can't stop...crying

[lisa983]

Has anyone ever had severe crying episodes, while trying to quit hydros?

[lisa983]

thank you so much for your post. im finally over it so far.  but if it happens again I will feel better knowing this is a normal part of wds.  thanks again everyone, u guys are very caring:-)

lisa

[trinity358]

I have tried to quit vicodins several times and am going for the final time this week. Everytime I go through severe crying episodes. This is normal....clinically you carry stress hormones that you release in your tears (no joke). Women naturally have more and when you go through a stressful time crying is a way of releasing these hormones and helps you destress. So let it out!

[persnick38]

You've heard the expression "cry me a river?" Well, I am on day 19 and could cry you an OCEAN! It must be a "normal" part of wd. I think our brains are so messed up from the chemicals we used to self-medicate and now they are trying to figure out what the hell is going on.

I get so discouraged b/c I'll have a day where I feel really good emotionally and then, BAM - tears start rolling down my face and seem to come from nowhere. Anything can set me off.

Have you ever seen Wedding Crashers? Hillarious movie - or at least it's supposed to be. I laughed from time to time but cried like a baby at the end and it's not meant to be a typical "chick flick" with the whole "happily ever after" thing. I felt ridiculous.

I think it's good to cry it out. Crying can be really cleansing and healthy - if that's the case, I think I've cried enough over the past couple of weeks to live to be 210 years old!

[vikeaddict]

I have been there not so long ago and im not one to cry. I believe once i stopped taking pills i started to have feel things i havent felt in years. I believe those pills have had so numb for so long that we are not used to feeling emotion, well at least it was that way for me. Also i was so happy and so upset at the same time.. I was so happy i was finally getting control back over my life and i was coming out of the closet and admitting to all of my family that im a drug addict and i need help, but what makes me so sad and still does all the time i have lost because of my addiction. So cry because i know i needed to!! Now i feel so happy that i have taken control back of my life and god has allowed me to have so many chance at this that i will try everyday to make up for all that lost time. Your surrounded by great people here, and at one time or another we all have been there.
Smile!!
Life has just begun!!
Rachael

[toxictome]

I cried the whole time i tapered and then for a week or two after...all of a sudden i would start crying ..for no reason....thank goodness that's over...i cried at the therapist today...went in feeling good ...cried half the time and left feeling drained!!

This to shall pass!!! Keep posting!

[K Todd]

Go look at my day 5 post....You'll see that this 38 year old man, shed tears from being ashamed, feeling bad etc, to the point of exaustion...

It's normal, and part of the process of your mind transforming into reality and not having it masked with hydro's anymore.

Cry, pray and let it all out, and don't be ashamed, we all have been there and done that.

God Bless,
Love,
Todd

[PromisedLand]

I had some real crying spells for a few days...just about anything would set me off..One morning I woke up and was lying in bed and it just started.  You're not alone with this and it will pass.


JIm

[flmagi]

Oh Yeah! Cried like a baby with colic. It's all a normal part of withdrawels. It's just your brain kicking back in. Enjoy it, it means your healing and coming back to the real world, where there is crying and laughing etc.  Its all good.

[catmagnet]

i'm bawling my eyes out everyday.. and i'm still tapering!

[worried878]

Yes...I had one so bad a couple of weeks after I quit...I had to go to my mom's house...and cry and cry and cry....seems like so long ago now...i am not a "cryer" and wish I did cry more often...can be good for the soul!  Anyway, i felt better afterwards...crying is an emotion and we have squelched them for so long with drugs...doesnt feel natural to be sad...but everyone is sometimes

[candy74]

Hi Lisa, I cried my eyes out the other night....could have been bc I watched attonement---big mistake, esp if you're already on the verge of tears from w/d. What was I thinking?? Note to self: when going thru w/d's don't watch something that'll rip your heart out!!!

[BornTwoRiff]

same here with the patch.. I think its just the jolt or lack of brain chemistry.. Mine is starting to subside.. I hope so anyway.. I hate to cry for nothing.. Raventwo husband was having severe crying episodes.. Its really normal I think esp for some that may have some underlying depression there and these meds do cause depression while we are on them...

[lostsoul2]

yes.  I felt like a baby.   I'm over 3 weeks clean and still have episodes that I have to fight off tears over the smallest things.

[troubleinohio]

oh my, YES YES YES! i had some very horrible hysterical crying spells when detoxing!! i cried about everything and anything. I suffer from clinical depression anyways, so i got a double whammy. it wasnt until i got back on my prozac and detoxed again that i didnt get the crying so much (if at all , I cant remember now) but the times I detoxed/relapsed before, i had very bad crying spells!

[josh231]

same with ultrams it blew like i was watching some lil kid movie about a firehouse dog and like the kid hugged the dog and i started ballin for some reason lol

[avisg]

YES ,not from hydros from ultram badddddddd that and lack of sleep that of course would just make me cry more .......... how long ago did you stop taking them?

[lisa983]

i guess not...