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First Post.. Hydrocodone/Oxy Withdrawl Help

So I'm 18 years old almost 19.. I've been a daily weed smoker for years since I was about 15 (not sure exactly) and recently picked up a cigarette and caffeine addiction as well. I've tried a lot of drugs, mushrooms, extacy, coke, opiates (hydrocodone, oxycodone, codeine, ect..), 2-ci, salvia, nitrous, and others.. But I've only really ever been hooked on smoking buds and never let it effect my life too much.

When I was younger I've always loved taking a hydro or two once in awhile at night when just chillen and smoking weed to feal real good and extra stoned, even tried percocets and blew small oxycontin lines (10mg or less, just once). But this was always very rare. My first experiences with opiates go back to my freshman year of highschool, buying hydrocodone 10s or oxycontin 40's (oxys very rare) when I could find them which would only be once in awhile (maybe once every few weeks, even months or years at times) and trying small doses (10-20mg at once, once daily) every once in awhile with some weed to get nice and baked.  But I never did opiates daily and knew just try them once in awhile and avoid becoming addicted like those I know have and are.

All I did really was smoke weed and party a lot in high school drink on the weekends but nothing ever got out of hand. I graduated high school and the partying stopped, everybody parted ways and went to college and things became different. I know a few people who are addicted to opiates and claim it's for "pain", but we both know that we all love the fealing they give. Anyways, since the beginning of summer (after graduation) I've had a pretty constant access to various opiates.

Being bored and since I didn't see a lot of old friends and didn't party anymore, I started taking a hydro at night when smoking weed to get baked and eat food and fall asleep happy. I love the euphoria and body high!! This slowly progressed to taking hydrocodones throughout the day when I smoke weed, even sometimes oxycodone..

I've been taking 5-7 10mg hydrocodone (in 1-1.5 pill doses) everyday for arround 5 months, and I know by this point I'm addicted. I would take less hydrocodone when doing oxycodone, but I try to avoid oxy's due to their high addictive qualities. I got into those a bit and now started withdrawling from about a daily 20mg oxy habit, today was my first day without and I've been having panic attacks and fealing very restless, even though I still took hydros.

The hydros help, but I know it will take a few days before I feel better from getting off the oxy. I'll be back up to my 50mg daily habit of hydrocodone habit for at least a week or two, i can't handle all this w/d at once. But this forum really helps and I had a talk with my dad today that also really helped.  I'm just gonna ween down and tell everybody I have the flu for a week.

I have one month to stop since I want to stop before I go back to college, although I really need a job too. But I only have 8 10mg valiums to help me through the hydro withdrawl when I choose along with a bunch of yellow kolonopins. Can I go to the emergency room and request valium to help withdrawl? I figure two days ill be good from the oxy than ill start weening off hydros in a week or two.


I know this post sounds rambled but I wanted to tell my whole story without typing too much and it's late and I'm tired. I'm a good kid and I know I can get off this ******** and get my life on the right track, just use weed and beer to get stoned like I used too!! I can really use all the advice I can get, and would really appreciate who ever can handle reading all this..
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896914 tn?1241666226
i was hooked on heroin for 5yrs straight and yes sweetie u can do this, the worst part was the creepy crawly's in my legs, to the point that i would be so mentally tired but soon as i tryed to lay down they would start up again and i'd end up kneeling on my hands & knees in bed rocking & crying, so i had a dr give me some neurtoins & 0.5 mg of xanax to get me thru the detox, its 1 hell of a journey and please hang in there and dont let you the damn narcotics take anymore of your life from you please !
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but let me tell you, this getting arrested was me hitting rock bottom and my turning point, i knew it was time to quit the opiates. before getting busted i thought i was so invincible taking opiates all day and driving around stoned as hell all day with **** on me selling weed all day. im done with it all!! this is my 3rd day clean after taking them daily for nearly a year, usually over 70mg of hydrocodone a day.. i was even into oxys months back as youl see on this post..

....but now that im 3 days clean from the drug, let me tell you, good marijuana, good music, good food, good friends, and good vibes have really been helping me through this.. after being the worst into drugs that ive ever been in my whole life with opiates, ill never ever consider marijuana a drug and its helped me through this so much. that and just generally being able to "be alive" and "live life" again without being trapped by the opiate-lifestyle feels better and better every morning i wake up. i know the cravings and other w/d symptoms will go away with time. i just got to keep with it!!

if i dont get anymore replies ill start a new thread to update my progress
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well ****'s gone downhill kind of.. not my opiate use, but life in general. see, about 2 weeks ago i was at about 75mg of hydrocodone a day. i was doing this dose daily for a couple months. i would take them at 15mg a dose, every few hours to get feeling good. i was selling marijuana to a bunch of kids in the area to support my opiate, cigarette, weed, and food habit.

long story short, i was being watched by my local drug task force team for a while i guess. i got busted while driving and lost everything to my name because i was stupid enough to have it all on me. about 5grams of weed, 18 hydrocodones (which i JUST purchased after an opiate drought in my area, these are what is really gonna get me in trouble), a digital scale, and they took all my cash (about 80 bucks). obviously i wasnt a big time weed dealer or anything, but i avoided trafficing charges and only got possesion, but its still putting me through hell.

obviously i stopped selling so i had to stop opiates because i cant afford it. all i had after the arrest was half of a 8mg suboxene, and i cut this into such little pieces that i made it last like 4 or 5 days. it didnt really **** me up, but kept the w/d at bay. when i ran out, i began w/d.. i had all the common w/d symptoms, but since i weened myself off to such little ammount it wasnt bad at all and weed helped..

on night 2 of me being clean, i got some cash and slipped. i bought 6 10mg hydros and made them last 2 days instead of one, taking 10mg at a time instead 15. when these ran out, it seamed like w/ds were worse than the first time when i weened off with a suboxene.. the anxiety is the worst for me, along with the chills, diarhea, and others..

what really pissed me off is i had 10 kolonopins and 10 10mg valiums saved to help me through w/d when i chose to quit, and when i was having a panic attack and went to get my first valium for w/d, i found somebody stole them all from my room. but smoking marijuana really helps.

.................but i just woke and its day 3 of my real opiate withdrawl.. i feel a little better, and i start college again tommorow so i hope im better for that. its gonna be real hard, because ive been used to taking hydros before and after college all year long since i started.. i got drunk last night and that helped me sleep a bit, but after day 1 w/d i literally only slept one hour that night. and i still toss and turn so much.., help much appreciated
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Yo, your doing a good thing by cutting back.  the oxys are tough to come off.  i am 22 i been an every day weed smoker since i was about 14 and been doing oxys on and off since i was 17.  but i been very addicted doing over 200 mg a day of oxy for the past 2 years straight.  I recently cut back hardcore to 10 perks a day.  during all this i have smoked about an ounce a week of weed.  the weed really helps the wds of the oxys tho.  today was my last day of taking a perc i weaned my self down to a half perk a day.  my girlfriend was giving them to me and i just took it before bed.  so today is my real first day clean.  except i still smoke a lot of weed.  i am hoping to quit that after i am done quitting the pills.  the main thing is will power tho.  its impossible to do it if you dont want to.  if you want to quit now do it as fast as you can i would say before you lose that will power.  its tough to keep a high spirit.  good luck to you tho.
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bump.. gotta bump the drugs soon too advice/support appreciated
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thanks for the support. ill consider going to the er but iv never heard of librium or clonidine, have to look them up.. i have heard about fentanyl and know its one of if not the strongest opiate out there. i actually tried it about a month ago (chewed up 1/3 of a 50mc patch) and avoided it ever since after hearing about the addiction/withdrawal potential. why increase my addiction??

but im not belittling my addiction at all. i just know that its a fact that oxy is harsher than hydrocodone and harder to get off of. and oxy is scientifically considered synthetic heroin, not hydrocodone or other drugs. id still consider myself a junkie though because wer all searching for that same opiate fealing. i know i have a problem and need help.
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go to the emergency room they'll give you librium (extra strength valium) and clonidine, great drug.  They reduced my withdrawals immensly.  I was taking 100 micrograms of fentanyl a day (cutting the patches and taking the time released dose at once) bad habit dude. no trying to belittle your habbit i mean all opiates either vicodin or morphine is just sythentic heroin. so we're all junkies. im just saying i had a really bad habbit and i qiut. its nice to see someone young like me. if you need anything or want to talk let me know.
-katie
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but the oxy withdrawl is pretty much over and hydros are getting me stoned as h*ll like they used too!! i plan to start the weaning off these sooner than expected, but not yet because im going snowboarding tommorow (with some old friends who actually helped me get my life on track for awhile, even stopped smoking weed) and can't withdrawal during this physical activity. it's also my first time out this year, so being out of shape im going to be exhausted and withdrawal won't help
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Wait, who said I was taking valium, kolonopin, opiates, and drinking at the same time?? I never take the valium or kolonopin, NEVER.. I got them from a friend after I heard they will help with withdrawls when I need them, I plan on taking one a day if that.. And I only drank because it was new years and skipped two doses, ever since i got into my opiates i hardly ever drink anymore, and never mix drugs im not stupid.

Marijuana is the only drug ill combine with anything.. i appreciate your concern, but please read my whole post before making those assumptions that im a druggie on multiple drugs/alcohol all day everyday, thats not even close to the case.. but a campus counselor sounds like a good plan, i plan to be clean before college starts but im sure they can still help

and i do remember benadryl helping me get very sleapy. last year when i was on vacation and had no weed (wasnt in to any other drugs at this time just weed), i would take a benadryl at night to make me all sleapy and crash easy.. thanks for this advice!! i took benadryl every night for 3 weeks on vacation, im really not worried about its addiction potential

advice/support is appreciate thank you!!
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I agree that you're not doing that much so quit while you can. You can easily do this. Consider this.........I was up to 300 PLUS mgs A DAY of straight Oxycodone and I did it. Dont worry about the valium that much. And If you're using it to sleep try over the counter benadryl (Im not trying to substitute pills for you either)......That actually helped me sleep better than valium. But dont do it if you dont need it. But I still think youre in a position where you can easily beat this. You can do it!
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And, by the way, your addictive behavior started when you were 15. That's 4 years of addictive behavior you have to get over mentally after the physical withdrawals are gone. Please, see a campus therapist or counselor. Get into a 12 step program. Find a support group. Do anything you can to grab your life back.
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You really need to take a long hard look at what you're doing to yourself. You're taking klonopin, valium, vicodin, and drinking on top of it. You're going to kill yourself doing crazy stuff like that. Know how I know? Cause I've done crazy stuff like that, and it's a wonder I'm not dead. Please, find a trusting doctor and get on a medically approved taper plan. We're already loosing far too many talented and bright young people to this disease, don't be one of them.
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thanks i really appreciate it!! i do not want to be admitted, so ill just avoid the ER and use the few benzos i have.. but thanks a lot!! any other advice and support would be great
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541953 tn?1262586226
Happy New Year...I don't think the ER will give you a script. sometime they will admit you to help with the w/d... do you have a family doctor?  you might go and tell him everything so he can help you...also try the thomas recipe at the bottom right of the page, it helps with w/d. good luck, stay strong, you can do this... take care
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only did 45mg hydrocodone today but that was because i planned on drinking for the first time in awhile and dont want liver damage.. happy new years!!
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i moved from my usual 50-70mg hydrocodone to about 40mg hydro and 40mg oxycodone, than i weaned it down to 20mg oxy and kept it there for a week. ive been on and off with oxys, about 3 months ago i was doing up to 80mg a day and that was the worst w/d i had but i ran out of hydrocodone to.. the w/d wasnt terrible, ive had this small oxy w/d before and i know it will only last another day if that. its nothing as long as i still have hydros..

but ill prolly still be up to 50-70mg hydrocodone again for at least a week.. its the withdrawls from stopping that completely that im really worried about. and i gotta stop taking hydros asap so i can get a job and get ready for college. im on acedmic probation with a 1.8gpa almost got kicked out my first semester thanks to opiates, and i am a Straight A student even when smoking weed!!

but im worried about the withdrawls when i stop hydrocodone as that will be my last opiate to kick and ive been doing multiple doses daily for months now. and i only have 8 blue 10mg valiums and 9 yellow kolonopins saved up, to help for the nights when im detoxing. will the emergency room help out a withdrawing 18year old or will ibe there for 9 hours for nothing??


the advice and support is very much appreciated. one of my best friend just kicked opiates and hes been up to 250mg a day of oxycontin, hes a pretty good inspiration. i plan to pull of the "flu" for a week or two than go smoke buds and get wasted with him!!! jvvette, that also helped me out a lot i really appreciate it!!
......... what other vitamins or foods can i eat to help clear my system and ease withdrawl symptoms??
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One quick ? too...you said you were only doing 20 MG of OXY how did you even have withdrawls from that? I am pretty certain those were the hydrocodone withdrawls. I could be wrong but that seems wrong that 20MG would cause TERRIBLE withdralws you know?
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You sound very committed and ready to get off of the hydros! As far as the oxys go you are LUCKY man! 20MG/day habit is nothing!

I literally started doing opiates JUST like you did except I was not a weed smoker. Just an occasional thing to feel good and have a nice night. Thats where it all starts though.

Than I found Oxy and starting meeting people who I knew did it and ended up making friends with a bunch of OC heads. Started at around 40MG a day and ended up to doing 240MG every day for about 6 months! Before that the 40MG/Day was about 1 months!

The good news is that I am on Day 7 and there is hope! I went completely cold turkey. For some reason my body would never go into "full blown" withdrawls for some reason. I am really surprised since I was doing 3 80s a day.

Anyway, at Day 7 I feel AMAZING with not doing oc anymore. The RLS *****! I have felt a little sick, diarrahea, anxiety, and terrilble RLS and sleep. Luckily I am on vacation and planned to detox on vacation. I say this because I am in Latin America and was able to walk into a pharmacy and by 30 5MG Valium and some Ambien. They both have definitely helped alot.

The sooner you get off all the pills the better. You definitely seem very determined. You'd be amazed at how great you can feel just after a few days. I'm saying not so much physically but if this is something you've been doing DAILY you will feel amazing and so proud of yourself that your finally doing something about it and going to change your ways!

Good luck and keep postin up. The forum has helped me out tremendously. Jus reading other peoples posts gives me motivation. Each day I wake up is another sober day that I haven't had in MONTHS and that is a feeling I cannot describe!
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I guess I should've read the stickied thread first. I guess I can't ask where to get one valium script to help with detox. I was just wondering if their going to look at me crazy at the emergency room if I show up there withdrawing from hydrocodones asking for a 1-time valium script to help me detox?? Will they look at me like a young punk and take me in/kick me out, or actually help me out with a script? Any other remedies to help detox such as vitamins or foods would be great
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And please don't think I'm not commited since I'm not going to start weaning off the hydrocodone for at least a week or two. It's just that the oxy w/d was harsh and I can't handle it all at once, I'm commited to be clean before college starts at the end of january!!

I'm here asking for advice and support for when I do start the weaning process. I'll get down 2 50mg a day within 2 weeks, than 40mg a day for a few days, than 30mg, 20mg, 10mg, 5mg.. This forum really helped and I know that valium will help with detox, but I only have 8 10mg valium pills and some kolonopin. Being only 18 years old, where can I get a script of valium to help with the detox?? Help is really appreciated and happy new years
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For those who don't want to read the whole story..

I have been taking 4-7 10mg hydrocodone pills daily in 10-15mg doses before I smoke weed. I've had this daily habit for about 5 months now. Tried hydros and oxys here and there throughout highschool but never got addicted til recently.

I was substituting some of my hydros with about 15-25mg of oxy daily for a few weeks, but weened that down and today was my first day back to hydrocodone-only. I slept til 4:30pm woke up pissed of had panic attacks since everything was going wrong all day but than figured it was probably oxy withdrawl.



I'm off oxy for good but back to my usual 50-70mg hydrocodone daily dosage, I can't deal with all the w/d at once but plan to start weaning off these in 2 weeks and than stop completely. I only have 8 10mg valium and a bunch of kolonopin for withdrawl, will the emergency room give me a valium script for detox?? I could REALLY use the advice and especially support for when I start weening off, thanks!!
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