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percoset

by marionreid, Dec 22, 2001 12:00AM
Can discontinuence of percoset(cold turkey) cause withdrawal symptoms(nausea, vomitting)?
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by Telby, Dec 23, 2001 12:00AM
To: marionreid
Yep it sure can.  Depends on how much you are taking and for how long.  You may feel mild flu symptoms for a day or more severe for several days.  If you have never gone through withdrawl before you should get over it pretty fast and it usually isn't as bad the first time.   Never gets better, only worse.   I wish you the best of luck - keep reading this board as you will find others going through the same or worse, much support and wisdom can be found in these threads.  Your in my thoughts, Telby

by shane, Dec 24, 2001 12:00AM
Hello,Merry Christmass and God Bless all of you fighting this terrible addiction, as I am. I started again and Have another mountain to clime. I will say a prayer for all of you. Wiz my friend how are you? I don't post much anymore, iv'e so maney prolems. Witchy women I read all your posts,and there so helpfull. God bless you.Jenny, you and I are always having the same prblems stopping this ****. Mabey we'll make some day! Kip. Thanks, you so thoughtful. All I didn't name, your in my prayer's. I'm really scared this time.please pray for me also.  Love to all of you.  Shane

by alchemist, Dec 24, 2001 12:00AM
Sorry to "highjack" a thread but I couldn't get a question in.



I've been reading the forum for sometime and always found some of the comments both helpfull and interesting (Especially Thomas's detox receipe).  I have been taking oxycontin (20mg bid) and oxcodone (5mg tid) for breakthrough pain as a result of a car accident some years ago.  Although it was a "daily thing" I never took my meds unless they were abolutley needed (recall someone on this forum refering to people like me as common as $3 bills).  Recently my pain doctor did a procedure known as an ablation,were the nerves are deadened, thus no pain trasmission is felt. Although I had false hopes about this in the past (its my 3rd), this one seems to have worked.  I am now in the process of going "cold turkey" I'm on day 3.  I can make during the day with all the aches, chills and sweats but what gets me is the SEVERE restlessness at night that makes sleeping next to impossible on top of this is the weir sensation under my skin, like it moving, very uncomfortable.  I have 2 question for all of you.  First how long does this typically last and have I passed the worst?  Also how do you'all sleep, I've tried muscle relaxants and benzo's they help but don't do the job, the only way I can get some sleep is to take a 5 mg oxy then I sleep like a baby till almost morning.  I know somone on this forum is against taking any oxy's to help with sleep, cause it only proplongs the whole process, but what choice do I have.  I have also started taking the vit-B and tyrosine from thomas's recepie, and have been virtually living in the shower for the past 3 days.



Happy Holidays!

by skipper, Dec 24, 2001 12:00AM
merry Christmas:

especially all of you  brave detoxers! the first time i ever

cleaned up my hand was Christmas od 1978. i had nothing but a broken leg and all the misery i could stand (a lot). in retrospect, it was one of the best christmas's of my life! i believe that sometimes a person has to lose everything to get what they need the most!

Marionreid: nausea and vomiting can be components in any opiate

withdrawl

alchemist: sleep is the tough part for me too. at present i am being treated for restless leg syndrome. my doctor is giving me 1 mg. of klonipin (a long acting benzo) a night. for some reasion it seems to work beter than any of the other benzo's.

Telby: i can't express how glad i am that you are sticking with us.i believe things wil get beter for you. just remember, it will happen in it's own time and speed!

Shane: it's good to see you posting again. you just kind of dropped off the surface...you know addicts are real good at hiding (at least i am). i don't think any of us addicts on this forum should hide our selves away until the rest of us get a whole lot beter at finding each other!

everyone else: may peace and joy seep into all the empty spots

in our souls. also perhaps some acceptence and understanding for

one another and ourselves would be nice tonight.



keep and angel on your shoulder

kip



PS: i'm going to love and care about you people and there isn't

one damm thing you can do about it. (when i was first told this

it scared the living **** out of me... now it makes me feel real

good!)

by Witchywoman, Dec 25, 2001 12:00AM
To: alchemist
Alchemist,

I know how you feel...it is just how I felt when I detoxed (and it will have been four months on the 26th that I've been through it).



In the first four nights of my WDs, I took a small dose of hydro to let me sleep, 'cause the restlessness was horrible. I took half a 7.5mg pill, and that helped. After day 4, I didn't get the restlessness at night anymore, but I still couldn't sleep. It took several weeks before my sleep got back to normal.



Hang in there..it is worth it on the other side!



love,

WW

by alchemist, Dec 25, 2001 12:00AM
To: witchy woman
Thank you for your post and congradts on being clean so long.  I don't think staying clean will be a big problem, I don't have an addictive personallity (and no craving either) but did you have to take that hydo every night to get to sleep? or could you stop with some sleep after day 4?  I can honestly say I do feel alot better today, just a little run down, I forgot about keeping the Imodium on hand.



Merry Christmas!!

by Telby, Dec 25, 2001 12:00AM
To: Alchemist, Kip, WW § all
Kip, thank you as always for the words from your heart - I always perk up when I see you've posted.  Alchemist, the sooner you can stop all opiates the better you will feel.  Even that little bit before bed keeps the brain on alert for more, it will stop nagging for more when it figures out no more are coming.  YOu are doing so well, I think you are well on your way to getting this thing behind you.  Success stories are such good medicine for me, I know if others can do it then I can do it to.  Hope everyone is having a wonderful Christmas, don't you dare let yourselves be loneley today, get on line and stay on line and you'll know that people from all over the country are with you.   love to you all, Telby

by alchemist, Dec 25, 2001 12:00AM
To: Telbey
Thank you for your words of encouragement; but with 2 little ones running around I just have to get some sleep, it seems nothing else works.  My car injury is killing me right now, I thought that I was finally done with it, but I've come too far to go back.  I don't know who said it here on the forum, but I firmly believe that opiates actually lower you pain thresh hold, making "normal" pain unbearable.

by Durty, Dec 25, 2001 12:00AM
To: alchemist
alchemist - your story sounds just like mine.  I have been having cryo-ablation procedures as well.  They do help. Mine resulted from having an heart catherazation where they go into your heart (to see whats goin on) via the femoral artery in your leg.. anyway they messed up the entry site and filled my insides up with blood and caused nerve damage in my groin area.  That was 2 years ago and I still have pain and a limp when I walk (except for 4-6mos after each ablation)  As far as taking a "little" so you can sleep, it will prolong the process some, but I feel if you are not using in the day, you can gradually cut back what you need at night to sleep.  I ended up using like 1/8th of a pill or smaller near the end but it worked down zip.  I too lived in the shower - literally.  Seems like the only thing to get rid of the creepy crawlies. The L-tryosine and a good multi really helped.  One note: if you start using again while taking the large doses of tryosine it may (did for me) cause you to be a little hyper and itch like you've never itched before... 10 fold normal opiate itch. Anyway, glad to hear the ablation works for you.  As long as they know exactly where to go they can kill the nerves for awhile.  Unfortunately they regenerate over 4-6 months and the pain comes back, although usually not quite as intense.  Good luck.  Durty

by alchemist, Dec 25, 2001 12:00AM
To: Durty
Thanks, you aree actually the first person who I have talked with that knows what an abation is.  Its been about 2 weeks and I felt much better, so I cut the pills out completely instead of tapering, just something I wanted to do and to prove to myself why I was taking these.  But damit I really hurt tonight, just like old times, I would normally pop an MScontin but now I'm under a heated blanket (cause I can't seem to get warm)with an ice pack on the sore spot.  I have considered taking my nightly pill early to kill the pain and help me sleep.

  P.S I havn't eaten a nornam meal for days but cant stop eating sweets for some reason, I don't normally eat sweets is this part of the detox process??



Happy Holidays!!

by alchemist, Dec 25, 2001 12:00AM
right now is day 4 for my recovery, I can't describe to you the way I feel excpet those of you who have experienced the agony of WD would only understand.  My only goal in this is to stop looking at people with envy all the time because they are opiate free.  It might sound strange but since being on my meds I have divided everyone I meet as opiate free or not.  I can't tell you how I long to be opiate free, free of that "feeling" that I get, making me from a shy person to one that is willing to say almost whatever is on my mind.  How I want that fog to be lifted from mind.  I do very technical work, and I actually avoid talking to people because I always afraid they will be able to tell that I am on "something" by saying something absurd or the pinpoint pupils that always occompany me.  Today I finally got to see my puplils, they were abit larger due to the WD (like when they do an eye exam)but they were a welcome site notheless.  My mind hasn't been this lucent in 4 yrs, but my body aches and aches non stop and that dam skin "crawling" not so bad during the day but I dread it at night, it always fortells of another sleepless night that non stop tossing and turning, its enoght to drive one mad.  Sorry to rant and rave, just some thoughts to those of you that understand, I try to explain it to my wife, but she doesn't get it, she just thinks I'm sick or something, sadly, in away she is right.  Does anyone else out there also looks at people with envy because you know they are opiate free? or is it just me.

by SHOTSY, Dec