15th May 2004
oc, I quit vikes almost a month ago, the wd's are a pain in the neck and I felt like dogmeat for about two weeks. Taking motrin helped a bit and drinking a ton of water. Also if you can force yourself to do some excercise then the wd's are not quite as bad. Now I know that oxycontin is a different opiate, however from most of what I heard the wd's are almost identical.
The unfortunate thing is at about two weeks into my quitting the vikes, I ended up getting a horrible ear infection and fluid built up in my ear that the pain was excrutiating. My doctor gave me ultracet to deal with the pain which is also addictive, although not as much in my opinion. The ear pain finally went away a couple of days ago and now I am tapering off of the ultracet. The ultracet definately carries worse physical pain for me then the vikes did. The vikes carried physical and emotional pain along with the horrible craving. I should be off of the ultracet competely by the end of his weekend. I am down to two 37.5 tablets per day and with the worse pain I took up to eight on one day. Wd's are not fun and a big pain in the neck, but you can get through it.
One thing I was hooked on the vikes for about 14 months and was never successful tapering off, I could not stick to it. I had to cold turkey. With the ultracet I can do it because I don't get that "I can't wait till my next dosage feeling." The ultracet was necessary for horrible pain the vikes were for some initial pain in my back and I kept taking them for much longer then indicated. You maybe able to taper everyone is different, I will say one thing is that I agree if you don't stop taking them it only gets worse. If you quit you will look back in a little bit and feel a heck of alot better.
Keith
The unfortunate thing is at about two weeks into my quitting the vikes, I ended up getting a horrible ear infection and fluid built up in my ear that the pain was excrutiating. My doctor gave me ultracet to deal with the pain which is also addictive, although not as much in my opinion. The ear pain finally went away a couple of days ago and now I am tapering off of the ultracet. The ultracet definately carries worse physical pain for me then the vikes did. The vikes carried physical and emotional pain along with the horrible craving. I should be off of the ultracet competely by the end of his weekend. I am down to two 37.5 tablets per day and with the worse pain I took up to eight on one day. Wd's are not fun and a big pain in the neck, but you can get through it.
One thing I was hooked on the vikes for about 14 months and was never successful tapering off, I could not stick to it. I had to cold turkey. With the ultracet I can do it because I don't get that "I can't wait till my next dosage feeling." The ultracet was necessary for horrible pain the vikes were for some initial pain in my back and I kept taking them for much longer then indicated. You maybe able to taper everyone is different, I will say one thing is that I agree if you don't stop taking them it only gets worse. If you quit you will look back in a little bit and feel a heck of alot better.
Keith