How Long Does It Take For Fentanyl 25 Mcg Withdrawals To Start And Stop
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i have been on fentanyl 25mcg for about a yr. i am decreasing to 12.5 mcg for a week and then no more patches after. how long will it take to considering the info. will it take for the withdrawal to start and stop. i understand everyone is different. i will be taking valium 5mg for a couple days to ease the effects. any info would be great.

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Re: Gomartha (# 12) Expand Referenced Message

Hi, I believe that anyone coming off of any type of mg. or mcg. of addictive pills should be in a program being weaned off by the medical Dr. or Nurse. I don't believe, no matter how many times we have done it ourselves we've won the challenge of total detox. Although, I have done it. It took me around two to two and 1/2 years. I could have done it seriously in a shorter time but I wasn't serious enough until the end. When I finally realized I didn't have a habit anymore, I just forgot to take them and it was wonderful because I started finding other things to peak my interests. I still am. I found a whole new world. Look around. Smell, look, touch, taste ,see and when you redo these things this time, feel......................Find a precious interest. Don't give up. It will take more than a day, a month, maybe a year...............

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Withdrawal will start about day 5 after removing patch. Ask your doctor to put you on low dose oxcycodone to help. I was on 100mcg. Fentynyl patches for years. I decided to get off and took suboxen to soon and believe me, you don't want to feel that kind of withdrawal. 100% Highest withdrawal. Dr put me on oxcycodone for 8 days. No more suboxen and I'm fine. I did all my withdrawal at once. But I know when I would take off my 100 mcg. patch. It was 5days before withdrawal really starting hitting hard. 10 mg oxcycodone every 4 hours for 8 days and I'm like new.

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I've been on fentanyl 12.5mcg and oxycodone 10 for well over 6 yrs and am starting withdrawls going off the patch first then ween diwn the oxycodone three days off the patch now and have to double up on oxycodone and in terrible pain still with valium and clonidine to help symptoms

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My pain doc took me off my fentanyl 25 mcg and put me on hysingla 40mg. I'm having horrible withdraws. It's been a little over a week since I haven't had a patch on and I'm taking this new medicine but I'm not seeing any help with my pain. Can anyone tell me how long I'll feel like this?

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I DID THE SAME THING. THE VALIUM WILL DEFINITELY HELP. .GOOD LUCK. .

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Hello, it's my first time on this site. My friend received some oxy 30 but they were actually pressed with fentanyl. I've also been taking it for like 2 weeks. At first just half, then one, then i moved up to 2. Then i was trying to taper off myself but i got robbed of mine so I'm wondering how much longer ill be feeling this horrible? It's been 4 and a half days now.

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I strongly agree don't start Lyrica unless you are ready to lose your life as you know it, really I feel like I just woke up from a 10+ year coma.....

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KAT # 47,

I'm sorry to inform you that at the dosages and combinations stated SEVERE WITHDRAWL WILL LAST FAR MORE THEN 3 DAYS. Weaning from 25 mcg. to zero even with oxys and lyrica will prove very challenging from long term use of these meds and can sometimes precipitate for up to a month or more. MANY EXPERIENCE PAWS as well. It's highly recommend a qualified specialist wean you down with an appropriate down ward titration protocol because of the risk of seizures and cardiac arrest just to name a few.Especially for those with chronic underlying medical conditions. To avoid these risks please seek professional assistance in this endeavor. Good luck

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I have been weaning off of my Fentanyl for a while now. I was on 100 mcg and am now down to 50 mcg. When it comes time to change the patch, which I am changing every 48 hours, I can feel withdrawal starting. I will be on the 25 mcg patches in a couple of days. I have found that the Lyrica helps greatly. I was without it for a week and was miserable. I am looking to stop the patches altogether over the New Years weekend, and also stopping my Oxycodone 40 mg/day at the same time. Do you know if 3 days will be enough for the worst of the withdrawal, as I am also on the Lyrica? My Lyrica dosage is 75 mg three times a day. My pain management clinic is terrible to their patients, and I want to be able to go in on 1/7, hand them my meds, and walk back out the door. I just need to be able to get back to work after the 3-day weekend. I really want to be off of this stuff, and I DO NOT want to go back to my pain management doctor.

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Hello, I have been taking 100mg of Fentanyl every 48 hours. So I had a couple times where I could not afford the medication because of lack of insurance. So my withdrawals began right away and lasted pretty much a month long. The anxiety is one of the worst symptoms with your body tensing up continually for quit a few days and having seizures for a few days, which require me to be hospitalized and put into a coma for 3 days just to get over that hump. That took about approx 10-14 days for leg spasms to go away. My best advice for anyone at any prescription level is that you should come down off of this med very slowly. I pray for all of those poor people out there that have to deal with particular meds, with such severe withdrawals, not nice at all.

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Sounds scary my dr lowered my 50 to 25 gave hydro 10/325 for pain Ativan 3times day for withdrawal discomfort we will then reduce 25 to 12.5 unless If.i feel gutsy enough to go fro 25 to 0 I may try but don't know first 4 days covered my head up in Ben good today I think every one should have a serious plan that you can both be on board . 5years on fentynl

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my biggest, almost difficulty with withdrawal seems to be the fidgets which keep me from sleeping. anyone know anything that helps with that? thanks

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Three days and expect to go through a lot of physical pain. Good luck!

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Robin did you have any luck using oxys to come off the fentanyl? I had been doing illegal fentanyl and I have just quit after bringing myself down from 10 a day to 1. I am almost 3 days clean off of the fentanyl but I have been taking 2 oxyneo 60s perday and haven't really felt any withdrawals. Am I just prolonging the inevitable or can I drop the oxyneos and have minimal withdrawals from the fentanyl. Keep in mind I have only done the oxyneos for 3 days.

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Need doctor who prescribe methadone in INDIANAPOLIS indiana any help appreciated thank you this is an emergency pain!!!

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Did you have any luck with this method?

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If I been on 50 fentanyl patch for 9 months then 25 for 3 weeks an dr stopped it but I got oxycodone 10 mg 5 a day how bad will I go through withdrawal I've been on opiates for 25 years for lupus , fibromyalgia

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They also had me on Lyrica & when I told them it wasn't working, they stopped me cold turkey! I missed 2 weeks of work from the withdrawal symptoms! Unless you intend to stay on this medication, do not start taking it & if you are taking it & plan on getting off it, please wean off it!

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I was on 150mgs of the fentanyl patch and it took just over a month to get off of it, I do not advise going cold turkey as the withdrawal symptoms are horrible. I went down in 12mcg and stated hydromorphein , but if it's any help there is light at the end of all the withdrawal I feel so much better and have so much more energy it's a long road but is worth getting off of..... I'd never recommend the fentynal patch to anyone, it is the worst thing to get off of and the pain management is not worth it

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I have been on 100 mcg for years about 6 yrs now. Plus taking 6, 4 mg dilaudid a day I wanted off. I had to go in for a major surgery and absolutely nothing they did could help my pain it was off the hook. I have to have another major surgery in the next year or two so I told my doctor to put me in pain management cuz I WANTED OFF before that surgery so I never have to go through that amount of pain again. They have got me down to 50 mcg in a matter of a month and zero withdrawals. But then again I'm still on the dilaudid and I've been taking valium for over 30 years no change with that yet. I have a bone disease I was born with called osteogenesis imperfecta it will never get better only worse as I get older. That's why the doctors don't gripe or hold out on me. They know I will be in pain for the rest of my life so just make me comfortable I guess. No I'm not dying the bone disease makes me break bones real easy and tear ligaments so now I've had about 50 broken bones and bad arthritis in every break some days I can't get out of bed no matter how many pills I take so just lay hear and suffer. Oh well know anyone that needs pills? I've got a lot! J/K!

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