A lot of people unknowingly become hooked on pain medication because they did not take them exactly as they were prescribed by their Dr. they may have legitimately started taking them control their pain that they are suffering from some type of surgery or injury. What generally happens is in the beginning the medication is controlling the pain just fine.
Then after a while one day they take their medication and find that it is not helping to relieve their pain so they take it upon themselves to increase their dosage by taking another pill. What has happened here is they have created a tolerance to what ever opiate drug they happen to be taking. Now the person has to take more and more to get the feeling or desired effect which they got when they began taking it This is a not uncommon it happens with all opiate medications; including, Vicodin, Percocet, OxyContin and numerous others.
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What they should've done before they took it upon themselves to increase their dosage is to call the prescribing physician. In a lot of cases like this all their Dr. would've had to do is change their medication because evidently it was not strong enough to ease their pain.
If this sounds like anything that you may be experiencing or anyone that you know who is going through here are some solutions to help overcome pain pills addiction and withdrawal. If you want to learn how to stop taking painkillers then the first thing you should do is call your doctor because they have the knowledge of how to help you get through it. It could be as simple as tapering you off of Vicodin or Percocet.
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They will probably give you instructions how to slowly reduce the amount of pain medication you are taking each day. When I did it they slowly reduced the amount of milligrams of Vicodin per day that I was used to using. Keep in mind that most of you are not going to be able to do this on your own.
We all need some type of help from time to time and in your case this is going to be one of them. What I would do is contact a loving friend or family member that can dole out your medication to you each day as needed. This is sort of like a failsafe mechanism because I was the type addict that I would of taken them all before I barely got started. Remember this is only the first step to getting over your addiction.
Good luck
