{"id":11530,"date":"2015-05-09T07:15:44","date_gmt":"2015-05-09T07:15:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cyclingvideosonline.com\/?p=11530"},"modified":"2015-05-09T07:15:44","modified_gmt":"2015-05-09T07:15:44","slug":"a-cyclists-survival-guide-to-a-total-knee-replacement-the-drugs-p-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybikething.com\/home\/a-cyclists-survival-guide-to-a-total-knee-replacement-the-drugs-p-6\/","title":{"rendered":"A Cyclists Survival Guide to a Total Knee Replacement \u2013 The Drugs (P-6)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/PNuDJddS4EE\" width=\"854\" height=\"510\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>I had a knee replacement and was prescribed oxy and tram. I was on it for 8 weeks before deciding I could manage the pain without. Attempting to discontinue usage was impossible. I don&#8217;t use that word lightly. It was impossible. The pain and the depression that came crashing down was unbearable. No doctors warned me of this. No program to aid with the discontinuation. I had to learn via the internet.<\/p>\n<p>What a great thing to do, right?<\/p>\n<p>Amidst uncontrollable and unbearable agony, I discovered that my lower dose was not enough to discontinue without severe withdrawals. I had to go back to full dosage to quit properly. I read that I needed to taper off at 10% per day, a 15 day process. I took my pills and cut them all into fourths. Every 2 days I&#8217;d lower my dosage by 1\/4 of a pill (4 pills a day to start &#8211; 2 days later. 3 and 3\/4 pills and so on) Even this minute change in dosage effected my mood and my body. Sleepless nights, sweats, agitation, unease, unsettling, leg and foot pain, hot foot, compiled with the normal knee pain.<\/p>\n<p>After I took my last 1\/4 pill, I was off. But, it took several weeks after that to start feeling normal again. I am not alone. It took a tremendous amount of will for me to move off the drugs. I didn&#8217;t want to. I&#8217;d pop a pill and my pain would be gone and I&#8217;d feel normal. My anxieties dissolved. I&#8217;d feel balanced. It wasn&#8217;t like the pill made me feel different, or high, simply, it made me feel normal. I was shocked to hear that oxy is routinely prescribed for depression, or for veterans suffering from ptsd. It&#8217;s asinine to think that a doctor can prescribe this and then discontinue the Rx without any program for withdrawal in place. It is not surprising that people turn to heroin. If I didn&#8217;t have enough of my prescription left to stop slowly, I don&#8217;t know what I would have done.<\/p>\n<p>PS &#8211; this was only after 8 weeks. The withdrawal process takes much longer given longer periods of acclimation .16 weeks requires double the time. You have to stay on the script to ween off it. Longer periods of acclimation require even more time and there is a point when withdrawal might not even be possible by the simple weening process. Other drugs need to be introduced to take someone off one drug and hook them to another in order to attempt weening off the other. Now were in months of withdrawal, months of sleepless nights and sweats and pain and discomfort. Only a rare few can endure this. This is the dilemma.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a knee replacement and was prescribed oxy and tram. I was on it for 8 weeks before deciding I could manage the pain without. Attempting to discontinue usage was impossible. I don&#8217;t use that word lightly. It was impossible. The pain and the depression that came crashing down was unbearable. 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