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Suggest Treatment For Withdrawal Symptoms Of Oxycodone
Question: i am withdrawing from oxycodone (>200mg/day). What advice and or meds can you give to make this process a little more tolerable?
Brief Answer:
many options but...
Detailed Answer:
they really need professional interventions.
1) tapering narcotics. This can be with oxycodone, but it is just better to use a different narcotic such as methadone or suboxone.
2) withdrawing but taking drugs to lower the symptoms:
for nausea, zofran
for diarrhea imodium
for sympathetic overstimulation, clonidine
these are basically only prescribed by doctors.
many options but...
Detailed Answer:
they really need professional interventions.
1) tapering narcotics. This can be with oxycodone, but it is just better to use a different narcotic such as methadone or suboxone.
2) withdrawing but taking drugs to lower the symptoms:
for nausea, zofran
for diarrhea imodium
for sympathetic overstimulation, clonidine
these are basically only prescribed by doctors.
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Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar
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