Fentanyl Withdrawal Symptoms (Page 53)
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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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ET, you gave me my first smile and laugh of the day. Family fighting all the time. Lol. You have to admit its kind of funny. Deep down you know they love each other. That's just what some ppl do. Pain just sucks the life right out of us. I need a sober sun and crystal clear beach vacation for 8-10 days so bad. Not sure how but I might rent my place out for a month to do it. I'm in a prime location to most. Hope today is better for you.

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I have been on hydrocodone for 10 months and have tapered down from 3 hydrocodone 10/325 a day to 1 pill in the morning and 1/2 in the afternoon and 1/2 in evening. I did this for 2 weeks and this past Monday I just stopped the hydrocodone. I have also been on fantanyl patch since December. I started at 25mcg then doctor added 12 mcg to the 25mcg. Total 37 mcg since end mid-February. I was also given Ativan .05 twice a day since November. I have tapered down to 12 patch and today is the 3rd day. I feel shakey under my skin and my anxiety is high. I just feel really sick and am having trouble being with my family. I just want to hide out in that TV room. I have used the Ativan to calm my anxiety and it helps. I figure I will use the Ativan while I go through this. I do have Ambian to help sleep along with 600 mg of Seroquel. Last night in my sleep my legs real hurt but was able to sleep through the night. One strange thing is I can have pain in my legs in while I sleep I in my head I think that really hurts but I stay sleeping. have L5 and L4 compression so I have lower back pain and leg pain and weakness. The doctor has finished with what the insurance requires so know he can perform the MILD procedure (minimally invasive lumber compression). My question is how long will the withdrawal last. I do not plan to put another patch after this one. I figure I will keep the 12 I have on know a couple of days more making a total of 5 days. Then I will work on eliminating the Ativan and the Ambian over the next month. My psychiatrist says it takes month for my sleep pattern to get better once I rid my life of the narcotics and benzos.

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Hi Shannon
I thought I was the only one that feels the way you do. I can't remember the last time I had a good day. When something gies right I too get a reality check and things get worse. I don't smile much anymore and people think I'm a mean person just because I'm not smiling. It's just that it's tough to smile when life is so hard to live. I too can't wait to be taken from this world but until then I'll keep doing what I can to live one day at a time.
I'm currently in new jersey visiting family. I'm having a rotten time. My family is so negative all they do is yell at each other. I can't wait to go back to California where I can get some peace of mind.
I sometimes feel that I'm cursed and God doesn't love me for allowing me to go through all of this but I know he does. I have to remember this life is temporary and there is another life worth waiting for.
I'm trying to learn patience every day and sometimes I have a set back.
Love you guys

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FYI I posed something yesterday with my deepest sorrow for your loss, left my name, zip and "G" saying of you ever wanted to text or email me as I believe it is much easier For me anyways to talk to a stranger then close family and friends. And it didn't get posted. So these are getting screened really well. My email was very vague. It is nice to know I am not alone here in hell. I can not wait to go to heaven almost everyday. I've spent so many years in fetal position and just when things start to look up I get knocked back down again. I lived on a golf course for several years in BC and even then I couldn't get out. This has been and is a very long life. I hope everyone is feeling better today.

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Etienne, I have to be hard on my self sometimes. If I don't I start to stray and just like day before yesterday I was searching for a doctor that I can get some pain pills from. I called a couple of friends and they were respectful enough not to call me back with the info I wanted from them. Thank God I stopped and thought about what I have already been through or I would be back down that same ole rode. And don't get me wrong, I don't really want to go back to that way of life but sometimes I do want to. I hope I explained that right. I guess that is part of life. I would really like something to help me with this pain that I feel right now cause I am really hurting......Its pouring down rain right now so time to take a break. (the rain may be the cause of some of the pain....old age creeping up on me).......lol RIP Micheal

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ET, I know this is a very difficult time for you. I am very sorry to hear about your loss. I too am Extreamly depressed. I spend and have spent years in the fetal position. I know I am not bi polar but I can go from crying to laughing in 3.3 seconds. So ya, picture me laughing with tears still falling from my swollen eyes. Lol :( please take care of yourself an if you ever want to txt email me and I'll give you my number. xxxxxxxxx6 at xx [1]. I'm afraid if I spelled it out it wouldn't get posted.
I find it much easier to talk it out with strangers than family and friends. Just want you to know I'm here for you

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Nuttynanny
Don't be so hard on yourself. I can't speak for anyone else but I don smile much either and I don't socialize like I used to. Weather it's the drug or just me being in constant pain I'm not a happy or talkative person with others and that alone has made me depressed all the time. But this site has given me back a spark of life. You and Shannon and sonmany others that I have chatted with has given me a twinkle of happiness. So I'll take what I can get.
Be happy if only while texting. It's a start, right?

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Hey Shannon.....It's so good to hear you.....I thought you got lost.....YEA......OMG....I was just informed that a friend, that I haven't heard from in a few years, hung theirself in jail a couple of nights ago. I am so sad. They were going through the same as we a few years ago. Please Pray for me, this is so depressing and I feel so for his family.....omygosh, omygosh...this makes me wonder about the pain he must have been going through...I am so sorry yall I have to go...

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Etienne, I guess since I'm the oldest and have been using the longest(LOL) my recipe for brownies is the best. I put a pinch more in mine than everyone else does. Makes it last a little longer and you laugh a little harder. Here's to the good ole times....But, I'm not allowed to partake in this anymore. It's not worth the time I would spend in a place noone wants to go. It's bad that I can remember the times I had before addiction. That is something I will not ever forget, happy times. Seems like I never have a happy moment nowdays or they are far and few in between. Pain meds have totally messed my life up or should I say I let pain meds mess my life up. Of course it was not my intention to get like this, it just happened. That is what happens to alot of people that are trying to live a life in some kind of normalicy not knowing what this drug will do for them. Of course some people can handle it, but I can't and I'm not going to say that I can. It has caused alot of heartache in my and my familys lives and I know that there are alot of others out there that are living in sheer terror of what it has done to them. I try not to get in anyones business but if anyone can get anything out of my experiences, I will feel a bit better about myself. I just wish I could help everybody.....Loving ya'll and living one day at a time. May God bless all that's a prisonor of this drug ( and the ones that are going through hell getting off this drug.....)

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Hi Steven an Nanny, my brownies are hands down the best. And Steve, exact opposite for me On the patch! Turned me into a mad woman. Lol. Oh well, so much for that now!!! It was fun while it lasted. Nanny, I'll take that reciepe just to see.
Hope you all are doing better.

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Oh nuttynanny. When I was on fentynal I didn't know what sex I was :)
It's ok, u just have to send me your brownie recipe. I heard your brownies are the best.

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Etienne, I'm so sorry...Shame on me for assuming. I thought you were named after Etienne Aigner. That is another thing with this stuff. Losing my mind. Oh my, I think Aigner was a he too.........Gosh I am truly sorry, please forgive????? I guess I should just shut up before I make a bigger fool of myself...Love ya anyway(Please don't cry, just because your a he doesn't make the pain any lesser)

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Nuttynanny
I'm hurt. I'm a he not a she. Etienne is French for Steven. I would cry but I might break something :)

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Hey all, I am now (I think) 12 weeks off of Fentanyl and I have been taking Suboxone and I still am having withdrawals. Funny, the doctor said that the Suboxone would help but I can't see the difference. I still hurt, I still can't sleep without Ambien and I still have alot of cramping in my legs. I didn't do this before the Fentanyl patches so why am I doing this now. That just goes to show you how strong that evil drug is. Ellen, TJane, Mikelodeon and Pip, I hope your days get better and you don't suffer so much and yes this is hell. I can't wait till this drug is completely out of my system. Ya'll listen to Etienne because she has been to hell and back and knows just how everything goes with the withdrawals. She has helped me alot. And I agree with her about giving the doctors a good 6 months of this drug and then take it away suddenly without any compassion, that's the way they did us. I wonder if I'm prolonging the withdrawals by taking the Suboxone? I am terrified of not having something to take when I first get up, that's when I hurt the worst. To tell you the truth, I'm terrified period. To go through this when I first got cancer, what am I going to go through when I really get sick. I'm scared.......Living one day at a time.....love to all. Pray for me, I pray for you, all of you.

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Went to pain management Dr today. Put me on klonopin to help me through the withdrawls. Along with Lyrica. Once I get past the witdrawls of the fentanyl patch, then I have to start weaning from the Vicodin and must do it within 7 days. I go in for several nerve blocks next week for help with this pain. Just has me a little concerned, because where some of the nerves are it could easily puncture my lung....not what i need. It has been a week doing this and hopefully I will get past within a few more days...I hope!

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Neurotin did not work for me, it made me feel weird. Iam taking 20 ml a day of hydrocodone but dont like relying on a narcotic. I agree with you on the withdrawls. Go to doc and demand help getting off.

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Wow Jane
Your symptoms wereike mine. Welcome to the world of discomfort. I would love to give this drug to my doctors for two weeks then take them off it just to see how it feels. Maybe then they would be more self conscious before prescribing this or at lease talk to us about the side effects and let us decide.

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I was on it for 8 1/2 weeks and also demanded to come off. I'm only 32 and did not need this strength of meds. After I told him how I felt he put me back on Norco in the same amounts as before Fentanyl. Needless to say, I have felt the withdrawals. It's been 7 days today and I'm still having diarrhea, chills, sweats, anxiety, and RLS. I an doing my best to now taper down the Norco, but its Hell. I send love, strength and compassion to all of you. My knee is hurting so much more than before Fentanyl and I want to go back to where I only took 3 Norco a day. That dream seems so far away now.

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You got to have patience. One thing I've learned through all of this is to find what works for you. Trial and error cause the doctors won't go over the withdrawals or side effects with you. They act as though side effects don't exist.
Hang in there. You're not Alone.

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Thank you for your response. Give it 4 or 5 weeks? Are you kidding me? I will nt be able to handle that long doing this! I am going to the pain management doctor this morning. Cancer is one thing, but having to go through something like this on top of it is another. I am hoping the Dr. can help with my pain, these symptoms and do it without getting me hooked on another!

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