lortab addiction detox fears

[songbirddaisy]

I dont have a huge addiction but dependance/addiction, it's the same thing right. Same to get off of 4 to 5 Lortab 10s a day for 2yrs as it is 25 a day for 10 years I'm sure. I was dx with fibro and pinched nerve in back. I was/am in pain all the time. Drs prescribed me tabs just as many of you. They helped! Imagine that! but these drs didn't want me to get addicted so they never really only gave me enough to get me thru about half the month. So quess what I acuired them elsewhere. I kept telling myself that i only took 4 a day. One in Am, one around lunch, one after work and one at bedtime. That's not a pillhead, I know pill heads. Recently though i started realizing that I am no better. the pills started controlling my life and were getting very expensive. (I can't imagine having a 10 to 20 a day habit). I would run out and my back would kill me so bad I would be writhing in pain!! these drs are gonna have to fix me!!! Now i am wondering if all my pain is the pain from the pinched nerve or if it has been withdrawl pain all along?? prob some of both. My question is how do I detox myself. I don't want a clinc or more pills to get addicted to. I am TERRIFIED of experiencing the WDs. I have only made it thru a few hours before. I can't imagine 3 to 5 days!! Somebody help me. I can't let my 4 to 5 a day habit turn into 10 or 20 a day! I'm tired of it controlling my life.

[dominosarah]

Do you take Prenatal vitamins?

[Kendraerika]

I came off from 4 lortab/ hydro a day. I tapered first. I found out I was pregnant so I chosen to quit... but bc I am pregnant I couldn't take any of the meds/vitamins that most do to lessen the wd symptoms, and chosen not to take some that I could. The wd were mild, cold sweats, hard time sleeping lack of energy/ motivation. I was also on them for chronic pain but Dr didn't give me enough. They do cause rebound pain in my opinion. Hot baths helped til I was thru wd. Pain is better. Have you tried lyrica or nurontin?  They are for fibro/ nerve pain. My sister has conditions bad and has found other ways to deal with it, but takes an occasionally tylenol 3.

[dominosarah]

Try not to be afraid of the wd's.  It is no fun but we need to get the toxins out of our body.  There are many things that you can do that will help ease the symptoms.  You will feel like you have the flu for a few days.  You are very determined to get off the pills and that will help.  Positive thinking is a huge plus!  Keep talking to us~~sara

[songbirddaisy]

yes I still want to quit! I am starting to wonder if the fibro was ever a real dx to start with. I think it is but I want to find other ways to manage it without narcs. I can't afford it, I can't let it control me. I am afraid I will be just like many of the others on here, where I go from 5 a day now to 25 soon and I can't have that.

[amers860]

I'm in pain too. But I cant just stay on pills forever. And I am dependant on them and I do abuse them. Of course I need the pain to go away. But I love the high. Its not the pain that is making me miserable. Its the lack of high I'm feeling right now that is making me freken nuts!

[vicki595]

Hi there!   First of all, you've been undermedicated which led to this problem in the first place!  Maybe even the wrong pain med but I don't know...In any case this is not your fault, in my opinion. You have chronic pain so that's a problem. What to do?

You say you want off and I say that's defeatist. You'll still be in pain from your conditions. How about seeing a different doctor or getting with a Pain Management group?  What you really need is to be properly medicated.

You're right: after two years at 4-5 per day you're not abusing. You're dependent though...still want to quit?