Couple questions friends....

[myfacade]

Kadee?
You mention getting medical help to ease the pain and suffering of the withdrawl sypmtoms but I'm not sure what you mean by that? What kind of medical help?

Is that a stupid question?

It is IMITREX that I inject for migraines.

Perhaps I should go into a couple more things with all of you because I REALLY, TRULY want you to all be able to help me as best you can and you can better do that with the most information I can give you.

My pain meds, Percs, were given too me originally for Fibromyalgia by a rhuematologist. I did see a pain management doc for a while who put me on Fentanyl patches which I did NOT like for so many reasons, plus I didn't think my pain was THAT bad, that I needed something as strong as fentanyl. My fibromyalgia flares up tremendously when I am under severe stress and causes me to have muscle spasms in my neck and back, when I get these I have to go to my Rhuemie for injections into my neck or my back wherever the spasm is, they are so painful. I try to work out regularly to keep limber and keep the fibro under control as best I can but it has a mind of its own. I also have some back problems with disks, so I have to be careful.

I also take a muscle relaxer at bedtime, these are all legit scripts given by my rhuemie on a schedule.

Years ago I was on Prozac for depression and had weaned myself off after years of being on it. When my husband died I asked my rhuemie about going back on it, he sees me monthly and saw what an absolute mess I was. He put me back on the Prozac and Wellbutrin also. I suffer extreme anxiety... klonopin and xanax and still have so much anxiety that my doc wants to raise my klonopin but I won't let him, I'm on 2mgs a day.

Then the migraines.... I take meds everyday to keep them under control and when I have a flare up it is an Imitrex injection.

I don't know that any of this is important but I figured I would put it out there just incase.

[kayleighsmom]

Hey facade,

I wouldn't recommend going of your anxiety med during WD. I don't think that's in your plan, but I thought I'd put it out there. I'm currently on Lexapro and Remeron. I hate taking the Remeron because it makes me crash out at night and I kick my hubbie all night, but it does seem to help the next day with my anxiety. So I reluctantly still take it. Maybe if you went on another anti-depressent it would help with your anxiety. I haven't heard good things about Prozac, but if it worked for you before... maybe?

At any rate, have you tried to taper your oxy? I could never do it, but some people can. You could do a real slow taper and you wouldn't feel hardly any wd symptoms.

I have a feeling you are a much stronger lady than I. I know you lost your husband and I'm so sorry for that. You probably don't feel like it, but I can see it. You'll know when you are ready. I lurked for an entire year before I was, and then I wasn't entirely sure until I was in the midst of wd and figured out that it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was. And I remember thinking that clearly, "hey this couldn't have been so much worse." Sometimes our fear of pain and fear of wd keeps us from taking the plunge.

Having said that, I will never put myself through that again! The fear of wd now keeps me from ever using again.

Look at me, I'm a chatty Cathy today! Don't mean to ramble.

Warmly,

KM

[kadee]

Hi Facade,
There is a proper time for everything, and please forgive me if I placed any confusion or misunderstanding for you to seek medical help. I think I jumped in at the wrong time, I was referring to detox verses treatment center/rehab but I didn't know about your medical conditions when I said that. . It sounds that you are taking the necessary steps to have a better quality of life by talking with your doctor in pain management.

I am so sorry about your husband, your fibromyalgia, depression,migraines. I think the only way I can help here, is to suggest something you are already doing (stretching). I know of a girl who has fibromyalgia and she benefits from daily exercise class, or if you don't like 'jumping up and down' you might try other things like - yoga - to ease your muscle/tension/pain and anxiety.

I was concerned about the percs at the onset, I used them before, not for pain management, just because I liked them, then I had an accident! then I stopped. Your medical history is very complex and I am definitely not a doctor. I pay attention to alternative ways. But if I were to start with any of the meds you mentioned I would start weaning off the percs, cause that is the only one in your cluster that I have experience with.

take extra special treasurable care
kadee

[linda71]

I lost both my parents, grandmother, and half of my mouth to cancer in one year. I was on very potent pain relievers and prozac. I got addicted to the pain meds. The addiction lasted on and off for 13 years. The only pain meds I take now are for arthritis that is severe. It is tramadol. They have also prescribed xanax for anxiety. I have severe COPD too and am on disability. Does that mean I'm still an addict? These are given to me by my physicians and I don't take them unless I really need too. The tramadol doesn't help like the other more potent pills (lortab) but it's better on some days than nothing. I also have started taking the new pain reliever by Excedrin for bone and muscle pain. This seems to help quite a bit. I heard on Dr. Phil the other day a woman was taking trazadone (sp.) is that the same thing as tramadol. The show was about drug addiction. Very worried that I'm considered hooked on drugs or not. Should I just stop taking them? I am so confused right now but don't go to my doctor for another month.