hi everyone...been a few weeks since I have been on boards, had severe panic attacks and shrink took me in to see her on emergency visit...panic was so severe she kept me on 5 mg of percs until yesterday to manage the panic with my new regiment of upped pristiq...have now been a full day off those nasty pills and she has me on the hospital protocal...40 mg of valium today, 30 mg for next 3 days, 20, 10 and 0 for the end of the week...I have to admit that as ****** as I feel, I also feel great that 24 hours has passed and my anxiety is controlled...the valium makes me loopy but not high, I can actually think straighter than I have in a long time. I realize its only day one, that wd may hit me hard with other symptoms but one day down...thats all I can ask for today...
There is a supplement called Calcium/Magnesium/Zinc at wal mart. It is so much help if you can get some! It's inexpensive too. Apple juice saved me during WDs. I tell everyone that. I wasn't able to eat much either, but toast and soup would usually help. Saltine crackers helped too.
I hope it's easy for ya! It can go either way, but it's worth it no matter what! : )
thanks! have it all! no poopies yet...if I can lol still at myself...picking up bananas in the morning to put in the protein shakes...I also have been eating this stuff called hemp hearts in my yoghurt...amino acids...that omega 3 fish stuff makes me very sick to my stomach...no matter what shape it comes in or form. yuk.
Ok, right now can you get some vitamins and juice/gatorade? Imodium will help the diarrhea. Advil and heating pad and epsom salt baths for aches and pains and RLS. After about 3 days you should start to feel better. Sleep and energy suffer for awhile. Exercise helps both!
Don't forget to eat some bland food every day even if you are not hungry. It will help in lots of ways.
You can do this!!! Just don't take pills and it'll be over soon!
hi all, am as close to weaned off as I can get, 1 and a half pills left, have been decreasing as much as I can, ..jittery as all hell, feel like someone beat me up, took the long road the pharmacist suggested, not sure if it was because of fear of withdrawals or fear of "without them" but either way, have no more, no way of getting any, no want to either...just want the shakes to stop and the anxiety to leave...
IM glad you went into an honest clinic .....many would have taken your money and started you on a road to he11 ......your habit is light...look up the thomas recipe in the lower right hand corner of the screen pick up the stuff suggested and will get on with this your withdrawal shouldn't be to bad or to long worst cace senero it takes a week to get over it but with such light use your probably looking at a couple of days pick up some gatorais for the electrolytes
in it then some apple juice you got to stay hydrated lots of hot baths and something to do at night when you cant sleep keep poating will help you threw this........Gnarly
well, I went for appt and it was a meth clinic...the intake person was astonished that my shrink would think that was the place for me...due to such low dosage...kept shaking her head everytime I answered no to coke, heroin, oxys, roxys whatever those are...basically told me to tell my shrink that she needs to realize where she is sending people before doing so...told me to go home, lower dosage, and /or cold turkey
dear gnarly 1...thanks for your kind and appreciated words...I will certainly speak to the psychiatrist before going to the other doctor who prescribes...town of 250,000 only one doctor prescribing this medicine...I will have to seriously discuss with them both...
EmmyD, I am so sorry for your loss...pancreatic cancer is a horrible one...I was numb from the diagnosis of a perfectly healthy man to losing him 6 weeks later and what it did to him, and us watching him. I have nightmares as a constant. But live knowing he could have suffered longer as many do...I pray your brother is safe overseas. And that you hang in there...as well...we have to get well...we just do.
HI im sorry to here of your loss we had 1 in our family 2 yrs ago my sister in law died of a overdose of vicaden and somas at 40 yrs old it hit the family like a ton of bricks....you 1/4 you pills and your intake is low....I really dont think sub is for you...sub will not give you the crutch your getting from the perc so whats the point?? if your trying to avoid withdrawals sub is a real crapshoot there we have had members come off 2mg and have little or slight withdrawals but we also have had members take the stuff down to crumbs and suffer horabal withdrawals
if you dice come up bad the withdrawal is long latsting a lot of members have indured 2 weeks or more ....to me with you only taking 3 pills a day and 1/4 them it would be like jumping from the frying pan into the fire...sub was designed with chronic abusers in mind with much higher dosing then your at....you could be done with this in about 4 or 5 days and be drug free
it up to you but I would really think this one over good luck and God bless....Gnarly
Everyone: So sorry for those of you that have experienced such losses. I can't even begin to imagine what some of you have been through.
ty555: So sorry about your father. I lost my mom to pancreatic cancer January 2010. I was using pain meds or actually abusing pain meds for chronic pain prior to my mom's diagnosis. While trying to help my mom and dad through this I also had a brother in Iraq. I kept using all of these things as my excuses to keep abusing the meds. I kept telling myself that I'd quit once I got through everything. Like you I was left to take care of the funeral and just the entire mess left behind as well as supporting my dad. I finally realized that this is not the life my mom would want for me. This isn't the life I want for me. I've tried to quit several times before but never made it more than 13 days. I just joined this forum and am 5 days clean today. This forum has been a blessing and gives me so much hope. Please hang in there and best of luck.
Emmy
oh what a horrible thing to have to go through...the fact that you are alive in itself is something amazing...you must be very strong individual and I wish for you peace and commend you on moving forward and living your life day by day...I know it will get easier to cope with, just as long as we don't let the grief drag us down...surely it is not something any of the departed would want for us...thank you both for taking the time to to talk to me...I really appreciate it...
I can relate to you I put on a front too and kept moving not wanting to face reality. The losses ranged from my friends wife and daughter and his friend all having a motor accident all died. In the process of this lost girl friend I guess she couldnt handle the sadness, then to top it all off the friend that lost his wife friend and daughter was murdered with my older brother for stupid roxis. I couldnt grieve all these losses all at once I didnt know where to start. I had a break down just cried and cried. Taking the subs to somewhat numb my deep pain. I know how you feel and sorry you had to do all the funeral stuff etc... I was fortunate I have somewhat a big family that helped. Hang in there
6 losses. my God.I am so sad for your loss.. I lost my best friend's daughter to a terrible freak accident and 8 months later, my best friend ended her life...now dad. all in such a short period of time. hit me hard. the pain in my knee nowhere near the pain of this grief, but I see these pills as a crutch and with all due honesty, I have been splitting them in quarters to just keep the shakes away and stay sane...mom is a mess, there was no one but me to handle his illness, funeral, paperwork, and I just kept popping quarters, to keep going...now I just want the monkey gone. This strong, stoic person everyone is in awe of, is in fact popping pills to be that way. I guess I have to give myself credit that I never took more than I did, but with me, just a half a perc can give me so mch anxiety that all I ever did was try to keep the wd away. I have not had a drink since I started taking these things, I do take pristiq and 1mg of ativan once a day...when I need it but don't much like it for making me tired. Shrink just wants me over the hump as she calls it so I doubt the doctor precibing the sub will leave me on it for any length of time. As far as support, if you mean NA, not a chance in this small town...it will destroy my mother who is mentally unstable right now, my job etc. I think groups on internet are my only way to have support.
I agree maybe I should of worded a little different.
Hi Hun & Welcome back....
Firs let me say I am very sorry for your loss. Please understand that grieving is a process and how ever long it takes you---is how long it takes. Feel the feelings and go at your own pace. There is no right and wrong in this situation.
I am not big on suggesting "maintenance" drugs to get off of opiates unless you are FULLY aware of what the drug is about and you are willing to follow a support program along with it.
If you are doing this to stop the cravings and stop the withdrawal and you do not do anything else, what do you think is going to happen? I'll tell you---a few years from now you will be back here asking how to get off of the Suboxone.
Suboxone is not for everyone but can be a great tool to help you get your life together, IF used properly.
So, do your homework---don't just jump in. Let us know how you are doing.
Hey very sorry for your loss. I say that with experience. I had six lossess last year and I was on suboxone for a year while grieving. Until I got through the hardest which was the beginning. For me all these losses happened right after another. I now am 27 days clean without subs. In my opinion its not a bad idea to get on the suboxone. Until you get through the beginning. I am living proof it will get better. The loss of family is never forgotten nor ignored. It just will get easier to cope. I know how you feel. I am one that says oh I hate when people say I know how you feel. Unless they had losses similar to ours they dont know. Hang in there. Hope that sub appt is soon for you.