Fentanyl Withdrawal Symptoms (Page 82)

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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I am a retired RN that detoxed off of Fentanyl patch 100mcg in October 2015 w/o medical intervention. I was prescribed the patch after years of suffering unbearable gut wrenching pain in my body, which I still suffer everyday, but is more manageable. I had to take charge of my own pain journey and life by changing my mindset, thought processes! The brain is the control center of all of one's bodily functions. I told mine to "SHUT UP", God put me in control of you not you controlling me. I changed my lifestyle, diet, exercise, prayer, increased activities, etc. you can do it too!!! I used YouTube and other resources for self-help info to assist me in my journey for wellness. I pray for all chronic pain sufferers that each will find their God given gift of healing, it's a free gift, receive it NOW!!! I visualized my healing, weight loss, being healthier, happier, etc and owned it!!! Pain was in & on my mind 24/7, it was my LIFE!!! I live with pain but it doesn't control me any longer!!! {edited for privacy}

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I was cut off fentanyl patches and Percocet10s all at once and have had two back surgeries, breast surgery and lung surgery can't find any doctors to help.

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Linda Gail it would help if you would put in wear you live ( city and state ) so people close to where you live might be able to help

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JJ congratulations! I was inspired by your post. I want to get off fentanyl patches. I have been on 75mcg/hr for several years. I have chronic pain as well. All of the research was discouraging. I was hoping that in 2 years when I am able to retire that I can get off all meds and live a healthy lifestyle.

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I was on Fentanyl 75mcg for 15 years, for JRA chronic pain and many joint replacement surgeries.
Fentanyl started to make me very ill. I went off over 2 months under a pain Drs mgmt, the following for were extremely difficult . It was a very long and hard 6 months. The withdrawal side effects were so brutal at times.
Today I'm so much better, I know over the next year or two I will just keep improving. The first 4-6 months there was no way I could have worked.
I'm now on 2-3,4 mg dilaudid for the pain. I will never go back on Fentanyl unless I have a terminal disease. Hardest thing I have ever gone thru in my life was the past 6 months, but also worth every struggle to be where I am today. Thanks everyone for all your advice and encouragement. To know what I was experiencing was normal and would get better was priceless!
Very Grateful

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Need Dr. in Lexington,Ky area. Had two failed back surgeries lung cancer and breast cancer. Need a pain Dr so bad in so much pain. Thanks in advance.

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You mean clonidine, i'm sure it's called other names.. It's a blood pressure Med to help with restless leg syndrome.. Benzos are gonna help the best - I just took 32 mg buprenorphine and it put me in instant WD cause I didn't wait long enough. One word of advice (this may not work for everyone) is {edited for safety}. Remember to hydrate, and keep telling yourself do the crime pay the time..

Ya gotta pay for all the times you took the drug, there is no easy way out.. 8 hours ago I was in shock, now the subs kicked in finally and I feel normal almost with little restless leg.. But lots of benzos and adderall when you feel sad or feel like you can't do it mentally.. Because we all been taking it to the point we thought we were gonna die and we didn't so now it's our turn to be sick to the point we think we are gonna die.. Nothing is free, you gotta buy the drug in money and then pay it back with withdrawals. Clonidine does help also.. Benadryl helps.

I took 100mcg Fentanyl patches daily for 4 years and took many 30mg Roxie's in 6 days, and finally said this is enough! I called my doctor (which is a money hungry private doc) and said you want my business I need my tolerance down or I'm gonna be 6 feet down and he said "ok we can do subs for a few months then start back on Dilaudid"... He cared about getting me dependent again cause of the money. I cared about my family and getting clean! Little he knows he will never see me again and another 5 people will take my place. If you take herion nowadays it's all made from Fentanyl, I guarantee that.. So no matter how hard it gets. You will get better. I promise you that.

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Richmond, Ky is where I am at. Need a pain Dr. So much pain from head to toe. 2 failed back surgeries screws and plates fusion the last time. Lung cancer in right lung and breast cancer and radiation therapy blisters from it.

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Doctors hate to prescribe oxycontin and Oxycodone but will prescribe Dilaudid and Fentanyl like it's going on sale. I weld for a living, and we all know what happens when you are put 1,000 degree heat directly over a 100mcg patch and a Tshirt and mechanics shirt and full leathers and leather sleeves and gloves on a 95 degree day..

Ya I used to absorb a patch in a 8-10 hour shift.. Get home, eat and throw up from being sick. That finally went away then when I wasn't at work I was having WD. I was prescribed 4 roxicodone 15s for breakthrough but that does nothing when you are taking in 10mg of fentanyl in such a small period in one of the most bioavailable ways. IV, rectal, skin, then ingestion is the most med per mg to the least.

Anywho, so the doctor tried me on 12mg instant release Dilaudid 60 last a week, then went back on patches.. Work was fine. At home I had nothing but withdrawals. I told him this and he gave150 30mg Roxie's to last the month. Well with the 15s I was already on that 150 30s converted to wearing a 50mg patch and 4 15s.. So 150 30s lasted 7 days. I had a few patches left over, made an appointment. I completely absorbed a full 75mch patch on my way to my sub appointment. I thank god they were busy. I already made the drive so I sat in a massage chair for 2 hours snoring & drooling, the doc comes in and asks what's up and said when we converted to 30s he never took into account I was taking a patch daily and that I'm taking in more in a day than a gram of herion.. I told him I wanted straight buprenorphine. No suboxone.

Dr said 12 hours take all 3 at once, woke up this morning took two after finishing off my last 100mcg. 15 min later it was like I was shot with high dose of naloxone.. 4 hours I was in shock, the whole nine ... shaking, throwing up.. I took ADHD meds to keep me awake while I took enough benzos to tranquilize 5 people. Then drank water, Gatorade, and here I am 12 hours later feeling normal, feeling 85 percent minus the restless legs a bit and runny nose and slight headache and ringing in ears and constant dehydration..

But I researched all day.... Ever heard that white China heroin is actually 90 percent fentynal? Every type of heroin has fentanyl in it.. Prince lived 45 miles from me and he died on a patch. I don't hear about people dying on OxyContin or Codeine very often because it's way harder to abuse than fentanyl. Except it's so strong it binds to your receptors so damn tight you will chase that effect.. Any strong opiate binds way tight .. Buprenorphine is almost as strong as fentanyl but nobody ever dies from that.. Cuz it's taken sublingually. Why would they make a gel or lollipop make a damn time release pill or stay with the matrix packages?

Agree or disagree with me, but if you have used fentanyl prescribed or not prescribed you are in fact a herion addict.. It's 60 percent stronger than pharmaceutical 100 percent pure heroin.. But ya can't get an OxyContin. And who's to blame? Me? You? People who abuse? What's the diff if a bartender serves you to death? They went to bartending school. Doctors think it's the new break through Med and now are like "Whoa all these people are dying! Make it non abusive! Supply a damn naloxone kit with it!"

I dunno but I'm sure the world could do without patches minus cancer people in hospitals. These docs know it's so strong they pump somebody on their death bed full of it.. Ya think when somebody is laying on the hospital table and they have a breathing tube as soon as the tube comes out they die.. My grandpa kept getting fentanyl after fentanyl from the nurse and they kept saying he don't have long so they removed the breathing tube. He laid for 20 min woke up and said "if you push that button me more time I'll break your fingers" That week he went home and lived 2 months and died in his bed like he wanted.. They expected him to die when removing the tube because they thought the tube was the only thing keeping him breathing. He was an alcoholic for 40 years, had been shot multiple times in war, and finally they tried murdering him with legal heroin. Not that he wasn't already dead but still he got to die at home..

So all my legal heroin addicts, what doctor will numb you mentally and physically when they them selfs have never touched it? Streets vs school ... some things can't be taught in school you gotta learn them the hard way.. And the hard way is what I'm doing right now.. I could call my doc in morn, flip him 200 bucks get another 150 30s - but we give up our dreams and our hope to escape through what somebody else makes us. Where pain is mental it has and can be overridden by the brain.. Good luck

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Hydroxyzine works great for the first few months for restless legs and creepy crawlys. Like a very potent Benadryl, it is a prescription drug. Good luck, You will get thru this, keep telling yourself. It's so hard I know, so hard, but worth it!!!!!

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I am terrible pain all of the time, but refuse to take anything addictive. I cannot work, etc. Nerve damage from bad surgical practices and gapentin was tried. Brought the pain way down, but could not function at all from side effects. Glad that it is working for you...but it too, is addictive. Please check the manner in which the drug affects the brain.

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I have been on 150 mgs of fentanyl and now I have cut myself down to 15 mgs but I have the same problem as one of the other ladies who is suffering from uncontrollable sweating and server irratatableness unable to sleep, I am bedbowned and suffer uncontrollable pain and the patches stopped working the only thing they did was make me a different person. Is there any help.

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Has your doctor prescribed medication such as clonodine to block the withdrawal symptoms. You have come so far already. You should be very proud of yourself.

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You should count yourself very lucky you got out of it the way you did and be thankful it sounds like you are making us to sound wooses for telling our story. Believe me withdrawal from this horrendous drug is not to be taken lightly. Be glad you escaped from it and don't come over as if you are gloating.

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Hi I just saw your post and know the agony you are going through personally. I was on 125meq of Fentanyl for almost 10 yrs. I had horrible constipation and still very high pain levels of 6-10.

The doctors told me there was nothing left to do to relieve my pain. I

t was not good time for me. I was in a terrrible state of mind. I did not know what to do and had no hope. I was sent to several specialists who kept referring me to another specialist. The last one I saw said the only thing left was brain surgery-- remove part of my brain that received the pain signals. WHAT?? no way.

I prayed and God supplied the answer. I had tried to wean my self off of the Fentanyl and when I got to nothing, the pain was unbearable and the side effects were horrible. Death would have been a welcome friend.

My son found a doctor in our town who could write for the drug Suboxone. It was a miracle! !!! The Side Effects stoppled immediately. I am now on suboxone full time. I use it as directed and actually receive more pain relief than when I was on Fentanyl. So my dear fellow sufferer with doctors who tell you... Sorry! Nothing left to do. Change doctors and get on suboxone.

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Life Saver- you are correct that Fentanyl was the medication named in Prince's autopsy report. However, legally only one drug is listed when an autopsy reveals multiple drugs in an autopsy. Fentanyl was a prescribed drug. It's much more "appropriate" to blame the OD death of a talented and loved musician on prescription meds than other drugs or a mix of drugs. The death of Prince and the surgeon general have made the war on drugs specifically a war on fentanyl. For a small number of patients that have explored many options fentanyl is the only pain med that works. This is even after DNA cheek swab evaluations for alternatives. Everyone's liver breaks down medications at different levels. Some people cannot take other medications. Sadly there is no one size fits all pain medication plan. Maybe medical marijuana should be a solution in all 50 states. I just need to work full time and care for my family. I wasn't able to do so on any other medication. I will suffer pain of detox as soon as I retire. I have fought pain for 20 years, with 2 left to go I will fight to stay on my current meds.

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Please check out the "Thompson Recipe- for opiate withdrawal. IT WORKS

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Yes very much so although I went cold turkey it took weeks almostlike pneumonia symptoms

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My dad is on 75 mcg of the Fentanyl Patch. He only has a few left in his box and can't afford to buy anymore. He has Spinal Stenosis and has had a few back surgeries. His discs are herniated and also has bulging discs. If he just stops taking the 75 mcg of Fentanyl, will this kill him? I know the withdrawals can be fatal.

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Yes it is hard I was lucky to get off them the way I did
I much rather put up with the pain but just because I went cold turkey and I was on high dosage I do not recommended it i recommened strongly lost of vitamin C and lots of water when you do

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