I've only tapered off antidepressants
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Me on 2008-08-10
In Reply to: Anyone know a taper schedule for Vicodin? - So Sad, Soon to be Sick :-(
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before, and I did it on my own. The most important thing I needed to know was whether the tablets could be broken (or capsules opened). I guess it depends at least partly on whether it's a time-release formula or not. The ones I was on were okay to divide, so I'd just split them so that I would take about 3/4 of a dose for a week or 2, then 1/2 dose for a week or 2, then 1/4 dose for a week or 2, and then continue on a crumb for 3 weeks or so. This is what I had to do with Effexor, which is just awful to get off from (brain shocks). Actually I also had brain shocks from getting off Prozac, but I didn't realize it was the Prozac and hadn't done much of a taper with that one. So that time I was afraid the brain shocks meant I had MS or a brain tumor or something.
I've transcribed pain clinic notes before (in NC), and they were nothing like what you're describing. The scariest thing I remember was that they had a lot of patients on that one narcotic that's a replacement for something illegal - heroin? I can't even think what it is now, maybe methadone? The one that I think was often dosed as an orange liquid? Anyway, they used this drug a lot for pain whether the patient had ever been addicted to the illegal drug or not. I would have been mortified to pick up a Rx for it.
I'm sorry you've gone through this. Sounds like quite a racket (sp?) they have going there. |
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