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physical withdrawl
by Chuck730, Jul 25, 2002 12:00AM
After years of pain medication for chronic pain I have had it with all the meds. Looking for alternative medicine. How can I relieve the physical symptoms of medication withdrawl?
I have been tapering off vicodin since July 1--I was down to only 2 per day, but after a week of non-stop back pain, I got my prescription refilled. I am using 3 a day and will stay at this till I feel ready to go down further.
I agree that the recipe is the way to go. Here it is so you don't have to look it up again.
L-tyrosine 500 mg 8 times a day week 1 then 4 a day the following weeks
B-6 100 mg 2 times a day
Vitamins C--E--AND A
Calcium -magnesium
A strong multiple vitamin
Phosphorous
Copper
Manganese
Imodium for the runs
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Also suggested are bananas for leg spasms and restless leg
Gatorade for lost electrolytes due to the runs
And if you still have any depression after a week, some people recommend 5htp
How much pain medication do you take? It's hell going through w/d and I just can't bring myself to go completely cold turkey (although I sometimes think that this is the smartest thing for me to do since I am at a low dose)
Good luck, come here often and keep posting. I am fairly new to the forum but I have found that it has helped me a lot.
I'm just venting this, because I guess I want to make "Ammends" with anyone I've offended in the past. I doubt that I Pissed off anyone in HERE too much, but, nonetheless, I just need to air it.
I am sitting here at work, and in so much pain, that I'm almost seeing red. I just wish I could be a NORMAL, Legitimate pain patient, and get this fixed. But, I CANNOT! If they gave me a bottle of 10,000 OXYS, I know that I wouldn't be able to even make that much last for a month.... ****!! Whatever it is in life, if it's good, then GIVE ME MORE! That's the way it's always been. I guess the only thing keeping me from totally losing my head is that I'm trying to help my Aunt, who HAS legitimate pain, get the treatment she needs. Well. That and AA/NA keep me relatively sane. And I might mention that this board helps me more than I can say.
That's all for now! I hope that those of you who are still struggling with the PHYSICAL withdrawels are doing O.K. -- I know that when I was there, that the pain and suffering had me pushing needles into my arm (SEWING NEEDLES -- to distract me from the effects of withdrawl).....
Bye for now,
Jess
i'm a 51 year old junky with a 35+ history of drug (mostly opiates) abuse. went the whole route from popping a few "feelgoods" to trying to find a vein for "just one more." i started posting to this site early in the summer pf 2001.
i though i wouuld post my variation of the supplements portion of
of the Thomas's detox recipe.
once a day on an empty stomach (first thing in the am when i get
out of bed.
zink chelate 75mgs.
magnesium chelate 50 mgs.
manganese chelate 10mgs.
vitamen a 1000 units
L-tyrosine 2-4 grams.
copper 2 mgs.
start out when detoxing, or preping for detox with 4 (4000mgs) of
l-tyrosine. after detox, cut the l-tyrosine back to 2 grams in the morning on an empty stomach.
if you do nothing else in the recipe but take these supplements,
you will feel a huge and unbelieveable amount beter. i least i
did, and i've alway been real skeptical of the whole health food/
vitamen trip.
i won't go into the other asspects of the "recipe" right now.
there is a huge controversy about taking benzo's, as well there
should be. besides the diet supplements, exercise of any kind
will deliver the largest return on any effort you make. a lot of
people see w/d and detoxing as something "to wait out." i spent
enough time waitin while i was using thankyou. detox, for me, is
getting up off my ass and doing as much as possiable for myself.
hope everyone is doing well
keep an angel on your shoulder
kip
I did detox using a "cocktail" which really was the way to go for me. I'd gone through WD cold turkey enough times to know I didn't want to suffer that again if I didn't have to. So my doc prescribed an at-home detox regimen of phenobarb, clonidine, zanaflex, and bentyl, plus an anti-depressent to help sleep. I took these for about a week, although sometimes you only need it for 3-4 days. I stayed in bed and sweated it out. But this controlled the symptoms so I didn't suffer the heebies, restless leg, diarhea, and all the other lovely stuff. If you're interested in this, let me know and I'll post more information.
Good luck and hang in there!
tracy
keep posting and hang in there, you can do this .
it's really worth all the effort to get your life back.
hope your feeling better
peace!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
michael from philly