Feeling hyper active.. like LSD or something, what is that?

[SuzzQ]

Sometimes I feel so hyper alert!  Like LSD.. I can't take any pressure at all.. This is taking too long..I am going to try to cut down more drastically.  I was taking 6 to 8 norcos, and I don't know how many klonapins.. maybe 2 a day.  I started withdrawing to 4 norcos / less than one klonapin a day and have been pretty sick.. a couple of days I took 3 or 3 1/2 norcos, ... Today i want to go down to 2 a day, see what that brings.. My stomach hurts almost all the time.  A friend came over, but before he came over I told him I cannot take any stress at all.. and the circumstances... We were watching tv.. me going through withdrawal.. lol... My sister comes over with two of her teenage girls... I felt like I was on LSD or something!!  I felt very stressed.. and felt like screaming... The girls would not stop talking.. the tv was going.. my friend was acting like he was bothered by the unexpected visit of the girls.. I would start to watch tv and they would complain that they came to visit... and they constantly kept talking like they were all on speed or something.. but, they just wanted to talk.. they don't take speed... but, that's how I felt.. I don't want anyone else coming over.. I'm locking the door and if anyone knocks.. I'll ignore it... driving me crazy!

[TroubledDude]

I felt this when I went through my home detox recently. It's mental clarity vs what you are used to.....sedation. It *****, but it passes too. Don’t fret, avoiding "the drop in” is nothing to feel guilty about either.

[SuzzQ]

Thanks dude, : O )  I really appreciate the support, it was a hard weekend.  The week days are easier.. Cutting down to two this week.. I am going to really try hard.  I was feeling guilty, but couldn't handle it.  None of them know a thing about withdrawal.  I didn't want to say to my sister.. hey, could you leave, cause I am going through withdrawal from norcos, and you guys are going to make me SCREAM!!!  That was really a total nightmare for me..

[SuzzQ]

I haven't taken any norcos today.. I guess I should take 1/2... Did you completely stop taking the norcos now?  How do you feel please?  Do you feel okay now??  I can't feel like this forever.. They are asking.. Will you come for Thanksgiving.. ??  I am like.. uh.. uh... yeah, sure.. I guess.. of course.. Thanksgiving I am worried about.. there will be a lot of people there.. a dog that bites and a half brother who is skitso.. schitsophrenic? sp?  Under normal conditions, he and the dog scare the hell out of me.  I surely can't go in the state I'm in.  I feel so confused about everything.  I don't know much about withdrawal.. this is entirely new to me.. I don't like feeling so nervous..  Did you feel like that too dude?  How long ago was it you withdrew from?  What was it you withdrew from?  Please to answer sweetie...   I am scared.. I don't like this feeling..

[sonie413]

I went through all the same symptoms you are now.  It passed for me in a few weeks, but i didn't tamper ( I didn't have the will power for that).  I went cold turkey.  took a few months for all the symptoms to go away for me.  Good luck to you.

[SuzzQ]

Thank You Sonie.. a few weeks?  I don't have the willpower to go cold turkey.. and have never gone off them, so I am scared.  I am using heat for the pain, but, this nervousness, and hyper conscienceness really scares me.  Guess I'll skip Thanksgiving.. maybe Christmas too... Hide in my apartment.

[sonie413]

You'll probably be able to handle Thanksgiving.  I'm sure you'll feel better by then at least enough to handle a family thanksgiving.  I used for 8 years started out with 1 vicodin every 8 hours and 8 years later I was taking 10- 30mg roxicodones plus 30 ultram  and  10- 15 lines of cocaine a day for the last 3 years of my addiction.  So it took me a while to get it all out of my body.  I've been sober 1 year and 8 months now.  but I never thought I would make it through the first week,  but it gets a little better everyday.  hang in there.

[SuzzQ]

Wow!! Well, that makes me more enthusiastic about quitting.  Sober 1 year and 8 months! That's great!  What are roxiecodones?  Are they like Norcos?  Norcos are 10mg hydrocodones and 325 mgs of tylenol.  I am cutting down to two today.. I was taking 6 to 8 norcos a day.  I just started tapering last week.  Cut down last week to 4 a day.  This week I'm going to try to go to 2 a day...  I did pretty much cut down to half last week, so I think I am doing okay.. I just hope nobody comes over.. Hey, CONGRATULATIONS!!  I hope I can do as well as you... Thanks!

[NorcoQueenoftheUniverse]

The only way I was able to QUIT NORCOS was COLD TURKEY...

I was using 8-10 norco a day x's 3 years and the day came that I said... "I gotta quit this ****!"   And.. although my back pain was still EVER so present... I just worked thru it... and found that the LONGER I was OFF the Norco.. the more tolerable my pain became...I now have 102 days CLEAN off of the NOrco and happy to say that LIFE IS GOOD!  

When you JUMP.. you WILL feel like POOP for about a week.. then.. it gets better..and BETTER... every DARN day!

[SuzzQ]

I just wanted to tell you THANK YOU for your comments.  Knowing that someone else has gone through it and they are better gives me MUCH HOPE.  I am now down from over 8 a day to only just over one pill.  The first week tapering I went down to half, 4 a day.  The next week just over 2  a day.  Going from 8 a day to 2 a day was very hard and I had a lot of very bad repercussions/ symptoms.  I can't stand any loud noises still.. I would think the less in your system the easier it would be.. but, some things remain the same.  I don't feel like doing anything.  Just waiting for time to pass..  The worse thing you can do is "take a day off".. I mean, in the middle of tapering, take a lot one day, so you can go do something.  This is what I did.  I went and saw this movie I was waiting for for many months.  2012.. it was full, so had to go see another movie before seeing the one I wanted.  They were both very intense movies.  I should have not gone.. I would be to under a pill a day by now.  and the movies just made me have panic attacks, and I spent a lot of time leaving the movie to go outside and smoke.  lol... I won't make that mistake again.. and I don't see that I will go to another DRAMATIC movie for some time ....too hyper sensitive to noises...

[SuzzQ]

Congratulations to you!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!   : O )

[SuzzQ]

Congratulations !!!  Well, if all of you can do it... then I can... I am just over one pill a day.. biting them up into small pieces... I am about to the point where I can just STOP.  Next week I will do that..

[sunshinegal76]

Next week I will be joining you Suzz!!

[SuzzQ]

Well, time to jump... down to just over 1 pill , from 8 or more a day... Soooooo... Time to jump... NO more norcos, no more breaking them up into 4ths... hard to break a norco into 4ths.. I'm always happy at the larger pieces... tired of measuring each little piece.. Have to just get it over now.. Shouldn't be too bad I don't think.. not as bad as when I cut down from 8 to 6 or from 6 to 4.... Tired of the tapering... I'm with sunshinegrl... Time to jump... see you all on the other side... : O )

[SuzzQ]

Well, wish I wouldn't have taken that 1/4 earlier.. since now I have decided to jump with you... Keep me posted of how you are doing huh... you are at 2 , me just over 1... we should do about the same.. I am such a scaredy cat... i want to quit them.. so, now is the time... I'll get some tylenol... I guess that is the best thing for pain... easier on the stomach.. I will need something easy on the stomach that will help with pain... I know tylenol is dangerous... but, really I don't know another otc pain medication that is so easy on the stomach..

[SuzzQ]

Are you taking anything for pain?  I need something that is very easy on the stomach and can't think of a thing besides tylenol... I took the norcos for so long..  so many years.. I never had to have other non narcotic pain medications.. I see you are very happy!  CONGRATULATIONS!!!  I am so glad... been watching your posts....