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Vicodin Withdrawal- Day1
Hello,
I have been taking from 6-7 7/750's a day for the past few months now. I ran out yesterday and now am feeling the "usual" symptoms. Muscle aches seem to be the worst. Lucky for me I have a RX of valium, that helps a little. I have also been takin midrin, which helps the headaches.
I always thought this **** would never happen to me, and now it has. I find myself crying over nothing, stretching my legs out constantly (that's where it aches the most) and yawning incessantly.
Anywho, I just wondered if there is any other means besides medication that could help these symptoms. I find myself drinking beer tonight just to numb the aches and confusion I've been having.
I don't want to resort to these methods cause I fear it will help in the long run. any holistic remedies or tricks of the trade would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
P.S. I just kicked coke a few months ago, and It took about two weeks to curb the cravings. Is that like a standard for dopamine boosters?
I have been taking from 6-7 7/750's a day for the past few months now. I ran out yesterday and now am feeling the "usual" symptoms. Muscle aches seem to be the worst. Lucky for me I have a RX of valium, that helps a little. I have also been takin midrin, which helps the headaches.
I always thought this **** would never happen to me, and now it has. I find myself crying over nothing, stretching my legs out constantly (that's where it aches the most) and yawning incessantly.
Anywho, I just wondered if there is any other means besides medication that could help these symptoms. I find myself drinking beer tonight just to numb the aches and confusion I've been having.
I don't want to resort to these methods cause I fear it will help in the long run. any holistic remedies or tricks of the trade would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
P.S. I just kicked coke a few months ago, and It took about two weeks to curb the cravings. Is that like a standard for dopamine boosters?
I'm on a 10 yr battle an up to 50 norcos a day an I'm done . Just looking for easiest way out ...... I've lost alot it's just not worth it . Not to thread jack either but try a clinic that's what I'm doing but no methadone try suboxone
I have been taking Vics, hydro, percs, ect for about one and a half years. I take basically as many as i can get, but between 7-15 pills a day. Tomorrow i am starting my process of trying to wean my myself off. But im scared and i dont know if i can do it by my self. :( Please help! Any advice?
Hi all!
All of your postings are super inspiring. I was really starting to feel down...but now I feel comforted by the unity and advice here. I've was addicted to vicodin/norco for about a year and some months, sadly too I'm a nurse and should know better. I'm now on day 4 of detox. I didn't quit cold turkey I weaned my self. I went from taking 6-8 vic 5/500mg down to one vic and a half and so on and so. This method works better...you won't experience half the withdrawal symptoms you do if you go cold turkey. I've been taking Xanax 25mg but half maybe once or twice a day. Taking vit. B blends and hot hot showers also helps with the fatigue and restlessness. The worse part for me though
Is more mental...its a battle. I know it has to be done because its just gonna get worse if I don't put an end to it. To those of you going through the same...hope is not lost! I'll be praying for us all! We can do this!
All of your postings are super inspiring. I was really starting to feel down...but now I feel comforted by the unity and advice here. I've was addicted to vicodin/norco for about a year and some months, sadly too I'm a nurse and should know better. I'm now on day 4 of detox. I didn't quit cold turkey I weaned my self. I went from taking 6-8 vic 5/500mg down to one vic and a half and so on and so. This method works better...you won't experience half the withdrawal symptoms you do if you go cold turkey. I've been taking Xanax 25mg but half maybe once or twice a day. Taking vit. B blends and hot hot showers also helps with the fatigue and restlessness. The worse part for me though
Is more mental...its a battle. I know it has to be done because its just gonna get worse if I don't put an end to it. To those of you going through the same...hope is not lost! I'll be praying for us all! We can do this!
Had a herniated disc, L4-5 pressing on the sciatic nerve causing severe pain down right leg.... 2nd herniated disc in 5 years, not to mention a bulging C5-6 last summer. The 1st time around, I was on Davocet for about 2 1/2 months with muscle relaxers while they dilly-dallied around doing all those things like steroid therapy, pain meds, muscle relaxers, Physical Therapy. Finally, aftter that, my leg started going numb, so they decided that they would finally do an MRI and the neurosurgeon put me on Vicodin 5 mg/650 for the week up to my surgery and after. I ended up going cold turkey after nightmares were keeping me awake. Definitely NOT the way to go.... but at least I hadn't been on the really hard stuff for too long that time.
Last summer, with the bulging disc, I was misdiagnosed with a shoulder problem, which turned out to be the bulging disc. What saved this from going from bad to worse is that I was sent to an Orthopod for the shoulder who xrayed and found the bulging disc. I then went to the Pain Managememt Institute who injected steroids directly into the bulging disc thereby decreasing pain and the need for narcotics, and Physical therapy helped in decompressing the neck and shrinking the disc.
This past January, started getting some of the same symptoms that led up to my 1st herniated disc (which was L5-S! also pressing on the sciatic nerve... left side). Went to doc, steroids, muscle relaxers and Vicodin 5 mg prescribed. In Feb had same symptoms, so in addtion to the other, physical therapy was prescibed and they were treating my leg pain as though it were bursitis due to the previous back injury. Ended that in May, feeling only slightly better, then felt the pop in my back... by now, I have been on muscle relaxers, Vicodin etc for 4 1/2 months, but at least they are finally ordering an MRI to diagnose what I could have told them was happening back in February. Sure enough.... herniated disc, pressing not only on the sciatic nerve, but the spinal chord. Trip back to neurosurgeon who prescribed me Dilaudid po 1 mg 1-2 q 4 -6 hours. Needless to say, by this point I was in severe pain, and watching the clock for the next dose. I immediately didn't like the dilaudid, but what else were there to do? So, as of 2 days ago I had been on Dilaudid for little over 2 weeks... shouldn't be an issue to just stop taking in because I haven't been on it for long, right? WRONG!!! So, I decided to backtrack. I had detoxed without too much effort last summer from Vicodin, so I substituted 7.5 mgf q 4-5 hrs for the dilaudid dose... seemed to help the anxiety, crying and depression, but not so much the sweats and chills.... I have been trying to decrease the dosage of Vicodin and am now down to about 3.75 mg every 4-5 hours, but that last hour is total hell.Tonight I have been researching homeopathic ways to decrease the symptoms of withdrawl, because I don't have pain, just achiness, which Tylenol or Aleve helps. Warm showers are also good. I have made a list of stuff for my husband to get tomorrow from the health food store, and am sitting here drinking Camomille tea and just took Vit C and Melatonin to hopefully sleep a few hours. I've had about a total of 7 hours sleep over that past 4 nights and look like a ghost.
My biggest issue is not with the doctors, but with all of the hoops that the insurance makes them jump through to get a proper diagnosis so a patient can be treated before he/she has to resort to addicting medications!
Last summer, with the bulging disc, I was misdiagnosed with a shoulder problem, which turned out to be the bulging disc. What saved this from going from bad to worse is that I was sent to an Orthopod for the shoulder who xrayed and found the bulging disc. I then went to the Pain Managememt Institute who injected steroids directly into the bulging disc thereby decreasing pain and the need for narcotics, and Physical therapy helped in decompressing the neck and shrinking the disc.
This past January, started getting some of the same symptoms that led up to my 1st herniated disc (which was L5-S! also pressing on the sciatic nerve... left side). Went to doc, steroids, muscle relaxers and Vicodin 5 mg prescribed. In Feb had same symptoms, so in addtion to the other, physical therapy was prescibed and they were treating my leg pain as though it were bursitis due to the previous back injury. Ended that in May, feeling only slightly better, then felt the pop in my back... by now, I have been on muscle relaxers, Vicodin etc for 4 1/2 months, but at least they are finally ordering an MRI to diagnose what I could have told them was happening back in February. Sure enough.... herniated disc, pressing not only on the sciatic nerve, but the spinal chord. Trip back to neurosurgeon who prescribed me Dilaudid po 1 mg 1-2 q 4 -6 hours. Needless to say, by this point I was in severe pain, and watching the clock for the next dose. I immediately didn't like the dilaudid, but what else were there to do? So, as of 2 days ago I had been on Dilaudid for little over 2 weeks... shouldn't be an issue to just stop taking in because I haven't been on it for long, right? WRONG!!! So, I decided to backtrack. I had detoxed without too much effort last summer from Vicodin, so I substituted 7.5 mgf q 4-5 hrs for the dilaudid dose... seemed to help the anxiety, crying and depression, but not so much the sweats and chills.... I have been trying to decrease the dosage of Vicodin and am now down to about 3.75 mg every 4-5 hours, but that last hour is total hell.Tonight I have been researching homeopathic ways to decrease the symptoms of withdrawl, because I don't have pain, just achiness, which Tylenol or Aleve helps. Warm showers are also good. I have made a list of stuff for my husband to get tomorrow from the health food store, and am sitting here drinking Camomille tea and just took Vit C and Melatonin to hopefully sleep a few hours. I've had about a total of 7 hours sleep over that past 4 nights and look like a ghost.
My biggest issue is not with the doctors, but with all of the hoops that the insurance makes them jump through to get a proper diagnosis so a patient can be treated before he/she has to resort to addicting medications!
Hello all,
I am a father to a 3 year old beautiful little girl and have a great wife as well. I first started off taking anything with Hydrocodone in it (vicodin, norco, etc) and I was taking it leasurely, I love the euphoria. 7.5's were doing the job for awhile. About 7-8 a day. Well I hurt my back golfing recently and hyrniated a disk that in turn pinched my siatic nerve, so I have been in a lot of pain. When I told my doctor that 7.5's were not doing the trick he gave me a few hundred 10's. I am up to about 10-12 of these a day now and my final script is running low. I know I am going to need to stop before I go too far. I have about 30 pills (10's) left so I think I may have enough to wein myself off. Does anyone have a good method for doing this, I would like to start tomorrow if possible so that I do not eat these 30 and have to go cold turkey. I am scared to death of the withdrawl symptoms as I work 10 hours a day at a desk as well. Any suggestons on how to wein myself off would be very apprieciated. I have to do this for my wife and child and myself for that matter. Thanks again for any feedback provided.
I am a father to a 3 year old beautiful little girl and have a great wife as well. I first started off taking anything with Hydrocodone in it (vicodin, norco, etc) and I was taking it leasurely, I love the euphoria. 7.5's were doing the job for awhile. About 7-8 a day. Well I hurt my back golfing recently and hyrniated a disk that in turn pinched my siatic nerve, so I have been in a lot of pain. When I told my doctor that 7.5's were not doing the trick he gave me a few hundred 10's. I am up to about 10-12 of these a day now and my final script is running low. I know I am going to need to stop before I go too far. I have about 30 pills (10's) left so I think I may have enough to wein myself off. Does anyone have a good method for doing this, I would like to start tomorrow if possible so that I do not eat these 30 and have to go cold turkey. I am scared to death of the withdrawl symptoms as I work 10 hours a day at a desk as well. Any suggestons on how to wein myself off would be very apprieciated. I have to do this for my wife and child and myself for that matter. Thanks again for any feedback provided.
Hi. Today I had a very embarassing moment at the Pharmacy. Never had a moment like this before but it was awful. I am regular middle class girl with a Vicodin addiction. I've had it under control for about two years now after finding a Dr. who gave me a large number of pills a month for a back injury 10 years ago. Right now I am taking about 6-7 pills a day and I've been taking this for about 2 years. Well my Dr. is cutting me off. Just found out today. Kinda s***ty how he did it but oh well I needed to stop. I'm super scared. I am a single mother to a two year old boy and I don't know how I will get through this. How do I withdrawal AND be a mother to an over active toddler?
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