quick question

[wherestheresetbutton]

I'm currently 48 hours Into my detox.  So far its been pretty mild (ill get into specifics later) but after a 5-6 month relapse how long should I expect the "rebound" pain to last?  I kno typically the worst is over after 72 hours, but this lower back pain is driving me crazy.  I have no real back problems (aside from poor sitting posture) and I took the pills recreationally. Any input will help. And ill come back with all the details when I feel I can actually move a bit.

Thanks for taking time to read/answer me.

[readytohavemyLIFEback]

Hope your pain is better and you got some rest.  Hang in there. You and I are just about in the same time frame.  I'm on day 3 and feeling alittle restless.  Hopefully by tomorrow the worse will be over.  Good Luck!

[wherestheresetbutton]

Well, this morning my pain seems to have subsided.  But man oh man where the RLS in control last night.  Got almost no sleep, but I'm off work till satarday so if I have a chance during the day I'm gonna nap ny heart out.   Thanks for checkin in on me :) ill be back to post more later.

S.

[sudie58]

i am glad you are hanging in there, eat some bananas, sounds daft but can help resstless legs, its the potassium in them, also drink tonic water, best wishes.

[readytohavemyLIFEback]

I really think the bananas work because I do not have RLS. I think the L-Tyrosine(amino acid) and vitamins are helping as well.

@Wherestherestbutton maybe it will help to know that you are not alone.  As I said earlier we are into this for about the same amount of hours. (hope that makes since, brain not really working)  It helps me to know that others are in the same boat.  Hopefully we are at least half way there.

[constantbeauty]

Stay strong, you're getting your life back!

I'm really glad to hear that you're able to be off from work until Saturday. This will give you time to be alone, get things together and adapt to the changes that you're about to embark on. There are a lot of members here that are proud of you, myself included.

Like the above poster mentioned, bananas really help with RLS if the other stuff you've tried isn't helping. Just know that you're still in the begining process of all of this, so it might take a few days. It's normal to feel the way you are right now -- WD is always different from one person to the next, but in the end, they all stink to no end! You're doing good so far, so keep your head up about all of this and post, post, post!

[wherestheresetbutton]

After all the response I've recievied, it really does do wonders to my seld esteem, and my drive to push through this.  Thank you all for your kind words of encouragement. A little background on me, I'm a 24 year old male,  Ive been an addict since 2009.  It all started with taking a few pills here and there (maybe once a month) for fun.  Later on I did strain my back working an odd job, which I never started self medicating.  The real fun began when I discovered MMORPGs(online games like world of Warcraft).  I would spend endless hors hunched over a computer playing these games, And we all know how badly poor posture can affect us.  Being I havent had health insurance since I lived at home(moved out at 17), I would ask those older and wiser than me what they thought it could be, almost every single response was the same...kidney stones.. Seriously? Kidney stones at 19? At that point.I began getting maybe 5 7.5/700 for the week when the pain would be bad.  I never really thought anything of it. My intake slowly rose to a 10/500/650 once to twice a day.  At that point I still wasnt abusing the illegal mess I was acquiring from the street.  Around the summer of 2009, my previous boss (RIP ol Ben) and I developed quite the father/son relationship, one that I had truly desired my whole life(both parents are recovering addicts so no love there) well in January 2010 my boss had been diagnosed with stage 4 cancer (so bad they couldn't even attempt to remove it) and within a couple weeks the man closest to me passed away.  After that I just couldn't hold it together anymore.  I found the more pills I took the less the loss of the closest father figure I'd ever had hurt me.  So from that point I went from 1 10mg loricet a day slowly up to around 15 a day.  If it wasn't for my absolutley amazing girlfriend I probably never would have noticed how bad I really was.  So I decided it was time, and that is when I originally found medhelp, I scoured this site, I looked up waterer techniques I could find, and decided tapering was what I would do.  So with the careful watch of my girlfriend I was able to drop from 15+ a day slowly down to a half a pill in the morning.  After two days on the 1/2 pill, I said F this, I'm done!! Flushed that last half and was sober for 6 months.  And to be com