I have tried to quit taking my prescribed medicine several times on my own. I was successful at stopping them by weaning in March 2017. I got pregnant in May 2017 and remained drug free my entire pregnancy. When I gave birth to my daughter in February 2018, I had to have a C-section and was given morphine and percocet in the hospital as well as sent home with a prescription for percocet. That made me fall back into needing my pain medication and I began seeing my previous pain management doctor in April 2018 to get back on my pain medication. Since then, I have attempted to quit the opioids several times by weaning and cold turkey, all attempts have failed. The withdrawal process is too excrutiating. Even when I am able to successfully stop the medications, I have intermittent periods of withdrawal symptoms for months afterwards as well as cravings that are nearly imbearable to ignore. I always get to a point of desperation and always find a way to go back to the medications. 