How to come off an addiction to pain pills without rehab?

I got rid of Norco out of my system chopping it every 2 days I keep on biting it in quarters I don't want some other supplement it helped too

I hope that I can get off this crazy train by weening myself off a little at a time

The safe way is to check into a short term detox facility. 6-7 days. Once you are detoxed they do have 4 week-8 week out patient treatment.

I am on day 4 of detoxing oxys I've been taking for 8 years from pain management. I am doing it on my own. Today was a bad day.

It is the most horrible experience a person can go through. You have to know there is a fog that will left. You have to really want to stop.

Hope this helps.
Tammy~

I’m in the same boat. I have to keep my relapse and detox a secret to maintain custody of my children. My suggestion after a couple runs with a few years of successful sobriety is this - if there is someone you can trust to help you through a medical detox or help with treatment - do it. Your job might even have a program. Eventually when the drugs get a stronger hold - the job will go anyways. Not trying to be grim, just my experience. I have to try and do it alone because I used up my good graces.

Best of luck to you.

I don't know how to do this either but am also wanting off pain pills , I thought perhaps knowing that someone else is in your shoes that in itself would help :) I know when I saw your question it gave me hope.

I need help too i am stuck on norco and percocet i am now spending money on them its been almost a year now i dont want them anymore but with out them i feel like i cant function

Do you feel any 'high' from those pills? Or, you just feel as any other normal person?

If you are not 'running for a high' you are lucky, becouse getting down from pain pills can be easy using buphrenophen or tramadol.
But if you had high, know what it is, like to be on it, you will have to take serious support from any support group, psychotherapy, and never to go this doctor again (becouse he is your mental triger)
all the best

I need some answers. Someone I know has had several thoracic surgeries and on pain meds for 6 years. The last surgery was supposed to finally be a success according to MRIs. Can getting off of them cause them to believe that they are still in the same or worse excruciating pain?

This is hard. Support is everything. I haven't taken the proper steps to quit but I want to. Mentally I am ready to stop but I cannot seem to physically do it. No one around me seems to notice it's an issue or that I do it at all. I go to work and take care of my child like any other person. But it seems like the only way I get through my day is to take meds. I want to feel complacent without them. It was a time that I was. I just want to get back to that part of life. I have to make a change before it's too late.

I need help too. I spend every dime and every minute thinking about and buying pain pills. I steal, lie, cheat, and do whatever it takes to get some pills.

Take less everyday, basically wean yourself off. Keep telling yourself you don't need them. Then when your taking very little just kick it. Probably feel like crap and be sick. I know how u feel bro...

I know exactly how u feel if I don't have pills I'm disfuncinal, no energy to do anything I her depressed to . The pills have ruined my life ,my kids lives ,my relationship with my fiance of years. I lie to everyone I can to get money for pills & currently homeless can't save money for a place because I need pills. To save my family ,& myself dispute my pain I'm in daily I need to get off of them for good not sure how to take the first step have no one to get advise from or talk to or understand how I feel . What do i do

kadensmom I have been off pain pills for a month.I find it hard.I am thinking about it less everyday.I do hope you are still clean.but i need to know how long you will be depressed.I do fill better on the days i work.but on the days i dont i dont fill like doing nothing.i just lay around all day.

You can come off without rehab. I was in pain management for 5 years and was taking 210 perc 10/325 a month for 5 years, I stopped cold turkey, had diarrhea, and vomiting alittle but you can do it IF you are taking for pain its not that bad to just stop. Your body will be hypersensative for a while but it passes