How do I deal with the withdrawals of hydro abuse ?

Here's my story. I was married 15 years to a man I didn't love. Who drank alot. I divorced almost three years ago. After he tried killing himself in front of my children. At the same time going through a bankruptcy. Stress. And tons of it lead me to hydrocodones. They made me not care. Two years later I am still hooked on them. Only now-I do care. I've changed. And not for the good. I want off of them. I want to be my happy self again. I fell in love with a wonderful man who I just admitted my addiction to and he is willing to be there and support me through it. Even help ween me off by keeping the pills and dishing them out. It's just my head thinks I need them. I need help with dealing with the withdrawals.

[Innerstrength67]

Hi and welcome. You have come to the right place.
It's great that you are now in a loving relationship and he will hold your pills. This can be done. I was taking anywhere from 20-30 pills of Vicodin a day. 2 years of misery.
I never thought I could do it but I'm almost at 30 days.
We can't give advice on tapering but there are a lot of OTC remedies you can take which help a great deal. Look up the Thomas Recipe on the main page.
You need to stay hydrated. Gatorade saved me.
A lot of others will come along with more advice.
You CAN do this!!!!
The fear is all part of the addiction. But your stronger than the pills.

[missyjane10]

Hi :) also had a problem with vicodins, and stress and a bad relationship of 5 years led me to them too, tomorrow will be day 10 for me, quit cold turkey and took one ultram before bed for the first week, it deff helps the crawling out of your skin feeling. It does get better, (coming from someone who thought it wouldnt LOL) I get 3-5 calls aday for people wanting to sell vics.. VERY stressful but i think of the positives and how i dont wanna deal with the WD's again!!  ..i was on them for 2 1/2 years and met my boyfriend and realized theres more to life then worrying about vicodin. Every morning i write down positive things about quitting, seems to help.. Drink lots of water or gatorraid, take tynol PM's before bed, and PRAY!! Not a very big prayer but i do believe God has helped me!! Good luck and if you have anymore questions or need someone to talk too inbox me!! Good Luck and Congrats for wanting to quit!!! = )

[hammersgirl]

Well I just want to day thank you for your support. Today is day 1!!!! So far so good. I woke up this morning with the overwhelming urge to have one-but it passed. I can feel it in my body. It feels like I got hit by a Mack truck. My biggest hurdle for the day still lays ahead. Work. I go in at one and get off at ten tonite. I usually take hydro to get geared up for f work. I think this part of wanting one is more in my head. Good thing is that I have three days off after tonite. So if I can make it till then-I can go through the worst part of being sick at home. God this is harder than u think. I just keep telling myself-a week. A week of no hydros and I've got it made!!

[Innerstrength67]

Exactly hammersgirl. Just take it one hour a time. That's what I did. In the beginning, you can't imagine one full day without pills. After a few weeks of no pills, you can't believe you lived in a pill fog everyday.
You are doing it!!!!!!

[newlifeahead]

great job on deciding to quit and taking that step i am telling u it iwll be the best life ever. Imagine going to work and NOT having to worry if u have pills to make it through. U ru right the worst of it is over in the first week take it day by day or hour by hour whichever u need. I stated very busy and cont too( i am 16 days out i did take a few tramadol in between which i would not reccommebd i think it made it a bit worse in the long road) when i felt like i could do no more i prayed and got up and did more didnt think about it jsut told God i was relying onHis strength and i was and still am and will always be:) i feel soooo good i still feel lack of evergy but i keep pushing through. It does help to stay busy. have u looked at the list of vitamins to take they really do help i would check them out. Just the thought of my body be cleaned out gave me motivation to keep going... i can feel again which is AMAZING i really enjoy being around my husband again and i am not angry all the time. My 10 month old means more to me than ever i LOVE it... keep posting ALL u need to i posted several times a day and still do even if it is to vent EVREYONE will stand behind u here and there post will push u through. Glad u got someone to also help u with this at home it makes a world of difference if u dont have to pretend u have the "flu" blessings to u and we are ALL pulling for u U CAN DO THIS!!!!

[hammersgirl]

Omg!! Tonite at work was the worst!!! My body is hurting sooo bad. I broke down and took a half a hydro around 8. I feel crappy about it. Tomorrow I get to start home so I think it will be better. Thank you all so much for sharing with me. It really is nice to read your thoughts. And my man is being such an angel. I am really blessed to have him by my side

[ImDONENoMore]

I have to say the fact that you recognize what an amazing guy you have says a LOT about how you're doing.  Not sure we recognize that when we're high on pills (at least I didn't).  You're doing better than you think.  :)

[hammersgirl]

Sometimes it wasn't so easy. The pills make you so angry. Sometimes I just lost track of how wonderful he truly is. This I just so much harder than I expected. I wanted to turn to him so many times an tell him-but I felt so ashamed and terrified that he would walk away. But I had to be fair to him. Give him the option. No animosity if he found it too difficult to stay with me. I was scared of the way he would look at me. And this may sound corny-but I took a chance on our love. And our love won!! I just hope I continue to have the strength to do this.