Fentanyl Withdrawal Symptoms (Page 56) (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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My ex husband had a cervical fusion done yrs ago. They took bone from his hip. He has done really well, but i think it is probably an easier surgery than a lower back fusion. Most people i have heard of having lower back fusions don't do well.

i hope your friend does better.

Hugs,
'chelle

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Wellllllllllll
SHE is my crazy cousin who somehow has it in her head that after she spends three weeks in a rehab center in Vegas, I am going to fly out or drive out and take her to their condo in Tucson where I will nurse her.

ME.

She is blood, I love her but I can barely help myself most days.

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Chelle, I would not recommend any lower back fusion, I had mine a hospital special surgery, chief dr and still left me in a fist full of pain chronic. Angel ! Please think about not helping your blood family member as you know it will only hurt you more., she won't be in any shape in three weeks, my god it took me a year to recover and feel like myself and that was still in pain but had to learn how to walk without a walker,, I was a PE teacher so I was always active, sports , exercise, I powered walked for years almost everyday until my surgery,, now I can't walk long distances even now without my pain making me stop.. You better tell her you can't do it..have learned to say no to people

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I tried and tried and tried today to tell her NOT TO HAVE THE FUSION SURGERY ON HER BACK!

She is already in Vegas and they do it tomorrow.

It is just out of my hands and in Gods now.

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i've heard from everyone it takes a yr or more to recover from a lumbar fusion. Most people still have pain afterward. i wish she would listen to you.

There is much more success with the disc replacement surgery that i was trying to get a few yrs ago. Recovery time is much shorter....only a few weeks. Surgery is much less invasive.

Hugs,
'chelle

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This Angel is worried about all the people who have not checked in for a couple of weeks. So:
NUTTYNANNA
DMOMMA
CERVICAL
K BOB
ET AL

PLEASE CHECK IN. Nana what if going on? I am worried.

Shannon, want to talk tomorrow?
I love you all and need your advice about something huge that has happened.
Sweet dreams,
Your Angel

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I'm here, feeling lots of pain the last 2 days and dizzyer. Yes, please do. Tsunami warning for the next 2 hrs. I'm sure we will be fine. Probably better than the east coast right now.

Will catch up on reading soon and I hope everyone is well.
Xoxo
Shannon

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Shannon, just letting all know we are bracing for the big hurricane sandy,, I am right on the south shore of Long Island will probably loose electricity, hopefully my big old oak trees will stay nice and tall like they have for over 100 plus years already.. Will try and let everyone know how things are.. Everything hurts today with the dampness coming.. My back is stiff, my knee hurts lol otherwise I am the picture of health.. Hope all are dealing and ready for the storm that they are saying going to be a horror.. Subways, buses will not be running,, they want everyone staying home,, or leaving coastal area like me.. But I am choosing to ride out the storm,be safe!

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Lilred4,
Please be safe!! This is a b&$:ch of a storm.

Take cover. Don't you have someone to drive you out??
I'll be praying.

Send a message everyone when this one blows over, okay?
Hugs,
Angel

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Well hey everyone, I guess you all thought I got lost. I really did. I got my brother in a place, finally. Now I think I need to find one for myself. Not really. I have been taking my oxycodone and it has been helping me. The doc had me taking them 4 times a day and I started going back to my pain doc last week and guess what??? The doc asst. said he don't prescribe oxys anymore. WTF...... now what am I going to do?? They gave me back the 25 mcg patch but does that touch the pain?? Hell no, not even close. Now i'm out of my oxys and only have a couple of patches left. I told them I did not want back on the patch, but would go back on it if I could get the oxys for breakthrough pain. She agreed. Well she told me to wait in the waiting room for my scripts and after three hours and bugging the crap out of them they brought me only a script for 5 patches, and said to call in a couple of days to see how they were doing. Not a dang thang for breakthrough. And the smart ass nurse told me that the doc asst did not tell me that the doc would give them to me. I know what I heard and I raised hell for a min but it did no good. So tomorrow I am going to go over there if I have to and get the 50mcg for every other day like I use to take them. I still don't want to go back on them. Them people have not seen crazy yet. I just came out of prison with a 30 year sentence, and stll have about 18 years to go before I come off of parol. Don't get the wrong idea, i did not do anything bad, just gave a so called fried an 80 mg oxycotin and got a thirty year sentence for that lame ass bull....I just took my muscle relaxer and an ambian so I might not start making any sence. But I'm still ,take that back, i think i need to go to bed. but i am so pissed at that nurse, she didn't hear what me and that doc asst. talked about . Now I'm out of my klonipin along with some of my others.....wht to do, what to do, what to do??????????? Glad everyone is doing a little better, or not...I just know that you can't save the world....my eyes are crossing so it's night ,night time and hugs and kisses and love to all, promise to be back.....

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Angel, thanks for the kind words, it's windy now and so far the trees blowing, I have tv on and watching the news,, hopefully my trees will stand but, ..who knows, peanut butter going to be our meals for awhile if we loose power.. They saying this storm is going to be till Wednesday..

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Nutty nanny, sorry to hear your having so many problems. Advise if you go back to the office don't cause a scene but calmly ask to speak to doctor as they were the ones you spoke to .. Yelling will just get you into trouble., I can't believe you waited three hours to get the script to begin with., I would have walked back to the person you spoke to after a few minutes while it was fresh in their head. Wish you all the best.

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Lilred4, went back and got a script for the 50mcgs and can't get them filled till the 7th of next month, and still nothing for breakthrough. I have to have an epidiurel on the 6th, so what the heck am I suppose to do after I have that with the pain that comes with them???? God, I didn't want to go back on these patches. But I have to have some kind of relief and they told me if I would go back on the patches that they would give me the oxycodone for breakthrough. That is the only thing I have ever took that helped me. The only thing. And I have tried everything. I am allergic to morphine so that is out of the question......what the heck am I suppose to do now????? Any suggestions, anyone. I am dying.....

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Dear NN,
I have extra 50mcq/hr patches. Listen closely, Nanna.
I will send them. I need your address. But this site recognizes addresses and will stop you.

Follow these instructions:
First , spell out the numbers in your address hit 2 returns.
Second, spell the street address hit 2 returns
Third, spell the city 2 returns
Fourth, the state 2 returns
Fifth, spell out the numbers in the zip code.

There will be no return address on the package as sending narcotics over state lines is a felony. I will go to jail forever. This is a throw away phone which I will dump after I write this message. No one here knows my real name. I may never be back.

Good- bye my dear friends. I need to help Nanna.
I will never forget you.
Shannon, I will call with my new number.
Love,
Ang

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Angel that is so not a good idea. I know you want to help, but it won't help her in the long run. She will be right back in the same situtation as soon as those run out. She needs a long term solution. She needs a new doctor, maybe go to the ER. Not jepordize you.

i'm very sorry nanny that you are in pain. We have all been. But please don't let Angel risk herself like this. There has to be another way.

Love you both and hate to see either of you have to leave group.

Hugs,
'chelle

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I have been off Fentanyl 50 patches for three weeks now and am on df118 4 times a day and one prozamel 20 at night.I feel that I have been going through withdrawels for months and sadly the df118's do not deal with the pain.There is a good side to the hell one goes through trying to get off Fentanyl and that is despite the fact that three weeks feel like a lifetime you don't remember much about it.My doctor tells me that there is nothing wrong with me now but I still feel pretty bad but not as bad as I did and I really believe that I will come through this but the only way is to come off the patches on day one and take whatever your doctor decides is best for you.it is very hard to do and I am far from there yet but I can sleep and feel better slowly.More importantly I know I can beat this and so can we all and I would like to see the use of Fentynal banned for the treatment of pain it is a dirty drug which creates more problems than it solves.Had I been left on the Oxynorm 10's that my consultant prescribed I would be fine but other less qualified doctors thought otherwise and I am where I am.
Good luck to you all and may you God Bless you.
Dave

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chelle, I know that once is not going to hurt me as much as you think. I am at my wits end and hurting so bad that my side is in a catch from the strain that the pain has me in. The 25mcg I have doubled up on and this helped me so much but the 7th seems so far away that I have been out on the street looking which would be even worse on me if I resort to doing that.I don't want to lose my Angel so this would help till the 7th when the doc finally gets off his throne and does something to help me. Otherwise I will have to find another doc. Don't he know he can be replaced so easly?? My insurance, since I have cancer, is so good that I can go to a doctor a day and it would pay. I have the extra help. @Rev. David Syms, I am with you on that note. I told the doc I did not want back on these but this is the only thing that they would give and then lied and said they would write me oxycodone for the breakthrough. Now I have to have a epidural on the 6th with nothing to take. I don't think I can do this, I'm in so much pain now. I feel your pain so much and hope you get some kind of relief soon. It took me 7 months of terror but had some help with Suboxone, which helped me so much, but not with the pain. My pain doctor told me that when we are on pain meds for a long time that our nerve endings are numbed and when we stop the pain meds the nerve endings start coming back alive which causes more pain than we had before we started the pain meds. Does this make any sense?? It did to me cause I felt this firsthand. Taking long hot baths helped me and helped the endings to relax enough so I got some relief for a little while. I pray that you don't have to go through alot of pain with this. God be with you and hope you get better soon.

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Dear NN,
Chelle is right. This is too dangerous!

Besides,NN, WHO would I address it to? I don't even know your last name??????

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I went from 50 fentenol to 75 and while taking this I had to go in for cancer surgery.I didnt have the patch for two days and then the withdrawal started. It was horrible.I decided right there that I was going to get off it.I stopped it cold turkey.Had many nights of pacing the floor but I am now clean amd will never put one on again.

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Oh thank God Angel. I have been worried sick. I don't want anything to happen to you.

Nanny I'm so sorry that you are in so much pain. I advise you to either go to the ER or get a new Doc.

What Angel was gonna do is just far to dangerous for both of you.

Hope everyone is ok after the storm. I know this cold wet weather is getting to all of us.

Love to all. Stay warm and dry.

Hugs,
'chelle

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