I have what is needed and want to quit. I have been on Hydros for 4 years 6 pd 10/325 under pain management doc. I have noticed I am getting shortness of breath for the past 9 months and went for a stress test. They say everything was good but my Xray came back "it coule be abnormal" so they want to do a cardiac catho on me next week.

Do you know, can the Hydros cause the shorness of breath? My doc says no but I think different.

If I do as suggest about the clonodine, will I have any withdrawals, can I work. I used them before to help me sleep and they did great. I went off off the hydros after a facet.

Thanks

I read this article on a board:


I, as a 6 year perscription pill abuser would like to report an unexpected success in the area of self-treatment. I have found success in recovery with the use of clonidine. I have found that after a relapse one can actually forgoe 95% of the pain of withdrawl by careful use of clonidine. I usually will take two 0.1mg tablets before bed, leaving two additional tablets by the bedside. When withdrawl is in full effect a patient/abuser can rarely expect more than 4-5 hours of uninterupted sleep. When I wake, I quickly take the two other clonidine tablets and wait to fall back to sleep. In addition my doctor has me using the Anti-depressent/Sleep medication Trazadone. Using this method one can expect to get 6-8 hours of sleep or more. Also, by maintaining clonidine in the blood supply one tablet every 6 hours while awake will have the effects of keeping muscle spasms to almost nothing. I have found that by keeping the physical symptoms to a minimum, the focus becomes the inherent depression one feels during withdrawl. I keep my mood up by watching fun entertaining movies and eating "comfort foods". NOTE TO EVERYONE: If an patient/abuser is taking powerful doses of dangerous narcotics in large quantities this method does not help. This method is useful to pain-management patients and pill abusers that use between 1 darvocet (very weak) per day to 2 percocet (very strong) four times a day for long periods of time. This method has the best effect for patients/abusers using hydrocodone 5/500mg three times per day.

Many doctors I have spoken with feel that an abuser should feel the pain of withdrawl so they are relunctent to make the same mistake twice. I understand the logic in this, but I can't help but feel this information would benefit doctors that have patients that become addicted through no fault of there own.