clonidine and opiates at same time?

[lola7770]

if you are trying to taper off prescirbed opiates, can you still take clonidine at the same time?

[xiv_xiv]

I was Rx'ed clonidine HCL as a potentiator to opiates, essentially so I could take less of a bad thing.  Beware there is such a thing as clonidine withdrawl - FAR worse than opiate w/d - pounding heartbeat, sweats, and lots of anxiety.  What happened was I had quit opiates long ago, continued clonidine for my hypertension, then when I quit salt (removed from my Rx diet by my MD)- my blood pressure tanked, and that's when I suddenly had to quit clonidine, which was worse than opiates!

[Clioness]

My question I have is I've been on opiates for 16 yrs that was prescribed to me by the same Dr all those yrs of course I started out at lowest does and lowest of pain meds as the yrs went on Dr upped me to stronger opiates such as roxycodone hcl 10 mg first then 20mg I've been on those for the past 4yrs I'm not feening for these pills but my body is physically dependant on them well after 16yrs I've made the decision I'm done I'm tired of always depending on a pill and these pills def dictate your life but anywho my Dr gave me catapress patches I guess it's really clonidine every 7 days never used this meds my Dr gave me Vicodin 10mg for only 10 days that's it now my question I have if anyone can explain and tell me is right now I'm on day 3 of withdrawls today which is day 3 has been by far the worst but I'm coping now my question is I know 11ndays worth of pain medicine isn't going to alleviate withdrawls now what infant to know is even tho it's dayb3 and I'm in withdrawls and taken Vicodin 5 per day after thatv5 days worth of pain medicine am I going to be at day 1 thru 3 with the sickness once thses pills are gone even while wearing the patch or should I discontinue taking any pain meds and just use my patch only can someone please help me cause i don't want to start all over again please help !!!! Thank in advance

[opiatekicker]

Clonidine was a life saver for me.  In fact, I still use it today for fibromyalgia pain.  Works wonders but be careful, it also lowers your blood pressure. Stick to the instructions.

[missing_me]

As Lulu747 I also used clonidine while tapering off opiates and just wanted off and went cold turkey over a year ago. (morphine sulfate and fentanyl patch).  The clonidine did help with my w/d symptoms as well.

[lulu747]

Hi and Welcome...
I am not sure exactly what you are asking....But I took clonidine while tapering off opiates (prescribed) and then increased the dose when I was tired of tapering and just wanted off (cold turkey off 100 mg oxy 27 days ago).  It really helped me with a lot of the w/d symptoms especially the gastric and anxiety. Did a doctor prescribe the clonidine?  Do they know about your taper?  Clonidine is commonly prescribed for opiate detox.  Let me know if you need anything....Lu