On my 7th day of HELL!

[SHELLBELL79]

OMG! well i finally went to a 3 to 5 day detox. i know 5 days isn't long enough but its all i could afford.  anyway I am detoxing off of the fentayl or duragesic patch and i was taking 150mcg. before that i was on oxycontin 60 mg 2x a day and 3 vicodin es every 4 hours 4 x a day. i took these medications for my painful disease which is called chronic interstitial cystis and vulvodynia, basicly pelvic pain syndrome. its hell, well i started seeing a pain specialist who could do these treatments to really help with my pain and im waiting on a pain pace maker!!!. people who live in pain try it.  anyway so i got this other procedure done that was simialr to it called radio frequency and it helped a lot and i didn't have to take the vicodin es for the breakthrough pain, but i was having constantly raise my pain med every 2 weeks, so i had to detox. let me tell you i went throught tourture hell! i went in wed morning to start detox and they gave me clonodine and tramadol. i couldn't offord the subuoxone b/c it was $375 DOLLARS. i was juse weak and tired the first 2 days but the 3rd day i felt like i had the flu and i felt like total hell. they told me oh the 3 rd day is the worse and then you'll getr better. i don't think so. the pain i had was constant throbbing and burning. it never stopped. i was moaning and screaming. i never slepted one bit since wed night and its tuesday. i took about 50 hoyt baths from friday to monday night. every night i had the damn restless arms and legs. i have the heartburn. i had to go see my doctor yesterday because i was in excruciating, tourture pain and couldn't take another day. she said she didn't understand why i was stilll like this ans offered to put me in the hospital or on subuoxone. i didn't want to the hospital and have people tell me what to do and all that. i went through that getting off xanax at the same rehab she wanted me to go to. so i said i would stick it out one more day and find some kind of money for the suboxone tommorow. well after last night of having diareah, throwing up, naseauted and in severe pain, jittery , restlesss legs and arms that was it! well i woke up today (tuesday) out of pain and just exusted and very weak. i passed out this morning going to the bathroom. i haven't eaten since wed. i am drinking my gatorade and something is seriously wrong with my taste buds , b/c everything tastes like ****. i want to know if anytone experienced detox like this and when willi feel normal? whne am i going to finally SLEEP?? etc???  thanks ya'll! anyone dtoxing i will pray for ya'll!

[SHELLBELL79]

i detoxed on a 4 day taper 0f 50mg of ultram.....i basicly did it cold turkey......no wonder everyone said i was brave!

[SHELLBELL79]

i am not on suboxone....i detoxed with just 50mg tapered off in 4 days with clonodine. i was in hell for 4 days and nights of severe pain. thats not including from the othrt days and symptoms!  im am almost 2 weeeks and still am exusted and have very low potassium levels. i also haven't slept in 2 weeks. thanks for the commments but i need all the support and comments i can get. i can't even get out of bed. help....i need hrlp with sleep bad!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[wannabefree330]

Suboxone may help you at the moment, but you're going to have to take it every day for a while.  Does the price include a bottle or just one dose?  If you decide to go w/the sub you might want to keep that in mind.  May last you for a day or two, but then you'll have to come up w/another 300 bucks....several times.  Try melatonin for sleep, bananas and the vitamins really help w/the muscle aches and RLS.  If you wake up w/RLS and pain, take an extra vitamin and see if it helps at all?  The sleep will eventually return, but your body is really going through a lot right now.  Just stick w/it.  You've made it over a mountain so be foolish to turn back now.

[extrmeski]

OMG I detoxed off of fentanyl and let me tell you it is one of the hardest things that I have ever done.  That drug is horrible.  Read my post on it, it kinda outlines what I went through.

[HenryS354]

Fentanyl is some wicked stuff....

Congratulations on your desire to quit...

Let me explain the half life thing.  A half life is the time that it takes your blood plasma levels to eliminate 50% of the metabolite of the drug you are on.  So with Fentanyl's half life being around 6 hours, and you too 100mcg at noon, if you were to have your blood drrawn at 6pm you would have 50mcg's of fentanyl in your system.

It may seem long but compared to others 6-8 hours is nothing. For example Buprenorphine (Suboxone) half life is around 72 hours!  Makes for VERY long wd's which I am going through now (Yuck)

I wish you all the strength in the world. I ct'd off IV Fentanyl while I was in medical school and it really sucked.  I was shooting about 1000mcg's daily.

You will be ok, I promise you, and I can not remember who said it, but you will feel like you are going to die from this, but you will make it.

You are in my thoughts and prayers.

Henry

[SHELLBELL79]

did u get my message??