Spinal stenosis got me 9 months hydrocodone ending at 60mg/day. Then back surgery got me 4 months at 60mg oxycodone plus 6mg lorazepam per day.
I'm getting off the oxy now....
Today is Monday. I cut myself down to three servings of 7.5mg oxy on Saturday, then 3 of 5mg on Sunday. Had my last 5mg oxy this morning, told my wife what was going to happen to me and I am now on the cold Turkey train to what the F was I thinking. This thread is really a help.
I was considering booze to just sleep through it, but you all pointed out that a hangover would just make WD's 10x worse- thank you!!! Tonight will be the first night with only lorazepam and Tylenol.
I bought a heating blanket and it really helps my legs to ache less. I have pain from my surgery, and the oxy was helping, but i was needing more each month and I finally decided to spend my years complaining about back pain and not addiction.
So here goes..... Saturday was leg pain all day. Sunday was better, just no energy. Today has been a little of everything( leg pain, nausea, exhaustion, etc) This really sucks, but as someone else here said straight up Cold Turkey is the best way to stay clean. When jumping off the train is this hard, i bet I will think really hard about letting a Dr buy me another ticket to hell!!!!!!