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Quit percs yesterday......
Hi everyone,
I'm new to this whole outreach for advice thing. I'm just gonna start off by telling you a little about my situation.
For as long as I can remember I have had a constant pain in my mid to lowerback area. I've seen doctors and chiropractors to try and get this problem fixed. Nothing, my doctor about 6 years ago just told me to read about pain and how it can be "in your head". So taking the docs advice, I read. I learned alot about the spine and the surrounding muscles.
So since learning all that information I have started working out, doing stretches, friggin even done Hot yoga a bunch of times. It all made my back feel great! for about an hour.....then back to the constant, dull, frustrating pain... . About 4 months ago I invited a few friends up to the cottage for some fun in the sun. A friend there who I've known for a long time but never really knew, you know? had overheard me complaining about my back pain. He offered me a 2 Percocets. I took them because I was looking for any chance of reliefs I could find.
Snap! Hooked on them. The pain just fluttered away! I felt lifted! Anew, reborn! OK, so now Im excited. There is a medication out there that works the way I want it. So I talk to my doctor he tells me Hi everyone,
I'm new to this whole outreach for advice thing. I'm just gonna start off by telling you a little about my situation.
For as long as I can remember I have had a constant pain in my mid to lowerback area. I've seen doctors and chiropractors to try and get this problem fixed. Nothing, my doctor about 6 years ago just told me to read about pain and how it can be "in your head". So taking the docs advice, I read. I learned alot about the spine and the surrounding muscles.
So since learning all that information I have started working out, doing stretches, friggin even done Hot yoga a bunch of times. It all made my back feel great! for about an hour.....then back to the constant, dull, frustrating pain... . About 4 months ago I invited a few friends up to the cottage for some fun in the sun. A friend there who I've known for a long time but never really knew, you know? had overheard me complaining about my back pain. He offered me a 2 Percocets. I took them because I was looking for any chance of reliefs I could find.
Snap! Hooked on them. The pain just fluttered away! I felt lifted! Anew, reborn! OK, so now I'm excited. There is a medication out there that works the way I want it. So I talk to my doctor he tells me ''Percocets just mask the pain, they don't solve it or cure it, It's just a coverup''. So at this point I'm like F you, obviously you don't know **** about how I'm feeling.....Maybe he was Right.
Now here I am, 4 months later.. Miserable....broke...on the verge of loosing my girlfriend of 10 years......spent the money I was gonna use on her ring to buy percocets on the street at $4 a piece. 50 of them might've lasted me 4 days if I was lucky.(I take my last 2 percs now 9:30am) So I go to the doctor yesterday(10:40am), hoping to get some perks cause I was all out and couldnt get some until this friday.
(I don't mention my addiction to percocets). He gives me Naproxen 500mg. An anti-inflammatory!!! . So whatever I get home and down 2 of these take only every 12 hours pills(2:00pm). Nothing.... (5:00pm 4 tylenol and 1 more naproxen) Start feeling really weird, got a little sweat goin on. My gf's got her friends over watching teen mom and reruns of real housewives.
(10:00pm) Whoa! cant sleep....moving allover the place like the girl from the excorsist.....drink water pee...water..pee...1 hour of sleep (I swear i just blacked out). Got the sweats.....Hot....cold....cold....hot.....cold.....hot...cold....pee.....twitch....
It was horrible called in sick today, finally told my girlfriend about the percs and also the $3000.00 debt I've been trying to hide....and she cries? asks me why I didnt tell her sooner, She's so upset that I didn't come to her for help before this got the way it is. Doesn't even care about the money.....wow she's amazing!
Now here I am 9:17am. (Had to pause writing a few times as it seems my intestines are flushing themselves.) Writing here on this blog, spilling my soul. It feels good! I feel more alive now than before! (getting all tearry eyed now..)
My names Andy and I quit percocets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(whoa full on waterworks for me there......lol)
Please don't hate or try and bring me down I only wrote this to get it off my chest and out in the air. I feel good....
I'm new to this whole outreach for advice thing. I'm just gonna start off by telling you a little about my situation.
For as long as I can remember I have had a constant pain in my mid to lowerback area. I've seen doctors and chiropractors to try and get this problem fixed. Nothing, my doctor about 6 years ago just told me to read about pain and how it can be "in your head". So taking the docs advice, I read. I learned alot about the spine and the surrounding muscles.
So since learning all that information I have started working out, doing stretches, friggin even done Hot yoga a bunch of times. It all made my back feel great! for about an hour.....then back to the constant, dull, frustrating pain... . About 4 months ago I invited a few friends up to the cottage for some fun in the sun. A friend there who I've known for a long time but never really knew, you know? had overheard me complaining about my back pain. He offered me a 2 Percocets. I took them because I was looking for any chance of reliefs I could find.
Snap! Hooked on them. The pain just fluttered away! I felt lifted! Anew, reborn! OK, so now Im excited. There is a medication out there that works the way I want it. So I talk to my doctor he tells me Hi everyone,
I'm new to this whole outreach for advice thing. I'm just gonna start off by telling you a little about my situation.
For as long as I can remember I have had a constant pain in my mid to lowerback area. I've seen doctors and chiropractors to try and get this problem fixed. Nothing, my doctor about 6 years ago just told me to read about pain and how it can be "in your head". So taking the docs advice, I read. I learned alot about the spine and the surrounding muscles.
So since learning all that information I have started working out, doing stretches, friggin even done Hot yoga a bunch of times. It all made my back feel great! for about an hour.....then back to the constant, dull, frustrating pain... . About 4 months ago I invited a few friends up to the cottage for some fun in the sun. A friend there who I've known for a long time but never really knew, you know? had overheard me complaining about my back pain. He offered me a 2 Percocets. I took them because I was looking for any chance of reliefs I could find.
Snap! Hooked on them. The pain just fluttered away! I felt lifted! Anew, reborn! OK, so now I'm excited. There is a medication out there that works the way I want it. So I talk to my doctor he tells me ''Percocets just mask the pain, they don't solve it or cure it, It's just a coverup''. So at this point I'm like F you, obviously you don't know **** about how I'm feeling.....Maybe he was Right.
Now here I am, 4 months later.. Miserable....broke...on the verge of loosing my girlfriend of 10 years......spent the money I was gonna use on her ring to buy percocets on the street at $4 a piece. 50 of them might've lasted me 4 days if I was lucky.(I take my last 2 percs now 9:30am) So I go to the doctor yesterday(10:40am), hoping to get some perks cause I was all out and couldnt get some until this friday.
(I don't mention my addiction to percocets). He gives me Naproxen 500mg. An anti-inflammatory!!! . So whatever I get home and down 2 of these take only every 12 hours pills(2:00pm). Nothing.... (5:00pm 4 tylenol and 1 more naproxen) Start feeling really weird, got a little sweat goin on. My gf's got her friends over watching teen mom and reruns of real housewives.
(10:00pm) Whoa! cant sleep....moving allover the place like the girl from the excorsist.....drink water pee...water..pee...1 hour of sleep (I swear i just blacked out). Got the sweats.....Hot....cold....cold....hot.....cold.....hot...cold....pee.....twitch....
It was horrible called in sick today, finally told my girlfriend about the percs and also the $3000.00 debt I've been trying to hide....and she cries? asks me why I didnt tell her sooner, She's so upset that I didn't come to her for help before this got the way it is. Doesn't even care about the money.....wow she's amazing!
Now here I am 9:17am. (Had to pause writing a few times as it seems my intestines are flushing themselves.) Writing here on this blog, spilling my soul. It feels good! I feel more alive now than before! (getting all tearry eyed now..)
My names Andy and I quit percocets!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!(whoa full on waterworks for me there......lol)
Please don't hate or try and bring me down I only wrote this to get it off my chest and out in the air. I feel good....
So 10:20am. Getting lots of love from you people. This would be day 1 complete. if you go by 24 hours and not night and day. I wrote the post and felt great doing it. Got alot out. At the moment I seem to be doing ok I just have this constant sweaty skin and my head feels really weird. I took my dog out for a walk and sunlight didn't help at all. I'm staying strong though. I'm about to go run a hot bath and my leave the shower on shooting cold water in my face, because i dont know what i want right now.
Thank you all for your support I will keep updating this every few hours, seems to give my head something to focus on. Thanks for the support!!
Thank you all for your support I will keep updating this every few hours, seems to give my head something to focus on. Thanks for the support!!
be proud! That's amazing you quit cold turkey.We are here for your support we understand. Keep up the good work. You can do it!
Hey there Andy & Welcome! A HUGE congrats to you on your Big decision, on telling your GF & on passing that first 24 hr. mark. You're doing great & you're in the right place. Stick with this. This site pulled many of us through.
As my friends above have mentioned what you're going through is completely 'normal'. We tend to be on an emtional roller coaster during acute w/d's & early Post-acute withdrawal (PAWS) as our brains start to readjust. It just takes a little time. I promise this will ease. The great news is that you were only hooked for 4 mos. So, now is definitely the time to stop & not go back! The more habits you have -- the longer the time you have in -- the older you get -- the harder it becomes.
If you go to the searchbox & type 'Thomas Recipe' you'll find some excellent detox tips. Here are the highlights: A good vitamin/mineral supplement, a healthy unprocessed diet (cut out caffeine, sugar & fried/fast foods if possible), good hydration (Sooo important -- 2 to 3 liters of plain water per day -- especially with gut issues like you mention), Imodium as directed (it'll be your best friend 'til you're over 'the hump'), hot salt baths as needed for muscle aches & anxiety & a powdered cal/mag/potassium formula for RLS, charley horses & muscle aches.
You sound like you have an excellent attitude. Please, stick close to the forum & continue to post for support/advice whenever you feel the need. There are many wonderful folks here who will share their hard-won experience with you. You're DOING IT!! Yaaaay you! We're here & we're in your corner.
As my friends above have mentioned what you're going through is completely 'normal'. We tend to be on an emtional roller coaster during acute w/d's & early Post-acute withdrawal (PAWS) as our brains start to readjust. It just takes a little time. I promise this will ease. The great news is that you were only hooked for 4 mos. So, now is definitely the time to stop & not go back! The more habits you have -- the longer the time you have in -- the older you get -- the harder it becomes.
If you go to the searchbox & type 'Thomas Recipe' you'll find some excellent detox tips. Here are the highlights: A good vitamin/mineral supplement, a healthy unprocessed diet (cut out caffeine, sugar & fried/fast foods if possible), good hydration (Sooo important -- 2 to 3 liters of plain water per day -- especially with gut issues like you mention), Imodium as directed (it'll be your best friend 'til you're over 'the hump'), hot salt baths as needed for muscle aches & anxiety & a powdered cal/mag/potassium formula for RLS, charley horses & muscle aches.
You sound like you have an excellent attitude. Please, stick close to the forum & continue to post for support/advice whenever you feel the need. There are many wonderful folks here who will share their hard-won experience with you. You're DOING IT!! Yaaaay you! We're here & we're in your corner.
I have not been on here for a while and now I remember why I need to once in a while to remember just how horrible it was for me. I was on trams, of course Dr. said a long time ago that they were not addictive, boy where they wrong. lol. so honestly not everything a Dr. tells you is Gold but it sounded like you have one that knows better. You have a G-F with a heart of gold one that knows life happens. :))
Ok so it's 12:26pm.I have the sweats and this real anxious feeling like I should be doing something. I've been just hangin out trying to overcome this. Taking the dog for a walk, cleaning, all sorts of stuff. I had also told my parents about my problem....my mom is coming over at 1:30pm to see how I'm doing. Gonna be akward because I normally tell them everything. I know she'll understand. Whoa just had to pause there, started watching this series CRACKED and some little girl just freaked out with a bat. Anyways, so far so good. The way I'm feeling now I dont ever wanna even hear the word Percocet. (Unless it's an unlimited supply)
No I'm kidding, but it's hard and I thank you all for the support. I'll let you know how it goes with my mom. Thanks guys/girls!
No I'm kidding, but it's hard and I thank you all for the support. I'll let you know how it goes with my mom. Thanks guys/girls!
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