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Recently, after being on Oxycotin 40mg twice daily, ...

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Recently, after having surgery in Germany to eliminate adhesions that had be almost incompacitated, and after being on Oxycotin 40mg twice daily, along with my doctor, I have been reducing the dosage down to 10mg twice daily and we just switched me over last Thursday to Percocet .05/325 four times daily. I seem to be having a really hard time with the withdrawl symptoms, even more so than when we cut the Oxycotin dosage in half. I have diarrhea, a severe headache and my legs are twitching most of the time. I do have a Clonodine patch on, but it doesn't seem to be helping this time. Can you tell me how long this will last? Thank you.

 

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This is a very hard medication to withdraw from and does have the nasty side effects you mentioned. I am assuming that your no longer taking it and have replaced it with the percocet which can have it's own set of withdrawals.

This is a synthetic based opiate medication.

This will give you better info on the withdrawal expectations of it. http://health.allrefer.com/health/opiate-withdrawal-info.html

You may need to also further discuss this with your doctor.

You may have needed to stay on it a little longer at lower doses before stopping all together.



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