Question: Hi, I've been taking prescribed oxycodone 5mg, now reduced to 4 per day-6 pills per day were the highest amount I have ever taken. I was also prescribed 2.5mg Valium that I stopped after 8 yrs 2 months ago. The Valium withdrawals were horrible and made every very real pain much worse but I will never take it again. The oxy I have been on 8 yrs too. Prescibed for IC auto immune type pain so I can eat foods I need (damaged lining to bladder), also herniated disc, lupus, sjogrens, heart attacks from lupus, over 35 yrs lupus I have had ulcers and many infections due other medications I took for lupus ect... So oxy dazipam were prescribed because I'm out of options. Now I think I go though symptoms of withdrawal inbetween doses- sweats, diarrhea, major jittery and my blood pressure goes from normal 123/76 (with medication) to crazy high BP 189/120 just before next 5mg Oxycodon - the oxy also makes sjogrens much worse. Leading to infection like mouth thrush,vaginal yeast then bacterial as well as sinisus infections I'm so dry I wake up have painfully peel my lips off gums as tongue - lisinaprol 30mg also sucks me drier and tried benicar 20mg and it does same thing. Sjogrens rules my life now- mouth rinses, humidifiers 24/7, over counter eye drops (restasis cuased infection), I don't want heart attack or seizure as I withdraw off Oxycodon. I'm a small woman 105 pounds 5'4" never high cholesterol but just reducing oxy slowly every four weeks my blood pressure goes crazy as well as pain is unbearable. Doctors who prescribed oxycodone to me are fearful and don't know what to do- I can NOT take any medications that cuase drug induced lupus because they do trigger lupus worse- should I just go cold turkey now verses every few hours I go through withdrawal - Do others go through withdrawals between doses? Who can help me so I do t die as I withdrawal off oxycodone ? Cartioligist literally stopped being my doctor because she felt my case is so complicated- pretty upsetting and left me stranded.