Posted by Holly VanBen on September 19, 2006, at 15:10:49
In reply to Re: Tentative Withdrawal From Oxycodone, posted by corafree on September 19, 2006, at 13:15:04
Hi Corafree again,
I had forgotten to mention that if you cannot find a doctor to help with withdrawals, there are always addictionologists. I found a refferal on my insurance website and they are everywhere. They can work with any of your docs and have the ability to prescribe for withdrawals. Not all docs can, this is very important since I learned the hard way. I asked at least 5 of my docs if they could give me something for withdrawals before I started. They all said there was nothing except one doc who said there was suboxone, but he could not prescribe it. He told me to try it on my own first and if I needed it he could refer me. That was stupid. I ended up in ER 5 days later half dead. I got lucky and got a jail house doc who gave me chlonidine and vistaril, since it was too late to start suboxone. I would never tell anyone ever to try quitting without something to help. Even in inpatient detox they wean, taper and give meds to ease side effects. Subutex and Suboxone can be dependant driven for some, so can chlonidine. I only took chlonidine once a day for 3 days before I decided it wasn't helping enough anymore. I took vistaril for a few weeks and it really helped. So whatever you do, get help to deal with withdrawals. Also I didn't learn till I stopped all meds that when you taper or change your meds you go into withdrawals, which can be bad, but you just think other health issues are the culprit. It's a tough battle to learn all this stuff, so I encourage anyone to get as much info as possible.
Holly
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