clonidine dose in opiate withdrawal

[okdoky]

Hello, I am currently planning to get off pills after 5 years. I am very scared of the wd symptoms. I was wondering if anyone has tried clonidine. How much did you take and did it help.

[orangatang]

Listen to this.... I have been a heroin addict with needles and everything below for years.. I am now clean off the stuff three years. I took methadone :) for 2 years since I was still an occaional user and didnt feel like dying...got clean..tried suboxone NEVER TAKE SUBANYTHING!!!! You will become sick daily im talking emergency room sick worse than withdrawl if thats possible...clonodine never tried but heard good thangs...I recently shattered my heal....and guess what....Yep dilauted followed by vicodin sob...The withdrawl is the worst IT SUX, IT SUXS BAD! no lie but a wasting your life with opiods is worse just remember its 5 dayz ..the magic number is what you want to know and its 5-7days NOTHING HELPS DRINK WATER and GIVE UP SLEEPING Good luck and may god bless you and me too im with ya homie

[jusmehere]

I too am on day one of WD...  I have been taking percs, roxis, tabs, ANYTHING to stop them.   I got up at 5:00 this morning to talk to a Methadone clinic only to find out that they have to have PERMISSION from the doctor who is giving me the pills to treat me with Methadone.....  Of course, he doesn't wanna lose his meal ticket, so he won't fax a response to the clinic.  I am just soooo tired.  I have been to many rehabs before, and they work for a little while, but I always end up back on some kind of opiate.

[gravedigging]

UH YA, I believe it, I was snorting 10 80 mg Oxy's a day plus eating 10, 10mg norcos a day. That was a cold turkey two month kick, and now in my third go round its subs, 8 days clean. God tell me my magic number.  That being said its not near as bad as the others, trust that.

[Weezy1978]

There's no real reason to take anything when ur detoxing, all you have to do is just suck it up and ******* do it! If ur a hardcore heroin or pill popper, then u can just get over it in about 7 days but the sleep still remains to be seen. That's the only bad thing about coming off of opiates. I'm on my 3rd day right now, and the only thing that's pissing me off is the fact that I can't sleep! My legs are creepy crawly, wont stop shaking and moving. But if you're serious about wanting to kick, then by all means do it! Just take what u have right now and do the rest and just suck it up and wait it out.

[Weezy1978]

There's no real reason to take anything when ur detoxing, all you have to do is just suck it up and ******* do it! If ur a hardcore heroin or pill popper, then u can just get over it in about 7 days but the sleep still remains to be seen. That's the only bad thing about coming off of opiates. I'm on my 3rd day right now, and the only thing that's pissing me off is the fact that I can't sleep! My legs are creepy crawly, wont stop shaking and moving. But if you're serious about wanting to kick, then by all means do it! Just take what u have right now and do the rest and just suck it up and wait it out.

[Ajohnson72]

Thank you for your post... I couldnt agree with you more about never switching to methadone (in my case).  I went to a Methadone clinic completely unaware of what i was getting myself into longterm.  Ive had 7 surgeries on my low back, have titanium implanted, nerve damage, etc....when i found the clinic it was because i was taking over 20-25, some days more, of Perc 10's, klonipin, deprssion meds, and others, and didnt want to lay down to sleep one night and not wake up....orphan my children!  I went to the clinic and i wanted to change my behavior, the way i thought, deal with my baggage, and just learn how to live a life with pain in it.  After just shy of 3 years i happily accomplished my goals.  I truly feel like a new person with a new lease on life.

So, i transferred back into pain management and have a wonderful doc....BUT coming off the merhadone has been nothing short of Hell!  When i left the clinic i had gotten down to 86mgs of the liquid daily from 115mgs.  My PM doc took me from 86mgs to 60 in my 1st appt which was ok as he had started me on other meds for my pain.  2 weeks ago he dropped me from 50mgs to none at all!!  He adjusted all my other meds but i have had the most wicked withdrawals since that appt but i refuse REFUSE to call him and have me start taking a low dose of the methadone.  I want it out of my body!!  Had i known what this would be like when i entered the clinic i would have made a different choice!!  This is worse than coming off of anything EVER!!  I keep hoping that the day will come that i realize im starting to not feel so bad, but im 2 weeks and 2 days into this whole thing and im miserable.....no sleep, cant eat, GI problems, and withdrawal pain compounding my usual daily pain.  Im taking the clonidine and trazodone for sleep to help with this processbut im not totally sure what if anything its doing for me.

My former counselor who has since left the clinic for ethical reasons, and i, are trying to accimilate information about the huge CONS about methadone and methadone clinics.  They ultimately create a captive audience of addicts that have merely traded one addiction for one that is SO much harder to deal with.  We are going to try to educate the public about all of this, hopefully with a website and also with speaking engagements.  People need to know this is not your only option out there and, as you said, a terrible one for trying to deal with a pill addiction.  

Again i appreciate all of the info about clonidine and withdrawals in this post.  Its helped me a lot.  Peace, happiness, and better days for all.

Ajohnson