Not good news here bro....you have two ways....Cold turkey or a slllooowwww taper. I was on a 75mic patch for 6 months and the doc brought me off in one week....he said this could be done safely and with no side effects...way he ever wrong. I suffered for 2 weeks with depression, no sleep...the regular things a person goes through when detoxing.
You can try suboxone if it is available where you are. I never tried it but there are some here that say it saved their life. Good luck to you and keep posting. There are many caring people here that can help.
See I had no problem coming off duragesic. I was on 150 patch and I tapered off completely in one month with hardly any w/d symtpoms. My doc did a slow taper od I think 25 mcg every 6 days. Also the clonidine patch made a HUGE difference in helping to wean. No jitters, it was great. Also, he gave me 20 5 mg oxycodones to help if I did feel w/d's. I seriously had no problem whatsoever. Now, I have to take Oxycodone for my disease and I'm trying to wean down and it SUCKS!!! I have terrible w/d's. I just want to deal without meds. Just go slow and ask about the Clonidine and breakthru meds for the occasional w/d feeling. I wasn't on it as long as you, but Fentanyl had a very short half life and tends to be a little easier to come off of then other narcs. Good Luck!!!!
See I had no problem coming off duragesic. I was on 150 patch and I tapered off completely in one month with hardly any w/d symtpoms. My doc did a slow taper od I think 25 mcg every 6 days. Also the clonidine patch made a HUGE difference in helping to wean. No jitters, it was great. Also, he gave me 20 5 mg oxycodones to help if I did feel w/d's. I seriously had no problem whatsoever. Now, I have to take Oxycodone for my disease and I'm trying to wean down and it SUCKS!!! I have terrible w/d's. I just want to deal without meds. Just go slow and ask about the Clonidine and breakthru meds for the occasional w/d feeling. I wasn't on it as long as you, but Fentanyl had a very short half life and tends to be a little easier to come off of then other narcs. Good Luck!!!!
I was on the patch and had horriable 8 days coming off. I had started last summer on 25 mg then went to 50. then in Dec had spinal fusion surgery. the last day of Jan I couldn't stand them anymore and ripped them off, then went through 8 days of hell. I feel sorry for anyone on this drug, its a nasty one, they say its like herion. now its been almost a month and although I don't feel any physical symptoms, I do feel depressed, how do I get that part away?
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you say you could not stand them any longer what side effects were you having to want to stop them? The have gave me percoset to come off but I have not taken any. Just trying to lower it little by little and put a new patch on at the same time every 2 days.