Hi Brenda,
I am currently on the tail end of my home detox from Oxy. I had been taking 160mg Oxy daily for over 2 years for chronic low back pain. Since I did not like the withdrawal effects which I accidently experienced when I ran out of Oxy for a day and ended up going to Urgent Care where they prescribed an emergency supply until I was able to get my regular refill. The withdrawals where pure hell. It was like my body was both burning and freezing at the same time. I could not sleep as I could not keep still due to the discomfort of going from burning up to freezing and I felt my skin crawling and I just wanted to jump right out of my body if I could. I had asked my pain doc if I could take buprenorphine, brand name Subtux, and he refused saying it was like prescribing one opiod to another. Instead, my pain doc had me detox by using
Tylenol with
Codeine#3 which I had been taking over five years before I went on Oxy. Although codeine is also an opiod, it is the lesser of two evils. Anyway, this is how my pain doc had me slowly taper off Oxy. On the first day, instead of taking the full 8 tabs of Oxy, I only took 7 tabs and inserted one codeine#3 tab. For the next 2 full weeks, that is what I took. For week three I went from 7 Oxy to 6 Oxy and inserted 2 codeine tabs. For the next 2 weeks, you stay on that, 6 Oxy and 2 codeine. After another 2 weeks have past, you take 5 Oxy and insert 3 codeine. Keep doing this until you are only taking codeine. I am at 2 Oxy and 6 codeine, so in another 4 weeks I should be Oxy free. Codeine was not addicting to me and if I missed a day, week or months, I did not go into withdrawals. The problem your friend will have is the fact that he is crushing the Oxy which gives him a quick high and he may need to take more codeine. If this does not work for him, have his Primary Care Physician refer him to a pain doc where they can prescribe buprenorphine, which is very similiar to Oxy only not very addicting. Good luck.
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