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Percocet withdrawals, how long do they last?
I was prescribed percocets (5/325) about 1 1/2 years ago for chronic back pain (scoliosis mainly). I took them as prescribed for a while and then started increasing the dosage until I was taking upwards of 14 a day (I could take 8 per my script).
I decided about a week ago to stop. I tapered down to 8 a day, I guess that's not great but I just can't have them around me without taking them.
I have been without for 36 hours and of course I feel like hell in a hand basket. The longest I've ever gone is about 30 hours.
My question is: How long until I start to feel better? I am off of work for a week (I planned this to coincide with my vacation).
I would have gone into a detox or something but I have no one to take care of my house, etc.
I decided about a week ago to stop. I tapered down to 8 a day, I guess that's not great but I just can't have them around me without taking them.
I have been without for 36 hours and of course I feel like hell in a hand basket. The longest I've ever gone is about 30 hours.
My question is: How long until I start to feel better? I am off of work for a week (I planned this to coincide with my vacation).
I would have gone into a detox or something but I have no one to take care of my house, etc.
I am a 41 yr old women addicted to percs and I tried kicking habit cold turkey.. By my 4th day I found myself passed out in bathroom forover 6 hrs in something that is just to embarrassing to mention.. So by the 4th day I had to get something in me thoughg i was dying.. So now im trien to ease slowly away from the 10/325 percz was taken anywhere from 10~20 a day.. I take oxys for long term pain iv had a severe spinalcord injury and fusions in lower back.. Like e.one I just want to get off these and try to human again..
Hey everyone.im 27 from SoCal. First time writing this and i have to admit im very nervous. Im that f'n idoit that used these only to get high, and got sucked in. started out with 1 30mg every week or so, now im up to 3-4 30's a day. and i was never perscribed these, just have chronic back pain that dr.s dont care about. been on these for about a year. tried to stop CT 5 times and have failed every time. i never tought i would get sucked in like this. i was a college athlete and in great physical shape, and now i hate myself every time i wake up and look in the mirror. going to go into WD again tomm, and i want to swear to myself this is the end. no one knows about my addiction and this forum is acatually the first time i have ever reached out looking for help. ive read all these stories and they have helped a lot, but still need some reassurance that there can be life without percocet. i cannot live my life like this. if i continue down this path, i will lose my gf, and then i know i will be right back where i am today, admittedly worse off acatually. i just want my life back. i did this to myself, and athough a very outoging, optimistic person, i can honestly say i hate myself right now. i want off this devil. any advice for WD or words of wisdom would be greatly appreciated. thank you all and youre stories are a true inspiration. thank you for your time, as you all have been where i am, and have beat this devil, so i know there is hope. its just the WD always hurt so bad at day 3 i end up with a crushed up blue and snorthing that just to feel normal. this isnt me. this isnt the way we were meant to live. and im abusing this whereas there are ppl out there that desperately need them, and they cant bc of idiots like me that abuse them. to you all, im sorry. i just need some guidance. any help would be a blessing. thank you so much, and keep on the good fight. i know this will be worth it, and the self confdence i can get from beating this will be unlike anything else. godbless and take care.
-Brees
-Brees
my boyfriends sister is 36 almost 37 weeks pregnant she has been a hard core perc 30 abuser for three or more years not to mention her lifestyle and how she supports her habbit she can take about 15 perc 30s a day when she can find a sugar daddy who will pay her for sexual encounters . im mainly worried about the baby she has been through detox two or three times but always relapses and its sickning she is constantly vomiting because she is so geeked out on them . the baby is healthy so say the doctors but i dont know how im just so confused and to beat it all she is homless and she has a son who is four he is homless as well.but the power of the pill runs her life and she is hurting that unborn baby as well any tips any.advice what can.i do.!!!
my boyfriends sister is 36 almost 37 weeks pregnant she has been a hard core perc 30 abuser for three or more years not to mention her lifestyle and how she supports her habbit she can take about 15 perc 30s a day when she can find a sugar daddy who will pay her for sexual encounters . im mainly worried about the baby she has been through detox two or three times but always relapses and its sickning she is constantly vomiting because she is so geeked out on them . the baby is healthy so say the doctors but i dont know how im just so confused and to beat it all she is homless and she has a son who is four he is homless as well.but the power of the pill runs her life and she is hurting that unborn baby as well any tips any.advice what can.i do.!!!
Flash,
You can not get off the benzos as rapidly as the percs. Its very dangerous, so start taking them again. Deal with the perc withdrawl, but not taking the benzos can kill you. You have to wean yourself of those meds, and the docs will gradually taper you. You need their help with this. Also, the percs have taken serious control of your natural cell growth. Taking hi amounts of minerals, Iron, Potasium, B12, C, E, will eventually replenish your body. Oh and also Foli Acid. Im sure you have already finished with your withdrawl by now. I wish I had you strenth. Im scheduled myself for a rapid detox treatment, which honestly if you can afford it, is the only human way to get off opiods. I am lucky in this respect, but with my back problems again, I will be in pain, but at least Ill have my life back. Its not the drug that effects you. Its all mental. Percs have a 2 day life span. It does not matter if you take 4 a day or 40. In 2 days its out of your system, but the receptors in your brain have not been cleaned. They are the reason for the withdrawl. I do not understand the medical profession, nor the Insurance companies. The cost of the Rapid Detox in the long run is cheaper. The drug is removed from your body in hours, and the receptors are cleaned as well. This unfortunatly is my second time. I relapsed after the first go around being I had a script left over. My back pain was so severe I could not take it anymore. However this go around, I am prepared to go back to phyical theropy, Massage theropy, and weekly visits to the shrink and work groups. I noticed that even after getting off the meds I was not right. I had no energy, no ambition, no need to go on. I found that my body took a beating, and then learned about the vitamine theropy, and the unfortunate but the truth that it takes time to get normal. I want to be that quy on TV running around being normal. The second go around will work. It was always doctors scripts. Never bought on the streets being I have a true problem. However with the way the medical and government intervention is producing itself taking our first amendment rights of privacy away from us because mothers of children dealing the drug died because of stupidity, the people with paid to the point of no other choice but to be on these meds or have no life at all are going to suffer. Yes. I have a back problem, and even with surgery, there is no promise of pain relief, I will just have to deal with it. As you did. SO if anyone is reading this about cold turkey on benzos, the answer is NO> . Yes...if you have the willpower of going through a week to 2 weeks of the worst time of you life getting off of opioides, I applaud you. You are better men and women than I am being that I have the ability to to take the easy street, but we all have to realise that additon in the beggining helps until it does not help anymore, and then starts to hurt. SO NO BENZO COLD TURKEY.....YOU CAN DIE FROM THIS.
TO all of us who have this problem, do not blame the doctors. They found a drug to help their patients dealing with severe pain. However DO BLAME the government who is now going to look over your shoulder and determine if your an attic, dealer, or criminal before they see that you have a problem called pain. That is just wrong. The Doctor Patience Confideniality rule just went out the window. All because some kids got stupid, like they all do as we did and now the poor person with cancer, or 9 to 10 pain numbers have to beg to get what they need, and the doctors are petrofide to prescribe these drugs. The makers of Suboxone should be thrown in jail, as that drug is 5 times harder to get off than the opiods.
Again....to all who are going through the cold turkey, you are the most bravest strongest people on the planet. Each minute you suffer gets you closer to your goal, and you all should and will feel proud of yourselves once you finish. However I do recommend never to do this at home. You really should get to a hospital, and let the government pay for it being they are now sticking their nose into our privacy, let them help you in your withdrawl. However when they want to give you methodone, get out of there. All they should be there for is to keep you hydrated, clean up after you, and talk you through it. Everyone that works their went through this themselves.
I applaude you flash and hope your life is better now than what it was before you went on the meds. I just hope that after I go in and come out clean that I have your strenth. Im a chicken like all of us could be, and for those who go cold turkey, you are worth your weight in gold in everyones eyes after you are better. You will gain the repect of all of them, and you also will remember what you went through the next time you see a perc laying in a closet door.
Love to all of you
You can not get off the benzos as rapidly as the percs. Its very dangerous, so start taking them again. Deal with the perc withdrawl, but not taking the benzos can kill you. You have to wean yourself of those meds, and the docs will gradually taper you. You need their help with this. Also, the percs have taken serious control of your natural cell growth. Taking hi amounts of minerals, Iron, Potasium, B12, C, E, will eventually replenish your body. Oh and also Foli Acid. Im sure you have already finished with your withdrawl by now. I wish I had you strenth. Im scheduled myself for a rapid detox treatment, which honestly if you can afford it, is the only human way to get off opiods. I am lucky in this respect, but with my back problems again, I will be in pain, but at least Ill have my life back. Its not the drug that effects you. Its all mental. Percs have a 2 day life span. It does not matter if you take 4 a day or 40. In 2 days its out of your system, but the receptors in your brain have not been cleaned. They are the reason for the withdrawl. I do not understand the medical profession, nor the Insurance companies. The cost of the Rapid Detox in the long run is cheaper. The drug is removed from your body in hours, and the receptors are cleaned as well. This unfortunatly is my second time. I relapsed after the first go around being I had a script left over. My back pain was so severe I could not take it anymore. However this go around, I am prepared to go back to phyical theropy, Massage theropy, and weekly visits to the shrink and work groups. I noticed that even after getting off the meds I was not right. I had no energy, no ambition, no need to go on. I found that my body took a beating, and then learned about the vitamine theropy, and the unfortunate but the truth that it takes time to get normal. I want to be that quy on TV running around being normal. The second go around will work. It was always doctors scripts. Never bought on the streets being I have a true problem. However with the way the medical and government intervention is producing itself taking our first amendment rights of privacy away from us because mothers of children dealing the drug died because of stupidity, the people with paid to the point of no other choice but to be on these meds or have no life at all are going to suffer. Yes. I have a back problem, and even with surgery, there is no promise of pain relief, I will just have to deal with it. As you did. SO if anyone is reading this about cold turkey on benzos, the answer is NO> . Yes...if you have the willpower of going through a week to 2 weeks of the worst time of you life getting off of opioides, I applaud you. You are better men and women than I am being that I have the ability to to take the easy street, but we all have to realise that additon in the beggining helps until it does not help anymore, and then starts to hurt. SO NO BENZO COLD TURKEY.....YOU CAN DIE FROM THIS.
TO all of us who have this problem, do not blame the doctors. They found a drug to help their patients dealing with severe pain. However DO BLAME the government who is now going to look over your shoulder and determine if your an attic, dealer, or criminal before they see that you have a problem called pain. That is just wrong. The Doctor Patience Confideniality rule just went out the window. All because some kids got stupid, like they all do as we did and now the poor person with cancer, or 9 to 10 pain numbers have to beg to get what they need, and the doctors are petrofide to prescribe these drugs. The makers of Suboxone should be thrown in jail, as that drug is 5 times harder to get off than the opiods.
Again....to all who are going through the cold turkey, you are the most bravest strongest people on the planet. Each minute you suffer gets you closer to your goal, and you all should and will feel proud of yourselves once you finish. However I do recommend never to do this at home. You really should get to a hospital, and let the government pay for it being they are now sticking their nose into our privacy, let them help you in your withdrawl. However when they want to give you methodone, get out of there. All they should be there for is to keep you hydrated, clean up after you, and talk you through it. Everyone that works their went through this themselves.
I applaude you flash and hope your life is better now than what it was before you went on the meds. I just hope that after I go in and come out clean that I have your strenth. Im a chicken like all of us could be, and for those who go cold turkey, you are worth your weight in gold in everyones eyes after you are better. You will gain the repect of all of them, and you also will remember what you went through the next time you see a perc laying in a closet door.
Love to all of you
Wow its crazy reading this stuff, because its exactlynwhat im going through, im losing mynhouse because of percs, i spend $150+ a day, I hate my self for it, im alone so when I try getting off of it and I get depresses, theres know one to help, I hate being straight and I hate being on pills, I think about ending it allmthe time but I know that would be giving up and my kids would hate me for it, im sure theyde get over it but maybe thats what scares me the most, just being forgotten about, I was married for 23 years and she left me for the drug dealer I get my stuff from, how sad is that, now here I sit in my house by myself with no cable because I paid for pills instead of the cable bill staring at the wall listening to the crickets, while she drives around in a landrover buying up rental properties, somebody just shoot me now, please, to make things worse i have high anxiety and am basicly unsociable, so i dont go out and have no hopes of ever meeting someone again, life really blows some times.
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