Fentanyl Withdrawal Symptoms (Page 41) (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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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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Ya, where is ET? Hey NAnny, I'm trying my best to stay away from the knife again. I do not want any more surgeries. I had no choice with the last one. Hope your feeling as best as you can. Take care all

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See if you qualify for the program through Johnson and Johnson. If you qualify they will apy for the patches up to a year.

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I did wean myself from the patch. The worst side effect for me was pain in the joints. It did take me probably two months to do this, but it is worth every moment to know I don't have to have a patch on anymore. I di still hurt but I will live with the hurt. While on the patch I had the most soul deep hurt I had ever experienced. I'm sure it was from my body wanting a higher dose of the patch.

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I just would give my left arm for some sleep. I maybe have had 2-3 hours a night for the past week.......this makes for tired...

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He all good for you Si and all the others for getting off this patch, I know it wasn't easy as i too have been weaning down to 12mcg from 100. Nanny Won't they give you something for sleep? My doctor will give me 2 a month and only two because physician samples don't have just one. He's a trip when it comes to sleeping pills. Not sure why. Anyways, I hope everyone is well and enjoyed your 4th.

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Shannon, I get 30 Ambien a month. But after 2 hours my eyes just come open automatically. Then I can't co back to sleep. I don't know what else to do. I exercise (if you call cooking and cleaning for 6 people plus mowing 3 yards a week) and I am so tired and sleepy when I do go to bed, around this time every night, but after a couple of hours, I just wake up. I do this five nights a week and then I crash for about 5-6 hours one night and one night only. Then it starts all over again. What to do, what to do, I don't know.......

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Nanny that happens to me too. Try mixing two differing sleeping aids. I'm sure your not supposed to but I'll take a norco and a perc maybe once a month if my pain can't be managed. Oh and btw, wtf is oral morphine sulfate. Ya, I got a bottle. Thought it would knock my "..." in the dirt. It doesn't do nada. Is this for real? Anyone have this before? And no way on taking it another way. I am terrified of heights and needles! Oh ya and bunny rabbits. Lol. Those "..," have scratching back legs.

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Shannon, oral morphine sulfate is a good pain med but it don't give you a high unless you take alot of it. 180mg is alot to me but I have taken alot in my life and my tolerance is way high.....by all means take it for your pain, it will help. I'm with you on the needles. Don't get me wrong, I use to use some of my meds that way when I was stupid but I'm not stupid now.....I need what I get when I get it and if I start to abuse it then I'm up a creek without a paddle.....you know what I mean....And them days are over...I want to live now that I'm gonna die...Etienne, where are you brother???? I miss you so much....

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Hey Nanny I wish we could talk outside of this site. I'm a total idiot as I too get what I "need" and want mostly because I am too honest with my doctor! I've shot myself in the foot by doing so at times as my pain fluctuates. Even though i told my doctor before he told me it was time to taper down each time from my patches. I actually told him I LOVE the way fentynal makes me feel but I know it's too much as I started to heal. But even after a couple months of being on 100,75,50, ouch 62, 50, 37, 25... And so on because of the nerve damage and bone stuff done my monthly cycle makes my pain really flare up. I told him how hard it is to know the difference between being an addict by wanting more to feel "human" and enough to just kill the pain. I guess my honesty hasn't harmed me as he's still a phone call away. Plus he said addicts dont ask to be weaned down frequently with verified pain and no increase begging except that 75 to 50 time. I guess that helps. My depression stinks today but as we discussed before I can't take anti depressants as Id be a statistic with a child's mind. I have a batch of brownies my friend made me but they make me grumpy sometimes and I'd rather have a couple waterwork days then be angry at the soooo many ppl that are less than empathetic (cruel) or what I pray are just seriously clueless about how much words can hurt some ppl. I just cant fathom that unless someone has been in (our?) situation understand that they should just not say anything to me if it is not nice. I too am in a very small town. I... Nvr mind. I'm sure u get it!!! Hope your doing well today.

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Hi Lill, have you tried instead of wearing the same strength patch for over a week a lower dose? The jump down from 75 to 50 wasn't easy for me but I made it. Kinda. Lol. Had to add a 12mcg to it for a month then down. Definitely weaning down helps. I'll bet that acupuncture really does help. I know massage really helped me when I could afford it.

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Shannon....I'm going to try to code my email address in here so you can email me then I will send you my phone number. We do need to talk. You are by far not an addict. I've lived in both the addicts and the dependents body and I can tell you, YOU ARE NOT AN ADDICT.... If someone wants to down you for trying to control your pain, then they are the ones that need the help. You do what you have to do to maintain and don't listen to those that don't have an understanding as to what words can do to a person. At least you are not just laying in the bed staying all effed up to where you can't enjoy life to a certain degree. And I am saying this because I do care about you, and I know what you are going through. People judge you without cause and they have not even gone through a piece of what you have gone through. This is what I call closet addicts because they take things (maybe not pain meds but meds just the same) and think that what they do is just fine. They say things without caring how you feel or how bad you feel. Please don't lower yourself to their level, it distorts your feelings and makes you feel like crap. nh253 is the first @ the second is bellsouth with a net on it. Email me as soon as you can....I l;ove you bunches and i'm in your corner...

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Hello Was placed on fentanyl 25mcg's in jan '12, for problems w stge IV prost' C, w met'z's.., they 50 mcg's , NOW WEANING off!! went from 50 to 25 for 2 wks, now on 12- having sweats, nausea,SHAKES, - told by Dr , that synthetic morpheine,,( fentanyl is 80 x stronger!!) paralizes the intestines, and can be extremly dangerous , as w ALL morphenie, based products- WILL get clean so my system can NATURALLY recover - drinking water, and flor-essence GREAT for Cancer patients!. PLEASE get OFF these DRUGS!!

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