Fentanyl Withdrawal Symptoms (Page 37)

I'm trying to wean myself off the Fentanyl patch. I went from 75 micro-gms to 50 now I'm on 25. Having a problem and not sure it is related to the decrease in the med. It's been 20 days on the 25 micro-gm and I'm going crazy. I need to keep rocking, moving in any way b/c my body is very restless. Is this a symptom of withdrawal and what do I do? I cannot take it any more.

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Hey all, nutty nanny
I'm ok. Can't seem to find anything to help the pain. I have a lot of bad side effects from many drugs.
Knowone, can judge u. We all do what we can to make us feel better. But stay away from the fentynal patch. Bad news.
Miss u, love u ad always praying for all of u. :)

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I have been on fentanyl for almost 9 years after a stupid fall in my kitchen which caused me to have spinal fusion which left me with chronic pain in my back . I have had other drugs but have a high tolerence , never sleep more than 4 hours a nite. I have been decreasing my fentanyl patch from every other 75 to now once a week, I have been seeing a acupuncist and the pain has not increased. From reading your posts it seems I need to tell my pain management dr what I have been doing.i know what oxy, withdrawal is went cold turkey after realizing that I was taking to many for the pain before they put me on fentanyl. It felt like the flu for 5 days and then I was fine. I know this seems to be a dangerous drug and I don't want to have other problems other than what I have already, reflux , IBS, the acupuncist gave me a herbal pills for the hot flashes and it's amazing it has brought them down to just a few for the whole day,called Relaxx extract. You can get this online and it's working for me . I really thought taking fentanyl would stop my pain completely but I have nerve damage cause I waited to long to do the surgery, I am lucky thou to look at me you would not know except I can't sit long in any soft chair, has to be hard and then 30 minutes and I have to stand, never thought a bad back could change my life but it has. Didn't know you could be in pain for so many years but I am, like a bad toothache that does not go away.

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You're not alone lilred4. I've been in constant pain for 8 years and I've tried soooooo many drugs. There's come a time when u ave to say enough is enough. Perhaps I'll try the herbal pill maybe it will help me. Thanks for the heads up.

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Etienne- the Relaxx says three times a day but my acupuncist has me on it twice a day. It's eight tiny little black pills. I would say in less than a week I saw a difference from getting many a day , and nite to just a few in a 24 hour day. I am thrilled about that, you can find it right on the web. He charges me 7 a bottle , almost the same if u pay for shipping from the web, I really feel its working and all natural. Now it's the fentanyl that I must get off for good,I even stopped the ambien wasn't giving me a full nite sleep anyway. I know sleep is important but I am never tied,makes for long days and nights.

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Hi Ya All,
Nutt, I am so glad your surgery went more than well. It sounds like everyone is doing a bit more than fine! Yay for that at least. I'm glad. I'm better as well. Or at least for now. I'm visiting friends in Seattle and will be home before the weekend so I'm enjoying the happiness while it lasts. My friend got 8 strong suboxine? Just in case needed and said to break it in 4 and that should help with cold turkey. But what about 12 mcg for 2 weeks? To mix or not to mix.

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Goodmorning everyone, how is everyone doing? I just got out of the hospital....again!!! Had a blood clot in the arm that I had my mastectomy on so it was bad. Stayed two weeks and they filled me up every two hours with IV pain meds.. First demerol the dilaldid and boy am I suffering now. But, I will be fine, been there done that before....Still in alot of pain and think the clot has moved to my lung. Just can't kill an ole bad ass like me....lol. I'm hoping everyone is doing better then before. It sure is getting hot out these days and its not helping my flowers. And they are so pretty. I worked really hard getting them in the groound and potted in pots. Just have to keep plenty of water on them. Love everyone and could use some pointers about right now. I'm wanting some meds really, really bad. Just bitting my tounge to keep from asking. Oh what tangled webs we weave. Or how ever that goes.....

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go to your local county and ask for s Rule 25 assessment. There are funds available to pay for Suboxone treatment for low income-uninsured people

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Hey nutty and Shannon
I'm still kicking. Sorry it's taken so long to keep in touch. Nutty zit the drugs are helping you cope than by all means stay on them. It's not worth being miserable. I can believe I just said to stay on drugs. I must be delirious. Just be careful I love chatting with you guys.

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Hey my dear friends....Gosh it's 107 out today and it's hot. Be glad when it cools down a bit. It's hard on us sick folks so I can only think the older folks are suffering, also. I missed all of yall while I was gone in the horsepital, Gosh I hate them places. I guess you can call that my other home away from home. They know me by my first name....WOW. When they see me coming they get the ole narcs out fast. They love my insurance, cause they sock it to them every time I walk through the doors. This time around it was way over 100 thou. so you can see why they love to see me coming. I have gotten to where I ask for a statement that breaks down everything so I know they don't charge me for things I didn't get. $365.00 for one shot of demerol so two weeks, every two hours comes up to crap. My arm was 23 and 1/3 inch around in the smallest area so you know I was in some more pain. It's back to 17 inch around so that's about average, for me. I just got through putting up 18 dozen ears of corn, cut of the cob, in the freezer so we can eat good this summer and I'm tired and gonna lay down for awhile. See everyone later. Love and kisses to all.....

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Hey Steve, Nanny and all. Et lol but you are correct. Nanny would be bedridden and asleep all the time. That's not right, she deserves to live the best life she can using any means possible with the crappy hand life has given her! I just want to be happy, healthy and just making it in this cruddy world. Yes, I am still very depressed but I CAN NOT take any antidepressants. They do not work properly for this mature 42 yr old swf. I've just spent a month with my HS grad and her boyfriend. She leaves me again for a university in 2 days. ;( gtg xoxo take care and feel well

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Hey my girl Shannon....talking about depression.....I can't or won't take the anti-depress meds. They make me even more depressed and right now I am, or have been crying non-stop for two days with depression. 30 years ago I was violently raped by two men that was talking about how they were going to kill me. I got them caught by keeping my wits and taking a chance. Then I went into a mental hospital and the black chief psychologist like what I told him about what they did to me so much that he raped me three times in the locked down unit. Of course, I taped him admitting what he did to me and won the lawsuit and got paid a nice sum of money but what it did to me mentally causes me to maybe get two hours of sleep even to this day. I feel like a worthless piece of crap, which I'm not. But it still don't help my visions when I close my eyes. I have tried to get help but never gotten close to the help I really needed. I have not had a man look at me twice in 20 years because I was a white woman and he was black. I live in a small town and a slightly larger one 5 miles down the road. But everyone knew what happened to me and I have been called names I bet you have never heard of. Anyway, I go through some more depression with this and don't even know how to come out of it. Drugs just made it go away in my mind for a time but when I come down, it was back. So I become a drug addict. Now I can't do them much or I will be back down the same road that I was on. And I DON'T want to go back down that road. Cancer, the three kinds that I hope beat, is a walk in the park compared to the depression that I go in. Well I'm rambling like an ole woman so anyway. Hope you have a nice time with your HS grad. Congrats to her....for me. And hope you are doing good. @Etienne, Hey my friend....love and kisses to all. Hope you all have a safe and happy 4th.....I'm gonna stay hidden in my bedroom with a half dozen movies to watch.

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I have been slowly getting self off fentanyl I am not changing patch once every 9 days, pain level same so once a week adding another day or so, hopefully will be able to tolerate pain without the fentanyl. Taking nothing else. Just can't sit long on a straight chair. I have the temperpedic bed it's the best for my back. Expensive but at least no pressure put on it

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Hi all, OMG Nanny. That is horror!! Scariest movie ever stuff. I feel so bad for you. Yes, I would wack myself in those antidepressants. I went on them again after being off them for 2 years to make me strong enough to do it. And 3-4 weeks into the game I was like holy crap I really can do it on these. So I stopped and now I know better. Men don't look at me either because I have this look in my face that either I just ate a piece of crap or lol I could kill something. My girlfriends tell me I roll my eyes at any guy that asks my name and shows interest. Oh the demons inside us! Take care! ;( 2 days and now your story has me tearing up lol bipolar moment!

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Oh and btw 3 of them got me when I was a virgin at 16. I had the street handle those boys. Lucky for me I forgot about it till I was 23. Not sure that was a good thing but I made it out alive.

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Shannon....it's funny how you can forget something but as you get older it comes back clearer than if it had just happened the day before. Our minds can play some wierd tricks on us. I would love it if a guy would just look at me...and I'm not hard on the eyes, you know...153lbs, 5'5", green eyed blond and everyone says I look 40 so I guess they just can't handle what had happened to me. I have gotten to where I just don't care anymore......that's a lie...

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Lol. 5'7" 42 and still get carded. So ya we are only as damaged as we feel. Not look. :( unfortunately I'm way to picky too. Some really unattractive older men are offended that I am not interested in dating because it's been so long but I have this problem where I need to also be PHYSICALY attracted to someone. Welcome to weaning off fentanyl and can't find a decent man site! If we aren't careful we are going to loose steve too. Lol

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Fentynal update for the masses. Sorry about the previous post but there are 3 if us that have been in here forever and we just need to blah!!! Sometime
ANYWAYS, I went through withdrawal once in a year. It was the wort pain and I didn't know what it was. I got massages, took TONS of norcos, percacet and Valium. Did nada for the aches and pains that were WORSE than my back and nerve pain. I was in pain one day and cut my 100mg in half (I'm on 10mcg now and 25) and cut a tini strip and put it under my gum for a few hours then chewed. I don't get "high" just outa pain and in a much better mood. I do it twice a day and save the rest for the next. I guess because it's not a constant stream of the drug it goes in fast, gets me mobile, and I'm good till I wake up in the am with moderate back pain that I've come very accustomed to. Then repeat. Since I have been doing it this way I do run out and have to go a week with no patch but I'm ok. Tired, sore and lazy yes. But no more up all night humping my yoga ball moaning wtf and hanging on my inversion table or begging all the ppl I know that do massage (daughters friends) to come over. It's torture. So, less is better, maintain will pills. And my teqnique may not be for all I just don't want anyone to feel this crap leaving your system. It's not good.

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Did anyone see CNN last night. It is so difficult when you have had and need more surgery and ppl think your an addict because of what we have to take to even WALK. I feel like an addict sometimes when I have my pain managed. I know the difference and what withdrawal pain is now thanks to hacking to wean down from the fentanyl. I don't think many ppl understand the difference between addicts and ppl with DOCUMENTED pictures of horrible injuries. Does ANYONE feel the same?

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Shannon....I know what you are saying....don't listen to what others are saying please. Go for what you know and can do. I was an addict when I didn't need the pain meds and now that I do need them, cancer and other things like just getting old, everyone thinks that I just want to get high. I really don't and I can look someone in the eye and tell them just what I think. Sometimes we make mistakes. I know I did when I was trying to hide behind the drugs and that was the only thing holding me on to the world at that time in my life. And you know what all, well you don't know all I have been through, just what I want you to know. I could really blow someones mind with ALL that I have been through. Now that i need them, well, I need them and my doctor knows my history. I tell them everything and don't hide what I have done to them. If they will give me pain meds with all that I have done, then I must need them, cause these docs don't just write for nothing. You have my support cause I know some of what YOU are going through. So please, don't listen to what all them, what I call closet addicts, say. Just for instance, I have a brother, well to do and well off and thinks he is better then me, that has at least 3 surgeries a year just to get the pain meds. He will come visit mom and sit in the living room nodding off, all the time downing me for what I have done in my life. To hell with him, at least when I didn't need them I was not lying to everyone just to get them, I just went to the local dealer and bought them. Unlike him that used his insurance and clout to get his. Let him sit and lie to hisself and leave me the hell alone. I love you the way you are and thats all that matters.....hugs and kisses and kudo's to you my dear......

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What do you think about it Etienne? Hey where are you anyway.....? I miss your input on some of this crap. And I love you also.....

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