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Oxycontin withdrawal

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My husband is withdrawing from Oxycontin. He is on his 17th day. He went through the typical withdrawal symptoms the first week and is getting better everyday. However, he has these vomiting spells. Sometimes it's only once, other times, like last night, he goes on all night long. Is this normal withdrawal? He does have an extra sensitive stomach (perhaps from doing so many drugs) and vomiting isn't out of the ordinary for him. But I am concerned that maybe there is something more seriously wrong. Any feedback is welcome.

Also, I have been reading the posts about Oxy withdrawal and want to put in a few words. My husband has detoxed several times from various drugs. This last time it was oxy and it has been the hardest for him physically. The thing that is keeping him going, besides NA meetings and tremendous support from me, is EXERCISE. It has been mentioned in posts previously and I want to reinforce the idea that this can help so much! He can't wait to get home from work so that he can take a run or a bike ride and forget about his cravings and focus on something healthy and uplifting. He is feeling better about himself and has alot of hope for the future. So, anyone going through recovery, Excercise helps!
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I'm currently on my 6th day without oxys. I was taking around 210 mg a day for the last month but I was only prescribed 180mg so I ran out way early. I've been on them for around four years and never ran out but the beast finally caught up with me and I went nuts with them. I had went through coke, and methadone withdrawal when I was younger. The coke wasn't so bad the methadone was pretty rough but nothing compared to what I'm going through with now. Most of my physical symptoms have let up but I do have legitimate severe pain problems and 10 advil a day probably cant be sustained so I'm still finding my way. Theres no easy fix. If you get in the right NA group it can be helpful others not so much. Ultimately I'm relying on my family & God. I'm gonna turn over all my money to my mom and she will make sure I'm only buying things that aren't drugs. I've told my Dr not to prescribe anymore and perhaps most importantly, you absolutely HAVE TO burn all bridges with other users including your dad. You CANNOT be around users and maintain your sobriety. Sometimes you'll feel like youre trying to break out of hell and hands keep pulling you back. I chose to start seeing myself as a phoenix. The firebird who rises from the ashes and soars again! A little corny I know but it works for me. I'll keep you in my prayers Samantha. It may take more will than you've ever summoned but you can do it! Keep your goals in mind and keep digging in that well of strength within you.



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I dont think so, unless you get professional treatment
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I couldnt get out of bed for 6days , much less ride a bike, but i was doing 10 60s a day, but I do agree with mild (30mg a day) withdrawel symptoms a bike ride, walk, or driving and listing to music is helpful, just dont listen to sad music, youll start crying for no reason, gl
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IIf i could sleep at night o know i can tackle my addiction! I take vicodin oxicodone and others! The worse part about trying to quit is the no sleep is there anything i can do for sleep?
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I am pretty new to this - how long does it take for withdrawal symptoms to disappear? I was a little better at the taper and got down to 20mg of oxycontin once a day X 2 days, but I am worried about my family and I am not sure I can handle withdrawals on top of the chronic pain returning.
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I am so sorry to hear of your situation and how so many people have turned their backs on you when you thought you had a solid support system. None of those people should be offering their help if they don't fully mean it.

I hope you are doing better now, but if you are still stuck, I would suggest checking yourself into a rehab centre where they can monitor you, and support you through the WD process. I know how horrible it can be, I am in the middle of taking a break from decreasing my dose of oxy. My next decrease will be in April, but until then I have all sorts of anxiety over what the WD will be like. I went to the ER and they treated me so horribly, like maybe if they treated me less then human, I might learn my lesson and not get myself in this situation again.
Anyway, a 24hr rehab centre is my suggestion. They will help you. It is probably expensive, but so is the drug, so is not working, and so is the possibility of loosing everyone and everytng important to you.

Good luck, I know we all have it in ourselves to get clean if the determination is there :)
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go to the very first message in this thread & to the left on top it will say "back to forum" click on that then there should be something on the top of that page that says "Post a question" click that & post ur question. There is a lot of great people on here that can & will do all they can to help!
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i'm kind of new to computers how do i do this.. cause id really like to get comments and replies to my confusing situation... THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR TELLING ME COULD YOU JUST EXPLAIN IN DETAIL WHAT I HAVE TO DO???
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Please start a new thread so people will see!! people here r awesome & will give u support, that i can promise u!! post a new thread , just copy & paste this please. Thinking of u tonight!!
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THIS IS MY ISSUE...  I went into a rehab for 90 days and NA/AA came in two to three times a day and brought meetings in... among other classes we had from 6am to 10pm at night.. it was a very strict program... i listened very closely and started to believe that I could actually STAY OFF OF ROXY COTINS AND ALCOHOL.. I had been taking about 8/30mg pills and drank a half of bottle of rum each day. Before rehab I oded and went into a coma for eight days from drinking and pills and was diagnosed with "wet brain."  WHICH I MIACUIOUSLY OVERCAME IN TIME! I went through the 90 days and when I got out I went directly to meetings and decided i was going to change my life.. I had a year old daughter and I didnt want her to grow up knowing that her mother was an addict. At the meetings I tried to talk to people and it seemed that they had already formed their cliques and wanted nothing to do with a newcomer that they werent ABSOLUTLY SURE was in it for the long haul... I asked someone to be my sponsor and since i didnt drive and at times when the busses weren't running I would ask for a ride and it always seemed as if I was putting them out.. My sponsor told me to call her every night and I missed one night and she told me she could no longer sponsor me.. it was too much for her, hence she was only two years clean and i was her first sponsee . i then picked a sponsor that has 25 years clean and shortly after I had her she blew me off and stopped returning my calls, excuse being that she didn't go to meetings every night and she was going through a bad divorice. I had a gotten a job and a month later i got laid off.. I ENDED UP RELAPSING.. NO FAULT OF ANYONE, JUST MY OWN STUPIDITY!  I felt really slow and dumb with no courage when I was clean... i started by drinking then went back to using percocets.. I continued to go to meetings every now and then. I then went to using roxys and morphine and told myself IT HAD TO STOP!!!  i RAN OUT OF PEOPLE TO GET IT FROM AND THE ONE THAT I COULD COST MORE THEN I MADE SO I WENT COLD TURKEY... I couldn't take care of my daughter.. her father who i lived with as well watched her... i lost my job.. i tossed and turned couldnt sleep got cold sweats threw up continuiously got lead legs, and all the HORRIBLE HORRIBLE THINGS THAT COME ALONG WITH DETOXING... I THOUGHT I WAS LITERALLY GOING OUT OF MY MIND... AFTER ABOUT A WEEK AND A HALF IT GOT EVEN WORSE AND I CALLED EVERY SINGLE NUMBER THAT I HAD GOTTEN FROM THE PEOPLE IN NA/AA AND BEGGED THEM TO PLEASE HELP ME... TAKE ME TO A MEETING TAKE ME TO DETOX SIT WITH ME AND TALK ANY THING THAT THEY MIGHT BE ABLE TO DO TO MAKE ME FORGET WHAT I WAS GOING THROUGH WITHOUT HAVING TO TAKE ANYTHING!!! THE RESPONSES I GOT WAS I LIVE TO FAR AWAY, I CAN'T MAKE IT TONIGHT, CALL SOMEONE ELSE, ETC... I WAS DEVESTATED I TOLD ONE OF THE WOMAN THAT WHEN THEY CAME TO SPEAK AT REHAB THEY TOLD US THAT THEY WOULD GO OUT OF THEIR WAY TO HELP A SUFFERING ALCOHOLIC OR ADDICT AND HER RESPONSE WAS IM REALLY BUSY WITH WORK AND MOVING AND WHEN I ASKED HER FOR OTHER PHONE NUMBERS SHE SAID SHE'D GET BACK TO ME AND I NEVER HEARD FROM HER... IT WAS THE ABSOLUTE WORST TWO AND A HALF WEEKS OF MY LIFE... IT GOT TO THE POINT WHERE MY LEGS WERE SO HEAVY AND I COULDN'T EVEN GET OUT OF BED, YET I COULDN'T JUST LAY THERE I WAS IN SO MUCH PAIN I JUST CRIED AND PRAYED AND BEGGED FOR THE PAIN TO GO AWAY... AFTER THE MAJOR PAIN MY DEPRESSION KICKED IN AND I WAS SO HELPLESS AND FELT I HAD NO WHERE TO TURN... MY SOLUTION, WHICH I ABSOLUTLY DON'T SUGGEST WAS TO TAKE A PILL...BUT THIS TIME I WAS GONNA BE IN CONTROL ON THE AMOUNT I WOULD TAKE... THIS WAS SIX MONTHS AGO..  I got a really good professional job I started to take my daughter out, I took care of the house, I got close to my family again got a very nice apartment, I paid off my outstanding bills made friends who didn't sit around and talk about drugs all the time, etc... THE PROBLEM... NOW THE DOSES ARE GETTING HIGHER, THE PILLS AREN'T WORKING SO WELL, WHERE AS THEY USED TO GIVE ME ENERGY THEY MAKE ME TIRED, THEY DON'T MAKE ME SO HAPPY ANYMORE I TAKE THEM SO I DON'T GET SICK, IT'S GETTING COSTLY... MY POINT: IT SEEMS LIKE A VICIOUS CYCLE AND I HAD SOME REALLY BAD EXPERIENCES WITH NA/AA... I DON'T REALLY KNOW WHERE TO TURN OR WHAT TO DO AT THIS POINT.. DOES ANYBODY HAVE ANY SOLUTIONS... I WILL NEVER GO COLD TURKEY AGAIN BUT I'D LIKE TO STOP WITHOUT HAVING TO TELL MY FAMILY OR BOYFRIEND OR EXPLAIN WHY I MIGHT BE WEAK OR WHY IM NO LONGER HAPPY GO LUCKY OR OUTGOING ETC... I'M PRETTY SCARED AT THIS POINT AND ONLY HAVE ONE PERSON I CAN CONFIDE IN.. SHE IS NOT AN ADDICT SHE CAN TAKE IT OR LEAVE IT SO I DON'T QUITE THINK SHED UNDERSTAND WHY I CAN'T JUST STOP... SORRY IF I BORED ANYONE... WHILE I AM STILL ABLE TO FUNCTION AND TAKE CARE OF WHAT I NEED TO WHAT SHOULD I DO??? WHERE DO I START??? I KEEP THINKING TAKING MORE AND MORE WILL MAKE ME HAPPY AND MAKE ME FEEL LIKE WHEN I FIRST RE-STARTED BUT ALL I FEEL IS NOT SICK!!! ALSO BEFORE ANYBODY FIGURES IT OUT,UNLESS OF COURSE IM JUST FOOLING MYSELF AND THEY ALREADY KNOW???
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Hi you are posting on a thread that is almost 12 years old.None of these people are here anymore.Just letting you know
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The answer to your prayer is NA
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hello.  I ca feel your pain from here.  My name is Terry.  I am a recovering addict and have been so for 10 yrs.The past year , I have been diagnosed with osteo arth. I went to a pain clinic and the doctor put me on oxcy's.240 mg a day for about 8 months.  I was feeling so bad that I went to another doctor and told him that I needed to get off these oxcy's.It's been about 6 weeks and I still get quite nausious, but it is getting better.  I am no longer on the oxcy's.  These pills are much harder to detox from than any drug of choice in the past.. I am a proud member of NA and if I had not been in recovery when the doctor put me on these pills ,I would be scared as well.  But I know with the help of others., I can do it.   And so can you.  Get help now.  contact NA in your area.  Let other people who are dealing with the same situations as you help you.  God bless,   and Merry Christmas
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hello.  I ca feel your pain from here.  My name is Terry.  I am a recovering addict and have been so for 10 yrs.The past year , I have been diagnosed with osteo arth. I went to a pain clinic and the doctor put me on oxcy's.240 mg a day for about 8 months.  I was feeling so bad that I went to another doctor and told him that I needed to get off these oxcy's.It's been about 6 weeks and I still get quite nausious, but it is getting better.  I am no longer on the oxcy's.  These pills are much harder to detox from than any drug of choice in the past.. I am a proud member of NA and if I had not been in recovery when the doctor put me on these pills ,I would be scared as well.  But I know with the help of others., I can do it.   And so can you.  Get help now.  contact NA in your area.  Let other people who are dealing with the same situations as you help you.  God bless,   and Merry Christmas
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ive been takin 7  40mg for couple years . i cut down to 6   3 days ago , i plan on cuttin down 1 40mg pill every 2 weeks.is that a good idea and what kind of a ride am i lookin at ? please anyone ideas welcome
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Yeah...that's great advise... Get on xanex...lol... I was taking 800-1200 mg of oc a day... I stopped cold turkey.... I started on xanex to help with the stress and to sleep... I now am addicted to benzos..... Withdrawn from benzos makes withdrawn from oc feel like a cake walk with the pope... Beating oc is mind over matter and a week or two tops of withdrawl....benzo, u have no mind. U can't function, think, focus, nothing... Then the suicidal thoughts come, especially after uv laid thinking uv been off benzo a month or so, laying in bed with no sleep, racing thoughts, no will to move, unable to speak on the phone, only to realize uv been off 3 days.... Hell.... Hell that won't go away. That's benzo. And there is nothing to help except.....say it with me....BENZO.. no med that help ease the withdrawl. No subox. Nothing.... Please, if uv never been addicted to a different drug, don't suggest a person trying to get clean use a different narcotic to do so.... Stay the hell away from benzo. U can get off oc there is help if u can't do it alone. There is no help for benzo.
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I currently take about 200 mgs of oxycontin a day, for pain and then it got a little out of control, i have tried to stop cold turkey but it is almost impossible for me. I just got some suboxone but have to wait until tomorrow to take it. How long do you have to wait from your last dose of oxycontin to take suboxone? I have heard about 24 hours? Is that true? Also, how many mgs of suboxone do you think is needed for me? Please help me out! I want to quit so badly and want to be clean for the rest of my life. I lost my girlfriend, my apartment, and now losing my family. I am in a very rough position but it is all my fault and i have no one else to blame except for myself for my stupid and ignorant actions. Also i would love talking to people that have been in the same boat as myself before for motivation! Any help will do! Thank everyone sooo much!    

Zach.
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I took suboxone for about two years. When I started taking this as treatment for a heroin addiction I used 8mg/day. After 3 or 4 months I would only take 2mg/day. This lasted for more than year...I decided it was time to stop using this and be clean from everything. KI decided to break the 2mg in half and take 1mg/day for some time, probably 4months or so. When I stopped taking the sub's it wasn't bad at all. Sleep was really the only symptom that bothered me. I mean, sneezing, a little teary eyed, minor leg aches were also there, but those were gone after 2 days. My appetite was excellent, my mood was actually pretty good. I was surprised because of all the negative posts on the internet. Again, sleeping through the night didn't happen for about 8-9 days. You will sleep, just not much. I fell asleep every night at 3 then waking at 5:30-6:00...this happened every night religiously for 8-9 days. Sleep started to regulate itself after that.

It is nothing like heroin or methadone.
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i was hooked on suboxone for 2 years after i withdrew from oxy's methadone and phentanyl. Startes at 16mg a day under the tongue. Then went doen 4 mgs a day until i got to 2mg a day. Then went through hell to get off that. I was hooked everyday for 5 years and have been clean for three years. Still kinda feel reoccurring symptoms here and there. My body will never be the way it was prior to the addiction
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i heard suboxone or subs have side effects on quitting as well. Is this true or misleading?????
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Hey bud, first off, if you still have tears in your eyes reading this, then take a few deep breathes for me and try to take any solace you can in the fact that you are not alone.
All addicts (especially those who have someone depending on them) go through someone either like this, or exactly what you are feeling now.

I wont go into too much detail again because i just made a post 10 mins ago supporting the medication im about to recommend you, so if your interested in it, take a look at my other post or google it yourself.
Suboxone.

(Like in other post): I was an addict for roughly 2 to 3 years. Hooked on roxys and it didnt take long to go from nose candy to vein candy. Ive ruined my life and betrayed those who i love the most. I regret every single thing i have ever done in the name of the addiction and i too cry alot over it because some people choose to never let me forget what i did.

Even right now, i want it. Even though i know how bad it is and the damage it WILL do, just the fact i saw some a#$hole today nodding out and trying to sell me OC80s, i am half regretting turning him down. In the long run, i was smart and made the right decision.... but now? I feel like breaking down and just doing it.

Sorry for having digressed, but just saying that made me feel alittle better. My point: Look into suboxone. Since im no doc, dont take it as medical advice. Just a friendly suggestion.
Suboxone helped me quit that garbage once and for all. Maybe it can help you too
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Hi I'm 29yrs old, I been taking loritabs for about 3 yrs now, its an opiate, basically like legal heroin, I'm seriously spending $50-$60 faithfully. Day, I desperately am crying alone at night for help. I'm opening up my business within the next month and I'm afraid of failing, failing on my kids, family friends, and most of all, failing myself! This is my lively hood and I can't fail! Can some one please as I cry help me?!  My email is ***@****
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So, alot of you have similar problems of widthdrawing from oxy's some on low doses most on high.  I can tell you that it does get easier each time you do it.  The first time (if you've taken them for a good 6 months or more) is really hard.  I suggest taking clonidine to help with a few symptoms (From wikipedia) "Clonidine is regularly prescribed to help alleviate opiate withdrawal symptoms. It is mainly used to combat the sympathetic nervous system response to opiate withdrawal, namely tachycardia and hypertension, in the initial days of withdrawals.[7] It helps take away the sweating, hot/cold flushes, and general restlessness. The sedation effect is also useful although its side effects can include insomnia, thus exacerbating an already common feature of opiate withdrawal."  The only downside I've found with this is that it can make you really tired when you're in so much physical pain that you just can't sleep.  But it really depends on how bad off you are but it will help you regardless.  Fight the sleepiness with caffeine if you have to.  If you have back pain lyrica might help (can probably get free samples from your dr).  I know it's worse when you're withdrawing from street use but it's still possible to get clonidine from a dr if you really want it.  Hot baths will help also.  Don't smoke when you're coming off it, might sound weird but I've found I hurt a lot more when I'd smoke when withdrawing.  I've been on 320mg oxy for a very long time and I finally had enough of it, it's goin fine.  Still get that urge occasionally but for the most part it's nice to have my brain back.  It's strange how much your mind is taken from you and others kinda notice it but you can't exactly change it without getting off it I don't think.  I've tried to go back to being who I was b4 the oxy's and while on them I just wasn't the same me.  Here's to hoping it changes being off them.  Another thing that does help is water and exercise.  Might be difficult (exercise) on the first or second day but after that try hard to get even a couple minutes in of running or riding a bike or what you enjoy doing.  Hope this helps someone, getting off this stuff is a nightmare, but I promise you it's worth it even if it feels impossible.  
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SERIUOSLY EVERYONE with (the problem) sickness! Keep reading these things, they help! I'm hooked,i will take any opiate (just like you !) to avoid withdraws.Here it is again ! lets get our a##*# off this ride and stay off.Don't take chances if you have high b.p. see your doc,or go to the E.R.Don't take any benzos if you dont know what their like,you could die.From all my reading on these site postings that go back for years,tapering off could be the answer.Could someone/everyone that tapering worked for please let the rest of us know how your doing.God bless whoever started this site (really!) your underpaid.Just by reading these at least I know (wow) were not alone.There is lots of advice from those like me who knows what it's like.Please keep reading and do the right thing.This is a HUGH monster that will gobble us all up if we let it.I often ask/tell myself this is not worth it.Respect the MONSTER don't feed it.Listen,if you find the way,please let us know how so maybe it will work for someone elese too! Be STRONG !
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