my sister was taking the medication LORTABS for more than an year.now doctors tell her she needs to go cold -turkey as they call it . she has panic attacks & anxietyattacks , sweats and feels nauseaded and hardly doesn’t sleep at nights .she was told by her doctor she would have to stay at the hospital for a week . MY doctor will NOT give them to me no more than a month when i’m in pain cause she says they are addictive and narcotics. why her doctor prescribe them to her for so long , don’t seem right . she wants to quit cold-turkey on her own to avoid hospital stay . can a person do it on their own ? she is diebetic & has heart problems. she also has high blood pressure. i didn’t find out till recently that she was taking them for OVER a year . has anyone gone through this ? I sure could use your help & ideas . thank- you .
In my experience I don’t beleive Lortabs Have the same withdrawl as Other Painkillers. She will experience with drawl. Consisting Of sweats, body pain, diariha, and fatigue. Not to mention the extrem irritability. I suggest she is hospitalized because many people can take seizures and most people end up going back to them even if they have to buy them from the streets. She should get help before she escaletes to Percocet.
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Your sister needs to be careful! I have been taking narcotics for over a year now for cronic back pain, and i have run out a few days early before , and it SUCKS and it feels like your dying,,She really should be monitored! Good luck! I feel for ya, i really know what your going through,,,,Sorry!
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With her other medical problems, she should be hospitalized but, she shouldn’t have to quit "cold turkey". She should be given other meds, while the Lortabs work out of her system.
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It would be difficult to answer this without knowing what dose your sister was taking and what specifically her health condition is (I know you put down some diagnosis) but that doesn’t say what meds she might be on or how well she follows her diet, and what kind of overall activity level and overall how well she tries to take care of her health.
That said I will say that as a long term chronic pain patient that she should be careful about going cold turkey unless she has gradually tapered off her dose of lortab, that would be the best way to do it at home on her own. Unfortunately if she is already out and was a pretty regular user it could be very uncomfortable (and even dangerous), best advice, if she trust her Dr. then she needs to follow their instructions, if she doesn’t trust her Dr. then she needs to get a new one ASAP.
Good Luck, I do know how difficult this can be.
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She has to be slowly weaned off this drug. Her doctors are nuts to tell her to go cold turkey especially in view of her other health problems.
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In my experience I don’t beleive Lortabs Have the same withdrawl as Other Painkillers. She will experience with drawl. Consisting Of sweats, body pain, diariha, and fatigue. Not to mention the extrem irritability. I suggest she is hospitalized because many people can take seizures and most people end up going back to them even if they have to buy them from the streets. She should get help before she escaletes to Percocet.
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