when is it safe to take meds again

Question

I was taking up to 10-15 perks a day for months for all kinds of reasons never did i get high but i quit for two weeks and went threw a really bad withdrawl my doc said i can take them only when i need them for the pain in my back i really need them once a day maybe three days out of the week. If i would take one would it put me back in withdrawl all over again?

ilvmakindolls · Answer

I would also be very fearful to try this.  I am prescribed to take 6 a day but my tolerace has built up and I have been taking about 8 to 10 a day.  This last month I really tried hard to take them as prescribed and was unable to.  Now I am out and scared like crazy!  My feelings for a while have been to get off them and never go back.  I do know that if I do go through this pain of withdrawal, it will be all I will ever need to keep me off them for the rest of my life!  I am sure there are other medicines I can get to help me with my pain that will not do this to me.  I also take them for pain and to not get high...I just do like the "get up and go" feeling I get from them.  I am able to do more of the things I love to do when I take them...like knit and work on my dolls.  I have this weird thing with my hands that is non-fixable...and the pain I have in them is almost unbearable when I wake up in the morning.  I worry, as do my doctors, that one day I will have to have them amputated because there are these extra muscles that I was born with that have developed and over time, they grew bigger and bigger.  They did operate once and discovered they could not remove them so they just scraped them down...but within a year, they were grown back and then some.  Now they hurt all the time and go numb....I have no strength in them and my fingers turn deep purple.  As for the meds...I have been on them for years and now my tolerace is so high, I worry if I don't get off them now, I will end up overdosing on them or something.  So I have taken my last one that I had....and I know from a past experience that within a day, I will be in withdrawal and sick and hurting like crazy.  I just hope I have the strenght to do it.

jollyman069 · Answer

I am almost 500 days clean and they sacre the heck out of me..if you can steer clear of them!!!!!!!

Jebs317 · Answer

In my experience...it was really easy while clean to think that I could only take when needed.  I found out the hard way that it's just not possible.  (For me at least).  Within a day I was taking10-12 a day.  I think my tolerance for them is shot and no matter how long I go without them....I would get right back into abusing them.  
I just don't think it's possible.  How long have you gone without them?