Oxycodone withdrawals

[sandra5353]

Monday I was on 4 15mg's a day for 5 years. Tuesday I went down to 1 and a half pills. Wednesday I did a half pill in morning and a half at night, thursday I did an 1/8 of a pill, but needed a half at 6PM. Today took one half at 12noon. I know Im going fast, but  I detoxed alot in 4 days. Feels like garbage. Any one else going thru this at same time as me? I need moral support. PLEASE!

[sandra5353]

UGH! Spoke too soon. About 11AM yesterday, it came back to haunt me. Burning skin, DEPRESSION, panic attacks, anxiety. Had to take an ambien 7:30AM, just to get 2 hours sleep. Always feel a bit better when I wake up, but fear, the Ambien is only masking the withdrawals for a while. I dont know, just dont know. SAD SAD SAD!!!

[Bkitty]

~Yay!! Im so happy for you and that you are feeling better sandra!! Ive been keeping an eye out to see how youre doing! It only gets better from here on out. Watch for the depression and mental w/d though and keep that gaurd up I wish you the best~Bkitty

[sandra5353]

withdrawals finally ended last night around 12:00PM< got small bits of sleep taking melatonin. Very weak today, but proud of myself for sticking to this and its only uphill from here! yaaaaaaaaaa

[bama88]

I'm glad your back home. Oxies are a ****. I wished doctors would tell us the long term effects of oxies before they decide to put us on them. I get so angry when I think about what these pain management doctors do. They don't care about our well-being just a money making scheme. It seems like everything they prescibe us is addicting. If we say we are depressed hand us another pill. And another and another. Then time goes by and we are.back in pain only now we have a bigger problem. Sorry I didn't mean to.vent.

[sandra5353]

Well ended up in ER Sunday due to panic attacks. really bad ones. The withdrawal cravins were done but I was taking RESTERAL for sleep which is a derivative of Valium. Found out its another habit froming drug. They gave me 2mg;s of adavan in ER and watched me for hours. I rested completly there, and went home in the evening with a presc.. for VISTIRAL, a non habit forming med that will take care of panic attacks. Couldnt sleep last night and gave in to the resteral around 2:30AM, slept like a baby but again felt like garbage this morning. Now I know its the resteral withdrawing from my body every morning and that is why I feel like crap, cause by the end of the day all those symptoms are gone. So, tonight, No more Resteral, and proably no sleep for a while but  Im clean from the oxy for sure!

[Bkitty]

~If what doesnt kill us makes us stonger than we must be like dynamite! The mental is THE WORST for me. There were other reasons why I used as well and I had to look at that as well. You sound like you are doing good. The tapering is working for you,,Keep us posted how you are doing!~

[sandra5353]

3 herniated disks in lower back, 2 in neck, fibromyalgia pain, and costochondritis pain in rib cage. But after a few years, the oxy blocks my dopermine in the brain, and depression sets in. I was on them once before and the same thing happened. I had to detox off of them in 2003 for the same reason. Took me 3 weeks cold turkey. This time Im weaning fast, cause I hate the depression it's giving me. So, Im kinda going cold turkey but take a half every six to 12 hours to give myself some releif. The depression left  after 2 days, just the anxiety of detoxing is there with detox pain. Very hard to deal with but the gloom and doom left, UNTIL, this morning! Got the worst panic attack ever. I went to reach for a half a pill, and decided to wait it out. The gloom subsided, thank GOD. That is worse for me than the withdrawals symptoms.

[Bkitty]

What is the reason you are taking them in the first place,,pain issues?? A lot of other members started out that way and then became addicted because they made them feel better. Me? I just liked how they made me feel. The reason I was asking is because a lot of time we have an underlying issue-me its depression. I self medicate because Im in pain and I dont know how to cope.