Sound advice?

[shortie_man]

I have been reading posts for hours. There seems to be so much conflicting advice. And it covers everything from one end of the scale to the other. I am going to post anyway and see where this goes. I was an IV coke user for several years. It drove my life into the depths of hell and depravity. I ended up having to move 1500 miles away into a homeless shelter and start my life over to get and stay clean. Fast forward 10 years. I am now married, own a successful business and enjoy life.......until.......a back injury followed by pain pills. Fast forward another 2 years.....my business is falling apart, my marriage is on the rocks and I am broke from buying pain pills from anywhere and at any price. I get a script from my doctor of 90 5/325 mg Hydros every 2 weeks and still spend 250 a week buying pills. Now the money is all but dried up and before long the doctor will stop writing scripts.  I HAVE TO QUIT. I want my life back, my marriage to be what it was...happy and healthy....I tried a couple of times to go cold turkey. Vomiting, diarrhea, head aches could only get off the couch to make it to the bathroom. I lie to my wife and pawn my property to keep buying pills to avoid the sickness, feed the addiction and keep working to make more money to buy pills...........Do I move again and start over or just put a round in the chamber this time?

[PurrfectlyKrazy]

Wow....you sure are tapering fast (not complaining here) but yes, you will have withdrawal symptoms since you are dropping fast.  Sounds like you are doing everything right....I'm especially impressed that you've already found an NA group.

Keep on Keepin as our friend GlassGuy always says.  I'm so proud of you....I hope you are proud of yourself and that you recognize the deep well of courage you have inside of you.

Many Hugz and also prayers that you have a good day today~

[jugglin]

Just wanted to drop by and offer support.  You have gotten wonderful advice by all of those above.  So happy you have already found NA this morning.  Sounds like you have a wonderful wife for support.  Stay hydrated and eat bland foods when you can.
Best to you and keep posting!
Prayers out to you for strength, healing, and comfort!

[shortie_man]

Thank you so much for your post. Today is day two. I went from 30 pills the day before to 6 yesterday. My goal is 5 today and keep decreasing a pill a day. I have journaled, posted and am tracking as well. I have found an N/A group this morning, also.

[VICourageous]

I sure will send a Prayer or two your way..All the above replies hit it right on. Support, Support and more Support in anyway and however you can get it. I got clean back in 2012 and had many bumps in the road..I just kept adding more support and/or changing some support to fit what I was experiencing at the time.
I too was just telling someone how in my past drug use about 40 years back and then up to my first opiate, I could walk away from most drugs until the opiates hit me hard which lead up to getting the methadone prescribe for pain..Yep! It was all just a game to get it. Snorting with one other drug took me back to the crank days..The benzo to come down was one of the worst detoxes ever. YOU can do it!!!  Maybe talk to a DR so they can give you some comfort meds. They are getting better at this..Most of us just stayed all natural..You can find vit/min that help relax your muscles and some to help with energy and so on and so forth. Just make sure YOU drink TONS of water right now to help flush this all out..I wish you the best & never give up. YOUR Life is very precious.
Bless

[ChasingFreedom]

It sounds like you are finally tired of being a slave to the poison.  The very worst thing you can do throughout the detox process is to feel sorry for yourself.  When you start doing this you come up with every reason under the sun as to why you "need" the pills.  Stay as busy as you possibly can.  I worked through the worst of my WDs because I just couldn't stand sitting around dwelling on what I was going through.  DO NOT beat yourself up with guilt and shame.  We have all been where you are, and you would be surprised as to what professions many of us are in.  Addiction happens in ALL walks of life.  Together we can help each other through the highs and lows of the challenge of our lives.  Keep posting and reading.  Before you know it you will be helping others dig themselves out.  I'm telling ya, friend, freedom from the sneaking, lying and self-destruction is within your reach.

[PurrfectlyKrazy]

I think all the posters covered pretty much everything.  The reason why some advice seems conflicting is we gear our advice to specific situations, drugs and people.  What we may say to someone who is detoxing off of methadone we may not say to someone who is detoxing off low levels of codeine.  Some remedies that are out there to help with symptoms are different.  Some remedies work for one person but don't work for another or it is something they can't take.

I hope you understand what I'm saying.  The best analogy I can give you is I was addicted to a medium level of oxycodone.  Someone told me 5 to 7 days to detox....which was true.  If I had been on high levels of duragesic I would probably have been told at least 2 weeks because the half life of duragesic is much longer than the half life of oxycodone.

Stick with us here okay?  If something is advised and doesn't work tell us...more than likely someone has a different idea that will work perfectly for you.

The thing that always works in here...we are like a family.  We all care a great deal about what happens to you and we want you to succeed.  We don't judge and we don't force you to do anything you don't want to do.

Hugz