My first hydrocodone withdrawal was under similar circumstances. Started at 15mg a day and ended off a thirty day period of daily use with a daily dosage of around 30mg.
When I stopped I felt no WD's the first day. Just a bit depressed that I wasn't high anymore.
Then on day two I felt pretty much the same, but after falling asleep I woke up at 3am and was unable to fall back asleep. By sunrise I made the connection and realized I was experiencing my first opiate withdrawal.
I didn't know anything about wd's, but I knew I felt antsy, so I went for a run and found it made me feel a little better. Later that day I began feeling that aching, dry pain in my muscles that I now always recognize as withdrawal. I didn't sleep for more than a few hours that night, but still went to school the following day.
The antsy, aching feeling continued that day, and that night I was unable to sleep - until about 4am. My alarm rang two hours later and I went to school, feeling a bit better. That night I was able to sleep a full 7 hours, and no withdrawals were present after that.
So expect day 2, 3 and 4 to be unpleasant. Nothing horrible. Opiate withdrawals, to me, seem to have a kindling effect like alcohol withdrawal - where each successive withdrawal feels worse than the last. I have yet to have the screaming, climbing up the walls withdrawal that many people have had as I always find a way to taper by the end.
Opiate withdrawal would be thought of as a really bad flu + insomnia to a "normie." To an opiate addict, who learns to fear and dread the wd, it becomes pure hell.
And try to stay away from opiates okay? I wish I had stopped after that first withdrawal. In fact, I'd do anything to flash back to 2005 and make sure I never touched another opiate again. Opies always say "Oh, well when it stops being fun and bad things start happening I'll have motivation to stop" - but that time never seems to come.
