Hello: My experience with clonidine was it helped alot with the hot and cold sweats and goose bumps. It made me really tired and yea a little dizzy and light headed but I could handle that because it really does help with the acute withdraw symtoms. Sounds like you and your doctor are working together and that is a great thing. If you are tapering and using the clonidine you shouldn't have any problems coming off of your oxy. You shouldn't have a hard time at all. Take care and good luck to you.

My Psychiatrist gave me clonidine during a WD period. He gave me 3 days off to stay home and deal with it. The first time taking it, I crashed hard! Fell asleep for about 8 hours and woke up dizzy.... I didn't like the way I felt on it, but I also didn't have restless legs and all the other WD symptoms.

Good luck to you.

Clonidine is a blood pressure med. It will lower your blood pressure thus making you feel dizzy etc... This is normal. Like the other posts say, it is great that your working together w/ your dr. Keep in there. I know that withdrawls are the easy part of this process (probably won't agree w/ me now) but staying clean is really the challenge.

Good luck to you.

Thanks everybody for the info. I took half a tablet today and melted into the couch. Yeah, it did make me tired for a little while, but calm........ya know?
I have read a ton about it on the web and I predict that they will be using this drug alot more in the future for opiate withdrawal symptoms. The success rates in testing have been very high. I read that the combination of clonidine and naproxen have produced better results than suboxone. I keep finding this kind of information over and over on the web, so hopefully, it will work for me.

Thanks again.