Anyone suggest anything to kick painkiller addiction cold turkey??

[Dem11]

I know that this seems like something people always say and I also know that most people will ignore this because you've heard it all before, but if you're reading this please don't stop. I could really use someones help!

This is my fist time on something like this and well i really need a question answered sencerely. I know i'm not the only one who's aske this question and I know i won't be the last.  About a few mths ago I started taking pain killers. It was my get away. Or so I thought.....

I have a history of meeting fuked up men as if i have a sign on my head that says assholes here I am. So a little over 1 ago i meet this guy it was like WOW!  So were dating and everything is a little more than perfect just about everything i wanted was there in front of me. He had his cons, PAINKILLERS,  but in my head everyone has their cons, and it wasn't like i did them(painkillers.) So every now and then i started to them. I told my self ehhh i won't start to them hard core. I told myself it was ok. At the time this was true i didn't do them much at all. Until...

After years of dating the perfect assholes  my "amazing" boyfriend decided things weren't working out and he was moving out. He comes out of nowhere it was like your leaving but i didnt even know we had probles  So ofcourse my heads all messed up!!

Thats when I started ...it was helping and like i said I told myslef that i wouldn't get addicted...I went from doing them at night so that i could sleep to doing them in the day time so that i can et through the day slowly but shortly i started to do them all day long....

I've tried to not take them and I can't I just can't get through the unconfortableness in the back of my knee the sleepless nights the shakes the cold sweats the mood swings the anxiety....and soo much more!!

The worst part is that I have no one to talk to because no one knows, I'm embarrased. My family thinks I'm slightly  perfect ...I'm scared to ask for help because i dn't want them to think little of me and i just don't know what to do cause i can't do it alone.

How long does it takes to fully get over the addiction if i decide to do it cold turkey? I'm not really heavy on them or at least i don't think I am, but they have still taken over me. I take about 5-10 30mg roxi's a day. Somedays i fight with myself so i take either less or more.  I've tried to stop but the shakes get the best of me and i can't take it cuase i wanna lay in bed all day and i can't because i have a small boy who i can't let see me like that because i would let him down.

I'm sorry i'm just babbling on now.

If anyone has any piece of information that might help please write back.

[tramhamilton]

I agree with what Shellbell79 said, except for the fact that I had to quit c/t from 35 50mg Tramadols per day, because I ran out of pill and my doc dropped me he accused me of selling the pills. I swear I was not selling them a drug addict typically does not sell or share their pills because they don't want to run out. All of things Shellbell79 said above helped me except I also added a multivitamin to my regimen because I have a very active 13 year old, who plays football and basketball so I am constantly having to run him around. The same as you said in your post you do not want your little boy down. My is 13 but he will always be my little boy. Good Luck and keep posting believe me it helps.

[SHELLBELL79]

Well if you can't stop taking them cold turkey, I would wean off of them slowly. I wished I would have weaned off or tapered b/c I went through hell going cold turkey. It's better to taper, so Ive heard. You will have to go though the w/d symptoms but they might not be as bad by tapering. The worst of the w/d symptoms peaks at 72 hours. So your 3rd day is usually the worst and can continue for a few days.  You just have to know that it will end and get it over with! Taking hot baths are the only thing that helped me with my bad w/d's. Drink a lot of gatorade when detoxing and take OTC meds like Advil, Immodium. You just have to ride it out. Believe me it will get better and before you know it, you will be so happy its over!

[dominosarah]

Hi........you are not alone here.  Many of us have come here feeling the same way.  There is alot of support here.

I went cold turkey off 18 pills a day.  It is tough and you will feel like you have the flu for about a week.  After that you will start to feel better physically.  Is there anyway you can taper down on the pills?