Triazolam (halcium)and lyrica are they tied to opiates in anyway???

[Jameskeenom8171992]

As some of you know I'm withdrawaling from opiates (hydrocodien/Vicodin) and I'm diagnosed with something that causes restless legs syndrome (RLS) which is why I'm prescribed lyrica.. I've been going through all the opiate withdrawals and insomnia was a big factor,so my mom gave me something called triazolam also known as (halcium) it's for insomnia. I was woundering if the drug lyrica or triazolam has any of the same ingredients,chemicals,powder  that and opiate (hydrocodien) would have. I'm just trying to make sure by me taken lyrica and triazolam won't affect me getting clean off opiates. I'm on day 8 of w/d from hydrocodien/Vicodin but i don't want to be detoxing from opiates and then be taking lyrica and triazolam and it have the same substances to where it's like I'm not really detoxing from opiates at all. I just want to know that lyrica,triazolam and opiates are all completly diffrent drugs and by me taken lyrica and triazolam isn't affecting my detoxing from opiates. Please someone answer this with some facts/truth. If they do have the same substances I want to quit taking them so I can be positively getting off hydrocodien (opiates). Please give me some facts and reply's and god bless you!!

[Merri123]

I have restless leg syndrome and Raynauds syndrome. I take Requip for the RLS. One eac night before bed. It works. As for the pain, it was norco but no more. I won't take Lyrica bc of the side effects and withdrawal it causes. Neurontin made me sick. Nucynta scared me.

I'm not sure what causes your RLS. Can you tell us? We may be able to help with alternatives. I take hot Epson salt baths, get up and move, compression socks work wonders, sleep on the floor. It cycles from bad to good to bad. But these things help me sleep when bad and it is gone when I wake up later.

Hang in there. Not easy but toucan manage it without addictive pills.

[weaver71]

Have you tried melatonin? That is the hormone the brain releases naturally at bed time. Melatonin can help you reset your biological time clock and develop a natural sleep pattern. Drugs will just throw the brain off, not the opiate part of the receptors, but you want your whole brain to heal, right? It shouldn't be long and that will start helping, and melatonin is OTC. The hardest part for me was not detox, it was waiting form my natural chemistry to kick in. The insomnia, aches and pains, RLS, and many other symptoms are simply a raw brain injury healing. We are tempted to scratch that itch with Pharmaceuticals, but that is what made the damage to begin with. Sometimes we just have to wait. I know it's hard, but it IS worth it. Hang tough buddy, you are getting close to a turning point. Don't give up just before a miracle.

[NeverAgain127]

Ask your doctor for sleep aids if you truly aren't getting any.  People will say things like "I haven't slept in 24 days."  but that simply isn't and can't be true...you would literally die without sleep that long. Your body WILL sleep...just not the long, restful, uninterrupted way it used to..not now anyways.  Give it some time.

I hope this experience drills into you how bad these drug choices were.  You've been through a rough week, honey.  I hope you're in the home stretch now.    And just to reassure you, lyrica contains NO opiods. Neither do benzo's...but they are VERY addictive and the w/d from them is a whole different ballgame.   Again...ask your doctor.  Please.

You're gonna make, James. Just one more week and I think you'll feel much, much better.

[Jameskeenom8171992]

I only had (1) 25mg trazalom given to me anyways. Just figured will start day 9 with some sleep, I haven't been taking Xanax in a few days (being that I hate Xanax) the only think I'm taking is lyrica b-12 vitamin-c and veggie pills.. I eat chicken broth and grapes bananas and apples and progressive soup and recently tuna on cracker... I drink nothing but water Gatorade and this V8 fusion juice. Days 6 and 7 and 8 were horrible no sleep at all so that why I took a triazolam (I was about to blow my brains out if I went 4 days without sleep) though I don't have any anymore so I won't be taking it again back to just the lyrica and lyrica only..il look at some natural substances to help with dele at night although I hope I can start getting atleast an hour or two on my own at night. Rest assure I'm not going crazy with drugs lol I was just really curious to the question I asked and the responses I got didn't really explained exactly what I was wanting to know. Your answer so far has been the best answer about the lyrica and triazolam I was just really nervous about it prolonging my withdrawals from opiates cause I actually. Red my lyrica for other reasons. Don't be worried days 6 7 and 8 have just been horrible but it's let up I was going crazy for a bit.

[Jameskeenom8171992]

Figured new people see it get more answers so I can assure myself that lyrica and  triazolam arnt opiates in any way. I'm prescribed lyrica (have been for years) justy mom said I looked like **** offered me the triazolam and I had been up 2 days and I took it so I was worried about it prolonging my withdrawals. Sometimes people answer very vividly and don't really explain it so that's why I ask again,I just wanted to make sure those two drugs are completly diffrent from oppiates..... Lyrica is prescribed the only thing I've taken outside doctor order was that trazalom or halcium wtv the real name is and Xanax just those two things. I havnt taken the Xanax in 3 days now I think!! and last night was my first time taking triazolam that why I made a new question so hopefully someone could answer fast about the triazolam before I took it I knew its side affects but I just figured one good night of sleep be awesome.

[NeverAgain127]

James:

I'm concerned about you. You've been assured that lyrica doesn't contain opiates.   I have a degree in pharmacology, so please believe me.  

You should NOT be taking any prescription meds other those your own doctor prescribes for you.  

Triazolam is an OLD-line sleeping pill belonging to the drug class benzodiaepene.   It was marketed under the brand name Halcion.  It has a potential for addiction (but it is NOT an opiate.)

I cannot stress this enough:  Do NOT take someone else's prescription.   This is only my opinion but I think you should be under your own doctor's medical care.  

I'm not going to go into the side effects or dangers of Halcion; you can look them up on the internet...but this is not the road you want to be going down in you are having trouble sleeping.  There are natural alternatives like Melatonin, Valerian, hot baths, relaxation techniques, etc.

Again, I'm wondering why you keep asking the same question over and over.  No offense intended, sweetie.  How are your moods?  How do you FEEL emotionally?

Take care, hon.