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Originally Posted by kyjobr

I've read multiple times on here about tapering by 20% per week. What if I don't have enough to taper that way? I usually go through my script in 6-7 days and sweat it out a week or so until my refill. I am currently using 10 -5mg vic's per day and I've tapered before with just 5 pills. That seemed to work ok. Especially when I use Ultram or muscle relaxers too. I'm just so sick of being sick, ya know??? I had just gone through w/d's and was pretty much over it when I had my surgery. I very well could have not used the painkillers they gave me but I'm an addict so of course I took them! Not only that but I called the doc to say the dilaudin was too strong so could he please give me oxy's. This way I now had two scripts. Then he gave me a script for 7.5 vics when the oxy's ran out. I'm so scared now because I w/'d once when I had used some methodone and it was the worst w/d's yet. Now I'm freaking because I'll be coming down from these extra strength meds instead of the usual weak vic's. Sorry for the rambling....

Hi mate. Hold on in there thats all i can say. I'm currently going 'cold turkey' again in the last 3 months. The last time was on May 3rd. I'd come to the end of the road with nowhere else to go to. My life was spiralling out of control. I'd become addicted big style to Amphetamine approx. 20 pounds/day but also had a painkiller habit that was immeasurable. ie: codeine phosphate/dihydrocodeine/coproxamol you name it in fact i abused it big time. Anyway back to May. I completely stopped any intake abruptly. The w/d was vile. I got through it with cocodamol, weak over the counter sort, 4 hrly. I continued this until i felt human again after the speed withdrawel. Well weeks passed by and the painkiller intake gradually increased again big time!! Unluckily i'm in a position at work to easily get pain relief hence i'm off at the minute. I went away last friday with only enough painkillers to last maybe 3 days well i went cold turkey big time in a caravan with my husband and son not knowing a thing about my painkiller problem at all!! I had to tell em on Tuesday night. I thought i was dying and so did my family. We came home the next day, Weds. It's now Friday night. All i've had in 2 days is a couple of brufen and paracetemol for headaches. Feel terrible but its not so long back from my speed withdrawel so i'm waiting and waitin to feel half human again. Feelin better now but not much. Keep taking hot bubble baths, candles lit and some nice relaxing easy to listen to music, in my case Patsy Klein of all people!!! I'm only 38 but in times of crisis i want soothin 50's music. I hope my advice can help anyone out there??? Just hold on in there folks, it does get easier honestly. Feel free to email me, Kerry.kezapeg@aol.com England by the way folks.