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I've been looking for someone that knows what I'm going through to talk to for support. I'm going cold turkey off hydrocodone 10/325 taking about 10 a day. For 7 months now I've been taking some form of opioid. It went from hydrocodone to dilaudid to oxy back to hydrocodone. I need to be off of these. Pretty much my only way to do this is cold turkey. I only have ER 40mg hydrocodone and I really don't want to take those. I've never taken ER before. I'm throwing up, very nauseous, can't stop going to the bathroom, in pain, very hot but very cold, high anxiety and so on. I took some early today at about 11 and I'm already feeling this. I went off dilaudid cold turkey until I relapsed back to hydrocodone and it wasn't like this. Please help.
Hey everyone,
I went to the Drs today. I've been trying non narcotics for the sciatica in my back, the pulled muscle in my neck and chiari malformation. Nothing has worked. I hurt my back last night worse and they are doing an X-ray and mri to try and figure out if it's anything worse than the sciatica. I got put back on the hydrocodone. I really want to just take what's prescribed or less now that I made it through the physical withdrawal. I read someone else's post where they had to go back on due to chronic pain and many people were not supportive and didn't want her posting nor helping anyone. I'm so afraid I can't be on this forum anymore due to this and I feel like you guys will continue to make do to the right thing. Can I have everyone's opinion?
I went to the Drs today. I've been trying non narcotics for the sciatica in my back, the pulled muscle in my neck and chiari malformation. Nothing has worked. I hurt my back last night worse and they are doing an X-ray and mri to try and figure out if it's anything worse than the sciatica. I got put back on the hydrocodone. I really want to just take what's prescribed or less now that I made it through the physical withdrawal. I read someone else's post where they had to go back on due to chronic pain and many people were not supportive and didn't want her posting nor helping anyone. I'm so afraid I can't be on this forum anymore due to this and I feel like you guys will continue to make do to the right thing. Can I have everyone's opinion?
Hi there. Just thought I would throw a little support and understanding your way. Reading your posts over the last couple a days was like reading mine almost to the letter almost three months ago. Working day 79 c/t off hydro for over 15 years. So thankful I found this site around the third day of my detox. Probably would not have made it without the support and guidance I received here.
First week was tough, but I kept looking at one fact. Every hour I made it clean was one hour I never had to go through again if I could just make it through a few days and weeks. Trust me, you are doing better than me at this point as I did not starting using the word DAYS until the second week. Until then, I was counting hours. Sometimes minutes. But thank God, I made it through and so will you. And you deserve to get off this evil addiction ride. You can and will have a good life back, just don't look back and don't try to plan too far out. JUST FOR TODAY!!!!. One day at a time.
One other thing that really helped was getting to an NA meeting on my 5th day. AA meeting on my 6th day. And I'm still going to both. No judgments,
no requirements, just a lot of love and support. Kind of like here but on a local level. Person to person. If you are not sure, just try it. You don't even have to use your real name. Just go a few times and I think you'll see why it can work for you.
Stay strong, Keep reading and posting as often as you need to fight the cravings, anxiety, and fear. It does get better. And just remember why you are doing this. This is your life and you are on this site because you want to stop using. So let's do this!!!!
Always with love Charlie
First week was tough, but I kept looking at one fact. Every hour I made it clean was one hour I never had to go through again if I could just make it through a few days and weeks. Trust me, you are doing better than me at this point as I did not starting using the word DAYS until the second week. Until then, I was counting hours. Sometimes minutes. But thank God, I made it through and so will you. And you deserve to get off this evil addiction ride. You can and will have a good life back, just don't look back and don't try to plan too far out. JUST FOR TODAY!!!!. One day at a time.
One other thing that really helped was getting to an NA meeting on my 5th day. AA meeting on my 6th day. And I'm still going to both. No judgments,
no requirements, just a lot of love and support. Kind of like here but on a local level. Person to person. If you are not sure, just try it. You don't even have to use your real name. Just go a few times and I think you'll see why it can work for you.
Stay strong, Keep reading and posting as often as you need to fight the cravings, anxiety, and fear. It does get better. And just remember why you are doing this. This is your life and you are on this site because you want to stop using. So let's do this!!!!
Always with love Charlie
Hey gnarly thanks for replying. I got through the cravings by distraction and willpower. They were extremely bad last night, it has lessend a lot this morning. Maybe the more you don't give in to them the easier it is? I think I have some good coping skills but one thing I don't have is friends to rely on. It would be nice to have someone readily to talk to when I need them but I also feel with my personality I wouldn't want to bug them so I wouldn't call. We only have meetings here twice a week. One on Tuesday and one on Thursday. I'm still terrified to go and I guess I don't want to view myself as that much of an addict that I need to go as ashamed as I am to admit that. I'm going to the Drs today and physical therapy. Hopefully that will help ease up the pain as I've hurt my back even worse last night.
Hi Ronda.....well your doing great day 5 can go ether way some come out of it others it is just another day of detox just know your close to the phyical part being over.....now these cravings got me a bit alarmed you got the right idea by distracting your self that will help if you belive in God try praying it helped me as soon as your up to it time to get to a N/A meeting with time in the progam you will loose the very desire to want to use it is the only thing that helped me you will also learn coping skills and have a network of clean freind to call when your going threw it keep posting for support where all here for you
...........................................Gnarly.............................................
...........................................Gnarly.............................................
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