HELP! How to overcome lortabs withdrawls

[Buckysbaby]

Hello to all, first i would like to say im new to this so if this is the wrong place for this im sorry. Ok heres a lil background on my problem. Have you ever wanted help with something and admitted that you have a problem and couldnt get any help? Well that is me. God knows my heart and i do not want to be like this. in the beging i thought " there couldnt be others like this out there' but i see it is. Ok let me get to the point. Im a single mother of 2 beautiful childrens on which im rasing alone. IM addicted to lortabs 10mg. I became addicted through a hand injury i got on a job, well low and behold when i tried to stop i went through the withdrawls not knowing what it was at that time because i have never felt this way befor and i was given this same drug when i had both of my kids. well i tried to stop and i even went to the doctor that was giving me refills of 30 pills every 7to10 days about it ofcourse he stopped that like ASAP. Now what do i do. well i wanted to stop so bad i went to my so called family for help. well no help there, they thought i just wanted some attention and was lying to get a break for my kids. Now this is my own mother. Ok now thats my biggest problem with this is my kids welfair in hand. I love my kids with every breath that i have and i no am all they have. It brings tears to my eyes now even as i type this. You see i had with to a local rehab once to but it was no good because i didnt have anyone that i could trust to watch my kids and the person that i did get to watch them for them 2 days i was not comfortable with so i checkd out cause i was to worried about my kids being ok. Yes i did kick it twice on my own cold turkey and as you see i did to have some set backs to. this time i need help. i was neglecting my kids the other times and i dont want to do that this time. this drug has ruin my life to the fullest. My symptons are the flu like symptoms, diarreah, sweats. and most of all its like my body is on fire. Oh i can go on and on but i really need some help. I had broke down and ask their father to get them for their springbreak which is march 30 - april 6 and im going to be starting nursing school on the 13th of april. you see i want to do better for myself and my kids and i want to nip this at that time. If anyone and i mean anyone can give me any information and please give me the names of the things you suggest and the amount i would really be thankful. i have little money and no insurance.
                                                         Thanks so much, Buckysbaby

[stilltrying1965]

Firstly welcome to the forum and let me tell you that you will get all the support you need on this site. We are all here to help axcept for the odd few like the above (ASTAIB86) whos remarks were uncalled for. I think this person is on the wrong site as this site is for people with problems who need some help not for people who want to vent about the price of pain meds or tell people to SUCK IT and get on with it. Easier said than done. Just to inform you ASTAIB my wife and myself had 13yr heroin addictions and we are now 34 days clean with the help from people on this site like 10356 and other MH members who care and share. The reason for my wifes heroin addiction was because she didnt get the pain meds she needed due to an undiagnosed illness NOT because of addicts who pretend to have pain to get pills but due to  doctors who did NOT have a clue what they were doing. Also she has along with her pulmonary hystiocytosis, emphysema, dystonia, fybromyalgia, sciatica, arthritis amongst other back and neck problems which were causing her enormous amounts of pain along with the horrendous pains in her lungs due to them being covered with tumours. I do not have any excuse bar for not being able to cope with reality due to my wife being so ill. I was a hardcore heroin addict. Im not proud of it but its the truth. Eventually she was prescribed dihydrocodeine, tramadol and temazepam to sleep. We came on this site desperate and people like 10356, gizzy,totallost, jimi, jacqui, lost dreams and numerous other mh members encouraged and helped us battle our addictions and have been clean since then. If our first answer had been from  ASTAIB we would have run a mile and probably dead within a few yrs. But we didnt i had 10356 sit up with me all night while i went through cold turkey which was horrendous but because of the compassion and support we battled through it and came out the other side winning.. Although still in early recovery we are winning due to notes, pms etc of encouragement from these people who all have now became very good friends of ours. Please keep posting we are here to help you and just ignore people who are more interested in the price of prescriptions and how brave they are for not taking loads of pain meds. I would like to say to you ASTAIB my wife now does NOT even take pain meds prescribed by doctors against their advice thats what i call brave and all the other people here who are or have battled against their addictions. Please dont be put off by 1 persons stupid point of view. Believe in yourself as we believe in you Buckysbaby and you will get.all the help & compssion you so deserve my friend so keep posting & GOOD LUCK ps we are sorry you got an answer like that as that attitude helps no one. I will look forward to hearing how you are doing. James and Kim

[Jacqui805]

Welcome to the forum.....we'll try to get you through this as best we can.  We all understand that addiction can happen to anyone....and I've never met one person who said they WANTED it or EXPECTED it to happen to them.  

For the diarrhea, you can take Immodium/Immodium AD, which is sold over the counter.

For the restless leg symptoms that you may get, heating pads wrapped around your legs can be helpful, as well as a hot bath.

The hot bath is helpful for body aches and general anxiety and restlessness too.

If you are nauseous, you can take something called Emetrol, which is also sold o-t-c.

There are a few prescriptions that one can take for some of the w/d s/s, but some of them are addicting in and of themselves.  

Time heals all, including w/d, and although the road can be long and hard, it does eventually lead you to the light at the end of the tunnel.

[Jacqui805]

Why on EARTH would you write what you did here?  We are all entitled to our own opinions, so I don't want to deprive you of yours, but everything has a place.....Buckysbaby came here asking for help.  Do you really think what you wrote, could in any way be viewed as being constructive, or helpful?  We all have things we see regularly, that we strongly disagree with, but we "pick our arguments" so to speak.  Your comments about the cost of your medication, had nothing to do with this person's needs.  I think it was selfish of you to mention it, and mention it in the way that you did.

I would also like to say, that the cost of your medication, being what it is, is more likely due to the drug company who made it, the pharmacy who sold it to you at a further mark up, and other factors related in it's manufacturing, selling.  

[10356]

hello and welcome to the forum.. from what i can gather you take on average 6 trams a day ? seizures have been known to be caused by tram wd if taken in lg. doses.. You are on a doable amount though.. you have been through wd before.. hot baths.. motrin/aleve for pain.. for the rls bananas (potassium) tonic water has (quinine) in it and hot baths.. vitimans are expensive although others recommend like holliee above did.. if you cannot.. try to eat healthy and drink fluids like the sports drinks gator aid like this.. this is important as you do not want to become dehydrated... heating pad or heating blanket would be great..  valarian root for anxiety you can get these at walmart melatonin 5mg with the valerian root might help you to sleep in the beginning and towards the end.. day 3 and 4 will probably be your worst.. stay on the forum for support and remember attitude is everything in wd.. check your anger and try to be positive.. aa or na after the wd would be very beneficial to helping you stay clean for your kids.. the longer you are clean the more those around us are willing to help.. when they know we are helping ourselves.. I wish you well and it is good to read you have a future for yourself.. take care.. lesa

[Holliee]

First off you can ween yourself down to nothing or cold turkey. Look up the thomas recipe that helps a lot...sweating helps like hot hot showers, hot tub steam room anything to make you sweat all toxins out of you. Melatoin get at cvs just ask help you sleep. b-12 vit. c You can do it stay strong. If your legs cramp bad put pillows under them make sure that they are higher than your head when laying down ...hope this helps any more questions message me holliee