So my hubby has been on a lower dosis of Oxycontin for a while now and I have to say that I am surprised at how well he is doing. Of course he is going through lots of withdrawals, lots of pain in his muscles, lots of hot and cold sweats, etc. It is going up and down; he has good days and bad days, but it looks like he’s having more and more good days now.

It helps that we didn’t plan anything and he can just stay home and concentrate on getting through this process. He told me he was even thinking about getting off it completely by the time he finished the boxes of medication we have right now. It’s a good thing he says that, but since we’re thinking about going on holiday as soon as I get my new passport he might just have to wait with that. The last thing I want is to be on holiday and him laying in bed all day because he is going through all the withdrawals.

We’ll still have to see how it goes when he will be completely off the pain killers. I hope the pain will be manageable. Maybe he needs different (less harmful and addictive) pain killers. The clinical laboratory service helps develop new medication all the time, so who knows if something better comes along. I’ll just be so happy when he gets off this hillbilly heroine.

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