Oxycodone Vs Fentanyl Withdrawals (Page 2) (Top voted first)

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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Good Luck Do not tell your Doc. just do better next month. Use a weekly pill organizer, it helps to keep me on track, I never take more than prescribed now. If you take too many pills, you are only hurting yourself and its not good on your body either.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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With regard to the 12 Steppers as you say in your post, no where does it say in the literature about cold turkey but encourages us to use outside professional help. I've been on pain management - fentanyl patch and oxycodone for 18 years and clean and sober for 33 years. As long as you follow doctors directions you will be fine in the 12 step program. If you abuse it, then that is another story.

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Mark it is neither right or wrong. Sounds like you did not get the support you needed. Good luck on the highway of pain!

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The shot works wonders. I took opiates for eight years. Took the shot on dec 9th, 2016. I highly recommend it to everyone with opiate addictions. You don't even think about using. It works wonders on the brain. Good luck to all of u and God bless u all...

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I have been taking oxycodone a t 100mg every 24 hrs, also 25 fental patch, and 3 1mg ativan daily. I have gotten off ativan, am on day 9 from patch. Not feeling good at all, how long will this last? After pain patch I will begin working on getting off oxy.

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Everyone is different, all I can say is from my experience. I was taking about 360 - 400mg oxycodone per day.

I then began using 25mcg fentanyl sublingualy, which in all honesty was the only way for me to get off the oxy. 25mcg fentanyl made me sick as hell. Very shortly I found myself using 1/4 100mcg fentanyl sublingualy every 4 hours or so. From my experience :

Personally I find WD's from oxycodone to be more difficult than Fentanyl WD, even though fentanyl is much much stronger, and it seems like they last much much longer than fentanyl WD's too. I think it was about 4 - 5 days of hell coming off fentanyl, and about 1 and a half weeks of hell coming off oxycodone.

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how long were u on fentanyl? and i have a question if u or anyone can answer for me.i have had a 50 fent patch on for 3 days only thats it only 3 days,do u think i would have any bad withdrawals from only the 3 days? im taking it off tommorrow and using norco 10mgs tabs to soften the blow. i have small kids i have to take care of and im really scared.my sis in law says i should be ok,she was on fent 100 for 5 years and had 13 days of withrawal.i will never touch fent ever again!if anyone would like to email me my address is xxxxx@xxx {edited for privacy}. thanks and bless you!

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If you say put on a fentyl patch on on monday whaen should a person change it cause it seems like the patch runs out on me the later art of wensday.I do not take any break through meds and my bones and lungs and breast starts hurting so bad.I can not get any sleep on the night of wendday has anyone got any suggestions.I am fighting lung,breast cancer and have had two failed back surgeries with the last surgery being a fusion and can not bend at the eaist.I am in so much pain on wensday that I do not know what to do by the way my chest cavity hurts so much also it feels like it runs down into my ribs so Please if anyone can help me with this problem answer it ok.Thank You in advance and tell me what to do.HELP.

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I'm switching from 100 mcg. Patch. To 20 mg of oxycontin and my soc says I should be fine I'm thinking not she says see how it is and if its not right to call her back. Does anyone have any info for me?

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Omg Ive been taken 60 mg oxycottons 3xs a day for 3 years due to the liss of emplyment i lost my insurabce an got put on medicaid they denied my oxycottobs an approved me for 100mg Fentenyl patches i am dying in pain, i am sleepy all the time dont wanna get outta bed. I feel like im loosing my mind. What do i do to relieve some of this pain?

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Oxycodone is easier because you can ween off of them. Ask your dr how to cut the dosage so you don't get withdrawal symptoms.

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I've been on fentanyl patches and oxycodone (30mg) for over a decade. The patches have 2 advantages in my opinion, and one disadvantage.

The advantags of the patch are, 1) b/c fentanyl patches do not give off a "buzz" like oxycodone, they can be easier to get off of, b/c you won't miss the patches, from a mental or emotional standpoint. For ME, that made the patches much easier to get off of, by reducing the dosage from 100 mcg, to 50 and now to 25mcg.

The final weaning is yet to come, but at least I know I won't feel the depression I felt when I went cold turkey off the oxycodone. I went off the oxy's when I learned I was pregnant. Despite how badly my back was injured, I didn't want the baby born with a physical dependence.

ANYHOW, the disadvantage of the patch IS SOLVABLE...yes the patches can come off. So that means you need to put another bandaid type of adhesive patch OVER the fentanyl patch, so they don't fall off before their 72 hour dosage has been used. NO PATCH can stay on by itself without help. (Hormone patches, nicotine patches, pain patches ALL require help if they are to stay in place for 3 days.

You can buy or order the Tagaderm patches (pricey, but most effective & see thru) or just get some see thru adhesives that are made to keep patches in place. You can get these in any drug store.

ALSO note that if you take a hot shower or use heating pads for pain, when they are applied near or on the patch site, they speed up the delivery.

That speeding up of the medication delivery, is potentially dangerous. So I apply the patch after my shower/bath, and then wait at least 24 hours before taking another bath or hot shower. Or I skip a day of showers if I can, just to give the patch a full chance to distribute the dose.

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Most definitely The Fentanyl will cause the worst withdrawl. Here are some for sure things that will ease any withdrawl from anything.
1 immodium take as directed and if you need another dose you will be finè.
2. Don't worry about anyone saying Oh no don't take xanax. But you wont be on them that long, most diffinantly ask your doc and tell him or her your experiencing alot of anxiety. These will calm your muscles, your mind everything. No sense in suffering if you have a full proof way to ease something that can reach horrendous sickness and mental strain.
3.Airborn to keep immune system up
These are just a few things you can do.

Okay Good Luck

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