Please help with 12 day sleep loss from oxycontin

[bronzeback75]

I have been 12 days since cold turkey quiting of 160 mg daily of oxycontin,I need serious help in the sleep department I beleive i am throu the worst of the physical withdrawals but need sllep soon or will have another nervous breakdown please help i also have lost 14 lbs due to lack of appetite

[stars]

lanas.....  so happy about your 14 day!!!!!  keep goin!

[lanas]

I've been on zanaflex 2 mg at night for a couple of months now and find it has really helped as a preventive for my migraines.  I take it with several other drugs.  One is a new one prescribed and I'm curious if anyone has any experience with it:  topamax?  It is an anit-seizure drug that it just starting to be used in small doses for migraine prevention.  Anyone familiar with the drug?  On another note--I wish the best of luck on the detox--I am 14 days without vicoprofen and am doing very well; have the occasional killer cravings, but am still taking ultram which I know keeps the major cravings and withdrawals away (though no fun feelings either).  I would really appreciate any thoughts on topamax, please.

[stars]

first and foremost i am so glad to have all of you... your posts are important and valued....  unwise, what a bitchin mind you have, you blow me away!  

hjp, my doctor prescribed Zanaflex and i found that it just helped me sleep well and pain free.  he prescribed it to be taken at night, so i couldnt tell you what it would be like during the day.  

for what its worth, i did the cold turkey thing...  17 days today!  what i found in my favor was the fact that i was already on anti-depressants, my first day was hell!  so depressed...  i have not hit a low day since..  i have zero cravings.  when i found myself not being able to sleep i took Trazadone, which is a sleep-aid with an anti-depressant in it also..  i sleep so well.  my only problem is that my stomach is still messed up and i don't think i have ever sneezed so much in my life...  hubby told me that was the only way to get oxygen back into my brain...  he was just kidding.  those are the only two things still with me.  when i was taking my 20+ vicodins a day i could sleep away the weekend, now i am up and ready to start my day at 7:00 am., and i feel fine..  oh yeah one more lil thing, small headaches.  nothing major..  it sort of concerns me because i suffered from migranes and didnt have any in the years i've been abusing myself.  but i would take the headache over being "jacked" up any day.  

i think about all of you and your struggles and accomplishments all the time.  i pray for you all, because i know He listens.  open yourself totally to Him and you will be delivered and free.  just gotta surrender...  even for those of you who do carry the belief, i surround you with the greatest of "good" energy.  we are only here for a brief time, and we can accomplish anything we really want to, because we are made like that...  free yourself and take it all in because reality isn't that bad...  love and peace to all!!!

[hjp]

Looks like there's a new drug that may offer us some hope for pain control without addiction. Doesn't seem to have much of a side effect profile either.  I'm sure alot of people on the forum have tried Zanaflex......please post and tell me if you've had problems.  It has a structure alot like clonidine so it would help with withdrawals, and it really makes you sleepy when you first start taking it...so perhaps alittle rest during detox.  It is indicated for chronic pain syndrome, fibromyalgia, irritable bowel syndrome, tension headache. If you've had experience please post.....I think this drug would work well in the recipe.        hjp

[lifeisbetter]

Ive been there, I understand, and there is hope. Read my post under relapse??? It does get better.

[Unwise]

Hi.  I'm not sure what your friend's situations were and I am sorry to hear that they died.  I can tell you, though, that seizures from withdrawal are very real as I had two major seizures in one night (along with a mild heart attack) and was lucky to survive.  I was going cold turkey from a litany of drugs, but no booze, so again, I am not sure how that fits into your friends' scenarios.  All I know is that I am either going to successfully taper down, or check myself into a hospital if I go cold turkey again because of the risk of seizures which I know all too well are very real.  

Just my two cents.

Keep the faith.