Any quick tips for coping w/ withdrawal from opiates?

[meg52080]

I am going through some pretty severe withdrawals from opiates (norco, vicodin, etc.) and am hoping that someone out there has "at home" tips for me.  I already take Xanax occasionally and suspect that I will need to take it more often to cope, but is there any at home remedies for detox?  I have two boys to take care of so I can't stay in bed all day, you know?  Please help!

[chantheman]

I feel your pain. I am on day 3 of Percocet withdrawals. The first 3 days have been hell. I have cried and every bone in my body is aching. They say if you get past day 3, things start improving. I have even had suicidal thoughts and that is scary. You will get through this, it will be hard, but if other people do it, you will too. I will say a prayer for you.

[IBKleen]

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[madams317]

I read your comment and felt like someone read my mind.  I also am a mother of 2 children 6 & 7.  No one knows I am an addict.  I had an injury during a horrible 2 year divorce which was when I became addicted to opiates.  It seemed to help everything, clean the house, take care of the kids, volunteer at school and sports teams as well as work a full time job.  Now I am with a wonderful man and became pregnant.  I have tried many times to kick my habit but the wd was so bad I eventually gave in.  My finance was scared the wd symptoms would be worse for the baby than the pills themselves.  I cant sleep because of a restless mind and restless legs.  I push myself to get the kids to school and myself to work.  The anxiety is killing me.  I'm so scared I cry and feel like I can't beat it.  This is hell and I dont know how I got here.  It would be so nice to have some support and talk to someone through the pain to keep me going.  Since the post is a few months old just wondering if you were able to beat this horrible addition.  It would give me some hope.  Thank you.

[TaraKnowles25]

How about Heroin users? Can they go to some detox center?
That's my loved one that's hooked on that even more potent devil.
Nothing but darkness in that ugly drug.

[TaraKnowles25]

Thank U so much. I ******* don't want to eat anything and I feel like my tummy is ugh almost nauseating feeling. Like its so crappy especially when u don't have someone right there that u love deep down next to u and guiding you.
**** I feel I can combat hydrocodone cause that's the drug that almost took my soul and controlled me.
I feel like Juice from Sons of Anarchy. That agony but u don't want to hurt anyone and thought it wasn't a big deal cause no body cares and isn't affected by it but its not right. One of them was my best friend I will always remember. I been hooked for about 3 years and it was the most comforting thing ever. I don't care who sells it but keep it away from my mouth and my loved ones.

[missmae23]

Reading through a lot of these "responses" & I can tell a lot of you with the advice have not been through it yourself. That is honestly the first thing, you want to find advice, talk to someone who has been through it. If you haven't expierenced it first hand, then im sorry, but you have no idea what your walking into. It is the worst pain I have ever felt in my life. DO NOT use methadone, the withdrawl on that is just as painfull and twice the time of just getting off opiates without anything. (regardless of tapers you still feel ****** for days, so you might as well just do it off opiates). If you do it by yourself, cudos to you!! Its extreamly difficult to come off it at home. Why? Because you honestly cannot take care of yourself, you have zero energy, your not hungry - & even if you were you will not get up and make food- you are in constant pain, you don't sleep, & you basically want to kill yourself. day 3 is the worst. day 1 *****, day 2 is worse and day three is hell, by this day you cant stop moving your legs, you can barely move, and if you do, you will be going to the bathroom every 15 minutes ( && I assure you it is NOT a pleasant expierence in there either! ) Your bowels hate you., it will take you about 9 days until you start "pooping" regulary, it takes about 2 weeks to learn how to sleep normally. and depression gets better after day 5. If your doing this at home, grab Epson salts, and seriously, take a million HOT baths a day, this will help your legs, aleeve does work but take too many and it will **** up your stomach, eat a lot of bread, grill cheese worked for me, its quick and easy, trust me, during this week you will destroy your house and you will not want ANYONE to see you. Try smoking weed, helped with the anxiety a bit, as for sleeping, talk to your doc about zopricon, its a hardcore sleeper and they are highly addictive, but the doc will give you a script for ten days just to help you not lose your mind. To be honest, I would just go to a detox clinic for 7 days, they are free, and they feed you and nurses monitor your blood pressure ect. they also give you an anti anxiety med to help a bit with the restless legs, and after day 3 of no sleep they might give you a valium if your lucky to sleep. its a ****** drug, no one knows withdrawl until they go throough an opiate addiction. Cocaine is a joke withdrawl, after a day your fine, meth is easy, you sleep for about 9 days straight and just eat ( Must be a hard life! haha ) and crack is just a habit. Most opiate addicts are functioning addicts. they don't even care about the high anymore, they are just scared of being sick ( what us opiate users call the withdrawl ) Its scary, its hard, its painfull, it hurts, I honesty have never felt pain like that before, your bones hurt, and expessially when you don't sleep, 5 days feels like 10! & the depression is very bad, because after being up for 3 days, hurting, in pain, cant focus on anything, cant move, cant even stand up for more than 3 minutes before you just fall because it hurts just to stand and its exahsting. Your head will play tricks on you, and you will want to kill yourself, just keep counting days. writing in a book, I couldn't read, you just can't focus on books or tv or movies. HOT WATER BOTTLES!! life savor, good luck to you, but I honestly recommend a detox center, its free, you can leave whenever you want if you change your mind, they feed you, and look after you, plus your around people going through the same thing, that helps. horrible thing to come off of, no one told me about the withdrawls..