Hydrocodone

[Rick]

Got addicted to hydrocodone due to back problem. Been taking about 6 months. What can I do to relieve withdrawal symptoms?
especially depression and sweats.

[FLaddict]

The ms cottin is why you are not having wd.. withdrawl occurs when your pain receptors in your brain experience a change in the input they are getting.. the ms cottin is still feeding the repectors enough opiates. YOu will probably not have any symptoms unless you cut down the ms cottin drastically  or stop taking it altogether

[kriswhite7]

I have been on tramadol now for 3 yrs and I have been trying to kick the addiction for about a year now and have had no success yet, and I am getting very discouraged!!!! So I know EXACTLY how you feel!! have you gotten off of them yet? Does ANYONE know how to cope with these withdraw symptoms without having to be addmitted into a hospital? I need help ASAP, I don't know how much more of this I can physically take before I HAVE to be addmitted. I just can't stand the thought of my family and work knowing I have such a problem!!!!!!! Can anyone help???????

[Todayiamhopeful]

I have been off of Norco 10 10mg per day since Friday 7/20.  I have not had any withdrawals.  I also take 30 mg 3 times a day of MS Contin.  I was so afraid to go off of the Norco because of the withdrawals I expected.  Am I not having withdrawals because of the continued use of MS Contin?  I do have kegitimate pain due to a neck injury in 2003.  I took myself off of the Norco cold turkey as no matter how much I take, I find no relief.  Please advise if I might still have some withdrawal symptoms.

[spitfire13]

BEWARE OF TRAMADOL...they say this is non-narcotic but I got hooked on them after only 2 weeks. I was taking Lortab for a hurt neck. Then went to Tramadol for 2 weeks. Those things will make you feel TOO GOOD!  Thank God I was only on any pain medicine for 3mths. I quit cold turkey on Christmas Day and went through 3 days of PURE HELL! thought I was going to have to go to the hospital many times. I was climbing the walls. MY blood felt cold, I had chills, fever, sweating, pacing back and forth, sittin up rocking back and forth non stop. This went on for 3 days, I threw up several times, Could not eat for 3 days. Finally, after the 3rd day, my appetite came back. PEOPLE just get help if you are hooked on any of these drugs. Remember My symptoms were this bad only after 3 mths on pills and I was only taking about 4 to 6 tramadols a day. And only a few Lortabs before those a day. If you stop COLD TURKEY and  you have been addicted for a long time, IT CAN KILL YOU! I recommend you go to a doctor and tell them the problem you doctor will understand and lower the dosage a little at a time!!! The doctor will not tell anyone your business either! GOOD LUCK AND GOD BLESS!!!!

[The_Sandman]

Prayers to you todd, posts like that make my problems seem like nothing. Thanks for the perspective AND may God use your situation POSITIVELY in some way.

You know, It's said that God will NEVER test you beyond what he KNOWS your capable of. If that helps any.

Maybe by how you handle this, it will show others and they will gain strength and perhaps pass it along.

lol... reminds me of that insurance commercial where someone sees someone do a good deed and then (next scene) they are helping someone as another person watches on (next scene) then that person is shown doing a good deed for someone else as yet another person watches this, and so on........

Sandman

[toddgarrettconst]

New to this area but i can not stay long, i just wanted to let everybody know to check out what its like to live with ALS .
The reason is some of you are having a hard time, just wait untill you read into what it is that will make you stop abusing the presrips today.

ALS is the worst thing you could ever live with, anyway they are putting a trach in me next month and that wil be it, they will never be able to remove it period.
I did not want to live at one time, but now i am fighting to stay alive.

Part of the reason why i was able to hold on for so long was that the narcotics that i have been on for the last 5 years has kept my energy up thank god, it has kept me from having that dam trach put in.

But now it has reach that point where i'll no longer be to breath on my own, but i'll always be thankfull for the extra 2-4years without the trach, that the narcotics gave me.  

THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME- and good luck to you all.