Any one had a problem with spasms?

[lifeishard28]

Okay so this is my first post, and I have to tell you that I was really excited to find this place. I have been using Painkillers off and on for the past 10 years, due to a car accident wich left me with a herniated disc in my low back along with permanet nerve damage. I have not had a problem with being and addict until about a year ago. I am a mother of 2 ages 2yrs and 4yrs old and about a year ago I took in two foster children ages 1yr and 3yrs, at the time my husband was gone about five days of the week leaving me home to take care of all the kids and the house ect.... My back so was acting up so bad I told my doc.  There was no way I could take care a four kids and a house without pain meds. He aggreed, he has know me my entire life and knows that I also have a family history of back problems. I started taking Hydro's 5mgs every 6hrs and after a while it didn't work as well so the doc upped the dose this kept happening until present time where I take about 12-16 pills a day of Norco 10/325. I do not feel the nice feeling when you first take them like I did each time the doc would up my dose, if fact I just feel normal when I have them. I cut my dose in half yesterday and was feeling fine until about 2am when I woke up and felt like I had restless leg in my bladder/uterus area. I wanted to take a knife and cut the area it was so irrating the only thing I could do was go running as fast as I could to try to relieve the feeling. I also took some musle relaxers to help but I don't feel anything from them. Has anyone exprienced this same problem or is this related to something else? I do have to say that I do suffer from a number of medical problems so it could be on of them. (PCOS, AdrenalHyperplasia, Anxiety, and Diabetes) Oh yah, I also just stopped my Lexapro this week because it was to expensive and my doc just changed my dose of prednisone so my body is going through a lot right now.

[dominosarah]

Hi and welcome to the forum~~

I would really talk with your doctor and tell him what is going on.  He will be able to help you and monitor you since you have other medical conditions going on.  We want you to be safe while you are going thru this.  

[Oxy480Jim]

The restless leg syndrome is an opiate withdrawal symptom.

Taking all that acetaminophen isn't wise either. At 16 pills a day, that's an overdose and you are risking killing your liver, which will be followed in about 24-48 hrs later by your kidneys.

If you have to have chronic pain treatment, ask your doctor for something without acetaminophen/asprin in it.

If you are taking cylcobensaprine muscle relaxers, you should be careful with them when taking opiates. Too much can cause respitory failure, or a severely depressed respitory system.

Quitting your Norco (opiate) too fast will aslo raise your anxiety levels, and cause even more withdrawal symtoms than you are feeling now. That flutter in your stomach may be just your intestines "waking up" from being suppressed from the opiates. Most people get violently ill, like a bad flu when they quit taking opiates and go into withdrawals.

To miminize them, you should withdraw slowly at a steady rate until you are down to a dose low enough to quit without causing sever withdrawals.