Please Help: Need Answers To Get Off Dilaudid (Page 4)

I have been taking 3 to 4 8mg (24-32mgs) Dilaudid pills at 1 time usually around 3:00pm everyday for about 2 1/2 years now for back and nerve damage and would like to know the best way, medication, and dosage to get off this drug, also how long and how bad I will feel detoxing. The only time I have energy and feel good is the 2 or 3 hours after taking the drugs. Every muscle and bone in my body aches like I have a severe case of arthritis , i'm sleepy-but can't sleep an entire night, get a runny nose, yawn constantly and tired. I just want to feel normal again. Any help will be greatly appreciated. Thank you. 50

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spread your dosing out over the day dont just take it all at once, also lyrica helps with the withdrawals your nose will still run etc but you wont be kicking yourself with your own feet.

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Hello! I really could use some help. First of all, I insufflate 16mg of dilaudid a day. Second, I am on a 50microgram fentanyl patch. This all started so innocently when I had a tooth ache, and my friend offers me a dilaudid for the pain. I loved the feeling, and my tolerance grew before my eyes. If I didn't have any, I started to cry, had to go to the bathroom, was very sore all over my body, and I was sweating. Luckily, I got a hold of my "friend," who told me I was addicted, and gave me more to take away the horrible side effects of not having any. Then, he introduced me to fentanyl, and claimed its better for me to wear this patch, so I wouldn't become "sick" so easily and quickly. I have to change it every three days, or all hell breaks loose again. (Crying, soreness...etc). I have been on this stuff for three years! I desperately need to get off of it! I have to see him everyday, and he keeps me supplied. Sometimes he gives me morphine if no dilaudid is available (which is rare.) I feel like I have a ball and chain around my leg, and a monkey on my back. I do not feel high from this anymore. I just need to get off discreetly. I know I could go to detox, but how long would that take? Could I do it myself? Please help! I want my life and freedom back! Thanks.

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I know it can be done....Im tired of being dependent on this crap. I started off with 3 8mg dilaudid a day now I am down to 1 mg 3 x a day. I will continue to chop and chop til I can safely step off of these god forsaken pills. I hate them with a passion. I have to admit each step I done It was difficult for a few days but I was not in full blown withdrawls. I would rather feel alittle icky compared to sicker than someone with the flu. It can be done if you really want to get off of this stuff. I myself dont consider methadone or suboxone a good substitute its trading one drug for another.
Screw that.....Im getting off the crap

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Hello I just wanted to tell you, I know your Hell, as I have been there. I have taken dilaudid every 4 hours around the clock for 7 years now. In April my Pain management clinic dropped me because they could not accept Medicaid (even though they had accepted it for 4 years) They gave me no info on how to taper and every clinic they said would help me. turned me away cold. They all told me there is no one in town who will treat you with dilaudid like your dr did. I have been to 36 specialist and tried every treatment they suggested and found nothing that helped me with my constant migraines until dilaudid. I am a 45 year old woman who has never done recreational drugs, hell I have never even been drunk, but now everyone thinks I am a hardcore drug addict. So anyways what I came on here to tell you is... As of April (3 months ago) I was taking 39 mg of dilaudid daily.(6 mg every 4 hours +) and I have been doing a slow taper on my own. I try to take one mg less a week, at least. but do more if I can. I have to be careful because a few times I have moved to fats or went more then 5 hours without a dose and I am miserable. I am now down to 10 mg daily!!!! Almost what I was taking every 4 hours in April! It is uncomfortable but not terrible most of the time. I just tell myself I can go back up 1 mg every hour if I feel awful and usually by the end of the hour my resolve has come back. I took no more the 15 mg daily last month so I am consistently dropping my dose. I am not taking any supplemental drugs because I don't want to have to wean off any other meds. I know people will say you cant do it on your own but if you go really slow you may be able to do it all on your own. best of luck to you!

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I am in the same shape as you I am 61 and the pain has kicked my butt, now I have no one to get it from. I have thought about getting from a no script needed place online but to scared I will get robbed. what are you doing to get your meds, have you tried any online?

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IT IS POSSIBLE!!! Our brains are the most powerful tools we have. We can make ourselves believe in anything. Just keep repeating all through out the day, "I AM FINE, I AM HAPPY, I LOVE MYSELF". When we are born, we are given a clean canvas, and what ever our parents expose us to is what we know. And that can be changed. You have the power to put anything you want in it. I know, as I've had a horrible child hood, but I look in the mirror and say "I love myself, I love myself" and eventually, your brain will start to believe it, and therefor "you" will believe it. This technique does work!!! You've got nothing to loose in trying it. :-) As you start to love yourself, getting off these crazy man made hell pills will become easier. Pleases don't get me wrong, it is HARD, and at first you will feel like s***. But it does get easier and easier. Just don't give in to these hell pills. You are stronger!!

I am in the process of getting off Hydromorphone. I was taking (abusing) 94 mg. per day, and am happy to say, that after 4 weeks, I am down to 16 mg. I started weaning off slowly. (I've tried going cold turkey, but all I did was sleep-for 5 days, and felt like suicide, so DO NOT ATTEMPT to go cold turkey) Just do it slowly, and heck, if you don't feel good stay on a dose that lets you function, without suffering, for a while longer. Listen to your body, and do it slowly. Does NOT matter how long it takes. It CAN be done!!! Take, glucosamine for joint pain, take Echinacea, vit. C, vitamin B complex, and drink lots and lots of freshly squeezed lemon juice. It will give you energy and also cleans out your body of all the hell pills.

My thoughts and prayers are with each and every single one of you battling with pain pill addiction. :-)

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She doesn't need counseling because she said she needs them to get through the day. Most likely she does so she doesn't get sick. Why would she need counseling for that???... Although counseling would help with the addiction!!!...

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I wish someone would tell both of us. I was taking 8mg dilaudid, 6 times a day for 2 yrs and then my dr just stopped giving it to me. I feel like im dying, dizzy,lightheaded, diareah, sneezibg, watery eyes,runny nose, all over body pain, migraines. I feel like ive been hit by a truck.my dr tried norco 10,3xs/ day. Not even helping in the slightest bit. Please, somebody help me.

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Hey... 50!.. I am 52 and have been taking dilaudid for 10 years now for chronic pain, I sympathize completely with all your symptoms ... Even rolling over in bed st night hurts never mind getting mobile in the morning ... I am scared to death of this drug .. My doc weaned me off about a year ago but was able to find it elsewhere but it is burying me financially not to mention physically ... I know the gut wrenching pain of not having it. I had to go 6 days without once and I nearly died ... Well not really but felt like it ... I am scared to come off but there are so many reasons to do so ! ... I wish my doc had said no to me on this one 10 years ago ... Had I known where I would end up NEVER would have taken this s*** I am taking about 6 4 mg tabs a day up from one a day that the doc was giving me ... So I'm in a bad place too it's. Is ting me nearly 50.00 a day! ... I work only to pay for my habits. I will say also that I have been taking them for over 5 years ...... I am constantly depressed and of course family wants to understand but doesn't.. I like most in my position feel very alone and fearful of the future. I wish I had the answer to your problem but I can't even get myself on track ... I just don't have the strength ... I am living with my in-laws who both have major health problems as I can't afire a place of my own ... It's just killing me in every way. I know there is NO easy way I just don't know when or how to step up and fix my life ??

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I know the feeling all too well and God bless you. Anyone who has never felt the withdrawal sickness will feel alot different about dependency if they do

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Oh do I feel for you. I wish I could do the same! My dose is less but I am suffering the identical affects. My scripts run out before their due date and I am in withdrawals when I get the next one filled. I hate being a slave to the pills but they are what keep me able to work and function normally. That said - they only achieve just that - "normality". Theres no uphoria like abuses get you. Just normality. My psoriatic arthritis in back, neck, & knees were the reason I was first scripted Dilaudid. Other pain killers always gave me nausea so Dilaudid was perfect. In better times I gradually weaned my doses down, thinking I would be off of it. But then pain punch-through caused me to go back to original doses. I also suffered two kidney stone attacks that led to lithotripsy surgery over the years which also fooled me into re-upping my addiction at times. Now if I dont get my pill, my attitude, energy level, and alertness are first to go. I yawn out of control and have supplemented caffine pills at times to try to extend my abolity to work. After those side affects come the real bad ones. Irritability, depression, headache, nausea, and flu symptoms in addition to body aches and pains that get severe as time passes. No sleep, and the host of side affects all piling up to be withdrawal can all be ersed in a moment - simply by taking another 4-8 mg. Its horrible to be so enslaved. But I fear telling my Dr just how bad it is - I need them to continue working as I am not of retirement age. Each month when I see the bottle is running empty I live in fear of those last days. The pharmacy will not refill early and it is a scary awful thought - running out. I dont have the means or leave to seek a rehab facility. But I wish there was a private way of getting help - if there is any. I am so sorry what you are going through. I know its little or no help to you but I wanted to say you arent alone.

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