You can beat opiate addiction!!!

[SavSam]

I just got through 6 full days of cold turkey withdrawal from a 30 norco a day addiction. I ended up in the ER from being dehydrated and it felt like I was being chewed up and spit through the bowels of hell but for those of you who are wanting to quit this at home because of lack of insurance (my issue) kids, a job, etc. I want to offer sone advice:

1. Don't let anyone tell you that you can't quit cold turkey. Rehab is great for those who can afford it but if I managed to quit CR from 30 pills a day and survive...so can you
2. Drink plenty of fluids!! You won't want to eat or drink anything but water and Gatorade is a must or you'll become dehydrated and end up in the ER hooked to an IV.
3. Get an electric massager and use it to help ease the restless legs and deep muscle pain. The ones with the heater work great.
4. Grab some DVDs of your favorite movies or TV shows. The Golden Girls, I Love Lucy, wedding Crashers, the funny stuff.
5. Remember that it will pass. Think of it as a rebirthing process.
6. If you can stock up on benzos and muscle relaxers such as Zanaflex, soma, Xanax ad well as something such as Trazadone or benadryl for sleep. The insomnia is the worst.
7. Ice packs work great to ease headaches.
8. Dont hesitate to lay out on the floor and kick and writhe in agony. Cry and release your feelings.
9. Exercise as much as possible and take hot baths. The sweat helps to detox and the heat relaxes the muscles. Just drink plenty of fluids.
10. Bananas help restless legs. Also take a multiple-vitamin every day.
11. For me on such a high dose, the agony lasted a good 6 days. Time crawled by and hours seemed like days.
12. Go to the ER if you experience hallucinations, fainting or passing out, trouble swallowing, not able to hold down liquids or food for more than 2 days, have ringing in your ears or have chest pains.

I want everyone to know that you DO NOT have to check into an inpatient treatment center to do this. If you want it bad enough you will succeed on your own. Feel free to message me if you have questions or just need support. I was on these pills for 10 years and went through a half a million dollars during this time buying pills. I lost everything I had and am having to rebuild my life all over again. I finally feel free for the first time in my 28 years of life. Suboxone gave me headaches and made me suicidal but takes away the physical withdrawal symptoms. Try this route first if you can. Stat away from methadone if you have trouble with self-discipline since it's extremely addictive as well.

Good luck to all of you out there going through this tunnel of hell. You are not alone! Always remember that.

[sie249]

In the UK the OAD clinic can get you clean under sedation in 24 hours. You can then have an implant that can last for 2 years to make sure you do not relapse. I can highly recommend them. You will feel weak for a week afterwards but you wont have any cluck for opiates

[gnarly_1]

Hi and welcome to the forum.....well that quit a habit you have there your knocking on deaths door and will dye from respiratory failer if you dont stop  just know it is possible  it would be helpful if you can take a week off work  even beter go to a rehab for a month or 2  ether way we can help a hot soak in epsom salt will help the resstless legs detox is usually a 4 or 5 day deal you can get threw the flu if you had it likewise you can get threw this keep talking to us we do home detoxes all the time  but dude  you need to do something wile your still alive
may God be with you..................Gnarly

[Watkins8109]

I just can't get past the cramps at night and not being able to contain my body from moving and jumping around its horrible

[Watkins8109]

Im so scared of withdraws I Don't know if I am man enough to make it owning a business I just cant work withdrawing hard as I do I have a 30 a day narco/ 20 a day OxyContin habit and suboxone only made things worst for me, God have mercy on me please!

[gatorgirl47]

Congrats! 6 days is great. I'm on day 12, still one hour at a time for me

[Ballgame]

Congrats.  Stay strong.  I'm struggling with morphine.  I tried CT but only lasted 60 hours and felt like I was going to die.  Thanks for advice

[Helpinghand2016]

Congrats. Have a plan to stay clean? I think everyone needs a relapse plan cause sometimes relapse happens and a plan to get back on the wagon as fast as possible is the key, but some don't relapse and they just use their support before things happen. That brain will still crave, stay strong and congrats again on the detox.

[Madmax88]

Ya 6 days was easy compared to the mental relaspe is tricky watch out!

[helpmenow2016]

I don't know if you still respond to this page. I am struggling with quitting pain pills. It's the first thought on my mind when I wake up in the morning and the last thought when I go to bed. I want to quit. No one knows that I have this secret problem in my family. At least I don't think anyone is aware. I just need support and someone to tell me I can do it. I don't know how to act without it. I'm scared to stop but have no choice bc my supply is now gone. I have 1 pill left. I want to be the person I was before I started. It was all fun in the beginning. The high I enjoyed. Then it took more and more to get me high. I just need support please!!

[IWON]

I just wanna post some of my story I've had a couple back surgeries, of course my addiction started on the first surgery well to be honest it started before that but once I had the first surgery they gave me the good stuff , but don't get me wrong I had and still have pretty bad pain I will get into that docs prescribed me zannax, norco, soma,morphine,OxyContin there were others but those are the ones I liked just like the rest of the world, so I stuck to them , it was year 2001 when I started taking them regularly. The mg I was taking are irrelevant I was hook / addicted no matter the mgs. The worst part is I really have bad back pain it's bad, but as a human being to wake up everyday and the very first thought is find my pills was fun the first couple yrs because it's not a big deal it's from a doctor no one knows ur on anything (ya right ) Atleast I thought that lol. I could go on for days In detail but I want to get my point across to someone on here that might be goin through something life is to short and precious to waste our lives being held captive by a pill!  After so long pills began to run your life literally and figuratively. It's freekin crazy how you become so dependent on something so small. I consider myself I strong willed person I never thought it would happen to me BUT it DID. After 13 yrs of being held captive by all those pills I've been set FREE and I did it on my own yes my OWn no nothing. Just a lot of music no sleep restless legs real bad for couple weeks and I gave  pills an *** whooping (I won). I made up my mind to get off pills when a song came on I'm an emotional person it don't take much to get me to tear up especially when the song sounds like it's been written for u from GOD the song completely by among the thirsty was the song that made me take a good long look in the mirror so I did that I did not like who I saw I looked defeated like I had been whooped by (opiates) and it hit me like a tom of bricks I just made up my mind at that moment I was taking myself off meds with no help I'm the type of person when I do something I do it whole heartedley plus I have four kids who need there dad around I couldn't do what my dad did to me   . That really helped me make up my mind even on meds I was always the best father to my kids regardless what I was putting in my body I take being a father very very serious like I said I had no father and pills helped me forget about my dad leaving who doesn't want a DAD on there life but that's what I was dealt so I dealt with it. I just want everyone to know you can do this you can be YOU again. Don't let something like a pill rule your life move on to LIFE! It's not to Late  I'm. 35 I feel like I'm 17 I never would have known the feeling of 17 if I didn't  find out what my body would feel like without meds. You won't know till you push them aside and move on my back feels exactly the same as it did with meds ya I still have pain but so what I'm Alive !!!! God bless and make the right choice and move on with life it's a couple off weeks and determination you can if I can

[keith600]

The best thing to occupy an addicts mind is recovery. Like gnarly said detoxing is easy, a lot of us have done it many times and thinking back on how bad wd"s were to stop you from using again is like not ever eating candy again cause you remember the last tooth ache, doesn't happen. In fact without any kind of recovery the better you feel physically the closer you are to using again. As far as savsams 12 rules of detoxing, sounds good except for # 6 which is why a lot of us end up here in the 1st place.

[erin121305]

I was just gonna say the same exact thing!!!!  It's good to know someone else is going through this ( you know what I mean, it's "not good", I just mean we are not alone!!!" ) It's so encouraging, we all can do this!! I hope:)).

[TimMadden]

what a great comment, thanks
  What I've been thinking about, is the crucial moment the passion you have finds its way to your day. Like, I've always wanted to build or sculpt things from wood. Summer cabins, carages. I'm professionally a graphic designer and I write songs. The happiest, most sizzling sweat I ever get is to get a tune and rhyme right, and write it up.
Now this moment, clueless after detox, cold turkey, you really don't have the highest amount of resolve to pick up the guitar after morning jog.
   What if it ends up in tears, the first try? After all that reward fantasy about giving yourself to something on the planet, something that takes you away...
I mean, this sounds a little thing, but is of crucial importance to me.
  I've cried so much that the tears after the first episode of trying to get a high from music and writing and ending up looking at a rusted empty planet-size barrel...  
  People say after the rough 3-6 days you have tons of energy. My fear is that it's not going to show up to me. I'm an ex-athlete, my jogs are just a routine. I don't believe in getting this energy out of nowhere after a week of detox from Tramadol, not even a powerful opioid.
    my prayers to you
Tim

[irishann]

Congrats on 6 days...it's my mind always going..the pills are always there in my mind! Anyone wanna tell me if this gets better?

[HarperOC]

wow that was sucha good post. I know im not the original poster on this but i am 3 days into oxycontin wd and that was so helpful. I was snorting about 450mgs a day and have tried to stop manytimes and that rationale you gave for why you can "do it just once" wow ive had that exact thinking so many times. crazy. anyways, that was a great post thank u

and congrats to ur sobriety savsam

[mebroken]

awesome! great job there tigerlily! i know only too well the torture of detoxing at home (bad heroin habit) and how time stands still and it seems like the sickness is never gonna end...but then it starts to break and you realize you are out the other side. please be careful-  this IS the dangerous time. your mind starts messing with you, saying cr*p like 'well there. i can detox any time i want, haha. so i can reward myself for being so strong and take a break with just one high, it won't set me back much and i can just continue the last bit of detoxing after my break' oooh been there and done that. and what happens is that you can't find the will to go back to the pain of detoxing again so soon after what was suppose to be a tiny little one time break and you end up strung out all over again. wasted all the pain and sickness you went through. do not do that! promise?
remember all the reasons you got to where you were 6 days ago are still in you. lots of things/thinking need to change to stay clean. there are a lot of people out there that can help you and would love to do so. use them. but i believe that the key to staying clean is to know why you are on this planet. what is that thing that when you are doing it totally fascinates, absorbs, and fulfills you? (and don't say sex, lol). like for myself i work in medical part of animal rescue- when i'm doing that i forget to eat, time flies by, and at end of day i am very satisfied with whatever i accomplished that day. my husband (also an addict) fixes big trucks- he jumps out o f bed at 5 am raring to get to shop to figure out what is wrong with that engine and fix it. when he comes home covered in dirt from head to toe i know he had a great day. my sister is an artist, she can stay in her studio for 24 hours straight. my mom (former alcoholic) works in her gardens until the darkness of day ending forces her to stop. know what i'm saying? what is it for you? what do you love to do and could spend every waking moment doing it? find that and do it and you will be greatly aided in staying clean for the rest of your life.
i wish you the best of luck. you've taken the first (big and important) step, keep going, take the next step through that fragile period of post physical detox - now the mental detox begins. don't fall down, it takes a while for everything to get 'better' ...........and then keep stepping down the path you were really meant to be on. true happiness is on that path.

[tigerlily11]

Wow thanks just what i needed to hear

[gnarly_1]

HI Congrats on 6 days clean now your at the starting line.........anyone in here with any amount of clean time will tell you getting clean is the ez part....its staying that way that takes the work....a  good aftercare program like N/A or a/A will give you the tools and skills to stay clean ity is the addictive brain that needs to be tought how to rethink and reason everything out if you dont change the way you think you will be back here doing this all over again....I wish you all the best in your recovery now become pro/active at the starting line and treat the addiction its never about the pills.........Gnarly