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Dilaudid withdrawals~I'm scared!

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jersey

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Been reading along with you guys for awhile now, and great discussions! I have been taking dilaudid for back problems and had surgeries for about a year now. I've been injecting my pills 4-6mg at a time probably 6 times a day? Couple weeks ago I tried to quit, ended up in hospital overnight with terrible withdrawals. Last night woke in middle of the night with tremors and chills all the classics~sucked. But had not up and quit? Does anyone know why? Can withdrawal symptoms come on that quickly? I need to get off this NOW! Looking for experienced words of wisdom how I can taper off this without such Horrid side effects!
 
Welcome to Bluelight, jersey.

As having experience with dilaudid, I concur with the literature that it's withdrawal symptoms are short lived (and immediate) but very intense. You should feel better within three days, with cravings lasting ~2 weeks. Since you have been dosing with the chemical for some time, you may want to consider in-patient detox to get through the worst of it.
 
6 shots of 6mgs of dilaudid a day will put you in a world of hurt that is for sure. I would just start trying to cut back on the amount of shots you take each day supplementing with oral dosing [even though oral d doesnt hold a flame to iv dillies]. Is that all you are scripted for pain? Maybe try to find something a bit stronger when swallowed to get you thru the first couple days with no injections. Once you are stable on oral go from there, one step at a time. Tough situation. Or you can just switch to oral dosing and deal with the w/d's that are there [which will still be there]. Careful whatever you do as you wouldn't want to end up digging the hole deeper.

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i would definitely go to a detox and get a different doctor, or just find a new doctor. that is an insane prescription.... im beginning to loath dilauded, its like alcohol, coke, or xanax. im sure another doctor would be fairly stunned, and all understanding of this conundrum you've been handed.

as someone else living in pain, i feel ya, the handling of chronic pain patients is far more wack then i could of ever imagined.
see someone else pronto, youll get this sorted out quick, that is a slave driver script, and that prescriber needs to be re evaluated...
 
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Thank you guys! My problem right now is honestly i am given a script every week with less and less each week But I am doing them all IV in a few days. My goal is to be done in a weekor so. Have you guys ever tried the poppy tea to help with withdrawals?? The withdrawals that I am experiencing with this are the worst I have ever had, The tremors and shaking is just violent, so bad I couldn't prepare another shot. Mostly just the worst pain I have ever felt.
 
Hmmm. Don't be scared. Shit!! Personally those tremors freak me the fuck out! 12 hrs tho??? Well the last time I waited 10-12 before going to ER. I have chronic pain with my back, but nothing even close to the pain I was in a couple weeks ago. Where I live they don't even take opiate withdrawals in detox--mainly alcohol. So I go to Dr. on Friday. I am seriously considering telling him the truth. That I have turned into a junkie!! I cannot have these drugs in my possesion cuz I cannot control myself etc. etc. I really really want to do that, but I doubt I will. For one reason and that is, in the future if I do need something for pain, I want it. If that isn't typical!! "I don't want to be shooting this drug anymore, but what else you got??" Duh. I don't have anyone I can talk to about this. My family,friends, neighbors,kids. Nobody knows. I just feel like shit!! I feel like balling my eyes out!! Afraid of the judgement of people if they new who I really am.
 
I suggest getting your doc to switch you to Oxycontin its time released and the new one are nearly impossible to shoot. Once you stabilize on them a taper can be done fairly easily.
 
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Unfortuanatly I have been through heroin withdrawls more time then I can count. I was just thinking that with a longer half life opiate the withdrawl wont be as intense though it may last a little longer.
 
Tapering in 21 days or less with buprenorphine is the easiest methodby far IMO. As long as it's a taper only...not maintenence.

Otherwise do what everyone else does and stock up on benzos,clonidine,DXM and loprimide and ride it out. Weed helps me a lot as well. I mean you will not feel well, just not quite as shitty.

I find the buprenorphine surprisingly easy with very minimal acute w/d. PAWS is still an issue.
 
I would recommend asking your doctor to switch you to Oxy-IR. Oxycodone Immediate Release. Try and Stabalize on that, and then just detox off those, as I don't think the withdrawals should be as intense. I haven't been through Dilaudid withdrawal, but I have been through Oxycodone withdrawal, at a very high dosage (600mg/day) and it was pretty bad. Oxycodone has a very high Oral B/A ~87% I believe. Try that, and then maybe get some Clonidine, & Valium for 4-5 days max and you should be fine. I am going through Oxycodone withdrawals again, only this time at a much lower dose. I am using HydromorphContin to help alleviate some of my withdrawals, but I am not shooting, I am just snorting them.

Hang in there bud. :)
 
I got addicted to IV dilaudid when i had a script for dilaudid 4mg pills. At my worst i was shooting 3 or 4 4mg tablets about 5 or 6 times a day. Thats quite abit of dilaudid and your dose is pretty decent as well.

Dilaudid withdrawals used to hit me as soon as about 6 hours after my last shot and they used to come on very fast and be pretty goddamn intense. They really used to hit me like a ton of bricks and i could go from being ok to sick as a dog in a little over a hour. But the withdrawals are pretty short compared to say morphine withdrawal. hydromorphone withdrawal lasts about 5 days or atleast the physical part of it does :\ . This is opposed to morphine which is more like 10 days or so for me atleast.

This is not mentioning the PAWS which are another beast altogether.

I would suggest getting on a longer acting opiate and tapering with that. It's going to be pretty hard to taper with IV dilaudid.
 
jersey said:
Thank you guys! My problem right now is honestly i am given a script every week with less and less each week But I am doing them all IV in a few days. My goal is to be done in a weekor so. Have you guys ever tried the poppy tea to help with withdrawals?? The withdrawals that I am experiencing with this are the worst I have ever had, The tremors and shaking is just violent, so bad I couldn't prepare another shot. Mostly just the worst pain I have ever felt.
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Enough poppy tea would obliterate the wds, however the wds from poppy tea are most likely worse. Not intensity wise, but they don't end as quickly as dilaudid. So yeh you can buy some, but they will merely delay the wds, once you stop the pods wds will resume UNLESS you actually tapered down with them.
If you can't control yourself with shooting pills, then pods would help you in that respect, but unless you actually are able to do a taper it would be pointless in the end.
 
edarrin said:
Tapering in 21 days or less with buprenorphine is the easiest methodby far IMO. As long as it's a taper only...not maintenence.

Otherwise do what everyone else does and stock up on benzos,clonidine,DXM and loprimide and ride it out. Weed helps me a lot as well. I mean you will not feel well, just not quite as shitty.

I find the buprenorphine surprisingly easy with very minimal acute w/d. PAWS is still an issue.
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I know this is really old but a bump never hurts..
I agree with this. It was the only thing that worked with the withdrawls. I don't wish them on anyone
 
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