Opioid Withdrawal with Chronic Pain & Chronic Pain between medicines.

*This is my opinion. I do NOT recommend anything that is dangerous. Any advice given is made ONLY for legal adults and persons who have free will. If you have mental illness, do not try anything that your doctor hasn't recommended. Thank you.

     I never have seen a place for someone going through opioid withdrawal but the person has chronic pain. That can happen when dropping down or getting off of one opioid and starting another.

     Here is my example, though I give it reluctantly. I was on Butrans at a dose of 20mcg/hr. Now I liked that it was only a partial agonist but as many know, it makes you feel tied down to the ground. Not grounded in a good way but bound to the ground. I went to 10mcg/hr to 0 back to 5mcg/hr to 0. I was on hydrocodone to help with withdrawal as clonidine can make me furious. Being on strong opioids for 4 years infects your mind, body, and soul.

     When I got to 5mcg and 0, well still on hydrocodone, I felt human again. It was amazing. But hydrocodone ran out and had to go 2 weeks with no opioids. First time in 4 years. The reason being that no drug store in the area had my new medicine, Exalgo. Now during those 2 weeks, I was sure I was going to die. I called the clinic many times and they said just wait. What they did was inhuman but you can't try and blame/control others.

     My advice is this: Make sure you have a amazing psychologist to talk with. I mean AMAZING. Nothing worse then a bad therapist. Also, clonidine helped with my pain. It is a very good non opioid analgesic. Mainly it helped me sleep through the night with out waking due to pain and helped my sleep onset. I also recommend cannabis, though take this advice with a few kilos of salt please! Cannabis is not good for withdrawals but after withdrawals and waiting for new meds, hell yes! Cannabis is VERY often illegal. I just have to say that. If it is illegal where you are, "don't try it."

     I will say that cannabis can calm you and just get you into bed before there is more pain or a breakdown.

     Now everyone knows what is right and not right for their own bodies. I am not a legal doctor. I only have a lifetime of being a patient.

     Any questions, please ask!