38 Hours Into Withdrawal

[silverlining999]

Ok, I don't want to get excited here because I EXPECT things to get worse, BUT, day one was a nightmare for me. Late yesterday afternoon, after rolling into 24 hours, the pain my legs was off the charts. My anxiety was increasing I felt very nauseated, but continued to take my zofran, and continued to eat every meal and drink a ton of Dasani water. I was sweating like a pig and I had horrible blurred vision. I felt so crappy, I decided to take half of a lorazepam (I usually only take this at nighttime for sleep),and it settled my anxiety and restless legs AND the pain a bit. I ate dinner waited an hour then took my full loraz and my nighttime clonidine. I woke up during the night a few times with stomach cramps, but would just go back to sleep. This morning, I woke up with NO pain. No aching joints, muscles, nothing. This is quite different than my last withdrawal attempt. I think the difference between then and now, is that my thyroid is normal again and all my other tests showed up in that I'm in excellent health. I see that the pain meds were INCREASING my pain. I know I have a long way to go yet, but I'm really excited. I took two Immodium capsules this morning and I feel hungry so I'm going to eat breakfast and throw some blueberries in for good measure and take some Ibuprofen for the totally minor aches that I have.

My question is,why are some withdrawals different than others? This time, I'm just going with whatever my body wants to do. Sleep has been a MAJOR help in all of this. The last withdrawal, I was INSANE with no sleep. It made the withdrawal unbearable. This time, I felt far more prepared.

I am So excited. If I can beat it another few days, I'm out of the woods with the worst of it. FREE from this crap.

BUT i am scared. I have two surgeries coming up, both that will require being on narcotics again. I don't want to get stuck on them again. I really, really don't and I am in total fear about it.

Any suggestions on how to get through that? I don't ever ever want to go through this again. EVER.

Thank you

[Teresa1717]

First off, as far as your w/d's being different this time, that was the same thing for me! Every time I would detox, I would have some variations in not only the intensity of the w/d's but in some cases I wouldnt have certain symptoms. Like this last time, I would sweat like CRAZY but in previous times, I would never sweat. I think its just our bodies doing what it needs to do. I really dont know why to be honest but it can be frustrating. The best thing you can do is not over analize it and just go with the flow.

What surgeries are you having and how soon? The reason I ask is because if its really soon, why have you chosen to stop opiates now instead of geeting surgery and then stopping now? Or do you in fact NEED narcotics afterwards?? (thats why I was asking what type of surgery) As the others above stated, there are so many different meds out there that can help that are not narcotic but that all depends on how intense of a surgery your having. They gave me Toradol after my surgery and is def helped me.

Anyways, Congrats on the clean time youve made so far! I know its hard but keep on fighting!

[BarbRTR]

That's a very good question, what if, down the road, whether it be major surgery or whatever, how do you get by?

Would love to hear from someone clean awhile that's dealt with that.

Awesome your wds aren't bad! Not sure why they differ, but be blessed it's easier this time!

Good luck to you!

[AMom1st]

Hi!  It sounds like you are well on your way to freedom.  I would say that you would want to tell your doctors when you have surgery that you have a propencity to opiate addiction and see if they can prescribe something else for you instead.  

Also wanted to respond to this post and bump you up so others will come along and offer their advice.  Good luck!