Day 2.5 for Vic Detox: I DONT UNDERSTAND...

[TheWoodApe]

...I dont understand why i DO NOT feel like total ****. Years of fear of detox and withdrawals has constructed some kind of horrible expectation that has yet to come to fruition.

Yesterday, day 1, at about 20 or so hours in i felt tired and apathetic and only managed to get the bare minimum of work done. Some very light nausea and stomach grumblings .... as if i was hit with the very beginning phases of a flu. I lay my head down to go to sleep last night expecting, with nearly every fiber in my body, that i would get maybe 4 hours of terrible sleep and wake up with an intense urge to hug the toilet bowl.  Nothin.

Keep in mind that i had a VERY strict (ZERO deviations) 21 day wean time from 40mg hydrocodone a day down to 10mg. Also that might play into this is that i've had a 37.5mg (a day) dosage of hydrocodone for the majority of my six years of use with only the past 2 months being at 40mg. The amount has been raised maybe twice, once at the very beginning and then once at the very end of my six years of use.

Also interesting fact: I for about 3-4 years during this same vicodin use was prescribed Ultracet @ about 300mg a day. I discontinued use about 3 months ago with the suspicion that it was, more so than the vicodin, the primary source of my pain relief. Turns out it was and that the vicodin really wasn't doin it for me, so it being the opiate i decided to discontinue that as well (i wasnt getting any pain relief and the possibility of abuse was too strong).

So i dont really know whats going on right now. I definitely had a period of a week or so when i stopped taking the ultracet that i felt like ****....but in comparison to how i normally felt, like ****, it was a drop in the bucket. Now that ive stopped taking entirely I feel SO much better than i thought i would at this stage in the game. I haven't had any real cravings that i can honestly confess to having (im sure they will show up later) and I haven't really been all that sick.

So have the past 3-4 years of taking the same dose of hydrocodone just been one long detox proccess? Or is the real **** storm waiting right around the corner waiting to pounce?

I'm quite confused....

[Dav125]

Count your blessings on lack of wd's.Keep your guard up though.Lingering effects may show up in a couple days..My first couple of days went better than I was expecting as I had two other times with better than a week in before backtracking to reflect on. I was real surprised when I actually got sleep the first 3 nights of this round along with being void of the body aches I had before..Why this was I can only attribute to a more extensive taper I did verses the other rounds..Here at 11 days I've been having some difficulty with sleep though the past 5 nights..

But hey, if your feeling good today then live it and put anymore thoughts of the med realm behind you and move on....Wishing the best for you..Dav

[dilemna]

I'm going on 8 days of sobriety after years of taking 50 to 60mg per day, everyday. You are very lucky to not have had the physical withdraws. I guess everyone is different in that respect. I can tell you my withdraws (Flu like symptoms) lasted about 4 days.

What I would watch out for, and again everyone is different - is the cravings. I am in that stage of withdraw, nothing physical, all mental. I find the cravings far worse for me than the physical withdraws I went through. Its literally torturing me. My mind is a mess. I look around the house for one i might have dropped or hidden. I pick up my phone to see if my dealer has texted me, although all I need to do is call him, and I'm right back.

While on vicodin, I was exercising like there was no tomorrow, running 4 miles a day, riding my bike, Those creepy little pills gave me energy. Now its been 8 days since I stopped, and haven't had the energy to go to the mailbox to get the mail. i tried running on Sunday and lasted about 15 minutes.

As someone else mentioned you could be one of those lucky few that can minimum withdraws, just be careful if/when the cravings kick in. I hope and pray that you are that guy who doesn't get those nasty cravings. I wouldn't wish this on my worst enemy.

Good luck and God Bless

[jeffclowns]

yeah i definitely agree with IBKleen that's pretty great  shoot i was on the crapper non-stop by my second day and the RLS (but it was my arms) was just horrible like continuing shooting pain up & down my arms at night at didn't sleep all that well also ,so that's awesome man ,but i wanted the w/d's to tell you the truth, i really did i wanted something to remember to make me never want to go through them again ,and i got my wish oh boy did i get it ,i was talking with a buddy last night about this actually and i told him ,man bro i didn't ever think a butt could be so sore but when you have major squirts i guess that's what happens ,i mean they were not the worst but the arm & the booty thing,i hated that for sure..lol...  but congrats on 2 and a half days man ,keep up the fight and be strong maybe you'll be one of the lucky one's that's doesn't have bad w/d's that would rock for you man ,i wish you the best and god bless you.jeff..

[IBKleen]

Sorry no one saw your post. It is a quiet time of the day.

So, let me get this straight...you want to know why you don't have intense withdrawal symptoms? I don't know that I could answer that but if I were you, I would be jumping for joy!! Count yourself lucky. That is one less hurdle you have to get over and now you are well on your way. Try not to dwell on it, stay positive and be grateful.

Congratulations on deciding to get clean and keep up the good work.