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Percocet vs Vicodin
The short story is I have fallen into abuse of perscription pills. Mostly Vicodin. Sometimes Percocet. I usually get clean for a few months and fall into a a few weeks of abuse and get clean again.
My habit has gotten worse in the last month. It has been going on for the 5th week now. It has been up to 14 to 15 pills daily of extra strength norco vicodin. I am trying to wean myself down right now. My script ran out and I had to go the ER and they gave me Percocet there for a pain I was lying about.
My question is how strong is the 500/325 percocet in relation to the 750 norco vicodin? I am trying to take only 10 percocet a day and survive. WHat does 10 percocet equate to in terms of ES vicodin?
I am having some pretty nasty nausea at night and heart palpitations and nausea dizzyness. I have cut down overnight from 14 to 15 pills daily to 10 pills daily and it is causing me some of the nastiest withdrawal I have ever had yet from it. I think I tried to taper off to quick, but in the past I have never had to taper like this. Usually I could save o4 or 5 pills and just take them when I got antsy from withdrawl over the next one to two days. I can't do that this time. You cannot die from opiate withdrawal can you?
My habit has gotten worse in the last month. It has been going on for the 5th week now. It has been up to 14 to 15 pills daily of extra strength norco vicodin. I am trying to wean myself down right now. My script ran out and I had to go the ER and they gave me Percocet there for a pain I was lying about.
My question is how strong is the 500/325 percocet in relation to the 750 norco vicodin? I am trying to take only 10 percocet a day and survive. WHat does 10 percocet equate to in terms of ES vicodin?
I am having some pretty nasty nausea at night and heart palpitations and nausea dizzyness. I have cut down overnight from 14 to 15 pills daily to 10 pills daily and it is causing me some of the nastiest withdrawal I have ever had yet from it. I think I tried to taper off to quick, but in the past I have never had to taper like this. Usually I could save o4 or 5 pills and just take them when I got antsy from withdrawl over the next one to two days. I can't do that this time. You cannot die from opiate withdrawal can you?
does anyone else ge bad pain in their legs when trying to quit....i have been taking about ten 500mg vicodin for the last month and b4 that i was taking histusin that has vicodin in it. and now i am trying to get off by takinf furinal (i misspell alot) which i get for migraines.....anyway i have been an addict off an on since the 7th grade and i am now a senior who is going to brown, and i dont know what i will do at college but right now i live in a town in which people are rich and admitting to this outloud would get the town talking about me, i dont know if anyone has any help on to get off it with out others knowing. any help is would be nice
Let me set this straight.
Oxycodone and Hydrocodone are NOT even close to being equal in potency.
Your withdrawal symptoms are for opiates in general, and are not limited only to the individual substances. Cross tolerance and cross addiction are both existant as they both work on opoid receptors.
If you were given percocet, be careful. Percocet contains oxycodone with acetaminophin(tylenol) which is liver toxic. Do your body a favor and atleast run a cold water extraction to remove this. There are many explainations on how to do this basic chemistry online. When your tolerance is high and you need to pop lots of pills, you end up ingesting extremely high amounts of acetaminophin. Norcos do not contain any of this.
A friend of mine once claimed iboga treatment worked, I personally would not know, i am just a chemist.
suboxone might help you get off of it, but don't try to attempt to self medicate with that.
Doctor supervision when dealing with opoid withdrawals is important, as most of the chemicals used to get off of them are opiates themselves, with steep dose response curves and overdose potential.
Oxycodone and Hydrocodone are NOT even close to being equal in potency.
Your withdrawal symptoms are for opiates in general, and are not limited only to the individual substances. Cross tolerance and cross addiction are both existant as they both work on opoid receptors.
If you were given percocet, be careful. Percocet contains oxycodone with acetaminophin(tylenol) which is liver toxic. Do your body a favor and atleast run a cold water extraction to remove this. There are many explainations on how to do this basic chemistry online. When your tolerance is high and you need to pop lots of pills, you end up ingesting extremely high amounts of acetaminophin. Norcos do not contain any of this.
A friend of mine once claimed iboga treatment worked, I personally would not know, i am just a chemist.
suboxone might help you get off of it, but don't try to attempt to self medicate with that.
Doctor supervision when dealing with opoid withdrawals is important, as most of the chemicals used to get off of them are opiates themselves, with steep dose response curves and overdose potential.
Chiros can, well at least they used to. Back way before my back surgery my chiro prescribed me vics as well.
Hi;
Welcome to the forum sorry for the delay in post. Have you considered that maybe the percs are what is causing the symptoms you are having?
Just curious as I know that some people if they switch a narcotic and then go back to something they are used to taking, sometimes can have a different affect.
Just was wondering if this was considered or if you have taken percs before like this, meaning amounts or if it was mostly vics you did.
Welcome to the forum sorry for the delay in post. Have you considered that maybe the percs are what is causing the symptoms you are having?
Just curious as I know that some people if they switch a narcotic and then go back to something they are used to taking, sometimes can have a different affect.
Just was wondering if this was considered or if you have taken percs before like this, meaning amounts or if it was mostly vics you did.
Hi this is pre-written for new people… hope this helps:
It’s good to come clean with your doc concerning your desire to get off. Ask him to prescribe clonidine, (not klonopin), and ativan. These will help with sleep, RLS and anxiety. These are best to try before formal detox and drugs like Suboxone. I had to do formal detox because I tried everything else, including alcohol to get off and nothing worked for me. Keep in mind that when you try… make it a good one! Have some time off of work if you can… maybe a four day weekend or more. Make the last day of work without any drugs, because the first day is usually the easiest. Try your best to get clean and stay clean because the other methods require more potent drugs and you have to come off of those. I am still on Suboxone and am a little worried about that… It does work well but the jury is out on, “At what Cost.” I also learned while in detox, that the mind can psychosomatically create pain to “get’ the drug. Another was that healing while using opiates greatly diminishes. I would have sores on my hands that would take way too long to heal.
Best
Fish
I have to say this from the bottom of my heart, Please do not keep playing around with these drugs they are very powerful ….. kinda like heroin in a pill and just as hard to get off once you attain the, "addicted" status.
Also you can go here to learn about suboxone
http://www.naabt.org/
It’s good to come clean with your doc concerning your desire to get off. Ask him to prescribe clonidine, (not klonopin), and ativan. These will help with sleep, RLS and anxiety. These are best to try before formal detox and drugs like Suboxone. I had to do formal detox because I tried everything else, including alcohol to get off and nothing worked for me. Keep in mind that when you try… make it a good one! Have some time off of work if you can… maybe a four day weekend or more. Make the last day of work without any drugs, because the first day is usually the easiest. Try your best to get clean and stay clean because the other methods require more potent drugs and you have to come off of those. I am still on Suboxone and am a little worried about that… It does work well but the jury is out on, “At what Cost.” I also learned while in detox, that the mind can psychosomatically create pain to “get’ the drug. Another was that healing while using opiates greatly diminishes. I would have sores on my hands that would take way too long to heal.
Best
Fish
I have to say this from the bottom of my heart, Please do not keep playing around with these drugs they are very powerful ….. kinda like heroin in a pill and just as hard to get off once you attain the, "addicted" status.
Also you can go here to learn about suboxone
http://www.naabt.org/
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