Percocet WIthdrawla

[needadvice2211]

Been ready through this board all day trying to find information regarding the withdrawal process decided to start my own thread....I am 30 years old I have herniated disk problems due to wieght lifting and mma training....Anyways in Jan I herniated my c5 and c6 I work in the finacial industy and was not able to have any time off work while I went through traction and spinal epiderals.....So my buddy gave me 120 10mgs percs.........I have used them for the pain for about the past four months I followed the instructions i never took over 4 pills a day....Well my neck is feeling much better but I stopped taking the pills Sunday and I have no been able to sleep at all.....My legs will not stop moving and I am tired but I can not sleep...I refuse to take any more pills to sleep but I have slept maybe an hour the past two days and still working does anyone have any other advice...I feel i have been fortunate i have not had any flu like syptoms during the day and still go to the gym 6 days a week its just at night I can not rest and i have feelings of anxiety during the day which I have .5 xanax to help with....Does anyone know when I will finally be able to sleep again or any rememdies that help with sleeping very desperate here thank you everyone

[BonnieLouBooHoo]

don't take alot of melatonin, read up on it first

[dominosarah]

You were given good advice from the above posters.  You can get thru this so keep posting....sara

[beatingthis]

really good advise from Laurel. I can tell you w/d's last about  week to 10 days.

Be really careful with the xanax that is addicting as well and much hrder to come off of.
It will pass you just have to wait it out. Drink lots of fluids too. Really hot bath worked pretty well for me.

Terry

[laurel453]

hi, welcome to the forum !

two things here for u...your legs not stop moving is  RLS restless legs syndrom and is one of the things that make our nights during wd's a nightmare grrrrr :( ...so to help u with this: Hylands restful legs (OTC), a magnessium+calcium suplemment, long baths with epsom salt before going to bed and apple/oranges  or bananas ( they have a lot of pothasium).

drink a lot, eat healthy and this exercise you are already doing will help a lot too.

as for the helping to sleep.... try some melatonin or valerian root... the latter helped me also with my anxiety..it will take some time recovering your sleep and you may  feel your emotions a little bit messed up for a while but all shall pass, trust me :)

Best of lucks !!!!!