Fioricet help anyone???????????

[Wishiwerenormalagain]

Does anyone have experience with fioricet?  I have recently been weaned off of fioricet after 5 years.  I have been off of them a week.  The doctor that weaned me off of them them gave me a script for klonopin .25 mg every 6 hours for 10 days.  I am on my 2nd day of the klonopin and I feel like a zombie.  He said this would help prevent seizures but that I couldn’t take the klonopin for more than 10 days (which is fine by me) but can anyone out there tell me what to expect when I quit taking the klonopin  and when I will get back to feeling normal.  I feel like a shell of a human being to say the very least.  

[vicki595]

Good...they'll call back.  Most of this is normal. Actually it's all normal except I was thinking you should be feeling better by now.  We're all different though.

Let me know what the doctor says...

[Wishiwerenormalagain]

I put a call in to my doc, haven't heard back yet but the ONLY thing I was taking was the fioricet and the Klonopin for 10 days.  I can't even look at an opiate with out getting sick.

[vicki595]

This is normal BUT it's sounds a lot like opiate withdrawal,too.  Anyway,replace fluids and stay calm.

Call your doctor and just let them know how you're feeling.

Post back...

[Wishiwerenormalagain]

Thanks everyone.  I have more question.  Since this drug from hell is a CNS depressant and now my SNS is no longer depressed, is that why everything is in overdrive?  I mean I eat something, it goes right through, I hiccup, yawn sneeze, etc.  I sweat like I have never sweated before.  Is this all part of it because about an hour ago I was ready to call 911, I guess I am scared.

Mary Beth

[sweatinit]

Hi!
Wow does what you're going through bring back memories...Wehn my anxiety was off the charts; I would take a deep breath and know that the feeling I had was going to pass. Baths & heating pad helped along with just relaxing. Emoitionally I was a train wreck for a little while too, but again I took a deep breath and remembered that everything I was going through was needed to be clean from this wicked drug!
It's uncomfortable but in the end really~really worth it! Hang in there and try to just take a minute at a time if you have to...

[my_mayberry]

thats kind of what i expected to happen...a delay of the inevitable. wild mood swings are to be expected. during my withdrawal i would go from laughing hysterically to being very angry at the flip of a switch. this actually lasts a while....but luckily the really bad anxiety doesn't last as long.

this is one reason having a therapist during this time would do you a lot of good. the next few months will be a huge emotional roller coster. best thing is that you have the hardest parts done...now just look forward. it can only get better. you're feeling the worst that you will feel emotionally....it will slowly start to get better.