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Stopping Vicoden Intake
What withdrawal symptoms can occure when stopping Vicoden or Oxycoton intake?
Have you tried just one pain specialist. Be honest about how much you are taking. Are you shooting the oxy (and are you on heroin)? My name is Ava-Welcome to the Forum. I was a dilaudid addict after many years of chronic pain. None as bad as yours. I got hooked on pain pills and Stadol Nasal Spray (a bottle/day).
Then, I was a nurse, and I decided that I was not going to hurt anymore. Why throw away those wastages? But my true love was those yellow K4's. I hate the ******* now. I am on methadone high dose for the second time. I've detoxed from meth once so I know I can again.
If you want help, there should be someone who can help you. If you live in a large enough city, there ought to be many pain specialists. Read some of Mr. Michael's posts, he also has terrible chronic pain. He has one doctor who gives him enough meds to control the pain. That way you would not need heroin or to shoot any medication. Good luck and keep posting. I would like to know what is happening.
Then, I was a nurse, and I decided that I was not going to hurt anymore. Why throw away those wastages? But my true love was those yellow K4's. I hate the ******* now. I am on methadone high dose for the second time. I've detoxed from meth once so I know I can again.
If you want help, there should be someone who can help you. If you live in a large enough city, there ought to be many pain specialists. Read some of Mr. Michael's posts, he also has terrible chronic pain. He has one doctor who gives him enough meds to control the pain. That way you would not need heroin or to shoot any medication. Good luck and keep posting. I would like to know what is happening.
Hi there list people. I've been readingn the list for the past thrree of four days, and I guess I need to talk about what's going on in my life. Before you get started, be warned, This is a LONG post! I'm a pill junkie-- I lost my left leg ibn a car wreck 10 years ago, and have been on one kind of pain-killer, or another (usually a few different kinds at once...) since then.
Right now, I'm being prescribed: 40mg Oxycontin, 6 per day; 5mg Oxy-IR, 8 per day; Vicoprofen, 6 per day; and a few other non-narcotic scripts that don't really do jack, anyway. Of course, I have three diffenrent doctors writing these scripts for me, since I can't get enough meds from just one doc. I KNOW that tghis can get me in big trouble, but I just need the damn pills. I usually go through my 90 oxy's (a month's supply) in about a week (about 10-15 pills per day...) and then work through the IR's, and finally the Vikes, 'till everything is gone. When I can't get scripts, I go to the city and pick up a few bundles of dope to get me through 'till my next refill.
I'm NOT trying to kid myself, or anyone else here: I KNOW I'm a junkie. Even though I hold down a job (a pretty well-paying one, at that) and provide for my wife and daughter, I know that the salad days are gonna end. I know I can't keep this up forever. I've been on huge doses of this **** for 10 years, and my body just keeps wanting more and more. Yeah, I know-- I can keep chasing that high forever, and it will just keep getting more and more elusive-- I know. But I DON'T take the pills JUST for the high-- they DO help with the pain. I have something called RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) that is so painful-- I really don't know what to do, anymore.
Three years ago, or so, I came clean to my wife about the pills: Iw as out of pills, and hadn't yet discovered Heroin, and decided that I was goping to check into a Detox to get off the pills for good. We almost got divorced over the whole thing, but I made it through a 2-week detox. I got out of there feeling GOOD-- I was determined to stay off the pills for good. I took my first Vike 3 days after getting out. Sure, I rationalized that THSI TIME I'd only take the pills the way the Docs prescribed them (one every 4-6 hours) and as soon as I felt the slightest bit "itchy" I'd STOP again. You guys all know what happened...
So, here's my problem: I KNOW that I have to stop taking the Oxy and the IR and the Vikes (and especially the freakin' horse) but I don't want to lose my wife, my job, and everything that I've worked so hard for, and hold so dear. My wife already told me, and I KNOW she means it, that if the pills ever become a problem again, it'll be MY problem alone, since she'll be filing for divorce. I can't blame her.
I tried to taper myself off the vikes, weaning myself off them slowly. The only problem with that is that I have no one to hold my pills for me-- I always give myself an extra pill (hell, an extra DOSE) when I ask. I'm really good to my junkie side, like that. I'm still taking 4 or 5 doses of 5 pills a day. I tried yesterday to knock it down to 4 pills per dose, butI only held out for 10 minutes before I popped the extra tab.
What in god's name can I do to control my pain, but also get out of this crazy cycle of destruction that I'm on? It wasn't this bad untill last year when I discovered both Oxycontin (I was on MS Contin, orally) could be crushed and snorted, and that if I ran out of PRESCRIBED meds, I could go to Newark and buy dope. I'm so worried that it's futile...
Any suggestions?
Lastleg
Right now, I'm being prescribed: 40mg Oxycontin, 6 per day; 5mg Oxy-IR, 8 per day; Vicoprofen, 6 per day; and a few other non-narcotic scripts that don't really do jack, anyway. Of course, I have three diffenrent doctors writing these scripts for me, since I can't get enough meds from just one doc. I KNOW that tghis can get me in big trouble, but I just need the damn pills. I usually go through my 90 oxy's (a month's supply) in about a week (about 10-15 pills per day...) and then work through the IR's, and finally the Vikes, 'till everything is gone. When I can't get scripts, I go to the city and pick up a few bundles of dope to get me through 'till my next refill.
I'm NOT trying to kid myself, or anyone else here: I KNOW I'm a junkie. Even though I hold down a job (a pretty well-paying one, at that) and provide for my wife and daughter, I know that the salad days are gonna end. I know I can't keep this up forever. I've been on huge doses of this **** for 10 years, and my body just keeps wanting more and more. Yeah, I know-- I can keep chasing that high forever, and it will just keep getting more and more elusive-- I know. But I DON'T take the pills JUST for the high-- they DO help with the pain. I have something called RSD (Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy) that is so painful-- I really don't know what to do, anymore.
Three years ago, or so, I came clean to my wife about the pills: Iw as out of pills, and hadn't yet discovered Heroin, and decided that I was goping to check into a Detox to get off the pills for good. We almost got divorced over the whole thing, but I made it through a 2-week detox. I got out of there feeling GOOD-- I was determined to stay off the pills for good. I took my first Vike 3 days after getting out. Sure, I rationalized that THSI TIME I'd only take the pills the way the Docs prescribed them (one every 4-6 hours) and as soon as I felt the slightest bit "itchy" I'd STOP again. You guys all know what happened...
So, here's my problem: I KNOW that I have to stop taking the Oxy and the IR and the Vikes (and especially the freakin' horse) but I don't want to lose my wife, my job, and everything that I've worked so hard for, and hold so dear. My wife already told me, and I KNOW she means it, that if the pills ever become a problem again, it'll be MY problem alone, since she'll be filing for divorce. I can't blame her.
I tried to taper myself off the vikes, weaning myself off them slowly. The only problem with that is that I have no one to hold my pills for me-- I always give myself an extra pill (hell, an extra DOSE) when I ask. I'm really good to my junkie side, like that. I'm still taking 4 or 5 doses of 5 pills a day. I tried yesterday to knock it down to 4 pills per dose, butI only held out for 10 minutes before I popped the extra tab.
What in god's name can I do to control my pain, but also get out of this crazy cycle of destruction that I'm on? It wasn't this bad untill last year when I discovered both Oxycontin (I was on MS Contin, orally) could be crushed and snorted, and that if I ran out of PRESCRIBED meds, I could go to Newark and buy dope. I'm so worried that it's futile...
Any suggestions?
Lastleg
trump, i have been on vicodin es for 2 years!! 6-8 a day, how can i get off these things without rapid detox?? even though i still do need them for real pain, im scared what these pills are doing to my body and mind!!thanks lilangel,,,
Vicodin is a hard drug to get off of. I used it for 5 years and never exceeded the prescribed dosage but when I went to quit I got very sick. (increasing restlessness, dilated pupils, piloerection, watery eyes, runny nose, yawning, sweating, tremor, irritability, anorexia, and cramping of the stomach, as well as muscle and joint pain) I went through a procedure called rapid-detox. They put you under anethesia for 6 hours and use a drug called naloxone to remove the opiate from your system. Naloxone usually makes on very ill but since your under anethesia you don't know about it. After the rapid-detox I felt like I had the flu for about 5 days and have been off the Vicodin ever since (8 months)
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Trump
angst:
been up all night...pain,worry, etc. so i tossed the 3 coins for
you. i asked the oracle (i ching, taoist translation) "how should
angst conduct her affairs (business) today.
hex 42 increase.
increase is adding what is lacking. wind above/thunder below. enter gradually w/o rushing or lagging. "to increase good is not possible w/o decreasing what is not good...
developement:
hex 27 mourishment (lower jaw)
action doesn't depart from stillness, stillness nurtures action.
action is not RANDOM, stillness is not Vain.
nourishment = action and stillness unified
nourishment = nourishing what is good and ridding ones self of what is not.
this hexagram represents choosing good and holding fast
become empty to seek fulfilment!
i hope your day will be beter with these considerations! remem-
ber this is the taoist (dowist) translation.
if you would like, next time i will use pre confucian interpra-
tations. i pesonally don't find the pre-confucian or the confuc-
ian as applicable to modern life
keep an angel on your shoulder
kip
been up all night...pain,worry, etc. so i tossed the 3 coins for
you. i asked the oracle (i ching, taoist translation) "how should
angst conduct her affairs (business) today.
hex 42 increase.
increase is adding what is lacking. wind above/thunder below. enter gradually w/o rushing or lagging. "to increase good is not possible w/o decreasing what is not good...
developement:
hex 27 mourishment (lower jaw)
action doesn't depart from stillness, stillness nurtures action.
action is not RANDOM, stillness is not Vain.
nourishment = action and stillness unified
nourishment = nourishing what is good and ridding ones self of what is not.
this hexagram represents choosing good and holding fast
become empty to seek fulfilment!
i hope your day will be beter with these considerations! remem-
ber this is the taoist (dowist) translation.
if you would like, next time i will use pre confucian interpra-
tations. i pesonally don't find the pre-confucian or the confuc-
ian as applicable to modern life
keep an angel on your shoulder
kip
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