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Just an FYI. Do some google searching for withdrawing from opiates. There are several sites that have lots of things you can do/take to help vitamins/ MMJ. It may take a little looking but it's worth it if your getting ready to withdrawal. Also the main issue that causes restless legs, and anxiety, sleeplessness, is that when you withdrawal your heartrate goes up. If you can, talk to a doc about getting something temporary to counter the blood pressure spike and it'll ease the process. I've quit Oxycontin, methadone, ms contin, and a few others. Oxy was the worste followed closely by methadone. Also if your planning on using suboxome, make sure your opiates have been out of your system for at least a 3-4 day window or when you take the suboxome you will go into precipitated withdrawals whichis ten times worse than regular. suboxome is for opiates what that drug they give alcoholics that makes them sick is for alcohol. My good friend had been on high doses of methadone for 8 years. He went cold turkey and on the 3rd day went to suboxome appt. upon taking first dose he went staraight into precipitated withdrawals. He'd been on methadone so long it was in his bones. So length of use is a factor. But for the threads I saw with the guy thinking of going to rehab for hydrocodone withdrawals. To each their own, maybe it's necessary with heart problems but I would just monitor blood pressure and taper a bit and quit. The key is to not focus on quitting. Keep busy. Make up your mind. Withdrawal isn't that likely to kill. Its possible but not likely.

I went through what your dealing with 10 years ago. I have lower back pain chronic, left shoulder pain, carpal tunnel, and anxiety at times from ptsd. I went to my local clinic for 5 years, and went along with the tens to hundreds of ointments and flexeril( which just knocked me out). At my last appt I finally straight up asked my doc if I could get a script for just a few ( like 10-20) vicodin for the really bad days. I was informed that they didn't give narcotics for my type of pain. After 5 years I gave up, and with no ins started seeing a private pain doc. I was instantly prescribed 8 norco(10mg hydrocodone), 1-2 klonopin a day for anxiety(clonazepam) and at the height of it I was on 100mg of methadone a day along with norco and klonopin. Throughout my life I have been on oxycontin(up to 240 mg aday) cold turkeyed that one. Pure hell. I've been on fentanyl, dilaudid, ms contin, I am now leaving the private pain doc and going back to va with current scripts from pain doc to see what they will do. Throughout this process I have found that although these opiates can help, they are only masking the pain. I live in a MMJ state so I am hoping to be able to use that in conjunction with a low prescription of norco and klonopin. I don't know how VA docs fill about continuing therapy other docs started but I'm gonna give it a go. I actually have found just lately that the MMJ helps more than anything. Any advice on the right route to take to get what I want from VA will be greatly appreciated. I dont want much, and I'll jump through there hoops. I've also cold turkeyed from 100mg of methadone with alot of help from MMJ so for those that think withdraws will kill you. They will make you want to die but you wont. Keeping your heart rate down is key. From what I'm reading in other posts I dont think I'll ask for anything, I'll just show them what I'm getting and see what happens.

I am actually seeing a private pain management doctor for the past 3 years. I was prescribed hydrocodone, from 6-8 a day, methadone- up to 100mg a day, then without warning the dea just came in and made the doc take everyones methadone and substitute it with other things. Well if you know about these meds there is a conversion. On 100mgs of methadone a day I should have been given 300-400 mgs of morphine sulfate I was given, but no.. I got 200. The Dea was to blaim for the entire situation because i was in the clinic and a suit and tie DEA guy was in a screaming match with doctor.. DEA was saying take them all away or we shut you down. Doctor was pleading that it wasn't his patients fault. So my current plan is to get my records/scripts from pain doc and take to VA and see what they'll do. I also live in California, Redding actually, and MMJ helps a lot so I'm concerned with that as well. ANyone any advice as far as any certain doc at redding clinic to avoid. I know some are totally against opiates. I actually only want to get some pain meds, not a bunch, because lately I'm finding I feel alot better overall on MMJ. Any advice is greatly appreciated.