Can Ultram be taken while oxycontin still in system? Anyone have an answer?Please let me know. Can't get my oxy script for few days.
The methadone took care of the withdrawal quite well I must say!
The detox is only the beginning of getting the opiates out of your body. I'm sure that what I'm feeling now is the post detox depression that I have heard about. I am so tired that I can hardly function. I barely made it to work today. I feel like an old man when I walk or climb stairs. I have bouts of anxiety & jumping out of my skin feelings. I am definitely depressed. I am on 10mg of Paxil & I need to increase that dosage. I guess sleeping is hard due to the withdrawal too. Believe it or not, I am also going through withdrawal from methadone even though I was on it for only 6 days & it was tapered down slowly over the 6 days. The only cure for the way I feel is to take more Oxycontin & that is not an option for me.
There is no easy painless way to stop taking opiates especially when I was taking so much every day. (160-320mg of Oxy)
I will just have to grin & bear it for a while. Hopefully I will see some improvement over the next week or so.
First of all, congratulations! You are starting on the sometimes difficult but always rewarding road of recovery. Please don't get complacent once the post-acute withdrawal is over. A cautionary note about Paxil--read the postings below regarding its potential for withdrawal. I personally think there are many other antidepressants with much lesser side effects than Paxil that have the same result. Beware.
Gene congratulations I wanted to tell you that I also have that very tired feeling. It will be two weeks for me tomorrow without oxy. I wonder if there is an antidepressant that makes you feel energetic. I thought I was ok but this is going to be quite an adjustment. For some crazy reason it makes me feel better when I post on this forum. Good luck we will get our energy back Bob k
So it's your first and last rehab. You certainly have my best wishes that it turns out to be just that. Allow me to add a gentle caveat: Virtually everyone says and means that during or after their first rehab. There's nothing wrong or unusual about believing that. But, Gene, understand that recovery is now commonly recognized as a series of recoveries and relapses. This doesn't mean your recovery will go that way. But the danger in placing too much emphasis on 'the first is my last" is that, if you should relapse, you may feel so defeated and disillusioned that you fall even farther than you did before your first rehab. This is quite common. As much as we don't want to see ourselves as a statistic, we inevitably are just that. I said the same thing as you and meant it. I believed that I was different than the 39 who were coming back. But I wasn't. When I relapsed after that first rehab I fell into a despair of drugs and more drugs. I believed I had thrown away my one chance and set out to prove how hopeless I really was. I was lucky to live through it. But I was wrong on both counts: I wasn't the exception to the rule and I didn't have just one chance to recover. If you do relapse, Gene, don't think of yourself as a failure. Don't punish yourself by ingesting more drugs than before. Think instead, "I recovered once and I can do it again and again for as long as it takes. I am a decent man worth saving and my life is worth living, even if I fall again and again and again." It is enough that you go longer before each relapse. That in itself is a tremendous victory. Good luck to you and everyone battling addiction.
Gene,congratulations on your successful rehab.I am presently taking oxycontin and wish very strongly to stop it,but up until now I have'nt had the courage.I am planning on going to detox next week.Good luck and thanks for the encouragement you have given me.Keep up the good work!