tryin to come down off of precription meds at home

[DarkAngel]

i first started doing hydrocodone in february of 2001. For no medical reason I did them for the high i moved on to stronger painkillers like percocets,oxyicodine,even oxyicotin a couple months later.4 months ago i weined my self down to no painkillers. I got stressed and started taking them again this time i only stick to the hydrocodone. I take around 5 pills a day. (5milligrams) I started weining my self todayand it's been un comfortable as far as the aches and pains are there any success storys on weining from home or do you have any tips on how i can make my self more comfortable I don't feel as if i'm far enough in this for inpatient treatment. Like i said before I've gotten off of far stronger pain killers.I really wanna do it this time I am a mother of 5 children 3 livin and 2 angel babies I have a lot to live for and i don't wanna lose my life behind a high i don't wanna be in a treatment center because I have a family that is very dependant upon me and i really need to be here for them. Ive been taking these pain killers for close to 8 months and i'm ready to to get my life back. any word of incouragement will be well apprechiated.
thanks
DarkAngel

[Rose1]

Hi you fun people, Just to let you know today is day 1 from vicodin. 2-30 a day. Just returned home from Docs and he was suppoetive and gave me all kinds if stuff to eliminate discomfort. The cost of vitamins and presriptions are high, but look at the pay off in the long run. I am so willing. My mom has to pay and complains but can't she see the longer I stay on Vicodin my liver won't last. Have liver disease. He gave me methadone, valium, librium, trazadone and I had already bought all the vitamins from "recipe" I feel like I have made all new friends on this forum. Thanks and don;t forget to write. I feel better just knowing I;, doing something about it. This recipe is a god-send. Has Thomas considered going into business. I have revenue!!!Thomas, e-mail me:; ***@**** Hope to hear from you. Love Karen

[Rose1]

You guys gave me so much hope today. Thank you for all of your suggestions. I think I am on the right track. Dr.,vitamins,family support,all kinds of med. ideas. Doctor will prescribe anything I want!!!! Don't want to continue taking
vicodin for chronic pain in back and legs.Detoxed from Heroin last February and feel pretty good except for this. Don't have to stop, want to. I want to take steps to elimate this "monkey"
so I can see if it is even better than it has been. Unfortunately, after being junked out for so long on the other, it is hard to determine if I have a problem with the pills. I go by my gu, and I am sure it is not O.K. Plus, I take them whenever I feel like it. It does not have to hurt to take them. Also, I don't get high. Dependency? I think so. Help!!!!

[tio]

i started taking percosets 2 years ago due to tennis elbow i started with 3 a day then it got out of control it went from 3 to 5 to 10 up to 40 a day im on my 4 day at homeim down to 4 a day just to ease the pain i know im going to beat this but i cant sleep its been 3 nights that i cant sleep my heart races and wakes me right up i tried tylonl pm i took 7 the first night and still did not sleep my question is am i doing this the right way by taking 4 pills a day to ease the pain and what can i do to sleep should i use another drug

[tio]

i started taking percosets 2 years ago due to tennis elbow i started with 3 a day then it got out of control it went from 3 to 5 to 10 up to 40 a day im on my 4 day at homeim down to 4 a day just to ease the pain i know im going to beat this but i cant sleep its been 3 nights that i cant sleep my heart races and wakes me right up i tried tylonl pm i took 7 the first night and still did not sleep my question is am i doing this the right way by taking 4 pills a day to ease the pain and what can i do to sleep should i use another drug

[Elvira]

how bout the recipe that is circulating around sounds good to me

[raptor182]

I, as a 6 year perscription pill abuser would like to report an unexpected success in the area of self-treatment.  I have found success in recovery with the use of clonidine.  I have found that after a relapse one can actually forgoe 95% of the pain of withdrawl by careful use of clonidine.  I usually will take two 0.1mg tablets before bed, leaving two additional tablets by the bedside.  When withdrawl is in full effect a patient/abuser can rarely expect more than 4-5 hours of uninterupted sleep.  When I wake, I quickly take the two other  clonidine tablets and wait to fall back to sleep.  In addition my doctor has me using the Anti-depressent/Sleep medication Trazadone.  Using this method one can expect to get 6-8 hours of sleep or more.  Also, by maintaining clonidine in the blood supply one tablet every 6 hours while awake will have the effects of keeping muscle spasms to almost nothing.  I have found that by keeping the physical symptoms to a minimum, the focus becomes the inherent depression one feels during withdrawl.  I keep my mood up by watching fun entertaining movies and eating "comfort foods".  NOTE TO EVERYONE: If an patient/abuser is taking powerful doses of dangerous narcotics in large quantities this method does not help.  This method is useful to pain-management patients and pill abusers that use between 1 darvocet (very weak) per day to 2 percocet (very strong) four times a day for long periods of time.  This method has the best effect for patients/abusers using hydrocodone 5/500mg three times per day.  

Many doctors I have spoken with feel that an abuser should feel the pain of withdrawl so they are relunctent to make the same mistake twice.  I understand the logic in this, but I can't help but feel this information would benefit doctors that have patients that become addicted through no fault of there own.  

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