I am at 6 weeks post op. The pain is finally decreasing a little bit a day. I'm worried about detoxing from Percocet and Tramadol.
I have taken 1 Percocet every 4 hours when the pain was at it's worst. I am not taking 1 Percocet every 8-10 hours with Tramadol for breakthrough. I'm trying to use more ibuprofen in place of narcotics.
Wondering if anyone has my lips to keep from going through the detox.
I meant, I am now taking 1 Percocet every 8-10 hours.
Wondering if anyone has any tips, lol😂
Can't imagine having a detox problem for such a short time using pain meds. I took OxyContin for about 4 weeks and then oxycodone for another 6 weeks without any trouble. I did cut back on my own the oxycodone over about three weeks by using acediminfin half the time.
Tramadol is evil. Feel like crap, insomnia is the worse. Wondered why they decided to make it a controlled substance. Wasnt for years. Synthetic opioid. Gave up on them years ago. They didnt work. Doc gave them to my wife for arthritis pain. She was on them for years. She gave them up and had withdrawls.
Short term you should be fine
I'm kinda afraid due to being on it for a few weeks with my first surgery , menisectomy in March. It was a bad detox after that. I'm thinking the tapering will help. Last time it was cold turkey, lol
Thanks for your response.
Tramadol isn't considered a narcotic but I agree it is horrible. I had a terrible withdrawal with it during my first surgery.
I think I'm going to taper that one for sure.
Thanks for the response.
You won't have to detox...nature will take care of it. Suddenly the body has gone on to other needs. Low dosage taken as prescribed don't bother you unless you have a seriously addictive personality......but the word serious is key. Couple more weeks and you'll never have known you were on them.
Hi Lailoni i have just stopped taking my tablets in in UK i have been tang co codomol they are codene and paracetamol first day yesterday but i keep feeling very low just wondering the same as you could it be that i have stopped i have never been like this before.
I'm hoping so😊thanks!
Yes, I know what you mean. I went through feeling like and sick for a week last time after my first surgery but I didn't taper off. It was cold turkey.
Thank you for your response.
maybe thats where i have gone wrong but i dont want to start them again never a nice subject but they mabe ma extremely constipated i dont know which was the worse pain that or the knee lol
Thanks for your reply.
Not sure where you are but it was made a controlled substance in my state years ago. Which i thought was wierd cause i didnt think it was worth a crap. Didnt help me. Then my wife stoped taking it and had a bad time. They drug test you to get a script for it now.
Hi there I'm in the U.K. and have been on morphine since November 2015, had serious problems and various surgeries on my leg leading up to TKR, I am now trying to come off this not because my pain has gone but because it makes me so tired. I am finding it difficult, I am reducing by 5mg every 5 or 6 days and I can feel the withdrawals each time. They fail to tell you these things when they are prescribing pain medication.
There really is no "detoxing" from 6 weeks on Percocet. Just break it in half to start titrating down followed by taking it less frequently. However...
If you have pain, take the meds...period...especially when you do a tough PT session. Get addiction out of your mind. Use the oxy when you need it. This is NOT a test of endurance and it's very individual. Two or three Percocet a day to two or three HALF Percocet a day is a sensible way to start. Don't know the strength you are taking but you should be OK with this.
If the Tramadol is insufficient (doesn't work at all on me), get an RX for 800mg ibuprophin (generic) TID. That should help with inflammation. Plus Voltaren Gel (also RX) is the best topical anti-inflammatory out there. Continue to ice and elevate.
In the end, manage your pain...it's only short term. The probability is very high that you will be off everything in the next few months...but, again, it's different for everyone. Get addiction out of your head...there is no real chance in such a short time frame.
Hi lailoni, never had any detox issues with Percocet, took it for a month with RTKR, it did work but they wouldn't give me anymore, solved that problem. I can see psychological dependency on that one because it really did work for pain, makes you want it even though you don't need it anymore. Vicodin was less effective even though they say it's the same. Tramadol I thought was useless. Ibuprofen 600-800mg worked better for me, no dependency but can be hard on stomach they say. Never bothered me.
Try to get something that really works for pain, tell Dr. if it doesn't, hopefully he will listen. Taper off dosage and you shouldn't have any problems if you've only taken it for month or so. That's the extent of my experience, can't say about longer use. Focus on healing.
Was on tramadol for a back op - never again! Was worried as I was getting too used to it, read some write ups and took myself off it - worst 3 days in my life! I got through a TKR with ibuprofen and paracetamol once the spininal wore off. Was painful, but I was in control.
I took Percocet every 4 hours for 3 weeks and then only as I needed them after that. At 5 weeks, I stopped taking Percocet and just take ibuprofen for swelling. I did not have any problem stopping the Percocet.
Yes, I agree no one warns you about the withdrawal.
Yes, I still have pain. Tried tapering down, too much pain. I'm just going to take them. I'm taking less in a 24 hour period. I'm not worried about getting addicted. I don't have that problem. I just dread the detox.
Thanks for the reply.