Withdrwal from percocet

[lookerck]

I want to thank everyone for their support and suggestions. I would like to tell you a little about myself. I am 46 yrs old and I live alone. I lost my job last year, collecting unemployment, and going to school. I have been very depressed lately. When I took the perocet, it make me feel a lot less depressed. It made me feel like a new person, physically and mentally I felt like a new person with alot of energy, and feeling good in my mind. Now that I am off the perocet I feel like I can't move, feel really depressed, and I have not desire to eat. All I can think about is how wonderful it would be to have a percocet right now. Being alone, and not working is brutal. I am going to school, but it isn't enough for me right now. I am extremely bored, and depressed. Is this normal to feel so depressed while going through this? By the way, my Thanksgiving dinner didn't stay in my stomach very long. I tried to eat, due to the fact that I my 22 year old daughter made the dinner herself. I didn't want her to feel bad. I threw most of it up after about an hour and a half.  

[Jaybay]

I understand how it is when you can't eat.  I live with constant small bowel obstruction so liquids are my best friend.  You really will feel better with some nutritious calories in your stomach.  Try some of the yogurt smoothies available at the grocery store.  Check out some of the nutrional drinks like Boost or Ensure.  I never could stand Ensure myself - total gag reflex from the smell of the B vitamins - but even something like Slim Fast is better than nothing.  It goes down a lot better on ice!  

My husband (Wolfmedicine here at MedHelp) and I are in the same boat as you financially speaking.  I haven't been able to work in over 5 years, and he's been unemployed for over a year and a half.  During that time his addiction went out the roof.  The faster the money went out the door, the more money went toward drugs and alcohol.  He is now 41 days out from Suboxone detox.  Don't know how we survived that either to tell the truth.

Hang in there and always try to remember that you WILL feel better.  I know it can't come fast enough, but it's coming!

[lookerck]

Thank you for responding. I really appreciate what you are telling me. I will have to force myself to get my butt off the couch and go places. The only thing is I feel so bad that I can't anything. I will have to start out slow, and gradually get back to normal. Oh, I forgot to tell you that I have been taking percocet for a year now, so I think it will take more than a week to feel better. What do you think?

[Jaybay]

Everything you are experiencing right now is normal where detox is concerned.  It's the mental business that messes with people the most during and after detox and leads to relapse.  

Distraction is your best friend right now.  Do anything and everything BUT sit around and obsess on percocet.  Listen to music, watch a movie, read a book - even better, get out of the house.  Go for a walk even if it's a short one.  The idea is to stay busy so you can strike another day off the calendar, or an hour or minute or second off the clock.  

Find an AA or NA meeting and GO.  If you've never been a church-goer, start visiting even if you aren't a believer.  You'll be in a completely different environment and among people again, and if nothing else it's something to do with your idle time.  The busier you stay, the more tired you'll get and the better you'll sleep.  There's a reason people call it "working your recovery" - it IS work!