New & Getting off fentanyl, oxycotin, percs etc!

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Hi everyone. I need some advice about my detoxing. First, a quick back ground on my 4 year battle with pain and pills.

I was given vicodin after my last c-section. Took it as prescribed. 12 days later I woke up feeling like I had the flu, really bad. And when I say the "flu", it was the extreme body aches and nausa. When the pain from the c-section kicked in, I took a pill. Not only did it help the pain from the c-section, I didn't feel flu sick anymore. Over the next couple weeks, the flu feeling came back everyday. So now the c-section pain was gone but I was having chronic pain everyday so I needed to take the vicodin to stop the pain. And at this point, the little feel good that I got from taking the vicodin like in the first week has been long gone so I knew I wasn't taking it to get high, just needed to get rid of the pain so I could function like a normal mom and wife.

So through the next year, I went to doctor after doctor, got test after test, trying to figure out why I was healthy one day and woke up sick the next. I got all kind of possible diagnoses but the one that all the doctors agreed on was Fibromyalgia. I couldn't come to grips that I was going to be in constant pain my whole life, at the age of 30. I was given meRAB for the fibro but they never helped with the pain. The only thing that help were pain meRAB. So I took them whenever I needed them and how ever many I needed to get rid of the pain and get up and get through the day pain free. My body metabolized the pain meRAB so fast that I went from taking 4 vicodins a day in the very begining to wearing 2 100mcg/hr fentanyl patched at one time, putting a new one on EVERYDAY, on top of my 80mg oxycotin ( 6-8 a day ) plus my percocet
 
First of all, if you are tapering the vicoden, don't make the time between your doses longer, take a smaller amount every 4 or 5 hours. I tapered off of percs 15 to 10 to 7.5 to 5 to 2.5 but every 5 hours I would take it divided by 4.

Also use the Thomas recipe.
Cut off your suppliers. Call all of your doctors and tell them no more opiates
I have fibromyalgia too. You might want to check out my blog.
You may need some professional help, you are taking a lot of meRAB. There are people on this board that use a med to help them detox.
I hope you feel better soon.
 
Hi all, I am new to this forum as of today. I was drawn to your post right off cuz I too am on a taper. Very different than yours, but the same things go with it. Personally, I do not see how, in addition to the physical addiction, a psychological doesn't go along with it. But, to each his (or her) own! I am on an MSW~~"Medically Supervised Withdrawal. I've been on methadone for almost 14 yrs., & before that, over 30 yrs. of illegal, illicit, drugs from the streets, etc.... & now, as I said, in Dec., 14 yrs. of MMT. I started my taper at 315 mgs/day & at 150 now. It has taken me approximately 3 yrs. to reach this point due to several times needing to stop my taper. Mainly because of S.O.'s surgeries which were serious. I just felt it was a better idea not to be in what could be precarious situation. So, all in all, I know that for me, going slowly down is a much better plan. My chances of succeeding are better if I go slowly. We are all different, so please know that I am not here to tell you or anyone else how to go about getting off of any drug!!
So, thanx for the post here & I look forward to posting in the future! take care, all!
 
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