[nuchies]

Thank you to all who post information on this site. I have been reading this site for a while now and decided to join up.

I am a 32 year old Engineer with a stay at home wife and 3 wonderful kids. The youngest is just short of 1 year. I have been taking Oxycodone for about 6 months now. I had a head on car accident almost a year ago and the doctor was giving me OC 30's. Now the doctor I was going to was arrested for trafficing. Since this has happened I went to a new doctor that refused to continue the medication. My general practitioner wants me to go to a pain management doctor. Well at this point i do not think that i need to continue to take them. For the last several months now I have been paying street prices to keep the withdraws away. I currently use about 60-90 mg a day. I just got 20 more 40's and I want to ween myself off of them by the new year. I also want to be able to continue to function in my daily life without going through the sweats, aches, nausea, and trouble focusing on my work. I am the sole provider so i need to work hard and free of withdraws. I can not jeoprodize my job right now. I have been paying for these off the street and promised myself that I would not continue these in 2009. My wife knows i take a little bit. But she doesnt know i am addicted to them. In fact she really doesnt even know anything about the drug.

So any advice on what i should do right now would be great, I really want to kick this habit and leave it behind in 08. I do have strong will power.

[Cats Meow]

I suggest you taper down, then quit cold turkey, but there's no way to avoid w/d symptoms, you'll have to bite the bullet and get through them, and it will put you down for 5-7 days, no matter how strong and determined you are, there's stuff you can do to help, there's plenty of info on the site that should help, but plan on taking some days off. You can even quit without tapering, but it's more miserable.
Good luck

[nuchies]

Originally Posted by Cats Meow

I suggest you taper down, then quit cold turkey, but there's no way to avoid w/d symptoms, you'll have to bite the bullet and get through them, and it will put you down for 5-7 days, no matter how strong and determined you are, there's stuff you can do to help, there's plenty of info on the site that should help, but plan on taking some days off. You can even quit without tapering, but it's more miserable.
Good luck

WOW 5-7 days. Do you really think it will be that long? What affects should i expect to lingure around after the 7 days have passed. I understand we are all different and handle wd's differently. Anything that is certian to have happen after wards. Like I wonder if my body will still yearn for them. I wonder if ill be able to taste them like i do now when i feel that i need one. Ugh.. sucks..

[Cats Meow]

Like death and taxes, withdrawal's from opioids is a guarantee in life, you will not want to get up and do anything until day 5 minimum. After a week, expect sleeplessness and lethargy, a few loose stools, aches and pains.

Someone will come on here and so will going to a pain mgmt doctor and suggest Suboxone, it will alleviate w/d's, but it's only postponing them, it is the ticket for some people, but doesn't sound like it's what your mission is.

[Robert_325]

I agree with Cats. Using for six months is probably not long enough to require using suboxone. I would recommend just getting it over with and doing a cold turkey. There are things you can do to help with some of the symptoms but it won't stop them all. Just get it over with and be done with it. Check out The Thomas Recipe. You can search it here or on google. Lots of people use it to help with cold turkey w/d symptoms off opiates. Good luck and God bless.

[melinda7.5]

Originally Posted by nuchies

WOW 5-7 days. Do you really think it will be that long? What affects should i expect to lingure around after the 7 days have passed. I understand we are all different and handle wd's differently. Anything that is certian to have happen after wards. Like I wonder if my body will still yearn for them. I wonder if ill be able to taste them like i do now when i feel that i need one. Ugh.. sucks..

Hi nuchies
Robert and cats are right,I was taking oxycontin for about 3 years,
Oh man it was hard to quit,but here I am 5 months later and life is good again.It really is worth the work that it will take to get off of them..
Just keep putting some time behind you and things will get better.

[deathmagnetic]

Hey man trust me i know how hard it is to try an get off oxy,s. I was addicted to oxy, dilaudid, fentanyl, you name it i would take it. Not to mention i have a horrible addictive personality. However, back to your issue I would seriously recommend suboxone. Just got on it today so that I can start off the new year painkiller free. I was really outta control and unfortunetly it all began as recreation and then it got insane. But suboxone is a miracle drug, as long as you take it as prescribed. You will honestly feel better withing minutes of your first dose. You just need to be completely honest with your doctor so they know how to dose you correctly. I really think you should look into that asap. I finally after toying with the idea for a while said today im doin it so i flushed what i had left and got my suboxone.

[Cats Meow]

No, no, no, SubO isn't for a short term opioid dependency or addiction, everyone owes it to themselves to first try by quitting cold turkey, many succeed at it. Sub costs a lot, and most docs try and keep people on it indefinitely, it's an option, but save it for last after everything else fails. Never go on it just because you don't want to miss a few days of work.

[Robert_325]

I suggest to get on suboxone on a regular basis but this case is NOT one where the patient should start on suboxone. Cats is right. This is an over-kill for a short term abuse problem. Listen to us nuchies. God bless.