Hey purple- you probably have a pretty high tolerance and the beginning of, if not a full fledged addiction. Sadly, what I've heard/read/experienced is that with withdrawal, comes the pain that you take the meds. to releive. Though, more often than not, that's psychological. While you REALLY will feel it, it's because your body has become dependent on the drugs. I've heard to taper off or to take immodium AD in large doses to help you through your holiday. I'm about to take one myself because I'm now up to 2 1/2 Lorcet 10/650 or sometimes 3 when I need relief and it scares me because I can't afford an addiction

Best of luck- I'm sure you'll get LOTS of advice and try doing a search in the search engine for this same topic- hydro holiday- there have been a few threads in the recent past with LOTS of info to help you through