I am looking for help coming up with a reasonable taper plan to get off Oxy. I started taking oxy about a year ago for pain related to dental surgery, but quickly realized how much I enjoyed it. I started taking 7.5mg percs but continued taking it after my prescription ran out. I was able to source 30mg oxycodone, which I started taking in pieces, like 15mgs every few hours. I was able to continue like this for several months before the magic wore off...before I knew it I was needing a full 30mg to get the same effect. This increase in dosage spiraled very quickly and before long 30mgs was no longer enough...30mgs became 60mgs and 60mgs became 90, etc until today where I now need 400-500mgs per day just to feel normal.
This past weekend, I decided that I had enough. I decided to start tapering, with a plan to use only (eek) 300mgs per day, with the idea of cutting back 25% every few days. However, I was absolutely miserable. Going from 400-500mgs per day to 300mgs per day felt like absolute torture.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to start a proper taper? I'm willing to have some discomfort, but as a father of 4 young children, I need to be able to function. If 400-500mgs is the daily dose I need to get me to normal, what should I start with? Any suggestions would be greatly helpful. Also, I no longer have the 30mg oxycodone pills, but I do have 60mg extended release OxyContin. Could the withdraw I experienced this past weekend be due to switching from the 30mg oxycodone to the 60mg extended release? I've been able to function on days where I took just 300mg of IR oxycodone, but 300mg of ER seemed to be very difficult.
Any advice???
This past weekend, I decided that I had enough. I decided to start tapering, with a plan to use only (eek) 300mgs per day, with the idea of cutting back 25% every few days. However, I was absolutely miserable. Going from 400-500mgs per day to 300mgs per day felt like absolute torture.
Does anyone have suggestions on how to start a proper taper? I'm willing to have some discomfort, but as a father of 4 young children, I need to be able to function. If 400-500mgs is the daily dose I need to get me to normal, what should I start with? Any suggestions would be greatly helpful. Also, I no longer have the 30mg oxycodone pills, but I do have 60mg extended release OxyContin. Could the withdraw I experienced this past weekend be due to switching from the 30mg oxycodone to the 60mg extended release? I've been able to function on days where I took just 300mg of IR oxycodone, but 300mg of ER seemed to be very difficult.
Any advice???