getting off of vicodin

[maile]

I am taking 15- 20 vicodin E.S. a day, and I really need to stop but I don't want to be sick.  what can I do?  my husband doesn't even know but I need to get off of this ****.  I am a full time student (medical asst)  please help!!!

[raiderzmike]

I took 30 vicodins in like 5 days and I haven't came down or anything n I'm not craving them at all I enjoyed the high wen I had them but now in a little worried cuz I'm havin bad pains by my kidneys and sometimes it feels like they twitch or have some kinda reflex have any info for me? Plz let me kno

[Lukie21]

I ve been on Vicodins for 5 years and xanax for 3 years i was on my  5th year and i was takin  30 to 40 Vics a day and 10 zannys a day i got so bad that i started stealing from people. i lost my job i ****** up my life for the past 5 years so one day i did some research and i beg you guys to LISTEN  i went to my doctor he had a Licesne to prescribe souboxne which saved my life he started me of at 60 a month he told me take 3 a day they were 8 miligrams which is the strongest for souboxne they are 10 times stronger then any Medicine!! i didnt have any shakes i wasnt feening for VICS anymore i felt relaxed and i was able to sleep great i felt high to when i took the souboxne  you should check them out it's called soboxne it saved my life!!!im still on it. ive been a montn clean and workin again and going to become a electrican in 8 more months thank god for hands on training

[BeBe84]

vicodin has ruined my life! ive been taking them for two years now, i take anywere from 6 to 15 a day!! My family doesnt know about my addiction so i cant check in rehab, plus i am completely broke! I lost my job, i went into work that day and i was out of vicodin so i started getting anxious and a coworker gave me 6 somas, she told me just to take one, i felt so sick i took all of them, i was so gone that a client noticed and complained to my boss and i was let go...i left work not knowing what i was doing in hit a pole. I was also raped one time because i was soo high on vicodin and i was drinking heavily, You would think that would tell me to STOP! But it made me more depressed and i keep using. I dont even get high anymore i just take it to feel normal. I look around me at people and wonder how it feels to feel human again, i look at the vicodin in my hand before i pop them in and start crying thinking this is my life now..i lost a lot of freinds im moody to the people i love the most...today is my first day off and i feel so hollow and empty and sooooooo nervous my joints hurt my head is foggy, i dont think i can do this, im in a relationship and i finanny told him yesterday about my problem, i was soo scared of loosing him but he said he wants to help me, but i know if i cant get clean he will leave me.  I just need HELP!!! Its ruined my life, im only 25 but i feel so depressed all the time, like i dont wanna live, but dont take that the wrong way i would never take my life, i just feel like this feeling will never go away!!!!

[Super71]

I been on the Hydros for years,I have never had a drug problem .Yes they make you feel good at first,then you need it to get by.I ran out of my script and deciced to taper it out ,it's rough but i was not taking a high dosage,and only like three a day.I want to say if you are strong and ready to quit yes it's a bummer but you will feel better.I 've been off for three days and feel like I'm losing my mind a little but I'm hanging in there.My wife has no clue and nor will she,there would be no more trust.I take vitamins to kinda trick the habit of putting a pill in my mouth every morning.B12 will give you that little bit of extra energy,I also took night time cold meds,for sleep the first 2 nites and last nite I slept without anything.I have tried to quit before and after about 3 days I always felt better then gave in and took more pills .These things will run ,dictate your life ,and they have never helped any pain I've had.To everyone quitting good luck and stay gold.Get your life back.

[mk1964]

How many actual Vic's a day were you taking and what dosage? I'm having a hard time believing(though I know it has to be true) I am having withdrawl on just 4-9 a day, NEVER more then that in a few years I've been on them. The script says 3-4 a day as needed, so wouldn't a doctor think that if you took 4 a day it would be a problem? That was my mistake, I took it to mean I guess 4 a day caused 0, NONE, NO PROBLEMS. I'm beginning to think even if I took even 4 a day and never went over(which I admit I did on occassion) I still would have an issue getting off. These things are wicked. Does anyone have any other opinions on how addictng 4-9 Vic's is in "the scale" of things?

Also Steve, you mentioned Clozenpam (Klonopin) along with pain meds....a doctor put me on that in the early 1990's for anxiety. It's used for that and also "Parkinson's disease" for tremors....but I did not know it was associated with any pain issue. Were you given that maybe for the depression(works there too I found)?
That med is hard to get off once you're on, especially 15 years. I've tried every which way, and like you want off everything so the only thing I have to do each morning is pop a one a day vitamin.

[Venesa]

Well, reading these articles, I don't feel so alone. Today is my 3rd day off of the vicodin. I had 6 surgeries due to some cosmetic issues & the past 2 1/2 years,this time I got really hooked. in the past, it wasn't that way. What I find to be helping me get through the grueling 1st week, is clonipan,& soma & also prescribed medicinal Marijuana.(because it gives me an appetite to eat. There is also this serum called GH3(not ghb) Gh3 is all natural & mixed w/ B12, it can really help, it has some sort of numbing agent in it. All of this has to go. But ya gotta do it by dosing down if you cannot afford to go to treatment facilities. I have someone who is watching and aware of what i am taking. I want my life back too. I write music and the song I seem to have come up with this past year in a half is "Everything's  A Pill" "Venesa.net"...The 1sr week is brutal, but after the 4th day the body aches will start to subside. I don't believe in methadone or antidepressants or substitutes. You either take stuff or not. Seratonin reuptake inhibitors are what antidpressants do the harm that opiates do to the nerves, so having a choice, I would choose the opiate. And methadone makes your bones brittle & teeth fall out. Not good. I wouldn't touch the stuff. Anyways, it's nice to find a place to share. As I struggle thru these first few days.....new years resolution, single girl, trying to get her life back too..Thanks.VT