day 8

hi guys day 8 today!!!!! have to say i feel crappy though energy levels are still down,, and motivation has hit rock bottom!!! my arms and legs are really sore too,, feel like ive got rhuematism!!!! is this a trick your body plays on you to get you to take more pills????? im so exhausted literally falling on the floor and sleep is near impossible,,,even with the 5-htp!!! like all addicts i want instant gratification!!!!!! and i want to feel better today!!! have been keeping myself busy with housework and have been handing my car keys over to my sisters when the cravings get too much,,, i understand that all this is totally normal but its still so hard ,,, the easy part was deciding to quit now the real work begins!!!!! still havent broken my a** and rollerskates are really helping with the restless legs,,im handing it over every 5seconds and trying to live for now,,, but the thought of some pills is really overtakin all reason,,, if i can live for the next 5 minutes without taking a pill ill be doin good!!!

[jess8487]

you can do it, we all have been there or are there..Are you in any kind of treatment? you may consider that..NA i also really good.Good luck and dont give up now..8 days is an accomplishment!

[whitie]

your through the worst of it.........but its going to take a while longer to get right.  your right about the body, its been sooo use to the opiate, it no longer makes endorphins. your body naturally makes this........ENDORPHINS--- any of a group of endogenous peptides (as enkephalin) found especially in the brain that bind chiefly to opiate receptors and produce some pharmacological effects (as pain relief) like those of opiates ; specifically : beta-endorphin.
what is wild is the body actually makes endorphins that are as strong as morphine !!!!!

beta-endorphin---an endorphin of the pituitary gland having a much greater analgesic potency than morphine






your body is no longer making these naturally, they have been replaced by the opiates. until it gets back to normal, your going to be sick.  good news is in about a week you should be back to feeling normal.

exercise is huge, if you can somehow motivate yourself, it will help a bunch. I often felt the worst just sitting around suffering. herbs,energy drinks and cold medicines help me out of the worst of it many a time.

[lesleyf79]

thank you whitie day 11 now and feelin much better,,,, thank the lord!!!!! energy is slowly improving so is the pain in my arms and legs that was absolute torture i thought the pain of tapering back and fimally stopping was bad but this canstant dull ache in my arms and legs was hell,,,much improved now!!!!cant take cold medicine ,,,was taking 24 benydryl a night just to sleep while i was taking the codiene was still so buzzed and stoned at bedtime i couldnt sleep but thanks for the advice cold
eds here(ireland) have 15mg codiene per tablet so 8-10 of them and im back to square 1!!!!!!

[wings444]

WOW
YOu sound just like me Im also day 8 and Ive been steady posting about this horrid weakness.....But like everyone say theres a light at the end"!!!! Keep posting these people here are amazing...I started to think Im never getting better. But I guess if we dont go through HELL which it is then we would go back on our addiction. I dont know what you were on but.....I wish you all the best and keep posting because you will get answers.
Wings

[spongeboy]

I am on day 6 and so glad for this place to commiserate with others who are going thru this hell.  My problem was hydro.  As of now my main issues are extreme trouble sleeping due to rls and overall major fatigue during the day.  I expect to have to deal with this to a degree for a month or so from what i am reading but considering how long i took the damned things (2yrs) thats not too bad.  For sure i am glad to be experiencing this so i will remember this hell if i am tempted to take another painkiller. Hang in there! We can do it!

[whitie]

wow, great !!! plus glad to see the rest of you pounding the monkey off your backs !!! keep it up !!


wow, so in Ireland they sell coedine cold medicines over the counter?? thats messed up, if they did that here, I would have been jonesing at times downing that stuff when I was going cold turkey in the past.


that is fabulous sign that you stayed away from easily accessible opiates, means you are very serious about kicking the habit.


this saturday will be 3 weeks for me.......this time I am VERY SERIOUS about stopping my methadone/norco habit !! the methadone really dug into me.......... took longer it seems, but its tough to tell............but man, I forgot what its like to have natural energy, instead of relying on a pill to motivate me.  its been so long since I have felt normal.

everyones comments on here are a huge motivator for me...... its really like a group,if you think about it   :)


good luck to everyone........FIGHT ON !!!!!!!

[lesleyf79]

sorry to say whitie my addiction was to codiene!!!!!!! 40/60 12.8mg tabs a day,,,,,, not as severe as heroin or any of the stronger stuff but just enought to get me through my day,,,, and thats all over the counter here in ireland codiene codiene codiene!!!!!!! and then flu pills at night to sleep!!!! so that was alot of codiene to be takin everyday!!!!  i found it so hard to stop any time i tried i  got so sick .. i wasnt prepared for it at all,,,vomiting,,,diaorhea,,,RLS( worst thing ever)

im deadly serious bout not takin them anymore its takin too much out of me,,, for the first time in ages i can fall asleep natrually!!!!(even if the RLS does wake me 5/6 times a night ive got tivo) im enjoyin life even if it is hard im enjoyin the challenge!!!!!

good luck to you too Whitie xxxx