Thank you both for responding. It made me feel better to know that what I am experiencing is not totally abnormal. It seems that this will go on forever! It has been 126 hours clean, and although I don't crave the meds, in the sense that I am not climbing the walls, I just feel so awful and tired and sick. It is getting slowly better, but too slow! I have had to re-arrange my whole life around how horrid I feel physically. My hands still ache something terrible, which is why I am not writing on site more. It just hurts to type. Heck, it hurts to unplug the coffee pot. As for the fatigue, yesterday, I drove my teen daughter to the doctor for a routine appt., and I was curled up on a sofa in the waiting room. I let her drive us home. i have been more active this morning, so I guess things are improving; guess I am just too impatient! Again, thank you both.
99 hours is great! My physical WD's lated 3-4 days..Ok your withdrawal symptoms are common. I can only tell you what I have been using to get the energy back that I used to have..(I'm 8 days clean of Norco/hydrocodone). Theres a supplement called L-Tyrosine, and thats helped a lot. Taurine gives you a quick boost, and an energy that makes you want to get up and walk/work. DMAE is what I use because it helps with brain functioning. All of those can be found at any vitamin shop or walgreens/cvs. Thats all I can tell you for now. Please hang in there. Do whatever will keep you away from the pills. I know WD's are hard now, but it gets better everyday you are free of drugs. Good luck!!!
The lethargy is completely normal. Having absolutly no energy and feeling as if there were twenty pound weights on top of every inch of my body along with the achy restless legs were the two symptoms that always lasted the longest for me. I'd say in some cases it took about two weeks to feel completely better in those two categories, however after about a week, everyday was noticeable better. I had zero energy whatsoever, walking up the stairs of my house was a huge task in itself. The excercising plays a huge role in helping with this though. And yes what you are doing definitly counts. Any form of excercise is good, especially for the restless legs, it tires the muscles a bit so they calm down a bit at night, at least in my experience. I think there are vitamins to increase energy, coffee, healthy energy based drinks help as well. Forcing yourself to be as active as possible is the best remedy. The longer I stayed on the couch or in bed, the less of a chance i'd be active at all throughout the day, but if I forced myself up right away and just started doing things then it takes your mind off of it, and gets the blood flowing and body moving and it really helps. In any case, you should be feeling improvements each day.