opiate equivalents

[pepsi4]

Does anyone know how to compare diphenoxylate to hydrocodone?  How would 20 .025mg tabs (.5mg) of diphenoxylate compare to say, 5 mg of hydrocodone?  I was put on a high dose of the diphenoxylate, and seem to experience WD symptoms similiar to any other opiate when I just stopped.  Of course, I've been taking other opiates (prescription, but recreational) also, but I don't know how to factor in the diphenoxylate -- hence "tapering down" from a combination of opiates is difficult to figure out.  Thanks in advance.

[TimG14]

HI All,
    I am on methadone 120 mg. daily for chronic pain and was given a website to help me calculate opiate doses on other opiates.There is a great web site where you can do opiate calculations easily. The URL is : www.stat.washington.edu/TALARIA/calculatorjava.html
Hope this helps.
                         God Bless & Peace Out...Tim G
"Always walk with pride, but watch where you step"

[Esmith28]

Hi all, well after having like 3 weeks clean, I went to get my epideral and the doc gave me hydro with three refils...that had never happened before, I was sooo happy. I thought I could be conservative but no. I ran out three days shy of three weeks after getting them. Total 90 hydro 10's but I had paid hubby back like 14 of them. I called the pain clinic ( like an idiot) and asked for more, and they were real cold and nasty. I told them the epideral didnt work (which it didnt) and I was still in pain and out of meds. I had told the doc I was taking like 30 a week. He said thewre was nothing alarming about that. But when I called to get more they were appaulled. I dont get it, so then I made another appointment for monday, but I cancelled it because I feel better and I really dont want to be "taken care of  by a doctor that would treat me like that after acting like it wasnt that big of a deal. Anyway. I have not had anything for like a week. Been fine really no signs of withdrawl except the crawling feeling and irritable and a little depressed. But now a week into it I am more desperate then ever. I am trying to figure out how to get some...thinking do I go to the ER..order some online ( dont trust ay websites to do that)...or try calling in my own script ( too scared for that). WHY is it always so much harder the farther I get away from my last? Thanks for listening. Lady..Hope your doing well...so were you getting scrips through hubby? It is a good thing my husband isnt a doctor!! LOL

[peaz]

Hi--Just wondering how you're comin' along....Is your head in a better place and are you slowly getting your motivation back?  The beginning is always such a *****, but somehow you have to think beyound that, knowing it will get better.  And IT WILL.  I'd love to hear from you today, so I hope you see this. Tell me  what symptoms you're having and generally what you're dealing w/.  See you later !! Peaz

[lisabet]

Hey dear lady - how are you doing tonite?  Thinking about you - remember - you're stronger than you think!   (Remember----36 days?).....  You can do it again!  Hang in there, baby. Love, Lisabet

[hippy]

encouragement is one of they very important things
we can offer each other ,and it is free.
A word of support, a kind response.
a complament goes a long way inhelping another.
Staying positive is so very important for us all.
i know a wealthy realtor friend who has has cancer for ten years
and he has expressed his understanding of the value of staying positive, and how it has kept him alive and also helped with
his pain, he said when he is negitive his pain is increaces
10 fold. While when he is positive his pain is minamil.
This coming from a man who lost his wife to the same rare
form of cancer that he suffers from.
He is a smart man he teaches realator courses at the local collage, and he know the importance of hypeing youself up
to make the sale and all that kind of og mandingo stuff.

peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!hippy

[NEW ORLEANS LADY]

you have been one of my hero's--your wisdom seems to put this crazy disease into perspective--right now i need all the help i can get and i really think tonight i need to have a talk with my higher power
thank s again hippi/bodymechnic/vicqueennomore/peaz/and everyone tha thas offered support--it means so much that there are so many people ready to help a stranger--peace and prayers