Comen off Oxy

[NorthLand]

Hello everyone, i would take 3 20mgs oxycontin 3 times a day prescribed by my Dr. I always took the amount he said to take. I have never snorted them or crushed them  or injectected them. I have deceided to come off them myself.And I was fine with it,until I started reading other posts. and am now scared and having second thoughts.I have them for pain control for my knee. i have lowered the doses my taking away 20 mgs every 2 days. Today i have only taken one. I cant really sleep at nite up every hour or so. but I do have insomina. so I take Zoplicone for that. but its not worken.lol to well. And I get this feeling in my spine that I cant quite describe yet. nver had the feeling before. and I try and rockmyself in bed to help with this crazy feeling in my back. I am getting the cold sweats a bit. I think I have the ***** now too. But I ate 3 apples last nite as i woke up threw out the nite. My wife says thats probably bc i did that. I am pretty scared now after those posts.
I have a pill cutter so i am gonna start cutting them in half. 1 20mg in half, and take it twice a day instead. for 7 days. then cut the 20 mg pill into 4s. and take one quater of a pill twice a day for 4 days. and then quit! for a weekend so i can have two days to some how pull myself together for another week. of college. I never got high of these oxy before they always made me sleepy. I did take percs before 2 3times a day. And I would feel all perky kinda. but the doc insisted i take oxy bc there longer acting he said. So i was like sure sounds good. But i noticed I didnt feel perky on these lol. but they take the pain away. so I didnt care. the pain was always my 1st concern. I was sent to a specialsit he said buy a brace and workout your leg in such a way he told me. I was doing wrong excersises that only increased pain. plz help me and tell me if what I am doing is right or wrong.

Thank you to anyone who helps me out.

[Jimmy1975]

I agree with Quitinoxys ! Taper for sure on that amount . Can you talk to your doctor about a taper schedule ? Good luck and welcome to our forum ..Jimmy

[quitinoxys]

Hello Northland welcome to the forum. I was exactly were you are 550 days ago. I was on oxys for 7 years due to a severe spinal injury. If you can taper yourself down before quitting you will lesson the effects of w/d. You stated you are only taking one 20 mg/day now, if you can try taking one every other day instead of cutting the pills. The reason why I say this is if you cut the pill you destroy the time release coating on the pill and you will get the drug all in one shot. If you do that the pill would probably only last 4-5 hours instead of 10-12 hours. Taper your self down to as little as possible and then jump off. It will be much easier to handle that way. Good luck to you.