Percocet Addiction And Withdrawal (Page 4)

Someone please tell me how long it takes to withdrawal from percocet and what is expected day by day?

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It depends on your body for how Long it will take ive seen with most it can take 5 to 10 days but generally by the 5th day u will feel a lot better but the first two days are hell you will have body aches , fever, diareah, some vomit, restless legs, cant sleep but know this after three days I was basically good to go . Mentally u will still want them but the physical withdrawals will be so much better.

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I am only on day two and frankly im not feeling as s***ty as i expected which scares me. I have been an addict for about 5years and i too lost my job, fiance... soon to b everything if i don't kick it. Ive tried IOPs, suboxone, and i think the only thing for me is to just b 100%ready and go cold turkey. I never allowed myself to b clean long enough to get to make it to that feel good stage but this time is different. Im optimistic, excited to b sober and hope the hell doesnt get the best of me.

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Please help I have been taking percocet for about 7 months but in a very heavy volume I have been in withdrawal for 3 days today I did take 1 and a half 7.5 peercocet to knock the edge off I can't work I feel worthless is taking the ones today going to start the withdrawal all over again and how much longer before I don't hurt anymore

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Day 5 you will be Fine , I did the same thing on day three just to get sleep cause i was awake non stop sweating restless legs bad I was exhausted so I took a 5mg slept 5 hrs and the next night day 4 took one more and was Fine , I tefilled my scirpt cause I am supposed to take them for pain but after thiose 5 hell days I could take just one whenever and be all good but I ended up back to whetre I was and ill be out of them tonight, and starting the s***y cycle all over again. I was taking 8 of the 10mg per day for over a year. Good luck to you.

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I've been reading your posts and gotta tell you. It's like reading my own story. At this point I'm on day 9 of a very brutal cold turkey from 7 years of 5/325 percs for chronic acute neck and jaw pain. Wasn't planning on this but our gov't has stuck there noses into things and will not allow any pharmacy to refill any script till they say it's time. Unfortunately I'm going to have to go back after this forced abstinence. In the 7 years we haven't found any thing else that works and it's either that or I don't function. I guess the upside is I know what I'm up against when/if we ever get this thing dealt with and will know I'm in for the long haul. That at least will help me plan things. Good luck to you and everyone else. This whole process just stinks!

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50 a day would have killed her. something is not right. 12 a day will ruin your kidneys.
I have worked myself down to 1/4 a pill every 6 hours and now I am going cold turkey. I still feel the gut pain, but that is all. If you can go the first 36 hours the pain is not as severe as it would be for those who quit at a higher dose. ALWAYS TAPER IF YOU HAVE that choice!

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I don't know if your still going through this but you can trick your body with non narcotic opiates because your body just wants the opiates but your mind wants the euphoria. I took tramadol while detoxing and it helped because tramadol is a synthetic morphine without the euphoria and that's exactly how your body accepts it. DO Not take it beyond the few days of the worst of your withdrawls otherwise you will have another drug to withdrawl from.

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i feel your pain

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THE BEST ROUTE FROM WHAT IVE SEEN IS CLONIDINE .1mg morning and night for 4 days and you will be free of physical dependence!!!! Upset stomach and nausea will stay and some depression ….if you have access to a benzo…xanex valume ect …it should help….but taking this route is thd cheapest most comfortable way with not getting u addicted to methadone or suboxen..both evil….note if you take to much clonidine hypertension is a risk its mainly a blood pressure med….everyones diffrent but 8… 0.1mg clonidine should get you through ….no doc or chance for scripts?? Having intercourse helps alot ..massages…hot showers….potassium….vitamin c…..good pot…..nyquil-D behind counter….alot of water…staying POSITIVE AND ACTIVE…..im no doctor everyone is different but everything listed works for majority…..Pills- 3 to 5 days….usally starts 6 hours after last doseMethadone , suboxen a less aggressive withdraw pending on dose but lasts WAY LONGER….After physical withdraw is done …dont think u can take one 8 days later and be ok and stop….cause if your not serious dont even put your self into withdraw…

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Just sharing because this seems like a recent thread. I am on day 5, and I am in trouble. I can't believe I have gotten to this point. Like everyone else it all started with pain...it really doesn't matter why. I'm a 55 year old active male who became addicted/dependent you pick. 2 10/325's a day, every day for 4 years. May not sound like much to some of you, but I broke 'em up and went every 4 hours or so. Wake up, pop a .25, go to the gym, head to work. Take more at 10am, again in the afternoon, after work, then have a half at night. Just smoothed me out. Sure I live in pain, but I know that's not why I was taking them. Tried to stop with suboxone a couple of times, and it helped, but I have no more of anything. I've played ice hockey, climbed mountains, and cycled 100 miles with these in my system. Took a new job, making big money, but always hiding my problem. Hit up a couple of doctor friends along the way...they would never think I had a problem. Worst week of my life...and I'm really struggling. There are no pills around, and there are no options to getting any, but I would crawl on the floor looking for crumbs if I thought there were any. I would steal from my neighbor if I thought they had pills in the medicine chest...hell, I've done that before. I would find them on the street if I knew how and wasn't afraid. I know just writing these words proves how much trouble I'm in, so I have to stop. No options, no way out but through. When I read about it taking weeks to clean up it's freaking me out. I've gone to work everyday this week...I am a leader of a large organization. Been telling people the doctor switched up my blood pressure meds and warned me I might get sick. Should be ok in a few days. Will I? Will I ever feel better? Intellectually I know I will, but right now, I can't see how to get through this day. One of my friend's sons went through this, and is now off drugs and serving overseas. I mean, if he can do that...imagine, I've got to hold onto the image of a kid I coached in hockey as my inspiration. I feel like such a failure as a person and as a man. I see others on here have gone through, so I know it can be done. To anyone who reads this...if you're reading these wondering if you have a problem, you do. Stop now. Talk to your doctor, tell someone, go to NA, do something to help yourself. Hold a kind thought for the next person going through this.

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It will get better I promise but I know the feeling day by day you really notice any improvement and for me the fever and restless legs not sleeping for more than two hours per night really takes its toll the last time I did this I was on day 5 and still had no improvement when all the times Before I was good on the 5th day, today is my last day of my script and I have 5 days before my refill im not looking forward to this at all , good luck to you feel free to ask me anything ive gone thru this several times, ive not yet foun. Anything to help get sleep during this I took hycodan last time which is a liquid coedine mixed with vicodin which only gave me two hours of sleep each night . By the way what state are you from if youre local to me i may be able to help you out.

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Thanks. I'm on Long Island in NY.

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Are you able to see the doctor who was prescribing the pain meds to you so that way they could prescribe you meds to help the WD symptoms? Your across the country from me im in Seattle, WA im not sure what the laws are there ig you need a referral for a pain Clínic ir not, but here its very strict . Just curious.Did you quit the pain meds cause you wanted to or did a Dr cut you off? Here its illegal for a Dr to cut you off withour offering help or a referral to a Clínic that can help. If you can get your hands on a couple very low dose methadone pills like the 5mg and tale two a day for 5 days no longer Then that ir a new habit will form it will help tremendously, which I know methadone scares people I refused it until I was on day 3 of a 104 tempature and thought I was going to die and at that point I was willing to rey it and I was Fine afterwards .

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Thanks, today is day 7 and I am feeling a little better. Old habits die hard. I quit because I have a problem, and I know it. The fact that I am craving is evidence of the problem. I turned down the chance to get a few today Percs today. What would that do for me? Extend the inevitable? Go backwards a few days? I have to do this...just wish it didn't suck so much.

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That is awesome, good for you ...the worst should be almosy over what symptoms do u still have? I have a friend that gets 380 of the 5mg percs per month and when hes out for a few days he has no symptons at all besides diareah so everyone is different, I wish that was my only side effect to lose a few pounds per month wouldnt be Such a bad thing : ) Haha im 33yrs old ive been prescribed these for 3yrs the past two years ive taken them regularly, this was all due to a head on collision car crash broke my tailbone tore my shoulder which I still need another surgery on it dislocates about everyday , the day this happened I asked my boyfriend at the time to slow down he was from florida and I knew he wasnt familiar with the hill and the Sharp corner we were approaching but he didnt listen and im messed up for life while hes off somewhere perfectly Fine ,it haunts me daily. I can do everything normal unless im off my pain meds Then I feel everything like its the day after the crash again.

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hi i am posting about my sister, she fell and hurt her back and got put on percs and valium. she was falling a lot...now she can't walk alone even with a walker, she still falls, she can't see good got 175 glasses now, cusses really bad now when she was always so shy and quite..she can not eat without making a mess all over her, she can't give herself a bath or go to the restroom by herself..she lives with a pill addict...she has not had any type of pills for over a week. can you tell me if these are symtoms of w/d...unsure of how much or how long she has been taking....i know her bf has access to them....help please.

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Thanks man.. I'm helping my stepdad to get off years of perc addiction.... I don't know how he is still alive... smokes too much, seriously addicted... his heart and lungs, kidney, whole body is just messed up. He really wants to quit now to not lose his family. I'm writing down a grocery list of items to get for his detox. I hope it works.

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Hello everyone. My story is not as intense as the rest of the board but I thought I'd share anyways. I have been clean now for 6 days after 2 months of taking upwards of 20, 5/325mg percs a day. A lot of people have become addicted due to injury. Me on the other hand shamefully became addicted out of pure ignorance. I took them because I could and had no regards for what was to come. I had around 7 bottles of percs and 4 bottles of vicodin 5mg/325. All gone w. In 2 months. I will describe from last pill how I have felt and the withdrawl symptoms that I have experienced.
Between hours 1-20 from the last pill I felt fine. I remember thinking this is not going to be so bad but then hour 21 hit me like train running into a straw house. Hours 21-26 I was unbelievably cold. Like an eternal chill had consumed me. Even outside when it is 95 degrees currently. Between hours 26 and 36 it felt like a week had passed. I was confused. My vision blurred. While trying to sleep the auditory hallucinations started but only briefly followed by what I have read called restless legs. I could not sit still. Or sleep. I was kicking so hard I became fatigued and could barley walk. All the meanwhile there was a presence of extreme anxiety and mood swings. I thought the world was ending. All of this within the first 2 days. The severity of these symptoms lasted another day and a half. It's now day six. I have accumulated 5 hours of sleep maybe. My appetite is still gone but I can throw down small things here and there. My addiction was of pure stupidity but the lesson is that it isn't all euphoric. The day will come when you think the apocalypse is at the very foot of your bed. I did this cold turkey with no help and no meds to relieve the symptoms. That itself is the moment my eyes opened to a opiate free life.

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Please don't give false or misleading info. An opiate is an opiate! Doesn't matter which kind of percocet it is, it's still an opiate just the same. Also withdrawal can last in the extreme physical aspects aka dope sick for only 3 days and then that's over but you will still feel a longing and discomfort following that that could last weeks or months or even years.
Many think they can tamper but for an addict that's pretty impossible and IMO prolongs the withdrawal because all that time you are tapering you are withdrawing and when u jump off you will still withdrawal!

Many are scared because they don't think they can enjoy or feel good without them that's the biggest lie from the devil! You will feel good without them and as your dope amine repairs itself, you will feel natural highs.

Each withdrawal you have will get worse and the longer u are using the worse it gets each time even if u were using less than previous time!

Many suggest prescription meds but for us that don't have access I have created a help kit that has diminished about 95 percent of withdrawal symptoms that I can gladly share with anyone interested that also shortened my withdrawals to only 2 days!!!!! Just reply to this post

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I would greatly appreciate info regarding the kit you mentioned.

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