roxicodone withdrawal

[dr_didi]

Hi everyone< my name is Didi and I am an addict.(pretending to be in a meeting-lol)
I have been abusing roxies for the past year. It started with a sniffing habit and turned into about 20 30mg. roxicodone pills a day. thats 600 mg. My normal intake was about 240 mg. daily.I only did 20, 25 pills when I got very upset. i started detoxing 3 days ago on the 15 mg. pills. I started my detox on 150 mg. Thats what got me "straight". I am now going down half a pill  a day(I'm splitting the 15's). I have no idea what I'm doing as I have never done an opiate pill detox before. I feel like crap, I'm sweating bullets in a 55 degree room. I'm irritable,naseous and am incapable of doing anything but sit in bed. I am lucky enough to have a xanax prescription (4mg. a day) but thats not really helping-I also nave a script for seroquel to sleep-thank god! I'm a severe insomniac. I'm reading all these posts on how you could die from this withdrawal-I thought you could only die from a benzodiazepine withdrawal????? If there is anyone out there who could give me advice I'd be very grateful. This is my last bottle of pills and I cant get another,so I cant screw up. what makes it more difficult is the pills are within arms reach and its so tempting to take a few to ease the pain.Unfortunately there is no one in my life I can give the pills to to supervise my detox. How long will this take? I cant leave the house, I'm depressed to the point where I'm getting suicidal thoughts. I'm a complete mess...not to mention I gained 40 lbs. this year. I was a knock out, now I'm just knocked out. HELP?

[sickboy512]

roxy's are the devil.IM 34 and this is my story. about 4 years ago i started taking hydrocodone for a broken wrist. once my wrist was healed i kept getting them from other doctors and started a wonderful terible friendship with opiate. once the dr.s wouldnt give me anymore i bought them off the street. my friend who was selling them to me (or so i thought he was my friend) told me these blue ones were better than hydros but just the same chemical , so i beleived him and started my love affair of the blues. of course after the first 3 months i was uncontrollably hooked and for 8 months after that took 1-3 a day until i finally broke down and told my wife who is a r.n. I nearly lost her and my children but for my sake shes a saint and helped me get off them. Not gonna lie it was the hardest thing ive ever done but i did it and was clean for about a year. then i went to vegas and decided to get a couple of blue to take , u know to help the party get goin, came home and got acouple more and thought as long as i dont take them every day i can handle it HA they have there own mind and agenda. another 7 months of every day use and finally getting fed up with them. i was doing 3-5 30 roxies a day and again had to tell my poor wife who i hope and pray not to lose. today is my 3rd day clean its been hell but i think i knew what to expect this time and my mind set was to embrase the pain and not let it keep me inside feeling deppressed. im tiered but on day two made myself ride my bicicle around the block and today actully ran 2 miles. Im not saying this method is for everyone but u must will yourself through the withdrawels or they will last even longer. in aweek i hope to feel better and in a month i hope to be smart enough to know my addiction is perminant and cannot be trusted or played with i will never take another blue AGAIN. I love my wife and kids to much to go through the lies again and besides i belive if i do my family will leave me.               Good Luck to all.

[jaybird91]

Try to get some subutex that works along with opiates and you can stop in three to four days

[IBKleen]

I got---You started your detox 3 days ago at the 150 ml mark. You are now cutting down 7.5 per day. So, you are at 135 ml right now. Am I right?

If so, that is a bit steep to go ct off of, especially after a year of riding up and down that dose. A taper would be great if you can and now it may seem easy but it will get harder. Do you have some one close to you whom you trust to hold the pills and dose them out to you?

[vicki595]

Avisg~  No...I wouldn't want to either.....  :(



Didi...post back and tell us exactly what you're taking now so we can give you good advice.

[avisg]

yeah i am not sure 150 yeah you would be right  she can ct now .... but  if she is up at 300 to 600 mg i would not want to do that ct .

[vicki595]

If I understood it right she started the detox when she was at 150mg...

Sorry...I'll read it again...

[avisg]

vicki she may not want to do that depending how much she is still on and I am a bit confused on that I know you were up to 600mg a day and your right you did NOT want to ct off that much a day that would be very dangerous .how many mgs are you taking right now? Is there any way you could go to rehab.

[vicki595]

Didi~  Here' s what I think: Flush the pills that you have left and cold turkey this...

You can't die from opiate withdrawal but you can feel pretty sick. Right now you're just prolonging the detox. Flush them and get this over with.

I don't like it that you're alone. Is there anyone who can get you some things? You'll need Immodium and a few other things. Do you have food? etc..

Post back~
Vicki