Q for Opiate with drawls. pls respond pls!

[pensacolafl26]

This is for my husband. Anyone following my post will know that i am withdrawing from vicodin from just a few months worth. My husbands is far worse, and he needs your help. please answer him, helping him with this question i am letting him post will greatly improve our recovery as a team. Pls, if you only respond to one post today, do this for me and my husband, so he will come back to this. I need this for him and i.... Here is my husband..



Hi! Well I just medically retired from the Army after 15 years of service and as a Staff Sergeant. I was injured in 2007 and since then I have been on opiates. Mainly Vicodin and percocet. I have not taken more than a 150 mg in a day but it stays off and on at about 20 to 50mg a day and sometimes Tramadol and Darvocet also. I just need help on how to cut this out before I lose my wife and daughters. I really want to cut this crap out but please help me to figure out what I need to do. any responses will help. Please help me to beat this before its too late. My wife is so much stronger than me and I am supposed to be the man. This is not how its supposed to be. I am losing my grip on life. I was a respected soldier and earned the bronze star medal for heroism in the war in Iraq. Now I have even lost my self respect because of this addiction. I Love my family more than the addiction but it is harder than what I ever imagined. I appreciate your time for reading this and I hope to hear from someone............Thank You!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[lashamummyof2]

Congratulations on being a hero to a lot of us. I am Canadian and I always hear how wimpy we are but our sons and fathers are in Afganistan right next to yours. You have nothing to fear. You will feel rotten for a few days, yes. But it will get better. I never thought I had such a problem until I went CT ran out. Now, I can't go back. I'm not out of the woods yet. I'm only day 4 but wow, what a change. I have so much in my life to do and look forward to, I can stay very busy easily. The challenge will be: oh, I'll just take it this once to get the buzz, it will be fun. Well, I took it to feel normal and when I saw what not normal w/d was like, no no no way can I go back. You spent time in a war zone, how uncomfortable was that? terrible. This is nothing your body cannot handle. You can beat this. Just imagine the addiction as the enemy that you are hunting and strangle the life out of it. Once you do, you will see life differently. My brother died from addiction, there is only recovery, jail, or death. We all know that, but right now, when you still have a home, and a wife, and access to drugs, it's hard to think about bottom. For me, bottom was forced w/d. I figured I could feign flu once, but if I kept doing this, I'd lose everything. YOU CAN DO IT!!!!!!! I didn't have a plan, but I acted fast and, well, I started Mon/Tuesday and it's Friday. By Monday I'm sure I'll be much better. then better.

[bigoc1655]

hi man im in the same spot as u we both can do this i had a very bad back injury in july heniated 3 discs in my back im 26 yrs old so i have to stop this and my girlfriend is 4 months pregnant so now more then ever we have to stop cause i to do not want to lose my family its only takes about a week and u will start to feel better i need to know how much u were taking to help u devise a plan thx let me know

[pensacolafl26]

This is the wife, i have been off tramadol for a long time, so that is not a problem for me. I was never taking that much. Once i had the seizuzre, i pretty well stopped it all together. but thank you for your concern. My issue is more w/ the vicodin

[avisg]

PLZ DONT CT OFF THE TRAMADOL the other stuff is fine but plz taper down the tram so you because of the seizure risk even if its a quick taper down I cant quite tell from your post how much of it u are taking .if its just a little just go down a pill a day if its alot it going to take time .Feel free to make your own profile so both can have your own accounts

[Calamity2]

When I was going through withdrawal I imagined that I was a soldier fighting for the freedom of myself and my family and the enemy was addiction. Vicodin, oxy etc. etc. I suffered the withdrawal but it didn't last nearly as long as I had anticipated. I was amazed that I made it. YOU are a brave soldier and I thank you from the bottom of my heart for all you did for me and my family in your service. Now from the bottom of my heart I promise to pray for you and your wife today. You can make it. Don't believe the lies the addiction tries to tell you.

[Gpison]

Anything you guys need just let me know. I will be here everyday. Even if you need to talk on the phone, I can be there. I am in Florida also, alot further south thankgod :P but here none the less.

[pensacolafl26]

Man you know what! What you have said has inspired me and that is the most real I have been with myself in a long time. I will make it through this. Like you my wife and kids mean more to me than anything. Your response has hit me like a ton of bricks. I am not tapering off I will do it like the way my wife says and thats white knuckle it. Thank you so much. My eyes were only half open and now they are wide open. We can do this. Please keep in touch because we will need you and your experiences. I mean that. I really believe this is another chance at life. I have tears in my eyes..............Hope to talk to you soon................

[Gpison]

My wife is just like yours man. I was suppose to be the strong one and I was in the same situation you are in. I cant really tell you what really clicked for me to get me to stop other than I just couldnt look at my wife and kids anymore knowing what I was doing behind closed doors. Almost everyone says that you cant stop for someone else, that you have to do it for you, I dont agree with that. My kids and my wife mean more to me than life itself and that was the inspiration I needed to give it up and move on. I am on day 177 and havent looked back as I know in my heart it is just not an option. Once you get to that point, you will know it, you will feel it with all of your being that it is time to accept that this is going to take you no where and the reality will hit you that you are going to lose everything eventually.

We get so worked up and afraid of the WD's that we talk ourselfs out of doing it this time, but there is nothing to fear. You know what to expect, you know that in 5 short days you will be feeling much much better. To this day I still get accasional cravings, but not very often as I try to keep as active as possible and spend alot of time here with the people that got my through my hell week of withdrawls. My wife says that I am now addicted to this place and she loves that this has taken the place of my DOC.

I was at my worst doing around 350 mg of norco a day so I know you can get through this, I really do. The best way that I found to do this, and Im talking just about me now, not everyone can do this, is that I picked a day to stop taking, 24 hours after my last dose when I was really sick, I took half of what I had taken the day before, this let me slepp the next time and acted as a reward for getting through 24 hours. I kept doing this for 5 days, cutting more each 24 hour period. I still had withdrawls during the 24 hours of down time, but I knew at the end of the day I had some relief comming. On the fifth day, I jumped and it wasnt so bad. I used most of the thomas recipe short of the benzo's and st john wart for the anxiety which relly helped alot. Just a few short days later, the switched flicked on and I was free. I never to this day feel totaly safe from the power that it has over me though. I keep my guard up, post here as much as I can and even if I dont post, I read, read, read to remind me of what I had been through.

I wish you guys the very best and hope that you can find the inner strength that you need when you are ready to stop. We will be here for you in the meantime.

[rrpat]

There is not much I can help you with....But....Really hot baths....melatonin for sleep...benedril fr runny nose....eat bananas for potassium....thomas recepie at lower right corner of this page...Ive run out early last three mts....been on oxy for 1 yr...this time i quit the pills....5 days this time so far...10 days last month....I cant handle going       thru this every month...best i can do....hope you make it...

[febninthgirl]

I will private mess u guy