Help with withdrawal

[Meka76]

Hello my sister has been on Percocet and lortabs and weed for about 3 years now and she wants to quit but she is scared of the withdrawal symptoms how long will she go thru withdrawal symptoms how can I help her with the withdrawal symptoms what will the symptoms feel like is they're any thing that I can do to help her and make her feel better I just want to help her anyway that I can somebody please help me to help her.

[jayeye]

so the big question is........drum roll.......is she really ready to stop or is she just telling you that...if she dose and she is ready and you have the time to take a week or so off work for your sister i would just stay home with her and ride it out.

wd can be very scary im not going to lie its the worst hell i have ever been thru aside from being an addict......look up the Thomson recipe

http://www.medhelp.org/posts/Addiction-Substance-Abuse/Thomas-Recipe/show/50441

it will help.......get all pills out of the house when shes ready to do this and be ready to support her thru the roughest thing she will ever go thru......you need to be strong to cuz watching an addict go thru wd could be heart breaking.......as much as my mom hates drugs i know there was times when i was wd that she felt so bad i know if i persisted on it i could have convinced her to give me money to get high thats how terriblel the person feels..i kinda get offended when ppl say oh it just like having the flu no way i would take the flu for 4 weeks st8 than one week of wd.

any kinda getting off topic time for her to be honest.......she has to want it for her not cuz someone is telling them......when we are deep in our addiction nobody can reach us......i was once faced with leaving the house or getting help and i chose to stay in my car in the dead of winter (didnt last long but it happened) point is you have to want it more than anything

[Ldytaz]

I can tell u first hand,Methadone is not the answer for getting off pills.I was only taking 4-5 10mg loritabs a day and went there 2 years ago.Thousands off dollars lter I am now tapering off that.If I would have stopped while on pills I would have been sick for a short time.I went to clinic not to get sick and now have been sick for 6 months.It gets worse every week and Im not even done yet.I will be out of there in 3-4 weeks I hope.But,what I have figured out is the sickness from this is much worse then anything I had when on pills.I also kicked a 20year speed habit 17 years ago and it was not this bad.Methadone might be the way for some but,it was not for me.Be careful with it.Keep coming here and try and get your sister too.

[kuku4kokopuffs]

Going on Methadone or Suboxone to get off Percocets or Lortabs, even for a short period, would be the absolute worst thing she could do IMO.

I can't count the number of people on here I've read about who went on Sub or Methadone to come off Norcos and ended up in worse condition then they ever would have been biting the bullet and going CT off their original DOC.

If she's looking for an easy way out or a magic pill that will make everything better and not have to suffer to some degree, she might as well stop looking now, because it dos not exist and she will be making he biggest mistake of her life. Even bigger then starting on Percs or Lotabs in the first place.

This coming from someone who has been addicted to Methadone and used Suboxone successfully for 2 years to get off drugs.

[Damn22]

No problem at all hopefully everything works out.

[Meka76]

Yeah me too I meant thanx again

[Meka76]

Yeah me either but I really appreciate the help thanx a lot

[Damn22]

Maybe trying Methadone or Suboxone for a very very very VERY short amount of time at the lowest mg possible but it seems like she might be the kind of person to get addicted to Methadone or Suboxone from what you described so I'm not sure.

[Meka76]

I can't really tell you how much she is really taking because she lie so much about it but I have seen her take about 10/15 pills a day depending on the mg and she will also take the 15mg/30mg cets and she will take about 6/7 of those a day but I'm pretty sure it's more she just not doing it all in front or around me you know

[jayeye]

I mean weeks

[jayeye]

how much has she been taking amount could make a big difference for some...it takes bout 4-7 days to feel better physically but mental could take as lot more time...sleepcould be near impossible for a cpl wakes