You are going to deal with two types of withdrawal symptoms: opioid and benzos. Opioid withdrawal resembles a severe flu and lasts anywhere from two to six weeks. The symptoms include malaise, confusion, diarrhea and vomiting, fever, body aches and muscle cramping, severe anxiety, mood swings and irritability, rapid heart rate and breathing, sweating, runny nose, shivering and tremors, anorexia and weight loss. I have never heard Doloxene prescribed or used for nausea. It is in fact no longer available in US.
Benzos, on the other hand must be tapered of slowly as stopping them abruptly can lead to seizures. You may be right to be on an SSRI to prevent depression that often follows narcotic withdrawal, but you may also want to talk to your doctor about some anti seizure medication such as Depacote to ease you from benzos. Good luck to you.
Hello,
he is NOTaddicted to Valium!!!!
I have a male 62 years old.....................is addicted to dextroprapoxyphene.....taking 19 a day .( mult lower back surgeries). He has been taking these for at least a year. He has an extensive cardiac history, also. He, desperately, wants to get off all pain meds............................we live in Mazatlan, Mexico and I am an RN with ER x 30 years and lots in detox.........but it was 10 years ago.
Can you suggest the best way to help detox him? He doesn't drink or do any illegal drugs and Really wants to get off these. We are unable to do in house detox due to expenses....................but have access to most drugs needed for nausea and anxiety.
I would soooooooooooooooooo appreciate any suggestions.
Mariah Anders
Doloxene is a weak opiate used in China for recovering heroin addicts, so it makes sense it would help alleviate the nausea of withdrawal.
What would it cost me to enter your rapid detox program in Michigan, and what are the statistics of success? Are you available for private consultation? Need help, and can't get it where I'm living in China.
Sorry, forgot to mention, I'm taking 15mg of valium a day now, down from 20 about 2-3 weeks ago, but fell off the wagon twice during that time and went back to 20.