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Can Oxycodone Be Addiction Drug After Knee Replacement?
I am on oxycodone 5 mg. last 3 months. I had total knee replacement now I want withdraw and my surgeon is not helping. he thinks am addicted now to oxycodone and I think I am now he prescribe percocet 5-325 and can you let me know what can i do? how to start?
Fri, 26 Aug 2016
Hello. You need a slow taper off the oxycodone which is also in the Percocet. That means taking one less pill per day for two weeks and then dropping down another pill a day for two weeks and so forth until you've finished. But that taper should really be under a doctor's supervision
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