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Hydrocodone withdraws help
I have taken hydrocodone for5 years and have took more than what's prescribed,so I am once agin running out! I have taken 15-20 daily last year or so and yesterday I couldnt bc lack of supply. Today I have take halfs. All tog 1 1/2 so far, I did take a lyrica that I am prescribed once today bc I could feel it in my body. I also pushed myself to go out in the hot sun today and clean weeds from flower beds to keep busy. I only have about 5 left and I am scared but I want to get it over with to get my life back! How long will it last? When will it get worse,had some discomfort, but by this time of day i usually have taken around 12-15. I find my self alittle tension but I don't know if it's bc I'm waiting on it or it's part of the withdraw,thanks to all in advance.
I think that's great, I couldn't do it that way, I would have just taken all them at once. I had to go CT. Done good yesterday & hoping today is better. How are you doing? What day are you on? Hang in there we will see the end soon!
At the beginning going from 20 a day down to 2 daily seemed like a big accomplishment but now I just feel like its no difference and I am just kidding myself, but I know i don't have 2 to take today unless I get them.
Well I guess I'm so screwed up bc I have all the symptoms you describe almost daily, I take max lot for migraines, but I did have bad headaches and felt like my whole face was in pain. I have chronic fatique syndrome and take no mess for bc they are not any( according to doctor) also had bad stomach pain but no puking or trots was 1 time and took Imodium and been okay as that, been doing the baths, they help but I still have bad pain while doing them (pain and burning). So I don't know. Have had chest pain with anxiety. I made myself walk around my deck everyday even if it was just 2 times. Drink about 12 waters daily and some Gatorade. I did eat this morning,and stomach started up but i kept it down. I went to the doc this morning, my feet have been blue/red purple ish last couple days and very painful, said i could see my neurologist again but he don't think they can do anything, got my b--12 bc I have take those monthly. But anyways I hope the best for you all, you do great by helping everyone that doesn't know what to do or just needs a friend. Good luck to all
I don't know whats painful to you but you know your body. If things are getting bad ,,,like more than "bad flu" like symptoms get help.
Should be symptoms like migraine...no energy at all , cold sweat , RLS stomach issues...over all drained feeling. Not everyone gets all the symptoms.....everyones is different....
hang in....
Free~
Should be symptoms like migraine...no energy at all , cold sweat , RLS stomach issues...over all drained feeling. Not everyone gets all the symptoms.....everyones is different....
hang in....
Free~
I don't know if I can make it or not. I don't know what is w/d or what. I'm in more pain than ever and I thought it would get Better but it's 100+ worse. It's more of burning with pain that's getting to me.
Wow it's hard to believe your only connection beside doc calls with a offer that you can't refuse at a time like this, my heart started racing even harder. They never contacted me before was the other way around
I don't know maybe it's just all in my mind and I'm not actually accomplishing anything at all just bc I have went to halfs and from 20 to 2 hydrocodone since Sunday at 7:30am. I know I'm going to be out of medicine since I was already, and I don't know
And if I don't tell him he would probably write a different prescription for break through pain for a month, bc he has before and I don't want that
Just got call to remind me I have a doctor appt tomorrow!! Should I go, I kinda don't want to bc I'm afraid he will write me something bc I don't want to tell him what I'm doing.
Woke up and have a lot of burning through body. I don't know if this is from my neuropathy or W/D. Also I am sore on my arms and upper body, and back most. Not sure if it's fibro bc this is how it feels with pain or again the W/D. I can't take this burning in feet n legs, have been doing the espum salt baths with hot water,and even just feet that way. If I knew it was the fibro I would start my lyrica, i planned on starting them at lower dose but i didnt. my legs are stiff as well. Is this all from W/D? It also seems when I'm around hubby I and mad/angry at him. Is this normal?
Mary is correct after you stop taking opiates your brain sends increased pain signals to get you to take more pills. After you stop for a while you WILL notice that your pain level decreases. You just need time for your brain to re-wire itself and heal. Hang in there you are doing great.
Someone said...I forget who....that you are more conscious of pain when you first stop taking them. I guess it is your brain trying to trick you into taking another one. I have found that to be true. I have also found that my level of pain now, four weeks clean, is much more tolerable and almost unnoticeable. For awhile there, all I could concentrate on is how much I hurt and how I wished I could take another pill.
Well it's alittle after 4 and I have taken my third halfs making it 1 1/2. I feel allitle excited/ jittery. I know I seem weak to be doing the halves but I'm not one who can take bad pain, even though I have it daily. That's what worrys me after the I stop.
I think reading everyone's post keeps me pushing right now. Can I ask how many you took daily? Congraulations on your month+ ... A day seems like eternity right now. Thanks for posting.
Hang in there. I took hydros for five years also. I have been off of them for a month (and a day). It gets better. I had a hard time getting any energy back, but it is definitely getting better, a little every day. My breakfast was a pain pill and a coke. I would get nervous, nauseous, even panicky if I didn't have them with me at all times. A couple of times, my pills were stolen, and I had to get them "off the street" because I couldn't face the idea of not having them, and getting sick going through withdrawal. I don't want to say withdrawal "wasn't so bad"....I was miserable....but it is probably worse for people who took more than I did...but it was certainly do-able. Just keep on, one day at a time. Get through today. Then get through tomorrow. I have very bad knees, and so many times I have thought, if I only had a pill or two, I would feel better and be able to get out and work more. I think at first you feel pain more...and then as days go by, even though you have pain, it isn't enough to stop you and you learn to live with it. Now...I am speaking for myself. I realize some people are in worse shape than I am...but I have learned that I can live with the pain that I have, and the craving for the pill was worse than the pain. The craving is greatly lessened now....a month in. Does it still cross my mind? About a hundred times a day. But at least it isn't my constant thought any more. Good luck to you!!
Years ago I tried the pain management, physical therapy was more painful bc it would throw me into fibro " attacks" and physical therapy discharged me as well as the doctor. As far as the injections I have taken those and i don't know if it was due to where they injected in lower back/bottom and after a year I stopped going and that just about killed me bc I couldn't get out of the bed at all, anyways doctor started me in another pain management but sent referral bc of fibro was no reason to do any shots, don't know what that was about and I continued going to that pain management (years ago) till he told me if I would take the shots he would up my pain medicine, at that time I was taking as prescribe and just quit. But had not been on them long, so when I went back to family doctor maybe month later, he ask if I was still going an I told him no and he starting writing them from then on. Can you tell me when you would start cravings?
I commented on your other post about physical dependence but hadn't seen this one at the time. I just want to mention a couple of things that may help. One is the Pain Management forum here. It's a great resource for chronic pain. The other is that after coming off the narcotics, your pain may initially increase, but after a while, it will decrease to your real baseline pain level. There are many ways to treat chronic pain.
I have some of the same pain issues as you: fibromyalgia, really bad osteoarthritis in most joints, a herniated disk in my back, and RSD (which I wound up with after I had a joint replacement in my thumb. That implant failed, and I had a total of 9 surgeries and wound up having the RSD, nerve damage and a fusion.)
Because I'm very sensitive to medications, I had a lot of side effects from the medications, including the narcotics. They had me on a tremendous amount of narcotics and I was still in pain most of the time. Pain killers don't always work on all kinds of pain. Some pain, like nerve pain, can be hard to treat. I was also very worried about my tolerance to narcotics and was worried that if I needed something in the future, they wouldn't be able to control my pain.
I tapered off my meds with help from here. It definitely was hard and I felt lousy for a very long time. I was afraid of how bad my pain would be after I got off everything, but like a lot of people, I found I am able to manage my pain without narcotics. I'll never be pain free, and there are some days I wonder if I made the right decision, but for the most part, I am able to manage my pain by piecing things together. I use ibuprofen, lidoderm patches, prescription gels, and exercise to help.
People with chronic pain most often will never be pain free, and pain management is about more than pills. There's physical therapy, injections, other types of medication, acupuncture, massage therapy, and more that can help. And distraction helps lot as well.
When people with chronic pain become addicted, I personally think in addition to aftercare you also need to think about how you'll treat your pain and manage it. It would be very easy to slip back into addiction when you're dealing with pain day in and day out.
If your family doctor can manage your pain, that's great, but pain management specialists often have more ways to help. I've tried a lot of different things and now know what helps and what doesn't.
Best of luck with all you're dealing with. For me, it was definitely worth coming off the narcotics.
I have some of the same pain issues as you: fibromyalgia, really bad osteoarthritis in most joints, a herniated disk in my back, and RSD (which I wound up with after I had a joint replacement in my thumb. That implant failed, and I had a total of 9 surgeries and wound up having the RSD, nerve damage and a fusion.)
Because I'm very sensitive to medications, I had a lot of side effects from the medications, including the narcotics. They had me on a tremendous amount of narcotics and I was still in pain most of the time. Pain killers don't always work on all kinds of pain. Some pain, like nerve pain, can be hard to treat. I was also very worried about my tolerance to narcotics and was worried that if I needed something in the future, they wouldn't be able to control my pain.
I tapered off my meds with help from here. It definitely was hard and I felt lousy for a very long time. I was afraid of how bad my pain would be after I got off everything, but like a lot of people, I found I am able to manage my pain without narcotics. I'll never be pain free, and there are some days I wonder if I made the right decision, but for the most part, I am able to manage my pain by piecing things together. I use ibuprofen, lidoderm patches, prescription gels, and exercise to help.
People with chronic pain most often will never be pain free, and pain management is about more than pills. There's physical therapy, injections, other types of medication, acupuncture, massage therapy, and more that can help. And distraction helps lot as well.
When people with chronic pain become addicted, I personally think in addition to aftercare you also need to think about how you'll treat your pain and manage it. It would be very easy to slip back into addiction when you're dealing with pain day in and day out.
If your family doctor can manage your pain, that's great, but pain management specialists often have more ways to help. I've tried a lot of different things and now know what helps and what doesn't.
Best of luck with all you're dealing with. For me, it was definitely worth coming off the narcotics.
And for the doctors around here they will write for anything,most people around here go to pain clinics to get stronger medicine and just recently it's been on news showing ppl in parking lots of these pain management and people were piled 10 in a car and using and high in the parking lot. Like I said I go to my family doctor 1 every 6 months unless sick.
This ***** and I feel like crap, n tired along with a sinus infection now. I don't know
I can't believe he keeps raising it if he knows how it's making you feel. Bless your heart. One of my best friends has fibro and it's a mean disease.
You're doing great. The chest pains could possibly be a little bit of anxiety, but of course, I don't know. If it persists, see a doc. The back pain could be from wds. Maybe ice, heat or an OTC med like Ibuprofen could give you some relief.
As far as the hydros you're still taking, I really don't think that small amount is really doing anything for you except prolonging things. You should be able to flush them now and not feel any different than you do already. You're doing so well. Keep it up! :)
You're doing great. The chest pains could possibly be a little bit of anxiety, but of course, I don't know. If it persists, see a doc. The back pain could be from wds. Maybe ice, heat or an OTC med like Ibuprofen could give you some relief.
As far as the hydros you're still taking, I really don't think that small amount is really doing anything for you except prolonging things. You should be able to flush them now and not feel any different than you do already. You're doing so well. Keep it up! :)
I started out on 50mg and my doctor kept raising them and they do help fibro but I do have 1 prescription of the 75 mg. but like 15 of those but for me that's a lot and I think i will start 1 a day. Fibro is painful enough. Already taken a hot bath soak and the other half of hydro which makes 2 but I won't take another half till morning regardless, but from 20 almost daily and got through today with 2 makes me hopeful. Having low back pain,not sure if that's the wd? I know the leg cramps and bc of you helpful people I know the stomach and all that crap is! I am also having chest pain alittle but not sure, do you have chest pain with wd? I know fibro calls it to sometimes and I'm also on the nitro and I see a heart doctor. I don't want to take nitro if it's anxiety though! I sure hope I can be back normal after this. Even though I don't know what that is anymore. Im afraid I will feel different about things,life. Will I? This is probably a dumb question but I have a lot of things going through my mind.
Maybe you could get the doctor to decrease your Lyrica dose to 50mg. 150mg is pretty high. Just explain to him how it makes you feel. Lyrica is a popular drug for fibro.
Thanks, my doctor thinks I take the lyrica regularly so I'm afraid to tell him. Its hard to do without any medication with the fibro. I just choose to only do the hydrocodone in fear of needing both. I get them filled and have locked up in safes. I have years if supply but I kept them bc they were so expensive. I could function on hydro and never got high but I don't like the way the lyrica makes me feel and to me 1 makes me feel high, I never have been drunk but that's how I feel on . thanks to everyone posting, it means a lot.
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