Has anyone just lived regular life through Op w/d?

[super_mom]

I just cannot take time off as most of the experienced posters and articles suggest, either from my family or my work, but it looks like I will be starting a cold turkey w/d on Monday unless I want to deal with trying to get a referral to the pain management doc and starting a slower taper, which I worry is just going to be harder for me to maintain than simply quitting.

I am looking at and planning to use the Thomas recipe, but still it looks like most people I read are not working, taking days or weeks off to accomplish this. I need to find a way to stay somewhat normal...am I stupid to be doing cold turkey for this reason?

The doc that was prescribing my hydrocodone 10/325 did prescribe Clonidine because I told them that I really want to be off of them. He gave me a taper dosage of one tab twice a day for 7 days, then 1/2 tab twice day for 7 days, then stop. Uhhh, going from, say, 8-10 tabs a day to one twice a day in an attempt to taper doesn't seem to make good sense to me and, of course, I have gone through them faster than I should, but still nowhere near what I was taking and I feel okay, just need to take more like 3-4 a day or so at least for now and I know that if I was going to do that, I would have to establish with the pain med doc to taper, etc.

If it were do-able, I'd just as soon be done after these are gone and move on, but can I live my life somewhat normally while I do it?

[super_mom]

Also want to add the other medications that I am on/have access to:

Ambien as needed for sleep
Xanax as needed for anxiety
Celexa 40 every day
Wellbutrin 150 every day
Verapamil -blood pressure med every day -when I started having the chronic pain in November 11, which is what led to me being rx'd hydros (long story), my blood pressure was dangerously, dangerously high.

[super_mom]

Anyone have any input on this at all?

[Robert_325]

Anyone have any input on this at all?

You should do a much slower taper or you'll be feeling the w/d symptoms which will zero out the effects of a few of your other meds. If you taper that fast you'll get sick for sure.

If you had a different taper plan would your dr give you meds you required to taper in a proper manner? God bless.