Opioid withdrawal help and suggestions please.

What I did was to stop my slow release and just take the oramorph in the day. Usual dose for a week. Half that for another then another half of that for a week so three weeks to taper. I found that as long as I took a dose of oramorph first and last thing in the day I was fine 

You made me laugh, sorry

i did exactly the same thing but what made my efforts incredibly stupid was that I knew I would get withdrawal. I thought I could ride it. I could …… for half a day

Been there and have the T-shirt!!  I feel for you.  Despite tapering off in an agreed plan with my GP I ended up in serious difficulty.  During the day I was OK, but at night...  It still sends shivers up and down my spine to think about it.  Unfortunately this anxiety corresponded to my PET scan so I had no real idea what was causing the issue.

Anyway at 3am a few days after the tapering off had concluded I could stand it no more so made a GP appointment for that morning.  I also decided to take a miniscule amount of Oxycodone and withing seconds everything was better.  I had my answer.  That morning I spoke to my GP and we agreed to a very small dose of liquid Oxycodone each night which I tapered off at the rate of 1mg per week for 5 weeks.  That regime worked for me.

I now have the upmost sympathy for anyone with an addiction to anything.  It is a terrible place to be.  Hopefully this may help and you get off the drugs with minimal pain.

For those that are reading this please don't be scared to take the opioids prescribed to you.  Pain relief is critical in our treatment and effective recovery.  Only a very few of us have the accidental addiction and, as you have seen, it can me managed, especially if you self manage in partnership with your GP and don't try "cold turkey".

PFJTHS said:

For those that are reading this please don't be scared to take the opioids prescribed to you.  Pain relief is critical in our treatment and effective recovery.  Only a very few of us have the accidental addiction and, as you have seen, it can me managed, especially if you self manage in partnership with your GP and don't try "cold turkey

Couldn’t agree more. I hear of so many people frightened to take opioids in case they get addicted. I’m sure most clinicians are on top of this and explain that’s not what happens. Addiction is a completely different animal. We take them for pain relief and what happens is our bodies become tolerant which is why we get withdrawal. We don’t take analgesia to give us a high which is where the psychological aspect of addiction comes in. 

Hi I did a slow withdrawal over many weeks. I was on oramoroh and 30 mg co cocodomol I every 3 days reduced the oramoroh then the co codomol from 30 mg to 15 then 8 eventually  replacing ti just paracetamol.   Hope this helps. I fud a spreadsheet to keto track if it all

hazel xx

I was the same, I said to my hubby: Greg, I can do this! I will do this! And I didn't!!!  

Tapering off took about a month... not easy but no other choice... A bit of itching and got irritable....

Thanks all! 

I too struggled with withdrawal symptoms.. doc gave me a short course of diazepam, but that didn;t even touch me, so ended up on a short course of temazepam, that eventually brought me down back down to earth.. definitely not a pleasant ride.. hope you find some relief..