When do Morphine withdrawal symptoms set in?

HI.

I'm 20 years old with lots of disc problems, DDD and stenosis..have had surgery in the past and will find out next tuesday if I will have another. I'm currently on sustained release morphine for the pain
1-4 15 mg tabs/day. I've been on this regimen for a couple months since switching off of dilaudid. For awhile I took the max dose every day because I was so used to be in pain..and really could not handle any more of it..now I usually only take 1 tab/day (although, there are still the really bad days). My question is..I want to have the option of not taking any..if I can handle the pain..but I don't know when withdrawal starts to set in. My pills are 12 hour pills..I think the longest I've gone without one has been 18 hours..or maybe 24? I can't exactly remember. Does anyone know anything about this??

thanks!
Dani

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