Need advice to get off pain medicine...please help quickly

[cplatt25]

Hello everyone...My name is Christine and I'm addicted to pain medication.  I take roughly 15 vics or percs a day I also drink on top of that.  I cannot believe how quickly opiates got ahold of me and began destroying my life. I don't even take the medicine to get the " high " anymore I am just so afraid of facing the withdrawls.  I started taking them for back pain...classic story huh ?  Then it just snowballed from there.   I feel very alone because every time I try to get off the meds, no one supports me.  I have two wonderful children and when the withdrawls hit, I can't keep up with my own life. My husband doesn't even try to understand and I am very bitter towards him because of his lack of support.  He constantly calls me a loser and a drug addict THEN when I try to stop, he gets mad because I'm being lazy to him. I don't wish withdrawls on anyone, but at times I wish He could just feel what I'm feeling for even an hour to see what horrible agonizing pain I go through.  I don't even know where to begin to get the help to stop this.  I want nothing more then to stop taking the pills.  It is now beginning to cost me money and ruin us financially.  My doctor stopped writing my scrips, so someone in the same boat knows how the cookie crumbles.   But again, the withdrawls begin right when I don't have opiates in my system and the pain is surreal...both physical and mental.  I can't sleep hardly can"t move from my whole body cramping and my brain feels so scattered and the depression is awful.      I can't go to impatient so what are my options at this point.  I truly want to stop and will do anything to get my life again.  What is the best route ?  

[ladyrhea4]

Hello and Welcome!
I am Only 12 or 13 days off Methadone and it is hard when you are hiding it from everyone. And I had someone that gave it to me because my M.D. who started me on it for pain meds...Blah Blah stopped giving it to me.

I have to tell you that the more water you drink the better. I can't drink water so I drink Herbal tea which my Nurse friend told me is fine to replace water.
Anyway and if you take the calcium Magnesium and zinc..that sure seems to help and then I'm taking Potassium gluconate. and B complex it all seems to help now. And the heating pad or baths help.
I'm super sorry your husband is being a ^&%&% and as I said above there are People I'm hiding it from too but I don't have to get up too much and what I do have to do is really getting better. I even want to start Mediating  again which is a big thing for me because to begin with you don't want to do a thing. Taking daily here. I'm around if you want to talk.........Prayers are with you.
xoxoxo Ladyrhea4

[oompah54]

First of all, congratulations on wanting to get your life back.  Just remember that withdrawls, while definitely unpleasant, are just a temporary situation.  I myself had my doctor set up a tapering plan to come off percs.  Luckily I had my husband hold the pills and keep me on schedule.  (I never would have had the self control to do it myself)  If tapering is an option, it does seem to lessen the final withdrawls.  Others firmly believe in cold turkey.  I guess you would have to decide what works for you.  There is lots of information in the Health Pages on how best to get through it.  Also, you may want to consider going to an AA or NA meeting.  Lots of good information from people in the same boat.

Wishing you success, peace and strength . . Deb

[gnarly_1]

HI welcome to the forum .....you have came to a great place for help many here are going thew what you are going thew and many here have been there myself included ...it sounds like your out of you DOC so your going to have to kick it...try not to let this scare you
fear only makes it worst and its always worst in our minds then it actually is...this is 1/3 physical and 2/3 mental so go into it with the win win attitude that you will be free of the pills once your done....its a lot like ketching the flu nothing anybody wants but it happens
the symptoms are similar with some added anxiety but it goes away in about a week
right now you just need to get comfortable with the saying.....you just got to be ok without being ok for a wile...YOU CAN DO THIS....but you got to want it bad...withdrawals are the beginning to the end there is more to this then just detoxing and aftercare is important but for now we just need to walk you thew a detox...go to the upper right hand side of this screen and look up the health pages theres something call the thomas recipe that gives you some stuff that can aid you in doing this
just remember it is only temporary and that many have made it thew its not impossible just difficult...it would be good if you can get some help with the kids for the next few days so see if a relative or a friend can help you out...hot baths go a long way in making you feel better wile doing this ...make sure you get plenty of fluids wile detoxing...and attitude can make or break you this is a battle one or lost in ones own mind...try and have as few responsibility as possible wile doing this...sit your husband down and explain your going to need his help to do this its not impossible without it but it would help greatly if you have his support...keep posting here for support we all want to see you succeed in this....reading the post often helps you wont feel so alone in this thing...good luck and God bless....Gnarly            

[cathy5841]

hi and welcome to the forum.  have you tried to taper your meds?  thats very hard for an addict, but if you have someone to hold them and you a day at a time that would make it more doable....bottom line is you are gonna have withdrawals, thats the nature of this beast...it takes about a week to get through the bad physical stuff, whats a week out of the rest of your life???  its the mental part that breaks most addicts...you need aftercare for that...there is no quick, easy painless way to detox.  you can do this, its hard but many of us here have done it...good luck and keep posting