Author: Justdoit4u

Posted: Fri Jun 14, 2013 5:54 pm

Romeo,
Thanks for responding, both you and tinydancer have given a lot of good advice from your experiences.. Last year I went on sub in May and in about 6 months tapered down to .25 mg, then had another surgery and got back on pain meds. I think I will have the pain issues under control without the pain meds( at least to a point that I am comfortable with). I wanted to try to taper the oxy because I got off hydocodone before by tapering, just wondering if its that much different than oxycodone. I can get by right now around 75-90 mg a day, and I dont mind going very slow to do this. I really dont get high on it, if anything, if i take too much I get real tired and do not feel good at all. NO good reason to take more. I just want off, but want to do it with the oxycodone, I figured I could at least try to do a taper with the oxycodone, I could always go to suboxone if I cant make this work. Maybe decrease 5% a week for 20 weeks or 10% a week for 10 weeks. I have been on 120mg a day for the last 3 months, before that it was 60mg for about 4 months. Just want off, but want to be successful.