Fentanyl Withdrawal Symptoms (Page 57)

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,
No News since Wednesday??

Gee, I've missed you all.
Lilred4, no medication is working since August?? Chelle, what do you think? What meds have you tried, if you don't mind me asking?
I just sent some medicine, clothes, blankets, pillows, etc. to a friend who is driving to NYC for a Sandy rescue mission. And I did give my weekly allowance to a Rescue Shelter near Staten Island to help all the homeless animals that have been found lost. It just made me sad to think of loosing a pet. When I first became disabled, I bought a teenie, tiny Maltese and called him Willow. He has been my ever constant companion and there is no better dog in this world. He and I agreed from the start that he was actually human. At night, he sleeps next to me with his head on a pillow, body tucked under the covers and his front paws lie just crossed at the top of the covers. LOL He is one in a million!!
Anyway
Lilred4, there are times for simple gratitude and peace of heart. We so need to reflect daily on the beauty and joy of one NORMAL DAY that we are alive IN.
SHANNON
SHANNON
SHANNON
Where are you? Pick up the phone, please!!
Has anyone heard from our Queen of the West Coast?
Chelle, belle, all's well?
Nanna,darlin', how are you doing? I want to ask you if you would mind if my hubbie takes that picture and enlarges it so I can frame it. That's okay with you, isn't it? Please, let me know.

To all our friends along the way, please, come back and tell us how you are?

I'm drifting off to sleep.
Talk to you soon, I hope!
😘

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Angel, you are most welcome to do that. You are such a very loving soul. I too, have a little one that sleeps with me but he's an apple-head chawawa(don't know how to spell it). Well, I'm not doing as well as I would like to be doing but I'm doing better. The patches that I am on is helping a lot but I think I need to go up or get them like I use to. I use to change them every 48 hours rather than every 72 hours. Then they would work better for me. I think I really need the 75mcgs though, but it will be at least two weeks before I can change in that sense. How is everyone doing?? I see some are not checking in and this worries me....hugs and kisses to all...

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Hello all.

Nanny, glad to hear you are doing a little better. Hopefully you will be able to go up on the patches soon and get some more relief.

Angel, I have a Pekingnese/Maltese. We have had almost a yr. She just turned 1yr old on the 10th of Nov, we got her when she was 6wks old. She is such a little toddler. She demands your attention, just like a kid. And she isn't afraid of anything, you would think she was a big dog.

Lil, I'm not sure what for you to try. I know my husband has awful allergies and the only thing that helps is Zrytec-D.

I'm doing ok. The flexeril isn't really helping my leg. I go back to the Doc in a couple of wks, he'll probably change it to something else. I also have a rash on my sides and back, not sure what it's from but itches like crazy....put some cortizone lotion on it last night seemed to help. Gonna look up those other meds today to see if they cause rashes. Other than that doing ok. My husband started his new job today, so as soon as we fill out the paper work we have decent ins again. That will help, esp since doc thinks the pain in my side might be a kidney stone. It has just been achey for about 5 wks now. When he tapped on my back I about came off the table. He might run some tests when I go back.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Hugs,
'chelle

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Angel, thanks for caring along with the rest of you, yes since August when I weened self off fentanyl this all has happened.. Stuffed or runny nose continuous , congested in chest, wheezing, actually out of breath when I am going up and down my stairs .. I went to a Ent doctor this past week, now going to a lung man on the 30 to see what's going on.. I have ventolin which I have been using but not really helping all that much, plus allergy pills.. Prescription ones , not helping either. I had allergies over 15 years ago with asthma, took shots every other week and after 7 years it stopped right around the time of my back surgery. For all the time on fentanyl nothing. Now I go off it and I am just feeling lousy like a cold that wont go away.. So I must find out what is going on. My area has parts where people homes totally ruined.. Very very sad, I am grateful we got back our heat and my turtles and cat survived with me and hubby staying home in a cold house to take care of them. This evening have a wedding to go to, if was not a relative really don't feel like going but.. No choice my family would be annoyed for sure, I would just like to not keep blowing my nose and coughing for a few hours but.. Doubt it's going to happen,, Please give a big hug to all

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Lilred4, I know what you mean about the sniffling and coughing. What helped me the most is the dayquil and the nite time nyquil. I just sip on it and it suppesses my coughing for at least a couple of hours. It does have alcohol in it and that is what is helping, I think. I have tried all the prescription meds on allerigies and the generic loratadine is the best. It does help but you have to get it in your system and keep it in. Hope you get to feeling better. I'm so sorry about what you have went through with the storm Sandy. Maybe things will be better soon. Well, the grands are calling for food...hugs and kisses to all....

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My post disappeared !!ðŸ˜

I will have to start all over again!

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Ladies,
I am seriously worried about our Shannon.
I have called and called.
Today I called at 5:45 am CA time. Not only did she NOT answer but her MEMORY IS FULL.

Has anyone heard from her?
Does anyone have her address?

She lives in Santa Cruz, right?
Any other info we have on her, I would appreciate ASAP. I am going to go looking for her.
Hugs,
Angel

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Hey Angel, I just got your mssg but I couldn't hear the area code. I'm doing better. Give me a call. I'm going to catch up on all the posts now as I've been busy trying to keep busy without hurting my back any further. I'm super scared of even turning the wrong way. I'm terrified of having to go under the knife again and keeping my pain managed as i won't do epiderals either again. That last set in Aug. was a total nightmare. If it was that. Still not sure. I did a battery of blood tests, annual exam and other stuff last week. Nothing is showing up. Talk to you soon.
Shannon

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This is my last post.
I am so sad to leave my friends because of only one.
I trusted someone on this blog.
I found out they do illegal drugs.
I was scrapping together money, with my generous and kind husband, to send to this person for Christmas.

But we have a relative now who has left a ruined path behind him because he rides the Horse with the name of Heroin.

Good-bye Shannon, Chelle, Lilted4, NurseAndrea, Weeler, K Bob, Preacher, Momma, Father, Cervical, Dundee Lady, Mary (who started this group years ago, all those I forgot and Nanna.

I may come back with a new name someday...or not. So keep that Welcome sign out. I have changed my email address to just a drop box and my phone. The police feel I need to make a clear break. I have told them my whole story. Beware.

I truly will miss you and if you want to post your cell phones or email addresses I will watch for some time.

This blog has helped me in innumerable ways.
GOD BLESS!

Your Angel

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So sorry to see you go Angel. You have really held this group together in the short time that I have been here. I will miss you. You should have my cell # from where I texted you before. Don't be afraid to use it if you need to talk. Please take care of yourself.

Hugs,
'chelle

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Wow so sorry to see what happened with angel,, it has given me comfort at times to know that others are here even if its just on this site,, you have shown a compassionate person you are, I really am sorry that your trust was broken ..Sadly some on here take advantage of those with good hearts.. Hope you all had a nice thanksgiving

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Hey everyone hope you all had a good holiday. I didn't do anything special, just a regular work week for me. sucks being a nurse around the holidays...I get to work Christmas Eve and Christmas too. My boys spent Thanksgiving with thier Dad. I've got another sore throat...went to the Doc again and got some more antibiotics, should be better soon. I've been doing a little Christmas shopping. I actually even went out on Black Friday (like I said I would never do). The crowds weren't that bad since the stores opened on Thurs this yr. I think most of the crazies went out late Thurs night....LOL.

i hope everyone is doing well.

Hugs,
'chelle

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Well this saddens me because of Angels feelings. Sometimes I feel like people are talking about me when they say that someone is useing illegal drugs because of my past. I feel judged and if they only knew that the past was years ago and I'm not doing anything illegal. In no form or fashion. But, that is what people do is keep the stuff going around so that someone can be miserable. This also will be my last post and I will not come back under another name. I'm tired of all the people that keep my name going around so that they will have something to talk about. I guess I have something to talk to my mom about. She is the one that keeps telling me not to pay any mind to them because I know in my heart that I have paid for what I have done and the past is to stay in the past, and was forgiven by God. Everyone have a nice Christmas, I won't be around to see it. I have a very broken heart.

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Nut nanny, why do,u think its you,, I just come on here to see how everyone is doing,,, I know you had once wrote that you had used but I never actually thought anything else about it... I only read the posts and respond if I have something to say.. Sorry to hear your upset or you heard something,,,

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Nutty nanny-sorry to hear that your leaving,, I only come on here to read the posts or respond to one.. I never really have ever spoken to anyone other than at this website.. Maybe just don't let yourself be hurt.. How do u know your being talked about?? Could be wrong?this web site is suppose to be caring for eachother not to make others feel already low because of pain

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I had to come back to explain, again, the reason of my past. It was not a very good past, but I guess everyones has some kind of past. I was put in a hospital when I was 26 years old. While I was there a black doctor raped me three times. It is recorded in the law books it anyone wants to read it, and the gory details. Anyway, the state at that time was the only way I could get any help mental wise. Since I had sued the state, they escorted me out the door without any help at all. I tried to kill myself and knew then that I needed the help. Well, to make a long story short, I started using drugs to kill the pain that I suffered with. My family is the type that keeps everything under covers so they were no help. I was called so many names when I went to town, that I hid in my room for very many years. To support my drug habit, I wrote a lot of bad checks, went to jail, picked them up with the help of my lawyer that handled the lawsuit. I also stole or shoplifted from stores and would sell the stuff that I stole. So sometimes I went to jail with this problem. I was taught better then this, was taught to tell the truth, so this is what I did. I admitted to what I did and went and did my time. Then they charged me with trying to get a script with a bad script, which I really did not do. These were the only charges that were not true. But, to get a lighter sentence, I plead guilty. While I was on probation, I sold one, ONE pill to a friend. That friend got caught and turned on me, which was ok because I did this. I went to prison. After four years of sheer hell, I was paroled. I went back because of something that I did not do, and got the charges dismissed, but because I was charged to begin with, I had to go back. I stayed another four years. I have been out for a long time and have been clean for over 16 years. I never want to go back to that way of life, and never want to go back to that place. I DO NOT DO illegal drugs. I use to and that was my past. I told this way back and have been honest with everyone that I have talked to because they have the right to know what I did. Now I am branded and people wont let it go. I know I did wrong, God knows I did wrong. But I don't do anything but what the doctor gives me, and that is it. I take a urine test twice a month, randomly. One at the doctors, and one at the police office. I have always passed the test, and have gotten good reports. I have comptemplated killing myself the last 24 hours because this has hurt me and my family so much to think that someone would take what someone had done years ago and use it against them. My daughter, mother and 3 grandkids live with me and they know the truth and are very proud of what I have become. They have forgave me and my God have forgave me, I just wish everyone else would. Please don't judge someone untill you have walked just a little of what they have walked. I'm sorry, but I have told this story before on this website, if anyone cared enough to read it, and have been honest with everyone. I don't know it the words were for me that Angel had said, but it hit me very hard because of the things that were done to me, by me and against me. My world has been blown to pieces and I don't think this time I will be able to put them back together again. Have a good day eveyone. I'm having one heck of one, myself.....promise I won't be back now....

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Nutty nanny you need to stand strong, it must have taken alot of courage to even come back on to write this. Please don't let somone run you off the PC..I only can say that many on here I am sure make mistakes but if you have been clean for so long then it's a shame that your still being talked about this way.. If I could give you a hug I would. Like I have said before I never talk to anyone other than in a post and have been grateful for just the caring that people on here have given.. Don't leave! You have family that love you, Do not do anything foolish like taking your life over somone else's comments.. That's their problem ..

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Nanny don't leave, I didn't read your long reply, I didn't want to know the details. I feel bad that Angel left, but I did not even once think you were tied in with her situation. Hey, we all have a past, good news is we all have a future also, and it is what we do now that determines who we are, and who we become. I am now struggling with more than I thought I would because of back pain, I am not proud of everything, I keep going on and I keep looking forward. We will all get past our struggles but we must keep pushing forward. Stay with us.

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I have never asked anyone on this site to do one thing for me, so they will have to live with what they have caused............

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Nutty nanny- maybe it was not you, and your just jumping the gun because of your Past.. You should reconsider and just take a break if you feel you need too.. On the days when my back is killing me I come on here to read other posts and see I am not alone. During the hurricane sandy when I had no electric or heat I was very depressed and cold.. When I read the posts afterwards it made me feel so much better that there were people who cared why I had not posted and if I was alright.. Funny my own cousins from far away never bothered to even send a email if I had a house left. Please don't let one person and your not sure it was even Angel who was pointing a finger at you run you off this .. Hope you don't go

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