Fentanyl Withdrawal Symptoms (Page 37) (Top voted first)

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 everyone, hope all is well on the home front. Shannon, I just love to read your post, it puts a smile on my face every time. I love it...Well, I backtrack a bit and now I am at a point that I want to just dig a hole and crawl in and cover my head at least for awhile. I got a strange call from my heart doctor and was told my pacemaker was acting up. Now I have to have a stress test Tuesday morning and I am scared of what I have done to my heart over the years. I could feel the hard pounding that my heart was doing but thought it was just my nerves.....The doctor said no, no, no....That he has never seen anyones pacemaker act the way mine was acting. He said it stopped on occasion and he is scared that it might do this while I'm sleeping and not wake up...Gee thanks doctor, now I'm afraid to go to sleep....Take care everyone...

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Hi nuttynanny and Shannon and all. Wow!!! You're a mess. I thought I had it bad. But you know my friend, None of us know why we go through what we do I just know there is a better place after this life and after this one is over somebody in heaven has a lot of explaining to do :)
Please nutty nanny don't be like me look at all the negatives in life an not the good.
#1. Your pacemaker is still working
#2. You're getting immediate attention from your doctor.
#3 You have friends on this site that care about you.
#4 I am always praying for you.
So relax and try not to dress so much. That's not good for your heart.
Love ya,
Remember that.

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My dear Etienne, Thank you so much for a positive look on life. I smiled real big when you said "someone has alot of explaining to do when we get to the other afterlife". I can just see me asking God why did I have to suffer so much more than other people. Can you imagine the look on Gods face. Lololol. I know I did this all myself, all on my on, I do take credit for the most. That is why I stress to people just what taking too much drugs in general can do. When I was born, I didn't know what drugs felt like and I was raised to just say no, but like a cat my inquisitive mind wanted to feel no pain at all, even the little pains that are in our everyday lives. Heck, I didn't even want to have any kind of feelings at all to tell you the truth. Mentally,physically or otherwise. I just didn't want to feel. Now I'm having to feel all the rebound feeling that I bottled up in the meds bottle over the years, and suffer is not even close to what my feelings are, nowdays. Granted, some of it is old age, but for the most, it's what I, me, myself has done to my body. Oh Nina, get a life....your gonna live dispite it all. lol Hope your day is going good and I do want you to know that I pray for you also (and all who suffers). And as the days go by and the more we converse, I do love you. I wish we didn't live so far apart, then I could really bug you...lololol. Love ya anyway. I know you are good in heart though.

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Keep us posted on your doctor visit.
I think when we get to heaven we will have forgotten all about our trials on this earth but foe now you are in inspiration to others and me too. I believe this is our lot in this life, to help others. :)

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Hi Guy's, I too laughed at the statement about God having a lot of explaining to do. what's he going to do? Send us to hell! Been there and present! Trying to stay positive. Don't be afraid to fall asleep, sounds to me like you just need a new one put in, but you may need to get in there really soon! I'll keep you in my prayers. Smarty Pants is correct about the Kartamin. My friend told me it worked great weaning her off pills. Her Hubby buys it online and she gets it in a head shop. She said if the one here in Santa Cruz doesn't carry it, to tell him to buy it that they would make a ton of money. There is talk of getting it banned so stock up now if it seems to work. Unfortunately, weaning Off of this is WAY different than pills of any magnitude... Good luck and take care. I just ate a brownie so time will tell if I sleep like a baby or am painting the ceilings.

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Shannon, Etienne and all else...God the last time I did a brownie I was acting like a crack head, peeking out the windows and making everyone be real quite (like I would really hear, or better, stop them if they ever was to run in on me...lololol). But I would love a good contact. I had my stress test, the exrays, that looked like a ct scan, and am at this time wearing a heart moniter until thursday at 12pm. Then I will find out something, good I hope. They seem to think that when they adjusted my pacemaker that it was strightened out and I won't have any more problems. I hope so. Dad had a triple by-pass when he was in his early 60's and so did my mother a few years later, so they say I may be next in line. But, I, and the docs, keep a close watch on my heart. God has his hand on me, cause I should have been dead over a few occasions ago. I have had a few close calls. I once over did it and stayed in the hospital 17 weeks with chest tubes in both lungs. They broke my ribs on both sides when they were doing CPR on me, but, that's what saved me. Well, old age again, I'm rambling on and on. Take care everyone and I'm glad to see everyone at least making it on here....Love ya.......

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Hey nuttynanny.
I think I should call u the miracle baby. You've been through a lot and it's time for you to have some good times and good news. I will keep praying for you.
After your results go run a marathon :)
Love u guys.

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LOL....yeah right, first on the agenda. I guess thats another way of saying go take a hike....lol

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Hi everyone just let u know that i am finally free from the dreaded fentanyl. It has taken me three months to detox cold turkey now i have no more withdrawal symptoms. I know i had no choice to go cold turkey and it was s*** it is not suitable for everyone so take care out there and god bless u all. Hazel uk xxx

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I am on day 22 of going off of my fentanyl at 100. I was on 200 but got impatient and sick of running out of them. I was changing it every 2 days and found myself even chewing on them when I ran out. It's strange but I have taken enough to kill me many times but it was when I finally quit that almost killed me. On day 2 I couldn't handle my body jerking like I had seizures so I took some lorazapam and some baclofen but it wasn't working so I took more of them and Thank God my son came home early and he called my other one and they took me to the hospital and I ended up being strapped down by my waist and both feet and hands and Iam clausterphobic. I thought I would lose my mind but thank God they were at least giving me valium through the iv. Anyways I just wanted to know how much longer I have to go through this? I have such severe cramps and backache I went back to hospital to see if I had an infection but it's just withdrawals and the Dr there suggested I go back on, what a knob after this long no way. I am taking mirapex for my restlesss leg syndrome which is keeping me sane and valium and clonadine but Iam going into a program for a year and I have to have no drugs in my system which includes the ones I mentioned and be detoxed. I go in 3 weeks does anyone know if this will be gone by then. I remember quiting methadone at 180 cold turkey and it took me 6 weeks of no sleeping and I mean none, no eating and I don't remember having the pain like this and I didn't use anything to help me with that. Can someone give me some advice please.

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Hi ET, Nan and all
Well another day and we are still alive. Yippee... I hope this finds you all well and that you got your pace maker fixed. I'd switch places with you if I could. I better bite my tounge as I'm not in a good place right now... Anyways, I've had the worst head trips at times that I think twice before eating the brownies. It has to be a nothIng to loose situation. Well I hope you are all feeling better than me. Im afraid to even read that it might send me even more over the edge. I'm not even pms'ing

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I'm on day four without my fetanyl, 50 mcg, I'm crawling out my skin, I can't sleep and my legs are going nuts. Not sure what I want to do, I get a refill today.

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Hi Weeler, welcome to our venting room. Try to taper down and what works for me that not all can do this is cut and use only a portion of the patch if it is not the bubble kind. The faster in the faster out and makes it much easier to dodge the horrific withdrawal's. It is not recommended and Only suggested by one if my surgeon's. Most Doctors can not recommend this as it is not what the FDA. Blah blah blah. Sorry. Rambling on. Good luck.

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Not that I should be giving advise to anyone. What works for me doesn't work for everyone and visa versa.

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Hi too long, wheeler, Shannon, nuttynanny, grandpa and John boy
We've all gone through the hell you're going through. Myself it took 8 weeks to feel better, others it took longer. It depends how long you've been on it because you're body succumbs to the medication and becomes dependent on it. I've had the same symptoms all of you are going through and i wasn't alone.
The key is to be patient and slow down on taking the other drugs your doctor gives u to get off this crap. It has to take it's course.
I heard on the news yesterday that doctors are now requires to not put patients on pain pills until they go over all the side effects with their patients. I'm hoping it's because of this site but I'm sure Whitney Houston and micheal jacksons passing had a lot to do with it.
Keep chatting with us you guys and BE PATIENT.
I hope this helps.

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Three months I am on day 23 now I am depressed because the symptoms are getting worse instead of better, these cramps and backache. The only good thing is losing weight.

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I know. I felt the same way. I had headaches, backaches, weirs body smell, depression, anxiousness, couldn't sleep, couldn't eat, the jitters, my legs felt like I couldn't stand still, cold sweats, my muscles ached. I felt worse than I did before the patch.
Be patient that's all I can say. I went cold turkey and although I suffered from all the side effects I didn't want my doctor to give me some other drug to make me feel crazier than I already did.
Give it another month. It takes a while to get out of your system. All my doctors wanted to do was to give me another drug. For me, that wasn't an option.

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I was lucky I had something for restless legs but the rest is worse that methadone withdrawals, I am going into a program but I even have to quit smoking for that too

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ET,

So, are you completely off of the medication??? I want to get off but i have RLS, i get the seizure feelings at times just putting the patch on. reading all this has me so frightened. I'm 27yrs and i want to know how long were you all on it? ive been in it for 2 year and a month. please help me?

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Can you cut your patches? And use 1/2 every day 1/2? Instead of 1 every 3 days? If so, you may want to try that for a month to help with tapering down and making the withdrawal not so bad. That really really helped me but I do not know your situation good luck!

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