Quitting Hydrocodone Cold Turkey

[arieal33]

Im 33 years old and I have been taking pain pills ( lortab, percocet,darvocet,ect ) for close to 15 years now. Im up to taking 10-15 today depending on what mg they are. Im wanting to quit. I tried to quit a few years back c/t and went thru serious withdrawl symptoms, even had a seizure. I have been taking 7.5 and 10mg lortab on a daily basis. I am not so much scared of the w/d as the effect that it has made on my body. Im afraid going c/t again will cause me to have another seizure, or worse yet cause me to want to commit suicide again. Last time i had such feelings of doom that i came very close to committing suicide. That is when I started taking the hydrocodone again. I dont know if I should go see my dr tomarrow and ask him to help, I live in a small town and pain pill addiction here is taboo. Im not sure if he will help me taper off or even give me something to help make it thru the withdrawls. I would love to go to rehab but currently can't. im a single mother of 2 kids and no family around to help, so no one to take care of my kids while i was gone to rehab. Someone please give me some advice, I dont have the kind of money it takes to go with sub treatment. Dont know what to do.  

[Buzz15]

Just try as hard as you can to get through the first 5 days and it'll be all down hill from there.  Obviously you'll still have withdrawl symptoms for the next 3-4 weeks but for me, after the first week, it was completely bearable.  If you're having problems sleeping, guess what, so are we!!  In a time of weakness, just jump on here and reach out to anyone of us that's dealing with the same issues because we're up at all hours of the night with you!  And once your symptoms start subsiding, you'll truly feel like a new person because your brain & body has been in a haze for the past 15 years.  Plus, once you get through day 1 and day 2 which for me were the worst, you want to keep pressing on because you don't want to go through day 1 and 2 again if you relapse.  Again, I was only on them for a little over 2 years but I was up to your dosage of no less than 12 a day but usually 15 so I can absolutely relate to your symptoms.  I really hope you were able to make it though the night w/o calling in the script.  Please keep us posted and forget this stupid drug, you can beat it!!

[arieal33]

Last night was horrible, chills , sweats, legs hurting, naseau, couldn't sleep. Felt like i was going insane........i dont know if i have the strength to do this. I have no one to stay with me at night, Im all alone to do this. Part of me wants to ask my dr for another script and the other part says hell no lets get off this **** and get my life back....I hope god can give me the strength to help me get thru this.........very very weak

[Kyleintown]

I agree, talk to your doctor before starting this. I stopped last week after 1 year of hydros and oxy, the Amino Acid Protocol really helped me, but I had help from a few good friends. JUst due to your seizure issue and depression, I would not rish without help. Read a lot on here. I went Cold Turkey and I didnt want a drug to come from another. Someone on here advised it was like trying to put out a fire with gasoline. It will be hard, I am almost 9 days and I have most all my life back. My depression was bad, I didnt want to llive, but these folks here really helped me. Do you have someone that can help with your kids for a week, that would surely help, but you should not be alone.... especially at night, that was my worst time.
Please be safe, take care of you so you can take care of your babies. Email me here if you need me...
Kyle

[Buzz15]

If the Dr. walks out on you or converses with you in a way that makes you uncomfortable, ask for a referral to another Dr. and move on.  But, it's also very easy to slip back into the lies w/ another Dr. if you don't fully disclose your addiction.  I became very crafty with my words to doctors to ensure they'd refill my script.  I was on hydros for just over 2 years and I was up to 10-15 by the end of my 1st year so I guess I can relate to the dosage you've become acustom to.  My withdrawl the first time I quit was almost unbearable w/o sugarcoating it.  It took over 2 weeks going c/t to get rid of the nausia, chills, headaches, bodyaches, diarrhea, loss of apatite, thoughts of suicide, etc..(I know, sounds fun)  Unfortunately, I wasn't back to sleeping a full night for almost a month.  Stay with it and keep talking to others for support.  I just joined this group a few days ago and it's helped out quite a bit with the mental part of the withdrawls.

[arieal33]

I had never had a seizure in my life, until two days after i decided to quit the first time. The dr's told me that my brain and body got overwhelmed by the fact that it needed the opiate i was so dependant on it and that is what caused it. I do not take anti depressents but I do have a prescription of Klonopin that im hoping will help me thru this and do the thomas recipe. thanks everyone for your support and your advice, Im going to my dr at 1:45pm tomarrow and I hope he doesn't just walk out on me or look at me like im a horrible person. I really hope that he will know the best way to help me get thru this. I will continue to post throughout my recovery, I am going to need all the support i can get.

[PanSinoeis]

Don't ever take Tramadol, whatever you do.  That stuff causes seizures.  So for someone who has already had a couple, well it would be a bad idea to take Tramadol.