how do i wean off vicodin without feeling any withdrawl symptons?

Question

i went on it may 1st for a broken foot and since then have had to increase the dosage to get the same pain relief. I was taking one 500mg tab and now you don't even want to know....

Answer 1

First, look at your bottle again. The dosage 500 mg is the amount of tylenol, not the opiate, in the pill. They are usually written as 5/500 or 10/650. The first number is the opiate dose in mg. So you're not taking 500 mg of vicodin at a time. You're probably taking 5 mg or 7.5 mg.

You can try gradually reducing your daily dose by ONE PILL daily each week. Next week cut your daily dose back again by one pill, and so on. If you can get yourself down to a minimal dosage of just 1-2 or even 1/2 pill per day, your withdrawals won't be nearly as severe.

That's not to say you won't have some discomfort using this method, but it's a heck of a lot less painful than going cold turkey. Good luck.

Answer 2

If you are addicted to an opiate like Vicodin, you will feel withdrawal symptoms no matter what if you quit. Unlike other drugs like stimulants or marijuana (which are psychologically addictice), opiates are psychologically AND physiologically addictive. This means that your body, not only the mind, is addicted. The safest thing to do is go through detox because you need to be monitored by a physician. Methadone may be given to you to help ease the syptoms. The dose will gradually be reduced - this slowly lowers the blood level of the opiod and the tolerance threshold which lessens the withdrawal. Good luck.

Answer 3

I have been there. I was in an auto accident and they said I had really bad whiplash. I was in extreme pain for 9 months until they surgically repaired a herniated disk as a result of the "whiplash". It turned out that there was a little bit more going on then whiplash. They even tried to say that I was having so much pain due to depression until I made them do an MRI. But anyways it was a long road. We tired to do an epidural injection about 6 months after the accident. After all the swelling went down from the injection itself I felt pain free for awhile. The first day I felt good I didn't take any vicodin. About 24 hours later or so I have a bad case of the twitches and I can't sleep and just overall feel weird. My drug addict cousin just happened to be staying with us at the time. He took one look at me and said "You look like you are DT'ing". That's when it dawned on me. I took a pill and about an hour later everything was all fine. So for the first week I took them as prescribed, I think it was 2 every 4hours. The next week I took one every 4 hours. Then the next week I took 1/2 every 8 hours. The week after I only took them when I had pain because by then the epidural shot was wearing off. I kept my doses as low as possible until I had surgery. After surgery and the pain from that subsided I took one pill every 8 hours then went down to 1/2 pill. Then I took 1/2 twice a day then quit. When I first quit the first couple of nights I had a hard time falling asleep but nothing like that one night when I quit them cold turkey. You need to slowly taper off of them and it will minimize the withdrawal symptoms. You might still have a few small symptoms but you can't totally avoid them all together.
Don't listen to anyone calling you an addict or anything. If you were taking them because you were in pain, there is nothing wrong with that. You aren't addicted, but your body definitely gets chemically dependant on those meds and there's nothing you can do about that if you need them.

Good luck to you!!

Answer 4

ultram is an spectacular discomfort killer, that's like super aspirin, extra advantageous than vicodin, and it is likewise addictive. i might surely advise calling your community United way, and enable them to appreciate you have a drug habit you like some help with. they're going to refer you to an area non earnings employer that may assist you get off the addictive drugs. I nonetheless advise medicinal cannibis. in case you already know every person, attempt to get some, and attempt to wean your self off with that, until the indications are long gone. i might additionally see approximately some selection drugs, like acupuncture, or someother type of jap medicine, it would help. good success sweetie, call United way

Answer 5

I asked my Dr. this same question and he said I won't have any withdrawls and Ive been on them for almost a year and sixty 5/500mg a month so....

Answer 6

you shouldnt feel withdraw symptoms unless you've been on itr for some time... if anything lower dosage litlle by little...i dont know whow much you take and the mg amount so ic ant help much

Answer 7

do it only with the advice of a doctor.

Answer 8

see a doctor (that isnt named gregory house ;) )