Fentanyl Withdrawal Symptoms (Page 59)

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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Lilred4, I have decided to do just that. I will not let someone run me away from something that has held me together at so many times in my life. And I have been posting for so much longer. I hate that someone would have to go the length that they did just to get a part of a conversation that they need to justify their feelings. I feel sorry for someone like that. I want to just let things go, and if she feels the way she does, then I can not help it. There is nothing else I can do.
We had a great dinner at Church tonight and a wonderful message. It was about stress and the things that stress can make you do, how it effects your health, your life and your family life. Then I had a wonderful talk with my pastor, who has helped me through some hard times because he use to be a drug addict himself. He is a wonderful pastor and knows the Bible front and back and gave me a lot of scriptures to read to help me to forgive, myself and others. I have a lot of forgiving to do for the things that my Lord has forgave me for years ago, but just can't forgive myself. This is something that has to be learned and the guilt that goes along with the lack of forgiveness. I also got a call from a lady that runs a rehab center and she ask me to come tell my testimony and the things that I have been through. I don't know if I can do this because I'm not a good speaker. I can write it down and read it but to just get up and tell it would have me shaking in my boots. She was my counselor when I first got clean and has been my sponser at my meetings. I am so nervous about this but I think I can do it.
Well, I have not had much sleep the last few days but after hitting that alter tonight I think I can sleep a week. Thank you Lord for the uplifting that you gave me tonight, and the peace of mind that I got by calling out to you in my time of need. Hope everyone has a good night and a very good day tomorrow. God Bless everyone...

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Those are the exact symptoms I had from withdrawal also. The constant writhing, rocking, severe muscle aches, headaches and nausea. I tried cold turkey, and even with the help of Xanax I was in complete total misery. This went on for 5 days. God bless you.

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Good morning everyone... I felt so good when I got up this morn that I fixed gravy and homemade busquits, sliced some good ripe tomatoes, and fried up some link sausages. This got my grand babies out of the bed fast and my mom even got up before time for her to get up. I am stuffed and think after I clean up the kitchen, I will lay back down. No, don't think I will. I have to much to do today. I got a big surprize yesterday in the mail and now all will be good. Today is the beginning of a new day, the past is the past. Everyone have a great day today, stay safe and I love everyone....

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It seems as though I overpaid social security a full check and a half, so they sent me the overpayment. God works in mysterious way, yes he does....Thank you Lord...For Your Blessings on me...

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Lilred4 and NurseAndrea,

Lil, do you remember me asking if there was anything I could do during Sandy to help you? I said could I go to my town mayor and see if I could motivate my city to help yours?
Daily, I asked about you.

And Nurse, our vicarious member, I took what you said to heart. I only contacted Nanna Nutty to say, I was sorry.

You all here have read my posts for nine months now.

I ask you only one thing: go back and read what I wrote.

Then ask yourself, really: why would I make this up?

I have a full and happy life. I believe that God sends us places for a reason. I loved the daily, calm sharing we all did here. I felt blessed to have found such warm virtual friends who all were in pain but found so many ways to cope. I admired your courage and it helped me get through tough days.

You will notice some people have been absent. We were thinking of starting a support blog which would be very private.

Ladies and Gentlemen, having read the privacy policy of rxchat.com, I do not believe anybody has read, has reported, or will respond to any of the posts of the last few weeks. They state that they have a hands-offs policy.

I think we all realize that is they were reading or if they were going to respond, they certainly would have done so by now.

Months ago when someone came on the blog and was disrespectful, I reported it as "ABUSE". I never heard one word back.

My dispute on this site was with Nanna. I posted what I did as a warning to MY OTHER FRIENDS HERE

I believe in unconditional foregiveness. If you felt you needed to denigrate me to help Nanna, I understand and might have done the same.

For this whole thing, I apologize sincerely to every reader for the part I played. I did it, as I try to live my life, with unconditional love and in the spirit of trying to help all people in my life.

Hugs,
Angel

PS Please, Everyone, have as Pain-free a Holiday Season as possible.

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Angel, I am writing this to say yes I remember you asking if I needed anything and I told you I was ok compared to others.. Just your kind words was never .. I can't understand why you would go so far to bring into the room the private conversations you had with nanny.. To say she was scamming you.. Did she sell you something that you did not get.. You coming on and threatening with the screen name worst nitemare and stating your lawyers name and if anyone gets in touch would be harassment.. Why did you bother continue to talk to her if you said u did not want any communication with her other than to further bring more drama to this blog...You sending her fentanyl threw the mail ,that was your mistake..if you couldn't send her any Gifts" you should have just told her instead of warning all in the room with your comments.. This room was I thought was for talking about how we are dealing with this horrible pain it seems we are all in.... To copy a text without her knowledge and then u can delete whole sentences or words is very easy to do on the PC.. Unless you physically saw her taking drugs You should not be writing this in the room.. Truthfully I am not surprised that many wont be back in the room because you stated about your lawyer and the police. This whole situation is very very sad.. This is a lesson that you can't trust people you meet on here unless they prove themselves.. Certainly don't tell any one something that might be taken the wrong way as it can end up on print ..Everyone I am hoping this stops and Angel please don't need to respond about why you continued to talk to her when you wrote you did not want anyone getting in touch with you as it would be harassment ..Hope the Holidays will bring some peace and less pain for us all. At least that's what I want for All that are suffering on a daily basis..

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Angel, you did ask if I needed anything and I told you I was ok,, I never asked for anything and thank goodness I didn't.. I come on because I am trying to deal with pain and not taking fentanyl anymore .. There are things you have done regarding nanny is just wrong.. I do not know why you felt you needed to warn those on the site as you felt .with all that has been said I feel I can no longer be comfortable talking about how I am in pain .. Once trust is broken hard to get it back,, wish all a happy holiday

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Lilred4, how are you? I'm with you on the asking, glad you didn't. One thing I do want to say that the word "I'm Sorry" were never in the texts in a sense to what she had done to me.
But like I said I am through with this.
@ Shannon, why would you go and tell Angel something about me buying herion with the patches that she sent me? Esp. since I have not talked to you in like 8 or 9 months. I just don't think you did this, but want you to know your name is being used. Please watch who you are dealing with.
@ Everyone else, I hope all this is over with and we can get back to talking about our pain and withdrawals. How we can help each other out (with words only) by telling what helps with each other. Some work for some and then it don't help with others. So we can try to help all. I think my port is infected again. I started running 104.9% temp last night and shaking so hard. Mom tried to get me to go to the er but I just took some antibiotics and some tylenol and my fever came down to 102% and I quite shaking so bad. Then I went off to sleep and slept till 7am this morn, without having to take anything for sleep. Thank you God for your help. It hasn't started again this morning but I do have to watch the patches when I run a temp that high, it will make all the meds come out faster and might make me overdose. I guess I need to call the doctor and ask what to do if it happens again. just take it off untill my fever goes back down???? Then put it back on?? Does anyone know what I should do in this situation??

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I tapered off FTD from 125mcg to zero in 6 months. The basic taper was at 25mcg per/ 2 months. I would replace the FTD with Rx'ed Oxycodone IR 30mg bid prn. I am now one year off the patches and at 1-2 Oxycodone IR 30mg prn p/d. I have to say that at this slow taper with the Oxy to help, I felt no W/Ds whatsoever. I am on meds to deal with cancer pain . . . but the 24/7 FTD was messing with my reflexes sooo much that I voluntarily gave my wife my Driver's Licence. After 4.5 years as a basic shutin I manned up and tapered off. I actually now feel less pain than before, go figure. The best of Luck and the Least of Pain . . . Q

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I was on a fentynal patch fo 4 years, from 75 to 50 to 25 then finnaly a 12 this has been a cakewalk since the 12 I will Never Ever go on this controlling patch Ever again!!! I was worse then smoking!!!! You can wean yourself, hang in there!!!

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The restlessness is almost definitely a sign of moderate w/ds. They drove me bugnuts too, that is why I had my Dr. Rx me the OxycodoneIR 30 mg 3 p/d prn. I would let it melt in my mouth, YUCK, for faster release and the restlessness would go away. See if your Dr. will Rx you some percs or 10mg Oxys for this. It is very hard to do on your own and if you want to get completely clean, the Oxy is much easier to taper off of. . . . Q

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I hope everyone had a great Christmas and is looking forward to a happy New Year. Good luck everyone

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Success will be yours! A great partner giving love, support-etc., is one of the best healers. I am tired of people projecting the "drug" addict image on someone with chronic pain utilizing meds for some relief. The pain doesn't all go away due to medication.
MY PAIN IS FROM A BRAIN ANEURSYMN I SURVIVED> I ALSO HAVE RECENTLY WENT DOWN ON MY FENTANYL AND PLAN TO CONTINUE!

Hugs to you and yours,

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Yep, It's deff a sign of withdrawal. I am currently doing the same thing on my own, yet I have been going downfrom 175 mg. There is a 12.5mg patch that you should be using. Dropping at 25mg's is a very steep drop for your body to handle, and that withdrawal will be worse depending on how long you have been on the patches.
I myself have been on them for 12 yrs on and off going btwn them and Oxycontin... Now like I said, it's all going to depend on how long you've been on the patches, but what I do know is that you should not drop 25mg's at a time. Now since you have already done that and are on 25's, the 20 day thing is good, but you now need to go onto the 12.5mg patch and use that for 2/3 weeks and then try going off, but do not hurt yourself, and if even after you have stopped going off the 12.5mg patch, it's not a bad thing if every few days you need to put another on. More importantly, remember that the drug will stay in your system for up to 2 months after you stop taking it.

Good luck, I'm currently on a 25 & 12.5 patch, so I'm right there with you.

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I was on both fentanyl patches (150 mcg) and the fentanyl lolliop after surgery- then fentora a milder form (800mcg) BE CERTAIN you get help weaning off. My doctor didn't help me ONE BIT when I asked to get off the meds. He had me remove one 75mcg patch , causing severe withdrawal. When I asked him to please wean me more gradually from the 75 mcgs he refused and told me just to rip off that patch-needlessly causing severe agony/withdrawal.He also refused to wean me from fentora(800mcg) and just stopped me in middle of a prescription. I was ill for months- the only thing that helped were anti-anxiety meds. I blame him for being totally irresponsible- guess he didn't want to bother w/having to get pre-authorizations to lower the doses so caused me severe agony. He had t/gall to say it was HIS idea to wean me off in front of his nurse, when it was my idea. He would have kept me on drugs forever, because it kept me coming back every month.More co-payments! Find a reputable, compassionate doctor who understands t/seriousness of weaning off of any pain meds, and DON"T fall for a family doctor who poses s a pain management doctor. Do you research. There are good ones out there. My migraine physicians were great- helped me wean off clonipine with complete ease. And a friend got of the Fentanyl patches with no problem by doing it gradually. Never let a doctor treat you like mine did-move on to a reputable one.

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wishing you great success- keep at it- but go gradually. Don't let your doctor just have you go "cold turkey" as it causes severe problems. Best of luck Been there.

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You are going down too fast. The first decreases are easier that the last couple. You should go down 12mcg a month. Been there done that.

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It does sound like you may be having some withdrawal symtoms. Did you speak to your doctor about how to withdraw and what the possible side effects would be? I used to be on the Fentanyl Patch 50mcg for chronic migraines several years ago. I also wanted to wean off and did very slowly. It wasn't easy, but in the end it was definitely worth it! Talk to your doctor about your symptoms. Maybe he can help with something that is non- addictive to get you through. Good Luck!

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to block 1176: Man, that Dr. was an idiot , to be polite. like your friend, I tapered from 150 to zero over a 6 month period, 25 mcg at a time in 2 month intervals while continuing to use my BTP med at it's regular rate . . . 3 Oxycodone IR p/d prn. BTW, Fentora is twice as strong as the sucker, Aqtiq. One 800 Fent equals 2 800 aqtiqs. Best of luck and the least of pain . . . Q

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Hello, I'm looking for some advice/help about getting off of the "Fentanyl Patch". I have been on this patch for over a year now, starting out with the 25 mcg, which wasn't doing anything, so I was bumped up to the 50 mcg, which were also not helping, and for about a year now, I have been on the 75 mcg. Well, every time I switch out my patch (every other day) I'm up all night long, and if I take it late at night, I end up sleeping for about 3 hours, then it's like I'm on some kind of "adrenaline rush", and I'm WIDE AWAKE the rest of the day and into the evening. I switch out the patch the following day, and it starts all over again. I went to my "Pain Specialist" (Doctor) and told him what was going on, and he has now put me on "Methadone". He said to take the remainder of the 75's, then 2 weeks of the 50's, and then 25's for two weeks, but then at that time, to start taking the "Methadone". Now after reading some of the post's on here, (and other sites) it sounds like my dosage is fairly small, compared to others that are trying to ween off of the patch. I guess I'd like to know if by getting off the "patch", and starting the "methadone", am I going to have to take the "methadone" for the rest of my life, or is it just used to help with the with drawls of the "patch"? The reason for all this medication is, I was in a really, really bad car racing accident back in 2005, but just started having all the same problems again with my back and neck. I really want to go back to work, but fear I won't get hired because of the liability to them, with my back problems. At least with not being on these "drugs", I could hide my back and neck injuries, and just go back to "dealing" with them. I am also on "Oxycodone" 10 mg pill, 3 times a day.

Any help/info would be really appreciated.

Thanks

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