Author: Xonedone
Posted: Sun Jun 02, 2013 4:26 pm
Bupeduped and Rule62, the three days of withdrawals were uncomfortable but not agonizing. Surprisingly, the worst part was the RESTLESS LEGS FROM HELL. Made it completely impossible to sleep for the 2 nights before surgery. My sweet husband said "well, you’ll sleep all day on Wednesday". I chose to keep working to distract myself. I wore my "barf bands" or SeaBands to prevent nausea, and they worked. Immodium/Loperamide took care of the other problem. Rule, I didn’t get the hydrocodone like you suggested because I chose to work Mon & Tues and I didn’t think I should try working on that – even though I work just fine on Suboxone!
I think the difference between our experiences was that I did stop for the 3 days, but the most important difference was the spinal morphine. Both my surgeon and the anesthesiologist told me this works really really well for people and they weren’t kidding. I’ve seen it used before back in my regular nursing days, but lots of people had severe itching from it. I had not one itch – but then I used to shoot morphine IV before I was caught back in the wild old days. My receptors probably thought "oh, that stuff again. Yummy".
What is surprising me is I have had no high from either the spinal morphine or the percocets I’m currently using. I was given 10 mg percocets, told to take 1 or 2. Have only needed one at a time, maximum 6 in one day.
Now this was a surprise: yesterday I had only taken 35 mg percocet all day. When I took the bedtime 10 mg dose, I was shortly suffering from wicked restless legs again – not as bad as the no subs nights, but bad enough I couldn’t sleep. Ended up after an hour taking a second percocet and that calmed it down. So it looks like my 1 mg/day suboxone habit is equivalent to about 50 mg/day oxycodone.
I’m going to check in to find out exactly how to switch back to the suboxone, because I’m feeling pretty good at this point, and I’d like to make the switch before something changes and I start feeling the oxycodone which despite my IV morphine use was always my drug of choice.
Thanks for keeping track of me!