Fentanyl Withdrawal Symptoms (Page 53) (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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Happy Happy Birthday! I hope they made a cake Enjoy your day and make them cook for you for God sake!

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Little David,
you are right about locking up your drugs as I have had my meds stolen from family members no less, by my brother and my grandson and I had to endure withdraw symtoms so terrible that I thought I was going out of my mind and all I could do was cover my head up and sleep and loose weight from it. I ended up loosing 40 lbs and all I could think about was death and I would have severe chills and then severe sweating over and over again for 4 weeks. I felt like I was in a dark hole hanging on by my fingertips and couldnt climb out no matter how hard I tried. It was the most terrible thing I have ever went through. My doctor wouldnt even give me anything for withdrawls and I suffered severely and the doctor told me I would live through it and he really didnt care. My sister told me I could stroke out from these wilthdrawls, which really scared me. I was on 75 MG of fentynal and that is what caused my severe withdrawls. Hope you all get through everything with less pain then I did. Sincerely Dafneys momma

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New mom on the block, we all know too well and do everything to make sure we don't suffer like that again. I didn't have a clue. You need to go to Costco? And get a safe that only you can access via finger print. Leave the key and pass codes in your trunk and put your keys in your bra. Yes, been there too.
Angle and Lil, I went through records and I think I've been blaming the wrong person :( I haven't done anything but it looks like it happened from my surgery sept 2011 or sooner than that. Hard to pin point exactly who punctured my nerve or cord. But I am a little better each day Still dizzy, sensative to light an sounds, pain of course. but my dizzyness hot sweats, blury vision is just off and on now and not as frequently or as long. Ooh ya Lil, where do I get the relaxx.
Again Happy Birthday Nanny, I'm sure your day is a full one.

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You can buy it right online just look it up Relaxx concentrate.. It is not expensive under 5 ..a bottle.. My acupuncture dr sells them to me for 7 but I am thrilled as its really helping.. I take 8 tiny pills the size of bee bees in morning and then again in evening.. The directions say three times a day but my dr said twice is enough

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Hope your not using that dr that didn't give you anything for the withdrawals .. I was on 75 but it took me two months to get off fentanyl by myself.. I am actually happy that I took myself off it as I was still in pain anyway after being on it forever 9 years straight .

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I also forgot to tell you all that during withdraw I also shook like a leaf and couldnt eat as I had no appitite and was constantly sick at my stomach. I truely thought I was gonna die. I pulled the 75 mg patch off one day because my mother told me that my personality had changed and that I was saying things to people that was rude when I am naturally not a rude person. I am the type of person that likes to help everyone and would give you the shirt off my back if you needed it or wanted it. I normally love everyone, but the fentanyl patch did something to my personality. I did not know that I would go through withdraw by taking the patch off, let alone saying things that I didnt remember saying to others that were rude. I wont ever use that patch again. Now I am on 75 mg of moriphine twice a day and need to with-draw from it and dont know how to go about it. I have a chronic pain condition and dont know where to turn to get help for the pain and I dont like taking drugs that cause bad withdraws and are addicting. I always fear that my Dr. might move away and I wont be able to find another Dr to help me so I dont withdraw and so that I dont suffer from pain. I've already had two Drs. move out of town without notice to his patients and left me and the rest of their patients stranded without a Dr or pain meds let alone withdraw meds. My pain is so bad that I can hardly get out of bed most days. This withdraw stuff is ten times worse than any flu I've ever had in my life and I've had some pretty bad bouts of the flu in my lifetime. Dafenys Momma

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Dear momma,
What kind of chronic condition do you have?

There is being addicted to illegal drugs. People take these for FUN.

We here on this blog have agonizing pain. We do not take drugs for fun we take them to LIVE.

Believe me when I tell you the former are addicts. We are chronic pain sufferers.

Apples and oranges, my friend.

Why do you want to get off the morphine?

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Angel I was just thinking that last night. Apples and oranges. I don't "often" feel high because of the pain. But the few times I feel a slight bit euphoric is just because I'm so happy to not be in pain. I remember when I used to drink a bottle if wine a nigh was way stronger.

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Thank you Lil, i'll get it today. I took my 100 fentynal off 4-5 days ago and am just using the 10mcg. I'm surprised at how ok I am. I think my back is much better. Only 2 norcos a day. I was scared but with 4 100mcg's left I figured it would be a good time to try and see how I was doing.

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Thank you for your Birthday Wishes!

I had my hair done in the morning and my great family took me to a play and dessert after.

God has been good to me. I worked hard to raise my boys and all but one is exactly the family I never had coming from an alcoholic house. The youngest is just hooked to the wrong girl. Not much a mother can do.

Love you all,
Angel

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Angel, glad you had a good day for your birthday. It's hard when you see your kids making a mistake, maybe he will open his eyes and see she is wrong for him hopefully before he makes more mistakes

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Angel, so glad you had a nice Birthday. Sorry about your youngest too. Unfortunately, as hard as it we have to let our make their own mistakes. The harder we try to pull them out of it, the more we push them toward the thing we want them to leave alone. He will come around in his own time. All you can do is be there to support him when it happns.

Hugs,
'chelle

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Angel,
No Im not using that Dr anymore and thank Ou for you response to my note. Dafneys Momma

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Angel ,
I am not addicted to the drugs but you know and I know that our bodies do get addicted to the drugs and I guess I dont like the way my life is controlled by the Drs where I practically have to beg for my meds every month and I have to always have to worry about whether they are going to fill them or not and if Im going to go through withdraws every month if they dont give my meds and sometimes I think I would be better off suffering from the pain then to worry myself to death as to whether they are going to give me my meds or not and if I get to a point where I cant deal with the pain suicide is always an option but Im not sure I even have the guts to do that as I do love life a lot, but you just never know how a person is gonna get from suffering from chronic pain. This makes me so mad as Drs dont seem to understand people that are in major chronic pain for a life time and then they want to play God with the pain meds just because they can. I almost hate Drs sometimes but our hands are tied no matter what we do or which way we turn. And no Im not sucidal at this time and dont even know whether I would get sucidal if I had problems getting my pain meds off of my dr but Im just saying if I did get so bad off and could not get my meds anymore I might get that way from the pain I would endure, but I just dont know unless it really happened to me. Dafenys Momma.

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Momma? I not only understand you, I AM you. I'm a chicken too. Pain does that. We don't know what we will do at that point. We are just ok and so so right now so noway. But... I actually have tried to see if I could put a needle in my vein ( I'm scared of them) I've tried out a knot ( it scared me cause I was just testing and couldn't get it back off ) lol STAY off anti depressants, I went back on them around Xmas to see if it would have the opposite effect and make me stronger to pull it off, Yup! It Was starting to work and since it was just a test for real, I started weaning immediately after 3? Months. We CAN but shouldn't! Unlike you, I hate my life. I'm in pain and sick and tired of being sick and tired. I have no "family" left as I was adopted and lots have passed. But i can't stop, I might miss something really awsome. I laugh everytime someone says hang in there in here. Bad words for ppl like us with, illness, injuries and diseases that may be permanent. I know my odds are not good. I just wanna go fast out because time hasn't actually flown in this life.

Sweet Dreams and Good Thoughts for you all!

Shannon

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Angel i'm so sorry that you hate those words. i have been in chronic pain everyday since my accident on March 10, 03. Somestime 'Hang in there' is all i have, whether it be for one more second, one more minute, another hour, or a day. i have to have that faith that i can get through this or i would just give up. Giving up is not an option for me. i have 2 teenage boys at home to support an carefore, and 3 step-teenage children to care for also (twin girls and a boy). My husband is very helpful and he works, but my income has always been our main income. i'm a nurse....i have to be able to work. My condition has already taken my dream job away from me (the reason i got into nursing). i used to be a Labor and Delivery nurse...that's where i got hurt. i won't ever be able to do that again (too much lifting,walking). Now i do home health and care for sick babies.....pay isn't as good which means i have to work more hours. One day i keep hoping they will find a cure for our chronic pain. That's what keep me going. Then we can say....'This too shall pass!'

Hugs,
'chelle

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I honestly believe that the omega XL is working. I've been taking 4 a day for 3 weeks. Btw I'm sorry, I didn't mean to offend you with the "hang in there". I'm still up in CA.

Shannon

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Dearest Chelle, Lilred4, Shannon and MOMMA,
MOMMA what you wrote, well, I bet all of us here feel EXACTLY THE SAME sometimes!!!!

I try not to think of it as " begging" for my meds but d&#m if every other month there isn't some screw up. Either the pharmacy tech can't find the script I personally handed to her last month, the RN forgot to send it ("I am so sorry, Hon. I don't know how that happened to you again. "), the doctor is in another country and we are waiting for his return (WTF) or it was lost in the mail. Once I had an emergency appendectomy. Well, now.....it states in a contract I signed over 10 years ago that I have to call within 72 hours of receiving any drugs from another doctor or my contract is broken. For 7 days I was sick as a dog. Who remembers these things then. But what hot water I had been dropped into you would not believe, ladies! I had to cry and beg. For what???!!!

I hear you, Momma!

It is not right.

Maybe I should start a Foundation for the rights of those in chronic pain?
Let me research that.
I'll get back to you all.

Hugs,
Angel

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Hey everyone, just a quick note to let you know that I'm still alive. I have been having so much trouble with family members being sick and who do you think they depend on for the help they need???? ME...I am fixen to be on my way to Bham Al. to UAB Hospital to admit my brother (63 years old) that I call a closet addict (one who says they have no problems but takes all their meds in a weeks time and then suffers). He is in really bad shape. Took 30 lortab 10s in one night and fell 3 times and hurt hisself badly. I have adjusted his meds to where he is down to 12 in a 24 hour period along with other meds, muscle relaxers and nerve meds. He is better med and pain wise but otherwise is in bad shape. I can't believe he called on me after the hell he gave me all my life for taking things for pain. But, I do love him and will help as much as I know how. Everyone is happy that I knew how to adjust his meds so he don't take so much, but it's all in keeping the pain level on a even level and meds on and even level that does the job. Been there, done that so many times I guess I'm an expert in their eyes. I'm sorry I missed your Birthday, Angel, but Happy Belated Birthday. Hope you had a good one. I will be down in Bham for a couple of days until I get him settled down and get something going for him. Then I will have to come home and get something going for myself. I am in so much pain and dread the ride and the sitting at the hospital but I'm going to be there for them. As I would for anyone I can help. Love all ya'll......Pray for me that I will not be in so much pain. (May get a bed next to him if I have to...lol) that's not funny, really thinking about it....hugs and kisses to ya'll. I have my daughters Andriod, so I hope I can get on when I get there and address some problems that I think you all may help me with.....Oh, I have missed ya'll so much......

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Prayers to you NN!!!

What a good soul you have.

Hugs,
Angel

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