Oxycodone Vs Fentanyl Withdrawals (Page 2)
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I have just switched from oxycodone to fentanyl patches. I will be withdrawing from them following sugery. any suggestions as to which is easier to withdraw from? Thanks!!!

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What you're feeling is the gas pains

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No question....oxy. Do not use Fentanyl if you can at all avoid it.

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My son passed away after overdosing on fentanyl. I wish they would take that s*** off the planet. I saved his life twice. The third time was fatal.

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I was on 50 mcg fentenyl patches and became addicted to them I was to put one on every 48hrs so 15 a month and got to wear I would cut them open and eat the jell so of course I would run out before my next appointment and my two sisters and one husband are also on the patches but they don't abuse them and for awhile I would get help from them but it got old and they got tired of my abuse so I have been thru the withdrawal and it is hell but it only lasts three days and the oxycodone withdrawal not nearly as bad and last for maybe 8hrs so when I read it takes people weeks to go thru the withdrawal I can't see that but it is pure hell...

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YEAH, 15 30mg of oxycodone is an insane amount, however if he is the one who prescribed you that amount that the fault is on HIM! If you achieve that amount through methods of retaining them elsewhere with other Doctors/Citizens then it's obviously your fault. I just can't imagine an withdraw from that amount in my worst nightmare. LOl

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WOW, now that is alot of Oxycodone to take in a day. I can't believe an Physician would even consider prescribing that much unless you were on your way out in life with severe pain. I don't even think at that dosage, it would make pain any better(Unless you are obviously doing it for an high)because you didn't mention why you needed that much. As it's been proven that sometimes you can get the same relief with certain dosages and beyond that doesn't even make an difference. Something worth looking into for facts of that theory..

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Today my dr wrote me 20 mg oxymorphine (OPANA) ER stocks replace my 75 mcg fentanyl patches that WILL NOT STICK due to extreme sweating or my skin I'm not sure. I've been on the patch for about 4 months with 15 mg oxycodone 4-6 times a day for break thru pain. The medicine works by buying the tape (TEGADERM) and having to restick it twice a day and often forgetting to out it back on while waiting for it to dry has gotten too time consuming and led to me being very unsteady as far as my meds are concerned (i.e. It affects depression aggression stress body temp etc...)--so today I gave the nurse the last 6 patches I used to prove to them that they were still basically full of the medicine - my body just stopped absorbing it. While this was the case I used 30 mg of oxycodone every 4-8 hours to be able to walk and function (I have a broken talus bone that is so severely deformed I can't walk without a surgical boot and the use of a cane. I also have a broken l5s1 facet and other degenerative disease, arthritis, avasculsr necrosis nueropathy etc--so my question is this: it might be 5 days before my script of 20 mg OPANA ER arrives at Walgreens and my insurance pays for it and I only have 15 tablets of the 15 mg oxycodone left and 2/3 of a patch left (they kept all my opened patches full of medication and my only unopened 1 but let me leave with the 1 I was wearing --am I going to get really sick? And is 20 mg OPANA ER 1 time a day equivalent to 75 mcg fentanyl? They said he can't give me any more breakthrough meds until my scheduled appointment April 4th. I'm kicking myself for giving them my patches but how else could I prove to them that the medicine wasn't working. I opened the 1 patch and are a 3rd of it an hour ago because I haven't had a patch on for about 24 hrs now except for about 4 hrs today which did nothing--and I'm trying to not take any of the 15 tablets of the 15 mg oxycodone tonight. My fingers are so numb I can barely type this and j can't search google any more trying to find an answer please help!!! God Bless.

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Ask your family doc for withdrawal meds. I didn't like fentanol alone. It did work better w/a little hydrocodone. Noone will prescribe both even on fentanol pamplete says ....take when narcotic alone doesn't work. I know how you must be feeling. I took a picture of skin irritation from patches under my arm. They took me off & gave me something different. Good luck to you.

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You will not withdrawl from your oxycodone if you are having your patches put on. Your patch is twice as strong as your pills. Don't put something in your mind that you cant escape. If you are going to stop just oxycodone or the patch, the patch is much worse to withdrawal from. If you do what your Dr says you should not have to worry about withdrawals If you are taking meds just because you are afraid of withdrawals then I would suggest getting professional help in a treatment facility. I went down that road and once I completed a week in sobriety I would not ever have to worry about withdrawals ever again unless I started taking meds again. Its a pretty easy choice. Pick sobriety and never have to worry about withdrawals again.

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I think benzo's are the worse to come off of. I have been on oxy30's for 4 years 240 a month i ran short a few times went through bad wd but starts getting better after 4 days. Zanex 4 mg a day after day 3 with nothing it kick in and i couldnt sleep i was up 4 days had tremmors wanted to die. Had to take 50 mg oxy to drive a car to get to the doc. Benzo's are by far the worse i was day 4 aand it was getting worse seizuers were next. I thought it was from the oxys but doc said it was the zanex.

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I am on fentynol 75 mcg, I used to be on 160 mls a day of oxycontin. I didn't feel the fentynol patch, I had to change it every 72 hours. I went crazy in pain. I had a car accident, ended up with chronic back pain, busted knee cap, migraines, I ended in the hospital where a doctor changed everything. I stayed with this new doctor, he is a saint and has much compassion . I have to admit that I made a huge mistake, I picked up the fentynol patch when the pharmacy called and told me it was ready. A red flag came up. Now I don't know what will happen . Help?

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Dr FRancis Michael Ferrante won't see me as my health imsurance is not longer active
i m loosing everything for cancer i was
in remission now is back im out of oxintin which i never too as i use oxycodone 10/325
for 5 years 270 x month n

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If you have only been on the patch for 2 to 3 months you may be okay as long as you are taking them as directed. I have been on both under medical supervision for 14 years. I am fixing to finally have surgery because the actually pin pointed in my neck where the pain is coming from. I don't know how long my detox off of these meds will be, but to honest with you I am tired of the pain management routine. You will be okay. I am a Licensed Clinical Social Worker and have worked in the field for over 20 Years.

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I have been on Duragesic 75's and 10/325 Oxycodone for 14 years to treat my chronic pain. all due to a car accident in 1979. My neck is really messed up and the Neurosurgeon would not do surgery back 2 years ago because there was 6 places he could operate. Today I just found out where the problem is and will have surgery the first of the year. I went cold turkey from opiates in Vietnam. I have been clean and sober for 31 years. I wanted to know if anyone out there who has been on the patch and meds that long and how was the detox with it. By the way, you can go on line and order a clear wound dressing called 3M Tegaderm Film # 1626 which is 4X41/2 inch. Abox of 50 cost about 40 to 50 dollars but that stops the patch from falling off. I am from Florida and it works through sweat, showers, etc.

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My husband went through 6 months of step down therapy to get off the fentynal patch. It with 2 other medications city could cause depession and did. He will probably be on Cymbalta the rest of his life. Do not go cold turkey!

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I have been taking fentanyl 50 patches for four days and four oxycodone 15 also but I'm taking of the patches on Monday and only taking 4 15 mg oxycodone will I go through fentanyl withdrawls

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I was on fentynal 50 and oxycodone15 for a very long time. Then i moved to montana (from washington state). The new pain management doctor did not believe in breakthrough meds. And i was taking 4 pills a day. And i had 15 a month for the fent patch. He put me on a higher dose of fent. 75mg. I got sick the first night and the second day, i had pain, because i had no breakthrough meds! Going cold turkey because of no ocycodone! I wrote to the doc, telling him it took a long time to get just the right combination for me that worked, and then he tsked me off! Just because he doesnt believe in breakthrough, doesnt mean it works for everyone. Any help on this?

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I have had 3 knee surgeries.The right knee took a while to get better it was a latteral release and the doctor gave me oxycodone 10/325 and it worked the doctor had me on these taking 5 and 6 a day.Now both knees were giving me a fit it got to where i had to leave work and go home lay down and put heat on them.The doctor told me i should start looking for a different type of work i was managing a kitchen in a tourist town where from 7 in the morning we were feeding up to 2100 people.After about a year the knee got good enough to where the Dr ask me if i felt like it helped enough to do the left knee and i said no.And with only a GED there wasn't much I could do it even hurt when I set for a while.I couldn't stand it after i had to start leaving work to go home and lay down to put heat on it.The place where i worked finally had to let me go.So i lost my job and my insurance.When me and my wife couldn't afford the Dr. anymore he just stopped writing my medicine and i got very sick after over a year of taking oxycodone. I didn't even know what was wrong. i was in allot of pain and i thought i had the flu until my wife looked it up and i was in WD. i had never experienced this but after a few days it went away but the pain was killing me. My family doctor started giving me hydrocodone and it helped. But he was leaving the practice center there and was going to open a suboxone clinic where i lived and ask me if i wanted to try that because if i remained there the other doctors were going to send me to a pain clinic and i had no idea what that was.And he said that in Europe they had been using them for pain for years. it wasn't working that great so he put me on 4 a day and for me to break them and take them every 4 hours.And that still wasn't really controlling the pain but before he could refer me to a pain management place he passed away.Well the Dr that took that over automatically treated me like i was on it for detox and i couldn't make him understand.He put me on 2 a day and said i couldn't get no more out of 4 than i could 2 finally after 3 years of suffering i went to a orthopedic and he says i had a torn meniscus and allot of debree and severe arthritis in my left knee. So he did surgery and my new family Dr said he would handle the pain meds. After about 5 weeks and allot of physical therapy he put me back on suboxone now this is after i had been disabled bye the state. I had a very bad limp and never got the motion back in my leg but medicare wouldn't pay for anymore therapy.

He finally started to listen after my wife got all over him and said he was just trying to keep me on the suboxone for the money because medicare didn't pay for that.He started writing me 15 mg oxycodone which was only about $30 compared to $500 a month cash for suboxone. When i could never get the motion back in my leg i went back to the orthopedic the first 2 visits i saw him and he daid to keep working with it.Now the 3rd visit he was backed up and couldn't see me after he had already told me that if it didn't work out he would have to put me to sleep and manipulate the leg but the longer we waited the more chance of it breaking.A month later i went back for the 4th visit same thing he was backed up and i couldn't see him unless i could wait for 4 hours at least well i told them there was no way i could sit that long after it took an hour and a half to get there.So my family Dr said we would get a second opinion and i went to a different orthopedic. He took MRI's of my leg and my back because my foot was numb all the time since the surgery.He said i had a torn meniscus and sometime in the past i had fractured my L4 and L5 in my back.I told him that the other Dr had just done surgery to fix the knee so he left the room when he came back he said he thought he was wrong.And i think he done that just to cover the other Dr because he knew him.He wanted me to wait 6 months and come back because the knee was so sore and he wanted to see if the back shifted because it had grown a bone spur in it and that was why my foot was numb and when i put my heel down it clicked in my back and shot a pain all the way to my foot.When i went back to see him in 6 months he wanted to know what i was doing there i should be at the Dr that done the surgery. His assistant finally showed him why i was there. Now by this time i was on 5 30mg oxycodone and 1 15 at night when i woke up because the pain would wake me up. My body had built up such a tolerance that i was in WD in 3 and half hours.He sent me over to have a MRI of my knee and set one up for my back but now my family Dr has me on fentanyl 75mcg and 2 percocet 10 325 but its not controlling the pain all the way.So anybody that cares tell me who is at fault here.They say i was on the suboxone so long it ruined my receptors in my brain.And then they wonder why i have so much anxiety and depression.

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I need some advise asap plz. I was a heavy H and methamphetamine user for years, but a year ago I went to jail and had to stop cold turkey and I have not taken methamphetamine or H since... but about 2 months ago i started taking 30mg oxycontin a day and 1mg xanax a day and after a week I stopped but I felt s***ty the day after I stopped so I started taking 10mg methadone for a week then 5mg methadone for 2 weeks while still taking the xanax. Then I stopped both cuz I dont wanna be on this crap any more so I made it a day and the withdraw sucked and I had a lot going on with work and court so I couldnt just lay around and feel like s*** so I started taking 30mg of oxycodone to help me though the methadone withdraws. I've been taking it for about 10days now and that's all I been taking and now I'm gonna go down to 15mg oxycodone for the next 3 days (I'm gonna take it orally) and then I want to just stop and get through what ever withdraws I'm gonna have but I have a really important meeting 4 days after I plan to stop so I want to know if you guys think ill be feeling ok by then? How bad am I gonna feel from what I've been doing to myself these past 2 months? And how long after my last dose will it be excreted through urine? Any help plz? Thank u

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I quit fentanyl cold after being on it for 3 months. i'm an alcoholic that was up to 1.75 liters a day of vodka. the withdrawals from the fentanyl were worse then quitting booze cold. being on the fentanyl was horrible. i fell asleep in my food, couldn't walk, had trouble with my speech...i'm sure you can taper off it, but my advice is never start it.

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