even if you have horrible pain -my advice is to take whatever non addicting things you can find rather than opiods. All the science says quitting Oxys is far more difficult than Heroin. The Drs will never tell you that especially if you go to a pain clinics. Pain Clinics are run by lazy Drs and people that dont care. They write for 25 patients a day at $150 each, get rich and dont give a f*ck about you at all. Opiods WILL eventually take over your life. You will have night sweats like mad and some of you will be unable to pee without sitting down in a relaxing enviro without noise. This alone will ruin your life. I know.

[jabird652]

i have had a love/hate relationship with oxycontin for the past 3 years. I have 3 herniated discs and some days are quite difficult to get through, even with the pills.The meds enable me to do things around the house that need done i.e laundry, dishes, vacuuming. My problem is that in the past 3 years my doctor has to increase my medication due to my body becoming immune. I am now taking 4 40mg  oxys, per day at this rate in 5 years I am gonna be taking enough oxy to kill a horse. Because all the storys above literally made me reevaluate my day to day life, I will be talking to my doctor about weaning off this evil drug. When that day comes I will be coming back to this site for support and help. Good luck to everyone above and God bless.

[GHnyc]

Hey Oxysufferer.. first of all let me say that after reading your post that I am praying for you now. In fact I just stopped typing and said 1 Our Father and 3 Hail Mary's just for you so that you continue on in your fight and never ever submit to anything along the way. Please go on.. you've gotten over the worst part if you're almost a week away from taking an opiate.

I'm on week 3 off opiates but I had to go on a benzo at night for sleep (Klonopin 0.50mg/night) w/o I can't sleep and I'm a bad sleep anyway so after being on oxycontin 3 years and oxycodone another 3 and percs b4 this for 2 years (8 years altogether for back injury too)- I had some really scarey nightmares..  just for that reason alone I decided to get off this stuff.. it's just not good for people for long term chronic pain use.. opiates do things slowly to the human being we can't see it but if you look back you'll see a whole lot of nothing going on while on them. If I'm wrong, say so.

So go on stay strong and do this.

gerry

[GHnyc]

You can so do this.. everyone who wants to do this.. It is being done by probably millions of people who are fed up and caught up in the addiction of opiates.

Keep doing this people.. remember nature has provided us with everything we need.. everyone has everything.. with exception to some of course who are born with defects, diseases etc.. I am not talking a/b them. I am talking about the rest of us!

God Bless.. and Please Do Not Miss Out On The Help From God, Jesus, Mary & Joseph. Oh boy I hope none of you are atheists.