3 months off Vicodin and feeling very bad! I don't understand??

[rubysky]

Please let me know if you have ever experienced anything similar to this. (not that this matters, but I used to be an RN and work with ethh and drug withdraw, but never heard this)!

I have taken vicodin 10mg 1-2/ day for two years, with a 6 month break in between.  First was for  a shattered femur. I finally got off of that, and then had to have 2 back to back abdominal surgeries, and a chemo tx.  The last of which I did continue to use 1-2 10mg vicodins through rehab as I tried to strengthen my body again.  It was all very painful,

However,  I knew the time would come when I wanted to be free of all of it.  In April 2015, I asked Dr for suboxone, as it helped me before to get off the vicodin.  He wrote me an rx for 1 months worth of sublingual.  I took it for 1 1/2 weeks and was done.  Didn't particularly like the effects of it.  I took a trip out of town. No more detox and was feeling pretty good.  4 weeks ago, my body did a flip of some sort.  I started to hurt all over, became very weak and debilitated.  I can no longer do my 3x's a week workouts, can barely walk, fatigued, and weak, have lost 20 lbs and still no appetite.  This has gone on for 4 weeks!
My Dr told me it was detox symptoms. I was speechless.Is this possible?  

I do have other things I need to look at, and he didn't offer to run my labs for anything else, so I am following up with the appropriate Dr to recheck my Hashimoto's thyroid disease and vitamin and mineral deficiencies.Results still pending on those tests.... I'm just completely baffled.

I am totally clueless as to why this might be happening to me.  Anybody else ever have this experence?  I'm beginning to think I'm dying and don't even know why!

PS.  Have also been taking Temazepam this last year, and was decreasing this also, until this sudden downward spiral.Now, I don't feel like I can lie awake all day and all night with out some help to sleep so I'm back up to 30mg at HS.  Don't like it one bit, but I can only face down one thing at a time..... Please, any thoughts???

[rubysky]

Interesting point.  I simply didn't want any excuse to cont. the vicodin and using the suboxone for 1 1/2 weeks vs. 4 seemed ok at the time.  
I just had a thorough bld work up, and while I still have Hashimotos thyroid, my antibodies haven's changed in 3 years.  A few other wacky bld results, but nothing I will worry about just yet.
thanks for responding!

[msdelight]

First of all, going on suboxone for a light Vicodin habit is like using a firehose to put out a cigarette. Secondly , I think you are now detoxing from the sub. Its longer and more difficult than if you had just stopped the Vicodin. Hang in there, our sub people will give you more info about that. Go get a full check up and blood work just to make sure. Hope you feel better soon.

[NeverAgain127]

Hi honey:

It seems strange that you were feeling okay, and then you took a spiral downwards.   I'm not a doctor, but I've never heard of a detox acting like this.

If I were you, I'd find a doctor that will listen to you, and get a complete workup, including thorough bloodwork.   Not just a CBC, but liver function, complete thyroid workup (TSH, T3, T4, and thyroid antibodies.)

You mentioned chemo txts.  Did you have cancer?

Also...the 20 pound weight loss...2 questions:

1. How rapidly?
2. How much do you weigh overall?(you dont' have to tell us your weight...but what percentage of your normal weight does a 20 lb loss represent?)

Hang in there...and definitely get seen!

Hugs,
-Robin