Day 5 and head is killing me :-(

[dee34]

Hi all (Good Morning from San Francisco)Percocet was my drug (doctor gave it to me)

I am wondering if any one has after a few days experienced bag headache's ?
I slept well but work up head killing me .......
Hope your all doing well and keep up your great work staying clean .........
Said I wont not count my days but guess I have started too . taught it was tacky but doing it , and every day counts and every second too
:-)
Have a great week end Guys .......... Thanks for all yer input .

[dee34]

I hope to stopping goes well woman
I have been having a hard time as miss my energy so much ..............percocet gave me lots of it energy but guess not at the end of last 6 months . Been a **** year ........dad had cancer then sister and then sister all in 6months and came back from Ireland and boyfriend broke up with me ..... got pregnant9Lost the baby) doctor said could never have a baby and then it happened  and lost my job yaaaaaaaaaaa
so open to get back on track soon here

I wish you luck on been clean ant easy is it ........... but we need to reboot or brains again hey ?

It all good at the end of this roller coaster of Life .......July 2nd I took as many pills not to wake up didn't work so started tapering and have a lot fo bad days with yesterday one good one ........looking forward to feeling like I can get up and out and enjoy the small things in life soon again

Love
Dee

[angel47630]

marcatj                
Thanks for agreeing.  I kept looking at that taper schedule and thought, ****, at that rate I won't be "clean" by Christmas!!!!!!!  Dang, that was just too long for me...........I wanted to quit so I came home and dropped from 20 to 7 and said to heck with the so called taper!!   Can you imagine dragging a taper out for almost 5 months?   I mean I know he was only looking out for me so I would have practically zero wd;s, but c'mon, when you have done what I have with pills, I want to celebrate the holidays sober this year..........first time in years.


dee

I hope your head gets better hon, geez, I would almost rather have anything  than a headache.   Can you rest today????

Love to you all,
Karen

[dee34]

I am not sure whats going on ?
2mg and I could not have any wd's right
I had no doctor for this as she didnt want me to stop the pills so doing it own my own so tapered down so why have wd's not sure why but dont miss the pills but feel like my body is just missing the pills and in shock and
sleep is gone
depression ,
and very weak
there is 2 parts to been clean the body and the brain part so guess have to get over and let go of this part , just miss having energy and sleeping

[dee34]

Hey Girl

I am a go getter too but slow it down ,
I was too eager and I was on 10mgs so quartered them so it looked like I had more to take during the day and change the times around so you dont get use of a certain time to take them every day

Your body know when it is time to drop so listen to your body not the doctor (which is why were here) doctors after all

I would have your last week on 2mg and drop slow woman ..........so stay on last dose of 2 weeks and every other day then .......... as i wish i did :-(

Your doing good woman , I taught I was over wd's at 2mg and guess the mind has to get used of been off them too
Sleep is gone
Head hurts
Depression
all that ****

But PMSing too I guess for the last 2 weeks nice hey lol

So keep me posted and you can email me too woman ........ look me up on this for my email address OK

Have a good day Karen ,,,,,,,,, head is killing me to day , tried Reiki yesterday and felt good after it but going to listen to my medication CD and have a smoke  and hope feel better to go biking in a few hours

I am very slow in the mornings , the pills got me up and out now have to retrain my bod , like we all have too

Keep me posted OK
Love
Dee

[marcatj]

Karen... from what I read, the way your doc. wrote it is a "proper taper" or close to anyway... but I wouldn't do it either.  No way.  If you wanna quit, quit.  If it were me, I'd be doing the same thing you are... or 5 for a couple days, then 4, then 3...

You go girl!  :)

[NautyOne]

when u got down to just 2mg ....withdrawals???  how bad?

nauty...............

[angel47630]

Thanks so much for your input.........................let me ask you................I was planning on going from 5 pills on Tuesday to 3 pills for 5 days and then stopping.    Do you think it would be better to then do 2 pills.............then one then a half?    

My pm dr wrote me out a MUCH slower taper.   He wanted me to go from 7 to 6 and a half for a month............then 5 for 3 weeks.......then 4 and a half for 3 weeks then 3 ( you get the pattern).  

I just couldn't wait that long, I am SICK of pills and I am a go getter type person so I do  it my way anyway   ( which is why I am an addict, huh?)

Karen :-0

[dee34]

Karen , glad your cutting back , I did on the percocet too but think I stopped to fast but not going back now
so I tapered 120mg as you know to drop 20mg then quarter every week and felt great too , July was so happy , biking , hiking etc
and then dropped to 2mg and was fine on the last day on it , thinking I can do this
I had planned to have 2mg for a week and then 2mg every other day BUT taught I was doing so good I stopped and Bang !
Didn't know that 2mg was keeping my body going , just a small amount but was keeping my body from wd's
I dropped and off in two months as I had my goal but stopped 2 weeks ahead of my goal so
Karen take it very slow the more you drop GO  slow , take it from me

Good Luck Woman

Wishing you some Irish Luck ,

[angel47630]

You know, one thing to keep in mind hon, is that day 6 could be your good day.   That is how I did it.   I am on day 7 of a horrendous taper..........20 pills to 5 and feeling fantastic on the new dose..............head clear, mind functioning better like I can see all the colors, smell all the smells and am over the top thrilled with life again.  

I started taking so many pills because I thought "they" made me feel that way about life, but ya know what I found out, only "you" can make yourself feel that way about life!!!

Keep at it!!!!!!!!  You have done INCREDIBLE!

I am going to hit it hard on Tuesday.   I had a rough couple days and am going to allow myself 3 good days and then Tuesday, go to another drastic drop and the next week done........................I feel so good about myself.

I have not had headaches at all, which is weird because I was put in pm because of severe tmj pain.    However, I am taking trazadone for sleep ( sedating anti-d)  and one of it's side effects can be alleviating headaches.

Listen, each day will be different and as I have seen, you can have a great day or be in the midst of a great day and have full blown wd hit you in the butt......................but, remember where you have come from, ok?  

These are milestones we are making in our lives, we can do this..


Blessings,
Karen

[bettie1976]

caffeine always helps my headaches. excedrin es has it as an active ingriedient. have some coffee yea, thats what im gonna do.

[dee34]

Hey , Funny enough could take percocet but never can take ibuprofen lol
Oh well first day to wake up 7am and have this to deal with oh well , it is part of it all have to deal with it ......... coffee might help?

Check in with you later on , thanks Savas  for your input ........... hope your well ?

[Savas]

Yeah, fun, ain't it? I use Midrin for the really bad ones. But I try to use all the standard remedies first, like heat & ice, pressure points, etc... also good ol' ibuprofen!