What helps with the aches and pains and mental obsession?

[Trying To Cope]

I have been taking as much as 150mg and as little as 20mg of lortab per day for months now, I had a bad addiction to them 5yrs ago and managed to get off of them but low and behold I ended back on the same road.  I know that it'll only last for about a week but I am a full time student and can't afford to stay home and in bed because of the cold sweats, diarreah, and just aching from head to toe all day.  Does anyone have any advise?

[Trying To Cope]

I've read alot about this suboxone is it like methadone?  I almost went to a methadone clinic last time but head horror stories about how people would get hooked on it and be like "crackheads" just trying to get up the money to get their daily dose at the methadone clinic.

[christos24]

i took my last 5 mg percocet i had at 8 am on saturday morning on November 3rd of 07'. i detoxed till 5pm on monday when i saw the suboxone doctor i was in suffioient withdrawals and was able to start the suboxone treatment, bottom line is i actually could have started taking the suboxone sunday morning right artound 24 hrs at most from using hydros, heroin, oxys, etc. but the hospital didnt have suboxone doctors working on the weekend so i had to wait,, let me tell you even with 1mg of lorazepam given every hour and lots of other anti-withdrawling drugs it felt like three long years and was still horribly hard to do..but it was the best thing i could have ever done with my life, it saved me-christos

[Trying To Cope]

How long do you have to stay in there?  

[christos24]

go to a walk in clinic or a university clinic most have one thats completely free to students and explain fully whats going on. they will help you detox and that will help tremedously in all aspects, i would ttry and get a few drugs to help two most important prescribed drugs is clonidine and a benzodiazepine like valiumn, ativan, or xanax. the clonidine helps a lot with the sweats, chills, and blood pressure fluctuations, the benzos are extremely helpful in stopping the insane anxiety, insomnia, muscle cramping and spasms, and restlessness. then i would get OTC immodium and an anti-diarrhea, and a OTC anti-nausea medicine. i also had some ambien for sleep as well. my detox was done in a hospital supervised but you can do it on your own if you think you can handle that.if you ahve a ny other wuestions or questions about treatment options, ive tried them all,let me know anytime, best of luck-christos

[Trying To Cope]

Yeah, I know 20mg isn't much but it wasn't by my will that that's all I took.  I know I'm on the right path and thank you for your support... I'm going to try to get something for anxiety from my sister-n-law till I can get to the doc.  

[worried878]

TIME....mentally....being ready and keeping ur mind busy..staying positive helps tremendously..exercise helped my depression and anxiety....have u read the thomas recipe in the health pages?  If u can make it on 20 mg a day at times..then remember..u can do this as 20 mg is not much at all....u r not too deep in if u could stop at 20 mg in one day...pull urself out now like u r doing before u dig urself a grave..or a hole so deep it will take alot to pull urself out of...think positvely..this is 99% mental in the end...be safe and keep moving forward