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Have you see a physician that specilizes in addiction?
There are many medications you can take to make the withsdrawl process more tolerable.
There are even rapid detox centers that put you under and administer a drug which purifies the body of the opiates.
I will try and find the web site for these detox centers.
Go to this forum as there is a pain management doctor on this site in the room called spinal disorders. HIs name is Dr. ML Withworth. If you post him a message he is very likely to write you back.
http://neuro-mancer.mgh.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/forumdisplay.cgi?action=topics&number=2&SUBMIT=Go
Just highlight this site and right click your mouse and copy it...and paste it in your browser. I hope you know how to do that.
I know where you are coming from as I am dependant on Oxyconten. I have to take it for pain, but even if I do not, I experience withdrawls symptons right away.
Good luck...
I also understand that a drug called Buprenorphin mitigates opiate withdrawal without "doping" the patient. There is also methadone. Whatever you do, be patient with yourself over this issue. Easy does it. You have nothing to be ashamed of being addicted to your pain relievers. It only means you're human. Take care. Please accept my best wishes for your total recovery.
Good luck.
I really appreciate your prompt response and your willing to help. You have given me some hope, I hate my condition and your suggestions I have taken into consideration and will probably follow through pending on what my doctor says. To anyone else who have or will respond you don't know how much it means to me to know that I'm not alone and I'm not to blame. I'm going to see if I can try the medicine you mentioned, Buprenorphin. Because as I said, it's not my mind, it's my body that's dependent and I really hate it. Any other advice or suggestions would be most helpful. Thank you very much Tom. (and everyone else)
Virginia
Did you check out that site I told you about?
It is nice to see people in here trying to help you. Every person that posted you gave you some very honest answers.
Good luck as I know what a terrifying feeling you might be experiencing in your life right now.
There are some wonderful doctors out there. You have to find one of them and you will be on the road to recovery.
Tom
Virginia
dearest virginia. hi how you feelingtoday hon? well i am not quite sure where your at, at this moment with your trying to withdrawalfrom the ms contin but ican totally relate toyou hon.
i myself was puton the mscontin last year 1999 for pain management. i began on about 4omg's and ended up on a dose near you. little did i know i had become physically addicted over a one year period. i went overseas and it was in ny that i experienced the true evil of morphine withdrawal. the thing was i had nothing to pep me up and i tell you it was the worst week in my whole entire life. i did not sleep i cried alot was very very emotional and nervous constantly. as well i had the sweats fever the chills achesand pains etc.
but what i can say is that each day the detox got better and better and by after10 days i was becoming physically human again hon.
listen if i went back i would not do it this way. there are things which can be used to withdrawal you so that you do not experience immense phsysical and physiological pain.
one way to go is to see a specialist and try benzodiazapines. the best one i can suggest to counterract the effects of morphine withdrawal is ativan which is lorazepam. if you take tomilligrams 5 times a day i believe you will be able to tolerate the pain associated with the whole withdrawal process.
if you are to far addicted to tolerate a benzo withdrawal process another drug and method used here in aistralia to de tox heroin and morphine users is a thing called naltrexone. it is a form of rapid detox and basically stops the brain craving for the morphine, can be very effective with some people but also has down sides like it makes your body extra extra sensitive to any opiod you may take after thetreatment and this can be very dangerous as a dose which you could once tolerate you will no longer be able to tolerate and thus there is the danger of even death.
another drug used is buprenorphine which is an agonist and atagonist opiod which should help you to withdrawal slowly but safely and without pain and the withdrawal symptoms involved with the buprenorphine are minimal compared to other opiods.
personally i would either try the benzodiazapine method or the buprenorphine one virginia, but speak only to a specialist who deals primarily in withdrawal syndrome okay hon.
if you have any questions please reply to me i am thinking of you and feel for you and send you all my heart and spirit that you get through this painful period and come out of it happy and together.
love always andrew korman. please reply anytime virginia i will always make and have time for a good person such as yourself.
Have u read To killa mockingbird??
well there this lady name Mrs dubose..she got rid of it. Now i know the character is unreal but i believe or even hope that being busy might help(maybe just a little) to not think of it. I know that sound easy and is probably be very hard. But it won't hurt to try. Go for a swim, ride bike, hang out with family,go for a walk,go on a vacation,or doing or eat something when u're craving for it. It;s really good that vigirina is cutting step by step. Try to keep busy as possible, i know that's way to much to ask for but i really hope that MS. Aslaken will be off it for good.
Have u read To killa mockingbird??
well there this lady name Mrs dubose..she got rid of it. Now i know the character is unreal but i believe or even hope that being busy might help(maybe just a little) to not think of it. I know that sound easy and is probably be very hard. But it won't hurt to try. Go for a swim, ride bike, hang out with family,go for a walk,go on a vacation,or doing or eat something when u're craving for it. It;s really good that vigirina is cutting step by step. Try to keep busy as possible, i know that's way to much to ask for but i really hope that MS. Aslaken will be off it for good.
state about90% of the time. a neuropsychiatrist told him that
80% of bipolars respond only to controlled substances and put
on oxyconten...it wworked very well and still does, but shortly
after he started taking it his neurodoc told him that it was no
longer available in the u.s. so he went to mexico where he could get it and still lives there..but, his pharmacist is apparently
running into difficulties getting it...my friend becomes very
depressed if he can't get it. he's thinking of going to england,
but doesn't know if it is available there either. any suggestions?
please excuse my bad english.
I am going through a similar thing: I try to withdraw from methadone after 6 years. The withdrawal