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Dilaudid How long does Withdrawal last.?
Am looking for any information regarding withdrawal from Dilaudid. I have been taking it for a year now due to a chronic Pain issue however being the addict that I am I know that the time has come to get off of it. I have had problems with addiction before and quit drinking 18 years ago, I was sure what I was thinking when the doctor suggested we try narcotic pain management, maybe I thought after that long of time it wouldn''t be a problem....
I was wrong and it only took a few weeks until I was doubling up my doses.
But as I said enough is enough, I had my last dosage 3 days ago, and am feeling pretty bad right now.
Any input would be helpful.
I was wrong and it only took a few weeks until I was doubling up my doses.
But as I said enough is enough, I had my last dosage 3 days ago, and am feeling pretty bad right now.
Any input would be helpful.
I have been on dilaudid for only six months.this previous month I began taking more then prescribed. Now for a week I have to wait for my next prescription. These withdrawals suck. I have been through many different meds since I broke my back during military service. This seems to be the only one that works. Now I am a week short and no way to get any more. I am using my arsenal of other meds to get though this pain. Still *****.
I have been taking dilaudid 4mg. 1-2 tabs almost daily for about a year. I stopped for two days recently and then took 1 pill on the third day. Now I'm on my second day without any. I'm taking Ibuprofen PM or valium to sleep at night and extra strength tylenol for leg and foot pain (restlessness). My issue is feeling like I have the flu, feeling fatigued by mid day and a persistant cough. I don't see anywhere on here that someone has these flu like symptoms especially with cough, can someone tell me if this is normal or should I go to dr. to see about another issue. I really don't want to go to my primary care and tell them I've been abusing these drugs so am really trying hard to do this on my own. Also, family doesn't know. Any answers on if this is normal stuff and how long it should last. Thanks
Hello my name is dan,i have a serious problem with this devil drug.i had a spinal infection which took the loss of my legs,bladder,bowel.this drug has caused more greif,i am taking more than i was perscibed.the pain has worsened in the past year and half i do not know if iam coming or going at times,I despretly need some direction to stop this before it destroys me and my family.why do they perscribe such a drugwhere do i go from here,they have upped my doseage to16 mg every 2 hour quick realese,and 48 mg every 8 hours,the pain is still there,what do i do.i have 3 children that are very concerned about me,please give some advise.i have lost all faith in the medical system.what is the next step,i do not want to die.contact me at ***@**** is more to this storey than i have written here,thank-you looking forward hearing from you
Please help with any advise-how long it will take to feel better!? I have just come back home from 30 days in the hospital and 3 lower back surgeries with fusion. I have been on Dilaudid for 30 days IV and orally. It was a horrible experience. By the second week it was becoming an addiction. I had stopped eating and pretty much I had disconnected from the world for 30 days…just wanting my dose and nothing else. 3 days before I was discharged I decided that I wanted to stop the drug. I am home now and it has been 10 days and I still can sleep at night. I wake up every 2-3hr shaking and all sweaty. During the day it’s much better. But nights are horrible. I am so restless…I had been on a detoxifying organic system for a week now. It helped a lot. But my nights are not getting any better just my days. Any advice on how long this horrible withdraw will last? Any advice it’s greatly appreciated!
Hey,
You are doing great do not go back man because it will start all over again, go to your doctor and ask for other options do not tell him you are addicted though say you would rather try a non narcotic way of treating the pain, it will take time and hurt but its worth it in the long run.
The worst should be almost over, your sleep and other things will suffer for a while though you have to think you been doing it for a year your body is not gonna heal over night but for the major withdraw over 3-7 days usually then your sleep, anxiety will get better little at a time and slowly, but keep in mind that you have an addiction problem and addiction is a disease, it is gonna haunt you for a while like the liquor probably did when you quit it, you will have cravings and thoughts that it will be better going back, but that is your addiction trying to get you to go back, at some point you will think it is the only thing good in life and will be your best friend where making it to 3 days withdraw is not a option. Quieting has nothing to do with will power. Because you have been swolling them you may not have actually triggered the part in your brain, that is caused from quick intence highs like Snorting but moreso IV where you take it and it all hits you at once, and may only be depended to them fine line between depended and addicted, everybody will become depended to opioid s after little time not all become addicted...
You probably know addiction first hand with Alcohol where once the withdraw is over its not just anxiety and sleep and pain. Opioid addiction will make you feel like you are going crazy, that you need them to ever feel good again, you will obsess over taking a pill day after day and you may fall asleep thinking about them get a full night sleep and when you wake up before your eyes even open you are thinking about the same thing you were the night before, These are the symptoms that make most addicts go back to using not the withdraw which ***** also. Most opioid addicted people after a while there brain changes and adapts so that going into withdraw is not a option and will do anything to stop those feeling from coming back, I think it is a preservation mechanism, like how you just know that you need to eat to feel good, your body and brain believes you need the opioid to feel well and you do, so it and the addiction will do anything to make you not get sick .
Only 1 - 3% of Heroin (or strong opioid users like dilaudid oxycotin) users once become addicted never stop they may stop for a few days but can not stay clean... When it comes to opoids some experts think that the 1 -3 % that do quit were not actually addicted in a addiction since but more dependent to the drug, that allows them to stop the drug now not easily still withdraw and hell but they can stop without a subatuit drug like methadone and such without just can not do it because the brain has changed in many ways by then.
Keep in mind it is not only the length of time you are on a drug that affects your addiction, always remember after going through withdraw each and every time you do it again your addiction will get worst and it gets harder and harder worst and worst that you will accept death before withdraw... (I am serious) and there will come a time when swolllowing/chewing taking extras is not enough and you will start to sniff them to get a better high or feel normal and think you will not need to take as much, and make excuses... then comes the needle, My friend had a phobia of needles he would faint but in the hight of his addiction he used the needle IV he says "because he thought he wouldnt have to use as much" but it makes you use more and more and last shorter and shorter times.
Before you know it when you get sick your brain will tell you to anything to get red of the sickness, even if say you do your pills get high well half way through your high your brain will be saying ok in 2 hours we will start withdraw get what we need now even to rob a bank so you do not go through withdraw. Your Morals will not mean a thing you will do anything to get it, steal rob family members lie all the time to cover it and it becomes your lifestyle.
You may think I would never do that but there are people like you and me that it has happened to and said those same things before it got to the point where there was no return, Millionaires lose everything, doctors lose there practices over this stuff after years and years work into the things they love and loved to do until those things and everything else mean nothing, even your own life and the lives of others and only one thing means something to you.... You will be doing it as of lifestyle and will not have enough pills to do you a day so start buying a lot more until u can not afford it anymore, You will be doing it just to feel normal and not get high 95% of the time because your tolerance is so high.
Addiction to opioid do not happen over a period of time like it usually takes alcohol but can happen very fast or slower depending on person and how they take them.
Anyway enough talk 3-7 days physical for short acting opioid like dilaudid and after that the sleep, anxiety, tremors , sometimes opsession and so many and all those weird terrible feelings set in depending pn the person and will go away slowly. Goes physical withdraw then to mental then better or physical& mental to mental and slowly you recover from the mental.
"I know someone clean off it 10 years and they said there is not a day that goes by that I do not think about using, only now I can devert my mind and use addiction lessions and it is not as hard as it once was(almost impossible)"
So I think you are doing great and if you stay away from them, only takes one to start the cycle again, remember that from alcohol, and the worst should be past just deal with sleep , anxiety issues and you will feel better slowly. Doesnt happen over night you did them for a year could take that long to get totally back on your game but probably heal within a month or so depends on your progression into your brain was...
Also remember the longer you are off it your addiction progresses as if you were doing it the whole time, so if a year down the road you go back you will not start where you left off you will start where you would have been if you didn't stop at all. That is what gets long time clean Alcoholics and addicts get it bad if relapse years down the road... You will hear some say I have one relapse left in me meaning they know if they go back they will not stop this time until they are dead, and I have seen it happen.
But you can do it. and you have it beat :) Hang in there, I will pray for you even if you do not believe in a higher power.
You are doing great do not go back man because it will start all over again, go to your doctor and ask for other options do not tell him you are addicted though say you would rather try a non narcotic way of treating the pain, it will take time and hurt but its worth it in the long run.
The worst should be almost over, your sleep and other things will suffer for a while though you have to think you been doing it for a year your body is not gonna heal over night but for the major withdraw over 3-7 days usually then your sleep, anxiety will get better little at a time and slowly, but keep in mind that you have an addiction problem and addiction is a disease, it is gonna haunt you for a while like the liquor probably did when you quit it, you will have cravings and thoughts that it will be better going back, but that is your addiction trying to get you to go back, at some point you will think it is the only thing good in life and will be your best friend where making it to 3 days withdraw is not a option. Quieting has nothing to do with will power. Because you have been swolling them you may not have actually triggered the part in your brain, that is caused from quick intence highs like Snorting but moreso IV where you take it and it all hits you at once, and may only be depended to them fine line between depended and addicted, everybody will become depended to opioid s after little time not all become addicted...
You probably know addiction first hand with Alcohol where once the withdraw is over its not just anxiety and sleep and pain. Opioid addiction will make you feel like you are going crazy, that you need them to ever feel good again, you will obsess over taking a pill day after day and you may fall asleep thinking about them get a full night sleep and when you wake up before your eyes even open you are thinking about the same thing you were the night before, These are the symptoms that make most addicts go back to using not the withdraw which ***** also. Most opioid addicted people after a while there brain changes and adapts so that going into withdraw is not a option and will do anything to stop those feeling from coming back, I think it is a preservation mechanism, like how you just know that you need to eat to feel good, your body and brain believes you need the opioid to feel well and you do, so it and the addiction will do anything to make you not get sick .
Only 1 - 3% of Heroin (or strong opioid users like dilaudid oxycotin) users once become addicted never stop they may stop for a few days but can not stay clean... When it comes to opoids some experts think that the 1 -3 % that do quit were not actually addicted in a addiction since but more dependent to the drug, that allows them to stop the drug now not easily still withdraw and hell but they can stop without a subatuit drug like methadone and such without just can not do it because the brain has changed in many ways by then.
Keep in mind it is not only the length of time you are on a drug that affects your addiction, always remember after going through withdraw each and every time you do it again your addiction will get worst and it gets harder and harder worst and worst that you will accept death before withdraw... (I am serious) and there will come a time when swolllowing/chewing taking extras is not enough and you will start to sniff them to get a better high or feel normal and think you will not need to take as much, and make excuses... then comes the needle, My friend had a phobia of needles he would faint but in the hight of his addiction he used the needle IV he says "because he thought he wouldnt have to use as much" but it makes you use more and more and last shorter and shorter times.
Before you know it when you get sick your brain will tell you to anything to get red of the sickness, even if say you do your pills get high well half way through your high your brain will be saying ok in 2 hours we will start withdraw get what we need now even to rob a bank so you do not go through withdraw. Your Morals will not mean a thing you will do anything to get it, steal rob family members lie all the time to cover it and it becomes your lifestyle.
You may think I would never do that but there are people like you and me that it has happened to and said those same things before it got to the point where there was no return, Millionaires lose everything, doctors lose there practices over this stuff after years and years work into the things they love and loved to do until those things and everything else mean nothing, even your own life and the lives of others and only one thing means something to you.... You will be doing it as of lifestyle and will not have enough pills to do you a day so start buying a lot more until u can not afford it anymore, You will be doing it just to feel normal and not get high 95% of the time because your tolerance is so high.
Addiction to opioid do not happen over a period of time like it usually takes alcohol but can happen very fast or slower depending on person and how they take them.
Anyway enough talk 3-7 days physical for short acting opioid like dilaudid and after that the sleep, anxiety, tremors , sometimes opsession and so many and all those weird terrible feelings set in depending pn the person and will go away slowly. Goes physical withdraw then to mental then better or physical& mental to mental and slowly you recover from the mental.
"I know someone clean off it 10 years and they said there is not a day that goes by that I do not think about using, only now I can devert my mind and use addiction lessions and it is not as hard as it once was(almost impossible)"
So I think you are doing great and if you stay away from them, only takes one to start the cycle again, remember that from alcohol, and the worst should be past just deal with sleep , anxiety issues and you will feel better slowly. Doesnt happen over night you did them for a year could take that long to get totally back on your game but probably heal within a month or so depends on your progression into your brain was...
Also remember the longer you are off it your addiction progresses as if you were doing it the whole time, so if a year down the road you go back you will not start where you left off you will start where you would have been if you didn't stop at all. That is what gets long time clean Alcoholics and addicts get it bad if relapse years down the road... You will hear some say I have one relapse left in me meaning they know if they go back they will not stop this time until they are dead, and I have seen it happen.
But you can do it. and you have it beat :) Hang in there, I will pray for you even if you do not believe in a higher power.
Well at 2P.M. today it will be exactly 1 week since I stopped taking Dilaudid (Hyromorph Contin Extended Release) It has been something and I hope that it's a memory that will keep me clean. Not sure what's going to happen though, I still have the issue of chronic pain to deal with so I guess my doctor and I will have to come up with something.
nows the time to make it happen.............If you are %100 committed to getting clean.
wars are not won in a few days or weeks, each day is a different battle. a horrible narcotic has been in control of your body........and only through pain, determination and commitment can you kick its @zz. that 800 pound gorilla, does not just go away easy.
do you want to win this war? If so then fight hard and realize it a war for your sanity and well being.
wars are not won in a few days or weeks, each day is a different battle. a horrible narcotic has been in control of your body........and only through pain, determination and commitment can you kick its @zz. that 800 pound gorilla, does not just go away easy.
do you want to win this war? If so then fight hard and realize it a war for your sanity and well being.
Unfortunately I can't get into see my doctor until the 18th which will be 2 weeks after I stop using the dilaudid. He is unaware as of yet that I ran into a problem with it, or that my old additive ways have resurfaced....For now I am just going it on my own, trying to get through the worse. I know the options I have open to me such as N.A. which I may start attending or I may just go back to AA which I was a member of for several years.
I am drinking lots of fluids, taking vitamin c and b and using gravol for the nausea....I think the thing that is really getting me right now is the lack of sleep....
But I am hanging in there..
I am drinking lots of fluids, taking vitamin c and b and using gravol for the nausea....I think the thing that is really getting me right now is the lack of sleep....
But I am hanging in there..
u r very close to feeling better...hang in there..dilaudid is an IV drug as a rule on the streets//abused IV as it has no tyleno,l..not absorbed well orally...so people usually snort it or shoot it if a buzz is thier intention...it is a narcotic tho...and there is a price to pay for long term use of any narcotic...r u doing any type of aftercare?
quit while you can thats for sure, because the longer you are on it, the worst it will be to get off it. one year is alot better than,being on it for 3 or 8 years.......
Well yet another sleepless night but that is pretty much what I expected. I am still feeling very anxious, restless, and slightly freaked out but I think there's been some improvement.
I know that in the end it will be well worth whatever discomfort I am dealing with now to be clear of the drugs however that's hard to remember when you're exhausted but to wired to sleep.
THINGS WILL GET BETTER!!!!!
I know that in the end it will be well worth whatever discomfort I am dealing with now to be clear of the drugs however that's hard to remember when you're exhausted but to wired to sleep.
THINGS WILL GET BETTER!!!!!
Well I made it throw the day so I guess that is something to be happy about. Still feeling very restless, and there is a knot in my stomach the size of a house.
I manage to have some dinner and took a nice hot shower and that has helped some.
I did take a gravol earlier because I was feeling quite sick to my stomach and that helped as well.
I am hoping that I sleep tonight because that is the one thing that is really pushing me to my limits the lack of sleep.
I have to keep telling myself..........tomorrow is a new day...
I manage to have some dinner and took a nice hot shower and that has helped some.
I did take a gravol earlier because I was feeling quite sick to my stomach and that helped as well.
I am hoping that I sleep tonight because that is the one thing that is really pushing me to my limits the lack of sleep.
I have to keep telling myself..........tomorrow is a new day...
Keep up the good work. There are some docs now that don't like narcotics for long term pain treatment but in some cases it's nessesary. They don't like the tolerance issues and all the side effects and addiction. There may be some new pain treatments for chronic pain that use bio feedback available soon and other new stuff. I feel that narcotics are important at times but are best reserved for the most painfull times then they really work better. You should be out of the woods soon. all the best
Thanks, I hope so...Today seems to be particularly bad though. The weather is very dreary and damp amd the chronic pain issue's I have with my shoulders, neck and back are is really acting up. I know that narcotics aren't the right treatment for me however at this moment the idea of dealing with this type of pain daily scares the **** out of me.
I am hoping given a few more days I will somehow see a gleam of hope throw all of this. At least I am keeping my fingers crossed.
I am hoping given a few more days I will somehow see a gleam of hope throw all of this. At least I am keeping my fingers crossed.
If you had your last dose 3 days ago the worst is behind you. Dilaudid is a potent short acting agent that is only like 1 molecule different than heroin. If you were taking a reasonable dose by mouth, it's a lot different that the way I used to take it IV it can be very nasty. all the best
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