I've been taking hydrocodone for a few years and uhm, no! I wouldn't go cold turkey for nothing. If you had a pump inside the doctor should have helped you taper off. It will be a few weeks of hell the way your doing it. I wish you the best but I wish you would have gotten something to help you taper off. This could easily cause you to go into autonomic dysreflexia. You are just beginning. Call your doctor and ask about some methadone to help you quit. One mg. isn't a lot but if your addicted to it, You are addicted to it. Doesn't your Doctor like you? (Btw, miralax works for the tummy trouble.) I wish you the best of luck. I wish you a few hydrocodone to taper off with, too. john -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [email protected]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Mon, 7 May 2007 11:00 AM Subject: [QUAD-L] Morphine withdrawal
Curious if any of you with pumps ever requested the morphine be taken out? I did that this last Thursday and it was an unbelievably overwhelming and rough weekend. They didn't 'actually' warm me of the withdrawal symptoms but having been a patient this long common sense told me there would be some. I was on 1mg for 24 hours, not a lot for most, but 88 pound body it apparently was! Anyway the morphine wasn't doing anything but causing major tummy troubles so I wanted to decease it. Friday was fine. Friday night turned into hell. My legs were twitching uncontrollably, not caring who or what they hit. There was excruciating leg pain, as if my muscles were literally contracting more each second. Around 6 am after being up almost 18 hours, I had my first sneeze attack, weird I know! 11 TIMES! I got out of bed and the legs quit twitching because of the pressure. I was extremely weak, nauseated and sleepy. Nothing seemed to keep my mind busy enough. So I went outside and the sneezing took over, 12, 15, sometimes 8 in a row. Heart rate and blood pressure were elevated and no appetite at all. Now I know why coke addicts are so thin! Every other sip was coming up. If I hadn't had left over oral baclofen i may not have made it. Moods were up and down and weird too! Saturday night wasn't any better. My legs were even worse on jumping. I was hot then cold, my nose was stopping up. Everyone thought I might end up in the hospital as no one was getting sleep. I was up every 20 minutes until I finally just let my legs jump until they stopped. Sometimes an hour would pass and I would settle down and sleep. Sunday morning didn't come fast enough! Those of you who know me KNOW i don't get out of bed early and I was in my chair by 7:30am. So I laid in my chair around the house, yard and anywhere there was someone awake! Around 11am I laid down on the bed and my legs hardly moved! WOHOO! But after a fast 45 minute nap, I woke up with the worst headache Ive had since they put my halo on in 98!!!!! Right back up, and it settled with Tylenol. So I repeated Saturday on Sunday with a stopped up nose. Then bed time at 7, hopping from beds, hard one to soft one...my legs laid there and cramped but no twitching. So it was peaceful. This morning I was awake at 6am again but in chair by 830am. I'm really weak today, very alert and doing better. Plan on giving my doctor's office three shades of hell on Wednesday! So word to the wise, be well prepared if you go off morphine without slowly decreasing it. Sorry to babble just want to warn anyone heading that way! ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com.
