Opiate withdrawal????

[rtal394]

What the heck is wrong with me?  I have been on percocet and vicodin for only 2 months.  I was on percocet for a month (7.5-30mg oxy/day varied), the vicodin for 2 weeks (5 mg.  went through 50 in 2 weeks), then percocet for another month 2-7.5 tabs a day.  Went to 1 pill for 2 days last week, then stopped Monday.  Diarrhea ever since.  Highs and lows.  Sometimes I am on the verge of tears for no reason.  Last Thursday I took 1 just to feel a little better because I had an explosive outburst of tears.  I still feel like **** 1 week later.  Is this normal?  After 2 months of use, wouldn't I be better in a couple days?  This sucks.  I feel hopeless and have no ambition.  My nights of sleep suck too.

[NYYankees31]

I read much of your comments and like many, I ended up on pain meds for all the right reasons, but taken all the wrong way. I.e. I ended up having much adequate pain relief from fibro/back problems with a mere lowsy 10mg vicodin, when I quit I was using upwards of 10-12 roxycodone 15mg's daily. A 240mg Rx would last two weeks at most, always out, ugh-all the same b.s. here. So I decided to cold turkey it. Days 1-3, horrible. Day 4, horrible still, day 5 still yucky with at least not much sweating: mostly insomnia and achey painful legs. (note: for me it's the ache, not really just RLS) Regardless today is day 8 of no Roxycodone.  Let me tell you, everyone is DIFFERENT because I am not feeling a whole lot better today. Please don't be discouraged, I'm not, just know that the 3-5 day idea 'might' not be true.  I am still dealing with the sh**s which *****, am using ENSURE and adding vitamins to the regiment. I want to see if potassium actually helps.

Day 8: ultimate complaints: lethargy, achey legs

I am seeing much write about sweating this out via a sauna...I wish I had that opportunity, because I would love to try. Any of you planning on detoxing and can, DO IT!  So many others have told me to do so during withdrawal, just hydrate yourself especially with the G.I. problems.  

God bless everyone. Keep your chins up. Remember, many of us went into this with relatively healthy bodies(even me with fibro/back) and we became addicted to a medicine plain and simple. If we can walk into this mess, we can walk out, the hard part, enduring the pain to get to the horizon. God Bless people!

[dyenever3]

Just wanted to tell my story to those who are wondering about detox time. I had what i think would be considered  a minimal problem but a problem non the less. i have been taken around 45 to 60mgs of oxycodone a day for a year. small amount but still dependant. I jumped off and am now on day 6. I am pretty close to back to normal. The first three days were bad. I am a professional and had to work so it was tough. Also have two small children. my wife doesnt know about my problem so i had to hide my wds. I told them i had the flu. Days 1-3 were hard but day 4 was better and day 5 was even better. RLS is bad. I take .5mgs of xanax at night and bumped that up to 1mg to help sleep. I have no desire to use again. The biggest advice is drink tons of water and g2. flush your system and exercise. YOU WILL GET BETTER after the initial detox(3-5 days). everyday will be better. I promise. I know most people take much more then i did and the wds will be worse but you can do it. you will get better. once you turn the corner and start feeling better it gets easy. eat lots of potassium. GOOD LUCK and remember you will get better!

[trich87]

Hi Ive been in and out of rehab 4 times now and as far as opiates go i have been addicted for 9 years. From 5 miligram vicodins to percocets to oxys to methadone and finally to heroine and have also tried each and every way of detox imaginable. The worst was the methadone detox wich i pretty much just bit a stick and rode the 2 month dry train with bottles and bottles of tylenol and melatonin green tea and i know this sounds crazy but i was back in my parents house and needed a job but had muscle spasms diarrhea vomting hot and cold at the same time and like some kind of impending sense of doom! Anyway i did NOT feel like any kind of physical activity at all and the ONLY place that would hire me is a freaking land scaping company which I worked for 12 hours a day in 100 degree weather and wanted to kill myself after the first day. I noticed when i got home on the first day of work that the insomnia was gone as well as the restless legs. As the rest of the week went on all symptoms subsided! It was because the sweat had cleansed the opiates right out. For those of you who dont know methadone withdrawl takes 2 months so those of you on vicodin be mindful that vic w/ds only take 4-9 days depending. I wouldnt suggest that method but it worked. For oxys and vicodin I have also done just the cold turkey hard detox which for me took 6 days to even function again. Again wouldnt suggest it. I almost lost my job waiting tables because i had to call in 3 days of it. I wasnt able to overcome the depression during that. Ive done the suboxone treatment which is expensive if youre insurance doesent cover it. This was a miracle drug for me and only had to hurt for two days till it was over. Only problem was you detox off this too! this cured all the symptoms though for me. The down side is it gives you a little taste of a high and can lead you to relapse off of just boredom but it can work. I just suggest if you can do the suboxone, stay on it!!!!! I also tried the 4 day suboxone detox in which 4 days in to the w/ds I was taken off and then had 4 more days of light but weird detox symptoms. I tried a methadone clinic which is NOT OK!!!!! Stay away!!!! It gets you high for a month then no matter how much they raise your dosage doesent work and then to quit you have to detox for 2 months! Its not as bad as heroin or oxy w/ds but it is horrible. Oh again on suboxone it takes three days of hard w/d from heroin for the suboxone to work. Last but not least I pretty much tried training my mind to ween myself off vicodin, at first by chance. I got a kidney dtone last year( which is why im addicted to pain meds) and my parents have been with me since my first trip to rehab when i was 18, im now 23, and so of course i needed the vicodin but my mom wouldnt let me dose myself. She dispensed the vics 1 every six hours although my tolerance was 6 every 3 hours at 20-25 pills a day paid for in cash off street. The first 3 days were frustrating but the vics she gave kept w/ds at bay. Then to my amazment on the 5th day she gave me one and i felt good! at this point the stone was almost out and hurt the worst. So now I got 2 pills every 4 hours and was buzzed! I couldnt believe it. Now I had lowered my tolerance to a reasonable amount to where w/ds are much QUICKER not EASIER so dont be confused just weening down doesent hurt less it just takes less time. So I dried out and relapsed a week later in a fit of out of nowhere boredom! I relapsed on heroin to cover up the guilt and shame i felt from letting my family down. I continued another 7 months and went back to rehab where i used a regiment of suboxone for 3 months and lowered my dose down to 1 mg a day and slid off of them in 2 days. I stayed clean for about 4 months with NA and a halfway house then moved out and had a brief binder in vegas with dones. Now im 4 months clean again but I disconnected myself in a new town, new friends, (clean friends) attempted religion which helps no matter what religion, NO more drug buddies which is hard as hell. No more fast lane lifestyle but in place of that I have my job, money, and more importantly FAMILY. Yall remember laughing and feeling shameless with family? It can still happen. Choose any of these methods, I hope the help someone. Out of all these i suggest finding a suboxone doctor and maintain a low dose (you wont get high) and stay on it........Good luck and god be with you all.. If you loose hope remember there is light at the end of the tunnel...You CAN beat this ********. Its a hard life we live but remember that millions are going through the same thing.

[RaceMan]

I'm fighting opiate addiction now.  Was taking bout 120mg of oxycodone for bout a 1 1/2 years.  This I started after kicking the booze, bout 2 years Bacardi free.  But kicking the pills is the hardest freakin thing I've ever tried.  Went 9 days cold turckey..  Then took 4 tens yesterday.  It's the depresion and the unability to Move that may be the worst.  Taking a shower requires 3 cups of coffee.  Have I mentioned you will cry at the drop of a hat.  To top it off this crawlin out yourskin **** just plain *****... Won't let you sleep on top of it all.  Well that's were I'm at now..,  back to day 2 clean now..  Really hope I can do it this time.  Ohh when do you stop feeling like everyday is your worst..  When does the depression from withdrawl stop?

[twwow]

Taking potassium supplements will take the Restless Leg Syndrome away.  They are cheap and you can get them at any drug store/ health food store.  R.L.S. is a horrible thing.  I would try everything i could think of the get hid of it (stretching, exercise, heat pads, etc.)  Then somewhere i read that potassium supplements would take it away.  Within about an hour of taking my first supplement, I notice the pain in my legs subsiding, and eventually went totally away by the end of the day. I take a potassium tab once a day and the R.L.S. had not returned...at all.  So, R.L.S. is a simple case of potassium deficiency.  

[droping32]

i have been taking 30-40 narcos/perc 10s and soma 350 a day the mix would make me really relaxed but slowly toar my life right out from under my legs i  have been on them for 4 years and i have unlimted access to them since n the last year i learned how to doc hop and keep my needs fulfilled.  i would get about 1500 to 2000 a month in just the narcos.  i started in 06 with just one to two aday ive never been injured bad enough to take em ijust liked them. i went from havein a great job a great girl to no job, on thin ice with the girl.  i have to stop now or im just gonna loose my life for good and put me in a hole thats to deep for me to climb out of. im on day one it wasnt that bad but day one never is this isnt the first time i tried kicking the habet but it definetly gets harder every time . i just need to no when do u think its safe to start working again without the constint mindfucking that goes on and who knows how long its gonna take me to start feeling a little better considering how many i was taking. im only 22 i cant do this **** no more.