What's the best way to ween off hydrocodone/lortab 7.5?

[AmyAS]

What is the best way to ween off hydrocodone/lortab 7.5? I took 6 per day and went down to 4 a day. I have taken 4 each day for the last 7 days. Should I drop a pill each week? Would dropping a pill every 2 weeks make for easier w/d? I have been taking the pills for est. 5 years. Thanks.

[Jmama4256]

I am seven  months pregnant and i take 10/325 norcos. I need to taper myself off quick or i will loose my baby when it is born. Can someone please tell me what the best way to wean myself off  would be. PLEASE HELP!

[vicki595]

This thread is old and no one's going to see your post Mr. fag. Please start a new thread for yourself and post it on the forum. You will get more responses that way.

Also, changing your screen name might help...just saying...

[fag]

I wish i could get off hydrocodone completly but sometimes seems impossible.I went almost 8months clean and then started right back with it again.I have been abusing hydrocodone for about 9to10yrs.now and every time I stop it seems like I always go back.I was clean for almost 8 months and now I'm right back and I don't even know how to control it.I know it is really a mind game but how in the hell do you make it go away or atleast make it easier trying to quit taking the pills.Any good advicce out there please let me know.I have know insurance so usually rehab is out of the question cause it cost so much money and I can't afford it,and then you've got to wonder is rehab really gonna help if you like this drug that way cause it's gonna be there waiting when you leave rehab and return home it's gonna be right back in your face.At the point that I don't know what to do any more.PLEASE HELP any great suggestions would be greatly appreciated.Hope all has A wonderful day.GOD BLESS US ALL.................

[trdofbeingtrd]

Bmwbeachbum7 sounds like they know what they are talking about. As I say on my profile, any advice I give is not professional advice and I insist on people talking to doctors before taking it if they decide to do so. One thing I would like to point out is that the liver can only take so much. Taking the amount of pills you are taking has to be damaging your liver. Please, get help. I am asking you to safely end the problem, and would like to add that while I am not suggesting you take it, some studies have shown that milk thistle can help cleanse the liver. This does NOT mean I am saying taking the pills is ok if you take milk thistle, and you NEED to talk to a doctor first before taking milk thistle. I am just pointing out that if a doctor says it is safe for you, after you are able to kick the habit, milk thistle might be able to help get your liver better.

[bmwbeachbum7]

At the qty. you are at...cold turkey would be too risky because of the effects it has on your body. Your blood pressure would jump up and down, and could drop or raise to the point to where you slip into a coma in your sleep, or worse, due to the strong withdrawals from a 100% break off from them! This however DOES NOT mean that you can't take yourself off of them! The best way to do it at the level you are at is to get a calendar, start at the beginning of a week and plot yourself out a 4 week plan. Get your legal prescription filled, and start with a full script. Take your first week and plot out a plan for each day (Sun-Sat) and take the min. amount that you can take and still function for each day well enough to tend to your children! This doesn't mean take enough to be in a good mood, just take enough so you can physically get up and make sure they are taken care of and have what they need for each day. Week 2, start backing off 1/2 a pill a day from your min. qty you decided on in week 1. Week 3, drop it a pill a day from where you left off in week 2. Week 4, only take 1/2 a pill when you have fought as hard as you can through out each day and come to a point that you just can't take it. Hopefully, by the end of week 4, your body will have taken big enough leaps each week that you can safely handle the withdrawals that will be the result of your lowest qty's in week 4. This will still not be easy! But will be FAR safer then stopping cold turkey @ the high qty. you are at. Just remember, when you are at your worst moments, that nothing worth having is easy to obtain. And your life and your children are definitely worth having! So FIGHT and conquer! I wish you the best of luck! Stay strong and get your life, health, and money back under control! I hope this helps you in some way......  :)

***...Also, before you even start, delete all numbers of those whom you've illegally obtained the extra narcotics from, and break your friendships off with anyone that has been an enabler in your addiction. You are only human and it will be too difficult for you to resist any temptations during your tapering, as well as long after. Clearing your association with these toxic people is as crucial to your recovery as getting off the actual pills themselves!

[kalanicolecordova]

hello,i am 26 years old,with 4 kids,i started takin norco about 6 years ago.the doctor writes me 135 a month.i supposes to take 4-5 a day,but i dont.i tke up 30-40 daily.my meds last me only about 4 days.when i run out im always looking to buy.i spend at least up to 1000. dollars a month on pills .i really want to stop,but i cant.i have to take them just to feel normal,not even to get high anymore.since my mom passes,its got worse,iwant to quit,but i dont,i love the feeling,someone please tell me what i can do to stop cold turkey..........