I am now down to two doses a day of the Norco 5-325. I was able to completely drop the morning dose, then shuffle the noon dose to morning and space out the remaining dose to late in the afternoon.
So yesterday I took one full dose at 8 AM and one at about 4 PM, with no withdrawal effects. What I am still grappling with is the pain itself. I have a lot of it. I am still on the 250mg , 5:1 formula, and I am up to 1 mL doses 3 times a day. The dose itself works fairly well on the pain (bolstered by copious hits of Gorilla Glue, which makes me sleepy but I've learned to like it anyway), but it doesn't have staying power. I'm going to put in an order for the 1000mg formula.
LA,
What I observed with my wife was that pain and edginess would increase each time she reduced what she was taking. It was not bad while she was on larger doses. As she progressed it became rather severe.
Her approach was to stay on a dose until the pain and other symptoms dropped to near where they were before the reduction. Then she would continue with that dose for a while to get somewhat comfortable with it. Then she would lower the dose again.
Chocolate actually helps.
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