abuse of pain medication, going through heroin withdrawals

[kaitybear]

I'm trying to get clean. For over a year I've been taking anything from the 10 hydrocodone norcos to the 30 mg oxys. I would spend lots of money in a day. I've been on and off dope for a while but its gotten to the point where ill do 2 to 5 bags a day. I can't stand the lifestyle I live anymore. I want to get help but I love the feeling too much. It's day one of being sober. I've just been downing alcohol and benzodiazepine to get me threw the day. I have muscle aches, sweats, diarrhea, naseua, etc. If any of you know any home remedies or OTC medication. I would greatly appreciate it.

 

[Heaven&hell]

I feel ya, a feeling you will never forget. No pain, stress, anxiety. Then with the w/d you are thrown directly from heaven into hell. I'm only 6.5 days clean. I did my detox with a few Vic 10 and 6mg of suboxone, V root extract(for sleep) and 1 hypnotic drug( to sleep on the worst night). Drinking about a gallon of water a day while keeping electrolytes stable has also helped a bunch. Other than chain smoking I've felt physically ok except for 2 24 hour time frames. I was only a 1g a day habit and decreased with vic 10s over a 2 week time period. The drug urges are the worst and believe what they say, the easy part is the week detox, it's staying away from it. That's the ultimate war. Remember, you have two paths. It's up to you to pick the one worth living. Only you can do that. As opiate addicts, we are a different breed of people with no specific face. Life has been hard and we do what we do to get by. I got away for a few weeks, inability to get what I wanted in a remote town. That helped the most. I'm feeling ok today after 6mg of Suboxone over the last 3 days. Hoping the worst is over. There is more than one person out there that has faith in ya. Cheers.

 

[T. Calderone]

Don't drink alcohol because that will increase your diarrhea and dehydrate you as well. My best advice is save the benzos for at night when you need to sleep. You can try immodium, lots of people say it really helps. But just don't trade one addiction for another.

 

[neversickanymore]

Many people use loporimide to ween themselves off. Its actually a strong opiate, but is flushed almost immediately from the blood brain barrier. Many people switch over to the loporimide and then can taper off that as it does not get us high.

Loperamide (Immodium) Megathread v. 2

Then you will need to come up with and implement a plan to address and cope with your addiction.

You can do this and Im sorry you are suffering. Opiates turn out to be such a ugly ride in the end.