I understand where you are coming from! I haveto live with chronic pain probably for the rest of my life, although I have cut down and accepted the pain if you are on any opiates, you might think about talking to your dr and having him to help you. I am not a dr but I do know what I am talking about and you are right, it does take time and I do wish you all of the best!

I am doing it. It was a hard thing to do. I flushed all my pain med's in the toliet tuesday night. I think the hardest day was wed. I of course had to work and I had a few good friends watching over me while I pounded away at the day. I have gone through the nauseaus phase, the tired phase (extremely-wed), i'm still not that hungry but forcing myself to eat and drink every once in awhile. I am keeping busy with my puppy as well.

I do have a dilema that might approach me. Even though I will be "pain med free" I will eventually be put back in the hospital for passing a kidney stone that is in my left kidney but i'll just make sure they don't send me home with any rx!

I highly recommend doing this on a weekend if you are thinking of getting off the pain med's. Working and doing it is hard but i'm getting by..

Why don't you talk to your doctor about switching pain medicine?

If you are on something like vicodin/percocet/oxycontin, try switching to a milder narcotic like darvocet or ultram. They don't have nearly as strong of side effects and are still very effective. If you aren't abusing the medicine purposely then you aren't addicted. You can be dependant and not addicted. It's the nature of the medicine. Why would you go and flush them? If they work, then take them! If you don't like the symtoms, try different medicine. There are other options. I've been through every pain medicine in the book before I found one that didn't have adverse side effects on me and also relieved most of my pain.

Well, my doctor prescribed some valium for me... and now im always on it. thanks doc, so yeah, if im addicted, you just might be as well