Help with withdrawal ms contin

[rallenebe]

I'm 44 and have been on ms contin for 6 years now. I was taking 300mg 3x daily two years ago. To help with the drowsiness my doc gave me dexedrine 45mg 1 x daily. The dexedrine got out of control and I stopped using it last year and now I'm kicking the morphine and need some help.
My latest dose is 180mg 3 x daily and I've weaned myself down to splitting the 60mg tabs into halves and taking one half 3x daily.

Like any long term user, I've left my meds at home while on a day trip or even an overnight stay along the way.... so i know exactly what the withdrawal is like but I don't know what to expect for anything longer than 24 hours.
I have 10 ea. 60mg pills left and they will be the last ms contin meds I ever take. I want to know what you all think is the best way to help me get through the next two weeks.
I own a business and I cannot stay at home in bed kickin this habit.. This demon will need to be fought head on in front of everyone so I need to have some sort of herbal supplements or something to help with the edge.
I've had diarrhea for the past month and today my stomach hurts so bad I can barely stand straight.
For some reason the hot flashes get me worse than anything else.... I will sit and sweat until my socks are wet.. its the worst.
As you know, Morphine causes constipation and I''ve literally been constipated for 6 years. So having the runs doesn't bother me... in fact, I welcome it. It may sound crazy but after crapping cotton balls for the last 6 years it feels good to empty my intestine.

I've used drugs most of my life including meth. I used meth for 17 years and still ran a business.. All be it my business eventually failed do to my meth use I have to hand it to the human mind for being able to function after a sleepless week.
I just gave up smoking too, 15 days ago ( I know right!) so I'm a glutton for punishment. I did find an old can of Copenhagen in my desk and I have to admit my lip is full of dirt and my trash can is rather gooey at this moment.

I'm having my first child in 4 months, I promised my wife I would welcome our baby into this world sober and by God that's exactly what I'm doing. Free from everything intoxicating so that she can intoxicate my life.

So, I've made it from 180mg 3x day to 30mg 3 x day but today i weaned myself a little more and I'm only taking 1/2 pill twice. My body is hot flashing so its time to let you good folks give me your ideas and prayers if ya got em.
My wife is big on herbal stuff but I've always been a skeptic so if you have any kind of over the counter stuff to help me with the withdrawals I would be thankful.

Thanks again and God Bless
R.ALLEN

[Florida_Guy737]

I used to take 15 minutes at a time especially when cravings or wds were hard.  If you have too, take one minute at a time and think that time is closer to bring you to recovery.  You'll be surprised on how fast that time accumulates once you get going.  

I just had a surgery a couple of months ago and stopped taking my percs when needed.  The physician also gave me some vics for f/u pain but honestly, I can't stand them.  The only reason I'm keeping them is that I have to travel quite a bit on business and I don't need to be limping when interacting with clients. My point is if your dedicated, you'll find that you're way too busy to 'zone' and need to keep your head together.

Guy

[pillguy]

I'm going to check in on you in a few hours.  Its 4:30PM PDT

Larry

[pillguy]

Only you can make the decision about what you do but if you give in you delay your freedom.  I couldn't do it the first time.  That's not the end of the world.  The downside was that I spent well over a year slowly reducing that amount that I abused.  If I had been diciplined, that year would have been mine, instead, it belonged to the pills.  And when it came down to it, I still had to go through the WDs in the end.  In fact, that's one of the things that got me through, I was tired of doing 3 or 4 or 5 days of WDs only to fail and start over.  Just got tired of it.  And you will too.  My advice would be this; take today and tomorrow off.  Put those days together with the weekend and you are there.  Now it won't be fun on Monday but you'll make it.  You'll be tired as heck but it will be manageble.  Then a few weeks of "damn its hard to get up in the morning".  Then one morning you'll get up and you'll be kicking a$$.  You won't even notice at first that you're different, that you are having something close to a normal day.  You won't recognize it at first because its been so long since you've had one.  And you'll know that freedom is yours.  

Everyone here knows how you feel today and we wished we could make it go away.  Its just awful and we know that.  Still, we know that the best thing you can do for yourself is hang in there.  We all know the freedom is more than worth the agony.  Its so good we don't just want it for ourselves, we want it for everyone.  We want it for you.

[rallenebe]

this is getting harder and harder by the minute. Rational function is impossible at this point. Sitting is nearly impossible and so is standing. I feel like my skin is crawling and I keep going from hot to cold.

I feel like running through my office door (closed), like a cartoon character. Hot flashes are nasty business today. Almost gave into the demon earlier but I decided to stay strong.
I just don't want, nor can I handle a week of this.

R

[rallenebe]

Thank you everyone that's posted here.
Today is day two and last night was no picnic. I actually screamed out a couple times for wd to stop. I find that laying in bed makes everything so much worse. After getting home and soaking in the tub I took a 2 hour drive in the country then a two hour walk.
Withdrawals were less than half during those hours.

Went to my favorite around 8:00pm and knocked back a few drinks. symptoms disappeared during my time there and didn't resurface until around midnight when my buzz wore off.
I'm just a social drinker (maybe once twice a month) but I can put away some alcohol. Never was much of a cheap date.. ha!
No sleep yet but its only 2nd day. I'm going to the gym after work, gonna try to work out and use the sauna to sweat some of the poison out of my system.
Hopefully I can last 3 hours at the gym which should allow me to nap at least an hour tonight.

[Florida_Guy737]

Hi,

Take the sweats as they come...your body is adjusting right now.  I used and still to this day because I'm pretty big (250lbs bodybuilder) clinical antiperspirant and baby powder.  After the shower, I dose myself with tons of baby powder---armpits, neck, lower back and sometimes feet as well.

Guy