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Please help! How long will these norco withdrawls last?

Hi, I've been using norco for about 2 years on a daily basis. I take at least 9 pills a day of 10/325. I recently got up to taking 3 pills at one time. My last pill was 48hrs ago and I feel really crappy! I am so sleepy and exhausted, but I can't sleep. The first night I slept for about an hour then I got up and went to work. The whole time at work all I wanted to do was go home and sleep. When I got home that was the last thing I could do. I tossed and turned all night. Finally I remembered that I had a few soma that I had taken a long time ago, so I took 1 and I slept for a full 4hrs. I am not going to take anymore soma I just want to be able to stay clear of all meds. Since I've stopped taking norco I've gone through so much. I am cold one min and hot the next. I am not hungry what soever, which is very weird. I sneeze all the time. My body is very weak and I feel kinda depressed. I have the choice of getting some more pills, but I'm trying very hard not to. I hate these withdrawls and I feel like maybe I shouldn't have gone cold turkey so I keep telling myself that maybe I should get these pills and try to come off of them slowly. Does anyone know how long these withdrawls will last? Any advice? PLEASE!! Thanks!
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I too am presently going through cold turkey withdrawal from a 12-14 hydrocodone habit.  My last pill was 4:00 P.M. sat. The only thing I can say that although it is hell--It is only temporary! Please don't go back because each time the withdrawals are worse--You can make it though--one minute-one hour-one day at a time.  Peace and prayers  N.O. lady--AKA Mystere
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this is rough. I have been right where you are. It is a desperate horrid feeling, with no relief and no end in sight. there is help , and there is hope. hang in there. This is an old post. Go to the top of the page and hit the green button "post a question." The people on this site are amazing and supportive. Welcome.
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trying to quit the Norco habit, 10/325, 8 a day for 10 years but no longer have access, I have a few 5/325 but trying not to take those - starting to jones pretty bad - how do you guys get thru this?
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I am 48 hrs into quitting norco 10/325. I've been reading here, and it was helping but last night was unbearable. My legs wouldn't stop, my skin prickled, sweats, goosebumps...and the sneezing aaaaargh! I took 10 mg melatonin to help sleep. I got about 3 hrs. I'm a 45 year old woman whose been comfortably numb for years, but opening the floodgates of emotions and pain all at once is almost too much to bear. Please, any suggestions??
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You give me hope.  I have been on norco for about 5 years. I'm tired of taking it and I ran out. So I figured no better time then the present! I was taking 2weeks ago about 8 a day, it had went down today is my first day with out. But I'm feeling it:// restless legs, pain ect... Is there anything natural to help? What can I do?
Thanks
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I been taken Lortab 7.5 like 6-9 a day I ran out I was in another country, I went nut.  I went to doctor and he gave me Norco 10,500  I was taking about 4 to6 a day I been on these drugs 25 years.  I went to bed and sleep 12 hours and I wake up carzy.  I said I got to stop and I did by praying and I took this med. a long time ago I hate it but real help with getting off Norco, it stop all pain because Norco want you to have pain to take more. so I ask my dr. to put me on Amitriptyline 25mg. I called my Daughter told here I was wanting to take Norco, she said Dad take 4 of Amitriptyline 25mg and that did not help because Norco cause leg pain very bad, I call my Daughter and said take more Amitriptyline 25mg I took a total of 9 in one night, then next night I took 1.  Amitriptyline 25mg stay in your body a long time but it not habit forming, I been of Norco now for 4 week, thank my Lord Jesus Christ and his Father in Heaven and the power of the Holy Spirit.. I made it....... and You can to I got real mad knowing this drug was control me and that when i said no more and just stop the Amitriptyline 25mg took the pain away last night I took one quater of Amitriptyline 25mg I do not like this drug but one quater of Amitriptyline 25mg is like 6 mg I was in a car wreck and my neck fracture in 3 places and hurt my back, I still have pain but I still had pain when I was taking Norco so what the differents pain with or with out you can deal with pain I keep geeting hurt like I torn my big toe nail off one night I went to bed it hurt about 2 min. because the other pain in my body is much greater, you just got to deal with pain and do not let it control you. Have a good day Robert......
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I been taken Lortab 7.5 like 6-9 a day I ran out I was in another country, I went nut.  I went to doctor and he gave me Norco 10,500  I was taking about 4 to6 a day I been on these drugs 25 years.  I went to bed and sleep 12 hours and I wake up carzy.  I said I got to stop and I did by praying and I took this med. a long time ago I hate it but real help with getting off Norco, it stop all pain because Norco want you to have pain to take more. so I ask my dr. to put me on Amitriptyline 25mg. I called my Daughter told here I was wanting to take Norco, she said Dad take 4 of Amitriptyline 25mg and that did not help because Norco cause leg pain very bad, I call my Daughter and said take more Amitriptyline 25mg I took a total of 9 in one night, then next night I took 1.  Amitriptyline 25mg stay in your body a long time but it not habit forming, I been of Norco now for 4 week, thank my Lord Jesus Christ and his Father in Heaven and the power of the Holy Spirit.. I made it....... and You can to I got real mad knowing this drug was control me and that when i said no more and just stop the Amitriptyline 25mg took the pain away last night I took one quater of Amitriptyline 25mg I do not like this drug but one quater of Amitriptyline 25mg is like 6 mg I was in a car wreck and my neck fracture in 3 places and hurt my back, I still have pain but I still had pain when I was taking Norco so what the differents pain with or with out you can deal with pain I keep geeting hurt like I torn my big toe nail off one night I went to bed it hurt about 2 min. because the other pain in my body is much greater, you just got to deal with pain and do not let it control you. Have a good day Robert......
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Ive been on Norco for 3 to 4 years I had to quit cold turkey Its been 4 days  I was taking 2 in the morn. and 5 and half at night all at once  I cant sleep at night and now Im getting stomach cramps starting today I need help

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I have been reading everyone's post and you guys are so strong you can do this! You have people that love you and life is really wonderful when your straight. I am having issues with my husband and his taking narcos. I have found them in his car, in his pockets and randomly on the floor. He swears he isn't taking them anymore but I can tell when he is on them. He has lied to me several times about them and then swears he will stop taking them. I don't trust him and I don't know what to do. I don't want to see our marriage break up but, I cannot continue like this.
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I have been reading everyone's post and you guys are so strong you can do this! You have people that love you and life is really wonderful when your straight. I am having issues with my husband and his taking narcos. I have found them in his car, in his pockets and randomly on the floor. He swears he isn't taking them anymore but I can tell when he is on them. He has lied to me several times about them and then swears he will stop taking them. I don't trust him and I don't know what to do. I don't want to see our marriage break up but, I cannot continue like this.
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OMG, I am so glad I found this page..I thought I was going crazy..I have been off the Norco for 3 weeks and still feel like crap..dizzy all day long and I cant concentrate...I have anxiety like crazy..I just want to know how long this last...
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I was no Norco 10/350 for 3 months and 14 days.  I am now off of them and feeling sick all the time.  How long does the withdraw last.  Is their any thing that we can do for it?
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Is there anything you can do to help with withdrawls .. I'm only 18 and norcos have ruined my life.. I have already been on saboxen but I have RA very badley and the norcos where the only thing that works for me.. I'm ran out now and I feel like I'm dying is this dangrrous what should I do?
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Oh and my use of Norco has been for three years of prescriptions
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Thank you for the neurontin advise. I am in my first 24 hrs. I had to take my first single dose of Norco 750 after a severe anxiety attack which occured after 22 hours of cold turkey. I also took two Neurontin for the anxiety attack per your advise and it has subsided. I think if i take one Norco a day and two Neurontin a day I might be able to taper off because I was only taking 5-6 a day. What do you think?
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Thank you for the neurontin advise. I am in my first 24 hrs. I had to take my first single dose of Norco 750 after a severe anxiety attack which occured after 22 hours of cold turkey. I also took two Neurontin for the anxiety attack per your advise and it has subsided. I think if i take one Norco a day and two Neurontin a day I might be able to taper off because I was only taking 5-6 a day. What do you think?
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A u can still take little by little that's how I did it I was taking over 100 of the 10s norcos every day for like 5 months I go on and off all the time  just take some win u really fill like **** and go from there I'm just letting u know it works
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This is an older post, you may want to start your own thread so that people will be able to help you! I am going through withdrawal right now I know how you feel! Nausea they say can be helped with dramamine or maybs phenergran (but I think that is rx). Wish you the best, stay strong you can do this!!
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I have been using norcos for about 2 yrs. It got up to about 20 per day. I have stopped cold turkey and am very sick. I have migraines and am  very nauseas. I can't even think about food. But it has been 2 days. I keep trying to remind myself that this suffering will be worth it in the long run because i'll be off the norco. I had knee pain when I started taking them, next thing I knew I was addicted.  Any tips on how to deal with the nausea?
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I just found out my Dr is cutting me off and I'm scared of the withdraws I hope he gives me a lower dose then cuts me off
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Ive taken between 6 to 12 norcos 10/325 everyday for 7 years and Im finally off.  Been for 4 weeks now, and Ill tell you what this is the second time ive come off them and it took 6 months realistically to get back to normal.  Tapering off is the way to go.  I went to 3 a day for a bit then  2 a day for a bit then i broke those little bastards in half and went to 3 halfs a day for a while then 2 halfs a day for a while then to one half a day saved it for night just to get some sleep. your legs kill ya your body hurts and your mind is mush you puke and crap all day long, but anyone with will can do it. the hard part is not getting them again.  Exercise this whole time till you feel like you cant move pushups situps jumping jacks whatever just do it it will make it better.  Im still kinda sick to my stomach and my legs kill and the restless nights still are a ***** sorry to say but you need to know to be prepared.  so you wont go back.  know your life will suck fir the next months but know you will get the rest of your life back.  F those pills I hate them but nothing makes you work better and feel better lets be real. Good luck to you all and to me.  buy extra toilet paper lol have fun sorry but you need to have good humor about it the poor me attitude will never work!
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I found this forum while googling how to cope with norco withdrawals.

I have a pretty good record with quitting cold turkey when it comes to addiction. I quit smoking almost 7 years ago, after a 9-10 year habit. (yea i know, i was 10 or 11 when i started..) that took 3 days of fighting the urges, i got headaches, but took aspirin, and the occasional sick stomach. I drank heavily/daily from the ages of 18-24....i lucked out with that one, because i nearly died, and every drink after made me puke. Since that one night, i've had less than 20 drinks in 3-4 years... Haven't been drunk since... still have an occasional drink every now and then, but NOT addicted at all...

For the last 4-5 years i've had horrible back pain, that caused me to lose my job, and insurance (long story) and forced me to move back home. Dealt with severe depression, suicidal thoughts, anxiety.. as I had no money, no help to get my back pain resolved.. couldn't even get pain pills...no over the counter meds helped. So in august of 2010 my back pain reached it's point where it crippled me, and i wanted to end my life bad...rushed to the hospital... (lost feeling in my right leg to my toes, as a result) it took 9 months for me to get approved for/find a state funded insurance that was just created in jan. 2011... I have a laundry list of genetically caused problems with my back, stemming from when I was 8 months old and had spinal meningitis.. 99% can never be fixed, or touched as, the slightest thing could paralyze me. It seems my back pain was a ticking time bomb...and 27 years into life, it finally explodes...

so anyways... dr. gave me vicodin, and my body got immuned to that fast, so he prescribed me norcos 10/325... that helped great! i was taking 4 a day... no big deal... then a year to the date i went to hospital, i had back surgery to try and get feeling in my leg and foot back... dr. said it could comeback right away, 2 years, or never... after surgery i was in so much pain, i was taking 8-12 norcos a day.... so i can say i've been addicted for 7 months now.. and within the last few days i've decided to stop as, i realized i was addicted.... I DO NOT WANT TO TAKE ANOTHER NORCO!!!

I am on day four, and can't sleep, i sneeze a lot (which kills my back) lost my appetite, i'm always jittery, can't get comfortable laying down, sitting - anxiety and shortness of breath... this is hell... never have i had withdrawal symptoms this bad and hard to bare... i'm very depressed.... i'm meeting with a primary care dr. today to see what he can do for me.. i'm hoping to get something to relax me, and let me fall asleep.. in 4 days i've gotten 8 hours of sleep maybe... an hour at a time...

i'm glad to hear all these stories as they help my mental stability, and give me hope!
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I have an inoperable arthritic condition in my lower spine. I am on epeidurals monthly and 10/325 norco 3x daily. Plus a shot of vodka now and then to help it kick in better.  Since my conditon with my back is chronic I cant stop the meds even thought I want to. This ***** so bad and i've considered ending it all except I have 2 youngsters. If I stop the Norco the pain in my back is so bad that I dont even notice the withdrawals. I wish someone could help me.
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THANK YOU FOR YOUR POST AS I STRUGGLE EVERYDAY THINKING I AM LOSING MY MIND!

GOD BLESS
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