Switching opiate's, still feeling Oxy withdraw

[BadArthur]

Ive been taking Oxy so long that the 240 to 300+ mg a day i normally take just wasent doing the job anymore. So I asked my Doc to sewitch me to one of the other opiate paainkillers. Since I had experience with morphine thats what he decided to put me on.Well im on day 2 and it never ocoured to me that i would be feeling withdraw from the oxy. Im on my second day and im still having the sweat's and I cant seam to get more than 5 feet away from a bathroom. Any help would be apreachated.Im reading the fourm's and I like to think of myself as dependant instead of addicted what im doing is doc aproved and legal and it sound's better.Although the withdraw feel's awfull. My doc checke's on me every week so I can get most anything aws long as he think's it will benifit me so anything but that controlled drug you can only put 30 people on he wont bother with that, but please suggest away. BadArthur

[OXY_FREE]

I wouldent be so terrified if your going to a pain clinic this happends all the time.
just tell your doc what happend.
I was one oxys,percs, vics. for a very long time,and have been clean for a few months now. you can do this also,when you see your doc ask him about your options for getting off your meds. im sure your husband will understand he wont leave you in your time of need. please let us know how we can help you, OXY

[pooh923]

was in a severe ar accident a year ago, they put me on eveything under the sun. No limits, Pain patches, morphine, methadone etc. Finaly pain clinic placed me on 40 mg oxy 3x day, and 30 mg Roxis, 6 x a day.  Ater a while, they no longer worked.  I began to up my dose on my own, up to 10-13 a day. Finaly my husband found out, took them from me, and is divideing them out 3 xs a day, like i am suppoed to have.  The Roxis ar all gone, all I haved is Oxy.  He called my Dr. and I have to face him on Tuesday.  I am terrified.  No longer taking what my body is used to is still throwing me into withdras.  Can some one please help.  I feel so ashamed and scared I may loose my husband and kids.

[ladyluv]

not really feeling withdrawl i mean i dont know a 80mg pill last me 2 or maybe ill say 3 to 4 days i break off peice by peice but i do this for like 2 weeks at a time so now sunday was my last dose and now today my stomach is cramping and i am going to the bathroom but im not stuck on the toilet...so does that mean i am okay? like not withdrawing ?

[BadArthur]

In answer to your question im disabled and have COPD the deal is im coughing myself to death. So it's a maintains dose of painkiller's and cough suppressants that's keeping thing's under control. When I was a kid the doc's wouldn

[orangefyre]

Me neither! I'm free and now helping other fly free too.
When did our bodies stop being a temple that deserves our worship, not our torture??? Mine is getting worshipped on a daily basis from this day forth! F**K Methadone, its EVIL.

[Petulab]

Just got home from the hospital...WOW!!! I Passed out and was on my way! OPIATES! Now my body is free! But dammit! It didn't hurt like that going in! And may I add...I love my hot baths and showers? Some of the post are so funny! Because I went through so much of the same ****! Not ha ha at you, more like ha ha with you! I ain't going back!I'm FREE!!!

petula

[kleen4me]

Also, wanted to mention...things that helped me in W/D were HOT/Warm Baths & Showers, Chocolate, 4 Advils and Xanax.  The baths were awesome.  Ibuprofen did help a bit but not a whole lot.  Eased the aches.  If you don't mind me asking, how did you get on such a high dose? Are you in Pain Management and/or do you have an injury?

[kleen4me]

Oxy withdrawl is so nasty.  May I ask, have you ever experienced it before or is this the first time?  For me, I was up to 80mg to 120mg a day and I couldn't go CT because I am a Mom of two little ones and there was no way I could be in bed 5 days.  Finally I told my husband and we both went to my PSYCH and my PSYCH tapered me off them.  It took six weeks.  But I have gone C/T off them before I just didn't know I was in withdrawl because I did not know what OXY was when I started taking it. When I stopped, I just thought I had the flu (although I was very weepy and cried A LOT the first two days). My husband stayed at home with the kids.  Well then I started again (this was last spring) and when I stopped, I realized, YIKES, this ain't the flu, this is withdrawl.  I did so much research, went to some NA meetings and then told my husband and got help from DR to taper off.  The times I was in w/d and did not know it (I know, sounds stupid), it was an average of FIVE days until I physically felt normal again. I was so naive, but I feel like an expert on addiction and oxy now since I have done so much research.  And sadly, tho I logically KNOW what it is & how nasty it is, I'm still an addict.  Please keep posting.

[orangefyre]

Was it MS Contin??