Does everyone have diarrhea with withdrawal???

[Sweetness91]

Ok....I'm on day 17 w/no methadone and day 2 of no Percocet....and all I keep seeing is "Get some immodium"....but what if you don't have the diarrhea!?? I've literally had it maybe two times in the beginning, but none since then. I seriously do not like discussing my bowel habits..but it DOES make me wonder if NOT having it is prolonging my withdrawal? I've considered getting a laxative even...just to get the opioids out of me!! Just not sure though?????

[Sweetness91]

All you guys are so awesome. Hearing I'm doing a great job makes me feel good...silly as it sounds. My husband tells me every day that he just can't believe I've come this far. I think he got used to the old "routine" too...take a dose at 7am...take a dose at 6pm...no matter where you are or what you're doing. I feel like I'm doing everything for the right reasons...I didn't go out and get in trouble for pills, never came close to not caring for my children, haven't lost a job or home due to the pills and have never bought them "off the street". But trying to do it for the right reasons doesn't lessen the w/d's. wouldn't it be nice if it did! And even though I am doing it for the right reasons, I still feel like I'm treated like a drug seeker. When I went to the Dr, they gave me clonidine and sent me on my way. Then when I called them because I hadn't slept for literally 6 days, "take some Tylenol or ibuprofen"...WTH!! Seems to me that not sleeping at all and having your heart race for hours at a time, or feeling like you're actually having a heart attack all the time, for weeks on end, maybe even months, would take a toll on your heart!??  Hopefully I'm wrong about that though. Geez...I over analyze everything! Lol. Thanks for the support and encouragement guys...you've helped bring me this far...and I'm excited to see how much farther I can go!! :)

[LeaAnn807]

Well, "detox" means both.  It's the pills leaving but also the whole detox process, which can be long for something like methadone.  Methadone doesn't just "GO!"  It kinda seeps out slowly like sludge! LOL  With something like percocet, it's gone in about 72 hours.  I've been drug tested 80 or less hours after my last dose of a regular opiate, and it didn't even show up in my blood or urine.  Benzo are longer to leave too.  About 5-7 days for a run-of-the-mill benzo.  (with exception of Klonopin)  Anyway, this isn't a book on how to pass a drug test, so I should move on! : )  Methadone is probably the longest acting abusable drug that I can think of, so it stands to reason that it would also be one of the longest detox processes.  While the bad symptoms don't stay around quite as long, things like low energy and insomnia and shaky feeling CAN last for months, but it doesn't mean it will.  

The advice I would give you is to not compare yourself to anyone else.  Just know that you may feel better every day or you may not feel as good for one day but will go back to feeling ok.  It's basically a game of seeing how you feel hour to hour, but isn't that true with everyone?  We addicts think that "earth people" have it so easy, but in reality other folks have rough days too.  They have nights that they don't sleep.  They have the flu.  They lose their jobs.  Their kids get sick.  We aren't the only ones who don't feel good and don't have energy, because we were up all night long! LOL My kids zap more energy than my insomnia does......hands down!!!  : )

You're gonna be ok  honey!  Just try to hang on, be patient and get some aftercare so that you never have to do this again!  That's what matters most right now!

[YesLife4Me]

Try some aleve or excedrin for your aches.  It does help take the edge off.   Everybody is different.  I didn't have the problem with not being able to sleep.  Although sometimes I don't sleep well, toss and turning.   Try taking a hot bath with epsom salt too.  The magnesium helps with the aches and crawly skin.  It helps calm your anxiety too.   Also eat bananas and drink OJ.  The potassium helps with the rstless legs.  You just got to be ok with not being ok for a bit.   Surrendering to the process makes it easier to accept.   Keep on truckin...you are doing great!

[BarbRTR]

I didn't sweat, didn't have to run to the bathroom, was sleeping 10 hours, now only about 6.. But anxiety I have 24/7, no appetite. Very depressed, No energy. I got muscle milk the other day.
I am on day 14 or 15. I keep reading how everyone is feeling better at this point. I'm not! I thought I was "weird"..
So, glad to see everyone is diff!
Keep up the good work!!

[Sweetness91]

I think I get confused on some of the terms....is detoxing the WHOLE process or is it only the time it takes for the pills to leave your body? I do have to say I feel better today than yesterday...but I hate jinxing myself...the day is still young and I know those feelings can change in the blink of an eye. I think the Percocet is getting out of me anyway, I wasn't on a high dose those last few days so there wasn't a whole lot in my system. I'm just praying that tomorrow is better...and that's what I do every day....look forward to tomorrow because I know it does eventually have to get better. Just wish I weren't so impatient. Lol.

I usually dont even go to bed now til around 2am or so, and once I get in it, ain't nothing getting me out of it until I hear an alarm to off...unless I gotta pee. Lol. I lay there just to give my body some type of rest...even if my mind doesn't get any!  

[LeaAnn807]

You might want to try getting up and just moving around when you get like that!  It doesn't do any good to lie there and sneeze! LOL Seriously, try going to your den, and watch tv, or clean the house.  That's what I finally did, and it helped my nights not be so long.  I used to dread seeing the sun go down, because I knew what the night had in store for me.  I still don't sleep like "regular people" but I've accepted that I just don't require much sleep.  

You ARE still detoxing even if you're not vomiting, having diarrhea and sweating like crazy!  Time also does that! : )

[Sweetness91]

What a restless night! It's so hard to lay there when everything just aches. Trying to get comfortable enough to fall asleep is ridiculous. So much to do today also....but maybe that'll get the wheels in motion to making me start to feel better. Gonna pick up the whey protein that Gnarly has been telling me about when I go into town today. Wish Walmart was closer...I'd have had that stuff a week ago. Also going to keep checking back here...all the reading and knowing that someone else is in the same boat with me eases my mind a little. Have a beautiful day everyone!! And hang tough...we can ALL do it!!

[Sweetness91]

Oh yeah...definitely still having the leg pains, sneezing and anxiety. Not sure if it'll ever end at this point. I can't help but think if I don't do the sweating, vomiting, or diarrhea, how the heck is it gonna get out of me! Lol. Blah....2 a.m. And here I sit. Wide eyed, watching tv....and sneezing. Lol.

[LeaAnn807]

I had it.........bad!  Never was nauseated so I guess it's true that everyone has a different way of getting rid of toxins.  Some people SWEAT like crazy.  I wouldn't think that you are abnormal.  Methadone is very long acting, so it could still happen, but I would think that if you were going to have it you would have when you were pretty sick with the rest of the WD??  Do you feel like the other symptoms you had are over?

[Sweetness91]

I've never been what you call "normal"....actually very much the opposite. I had my appendix rupture and thought I had a really bad virus and stayed home with it for 1 1/2 days, almost didn't live thru that....then was kept in the hospital for a week and sent home without having a bowel movement...yeah, I know...unbelievable. They had given me everything known to man to try to make me go and I didn't, so they just released me. Needless to say, I was hospitalized exactly a week later, with an obstructed bowel...and kept for another week with a tube down my throat. So maybe it's just me...maybe I'm just not gonna have it! And I'm seriously not complaining, but the ONLY symptoms I'm having are severe pain in my legs, anxiety at times, and sneezing! And when I see everyone else's symptoms posted, I get all paranoid and think "Oh my God...I still have THAT to go thru?"! Lol. Maybe I'll get lucky in that area...but if I could trade some of the leg pain for the nausea or diarrhea, I most definitely would because this is miserable :(

[YesLife4Me]

You are lucky!  I too don't like discussing that subject, but for most of us it is part of wd so it needs to be brought up.   I don't even know what 'normal' is when it comes to that anymore.  When on pain meds I get backed up.  When detoxing I get the runs literally starting first thing in the morning til mid day for days.  Then I still have that first thing in the morning sensation with looser bm for weeks.   Maybe first thing in the morning is my new normal, but I associate it with wd, so I really dont know anymore...lol!   And, I don't like going when other people are home, so that makes it even harder.  

[clean_in_ks]

I was not a "trots" person......I was a puker....4 bowls under the bed cause I was too sick to empty one at a time.  We all purge toxins differently; methadone is long acting, percs short acting, but I wouldn't take a laxative....just let your body heal and rid itself of toxins on its own timetable.  I never used immodium or peptobismol.....I didn't even know about it....didn't find MH until I was 55 days clean.

I even did a mild cleanse for 7 major organs of our bodies that I got at my health food store.....still didn't have the runs...we're all different.
Enjoy not "running" and try not to have analysis paralysis on the w/d symptoms.  Your drug history, age, other medications, what you eat, what you drink, your metabolism, nutritional supplements and many other things affect how you will individually detox.  Be grateful when you can.....and keep it going~

[Sweetness91]

It just concerns me because I'll be starting week 3 soon...and still none? I just have to wonder if it really is prolonging it though. I wish someone would say YES, it is, so I could take a laxative and solve some of my problems...but it's just not that easy is it!!! Lol.

[BarbRTR]

I had it one time only! So, although normal, doesn't mean you have to. Everybody's different!
Lol I asked same thing, about a laxative!! I didn't take, and week 2 normal movements. And so yes, embarrassing? Nope, whatever question eases your mind!!!
:)