Hunkering down for Opana withdrawal

30 of the 2mg valiums?? come on... I only use the Vs to sleep. They don't provide me with any other type of relief. Honestly, after WDing a trillion times, I think the best thing to do is just not even think about it. The benchmarks will be meaningless once you feel physically well.

Just tough it out man. I am going to a detox center tomorrow,so I am there with you bra ;)

And you're still addicted so you're reasoning behind just going cold turkey is what?

If it hasn't worked for you why pass on the same advice to someone else?
 
Has anyone used the clonidine patch for easing the WD's? MY PM dr has me on it though I am actually tapering off Opana and Norco. I quit norco without taspering and went from Opana to morphine sulfate IR which was too drastic but I asked to quit the meds completely not knowing what woulod happen. Just started the patch last friday so can't say what it is doing. I know that thursday and friday I was in full blown WD and wanted to die. I think I visited hell actually...
 
Man clonadine is a miracle drug for WD imo. It takes the chills away for me. I wouldn't use the patch though.That seems silly. Any doctor will prescribe clonadine, at the er, walk in, whatever. Just tell em your going through wd and they give you a bunch of 0.1mg or w/e pills. I take about 4mg a day(I would start less if I were you) and yah... Tis helps a lot. Stabilizes my mind somehow too. I wouldnt want the patch cuz of onset it takes and not knowing exact dose or w/e... If u got it, just wear it though.
 
Draigan I think the patch is working though. The anxiety I do feel is very low. This morning when I woke up, about 2 hours after my last morphine dose, I was sure I was in full WD again. Had all the symptoms. I finally checked my blood glucose and it was 63. I forgot to eat after I took my insulin and went back to sleep. Scary! WD is sort of like tanking glucose.
 
Ever since I started snorting opana, suboxone stopped working for me.

I wont dare w/d off opana anymore, I make the switch to roxi's, around 300mg a day and taper to 100mg a day. Then I jump on subs. Oxymorphone is the most demonic drug out there, fuck that evilness.
 
Through my own stupidity I had forgoten to call in my Rx for opan 50mg. I take 50mg every 8 hours for the past 2 yrs....So for 2 days I had to endure the most painful withdrawal I have ever had to. First I thought my skin was going to burn off I got so hot, which accompanied a fever of 104F, It felt like my nerves were going to spasam out of my body, and then diareah. Its like I could not control by body. Its taken 3 days to get back to some kind of normal once I got my script. Not something I recomend unless you have to.
 
Lyrica is the only non opioid that has any effect on honest opana wds, but it does help.

As for the duration - the physical intensity lasts between three and four days - roughly two thirds of, say, regular oxy wds.

Too bad they're ten times as painful.

One of the above posters gave some good advice when he suggested to switch to oxy first, then taper, then quit. Opana wds are no joke at all.
 
My Opana W/D story/timeline

Hey,
I'm on day 7 of being off opana. Here's my story: After I was t-boned by a car on my motorcycle at 45mph I spent a lot of time in the hospital on Dilaudid. They sent me home taking 80mg OPana and 120 mg Oxycodone a day. That was what they told me to do. My first step to get off that shit was getting off the oxycodone. I had to wait for the breakthrough pain to ease up, then up the Opana to not w/d. Then, I was able to taper the Opana a few months after. (btw I really trust my doctor and his instructions definitely worked for me). My doc and I sat down and came up with a plan to taper. Always make sure you are taking at least 3 pills a day. The half-life is short. For example: When you go from 30mg to 20mg, make sure your doc prescribes 5mg pills. That way you can take it 4 (5mg pills) a day, not 2 (10mg). Big difference. Let me be clear: WHEN TAPERING OFF OPANA, MAKE DAMN SURE YOU ARE TAKING AT LEAST 3 EVENLY SPACED PILLS A DAY. 2 WILL NOT WORK. OPANA WEARS OFF TOO QUICK. When you get down to 10mg's it's time to stop. 2 (5mg) pills are only gonna make you feel like you are having light w/d's all day. no point. To my knowledge, Opana make a 40, 20, 10, and 5 mg pill. Use the 20's to get off the 40's. Use the 10's to get off the 20's. and use the 5's to get off the 10's.

When the time comes to stop...flush em. Hell is coming and you're gonna take the scenic route there and back. Make sure you have a bunch of bananas. THey will really help with the RLS and diarhhea. Get some funny movies and have a few spots in the house to relax. You will not sleep more than 2-3 hours for the next 3 days. If you fall asleep at 4pm, just do it. There will be no scheduled sleep anytime soon. Take what you can get, you will need your strength. THe RLS is crazy. Bananas and a hot showers will help (not fix) the RLS. Take lots of hot showers. Keep hydrated. Lot's of water. The vomiting and diarhea come just when you think it's at its worst. Do not take a lot of benzos or sleeping pills or nyquil or anything else. The benzos do help a little just like the showers and bananas. Any other pills won't do shit. THis is Satan's fuckin fury coming to take back all the pleasure you've gotten from the Evil O's. Day 2 and 3 are the worst. At the end of day 3 (72 hours after the last opana) you can take a lunesta or ambien from your doctor. At the end of day three I cried all the tears I could cry. I was literally dry-crying. Day 4 will feel good cuz you got sleep. Actually you will feel like you conquered the hardest battle of your life then procede to dry-cry with happiness. Day 5, 6, 7.....for me have been hard. I've been hit with some crippling depression. The only 2 times I felt normal was after walking my dog for an hour and playing some basketball. Endorphins baby! It's all we got to be happy. Our brains either don't have or forgot how to use dopamine, seratonin, and GABA. Bummer. You need these to be happy, sleepy, and functioning.

You may feel very alone through this. I'm still not OK and it's day 7. But I've come this far. My girlfriend can't relate to me at all. She had no idea why I got mad when she was talking to me when we were laying in bed. Sleep is a very precious thing right now. I wish she would just shut the f@#$ up. Can I get a little "me time".

I saw my doctor this morning because of the depression. I was so depressed I almost couldn't even make the call to get an "urgent" appt. My doc told me that I suprised him on how easy and quick I got off the opiates. WTF doc was i not clear???? He was genuinely proud of me. I was too. But still my head was f@#$%#@. I trust him. He gave me some samples of a SSRI antidepressent. He said they take 2 weeks to kick in but he wants me to take them just in case this shit lasts that long. I think I can make it on my own but I'm gonna take the AD's to just be sure. Balancing brain chemistry is harder than rocket science. I heard St. Johns Wort can help with depression along with some supplemental amino acids. I have a biochem major and I think that tryptophan and phenylalanine are the precursors for most catecholamines. Maybe I'll try those.

I hope maybe my story/timeline will help someone. During my Day 1,2,3...I spent a lot of time on the internet searching for a real timeline. The worst part of the whole thing is that when you are in hell, you have no idea when it will be over. It probably won't be over real soon if you reading this, but it will be over and you can do it. Don't think of how bad it is, think of how happy you'll be to be off that shit. One day we will look back....

Love,
Dave
 
Hang tough and rattle. Your are half way through the worst part. Opana is strong and highly addicting. Best thing you did was taper down first. good thinking ! HANG IN THERE! GREAT JOB. DON'T QUIT NOW!

Bless you! Hang tough! you CAN do this!
 
Stop the Crying

Be men (or women)
I'm currently in the early stages of opana withdrawal. I did 60 30mg er's and 60 10 mg IR's in 14 days and have been doing so for the last 4 months except I had oxycontin 30's to ease me through the last ones. I also use 1mg ativan's as needed. It's not that bad. Sometimes you get the dry heaves and the stomach rumblings but I am sleeping like a baby. It'll be over soon since I have'nt taken a whole Opana in 2 days. Try sleeping as much as possible, broth soup and crackers in case you do heave, mellow music, TV and you'll be fine. Don't do ht estuff if you can't face that one day you may run out and have little to get you by. It's uncomfortable but very do-able. I've noticed no difference between opana and oxycontin wd's so don't let the people here scare ya. :\
 
Be men (or women)
I'm currently in the early stages of opana withdrawal. I did 60 30mg er's and 60 10 mg IR's in 14 days and have been doing so for the last 4 months except I had oxycontin 30's to ease me through the last ones. I also use 1mg ativan's as needed. It's not that bad. Sometimes you get the dry heaves and the stomach rumblings but I am sleeping like a baby. It'll be over soon since I have'nt taken a whole Opana in 2 days. Try sleeping as much as possible, broth soup and crackers in case you do heave, mellow music, TV and you'll be fine. Don't do ht estuff if you can't face that one day you may run out and have little to get you by. It's uncomfortable but very do-able. I've noticed no difference between opana and oxycontin wd's so don't let the people here scare ya. :\

There's a term for that...

"Lucky bastard"

I had migraines for 32 years every day...ever since age 7. I've taken over 100 medications and 10 pain meds...sometimes in high doses for years. I never withdrew from anything....except now. My migraines have been cured, so I went off Opana and F__K!! It sucks. Chills, kicking, flushed face, sneezing rapidly, can't empty bladder (that's the worst!).

If you aren't withdrawing, you likely have too many or too few of the cytoplasms that activate and then break down the med. (I believe it is P450 2c9 and P450 2b6 if I'm not mistaken).
 
Does anyone besides me go through withdrawls on opana 40 mgs er 8hours after taking i

I know I hear a lot of people saying how well this medication is but I just don't see it I had taken oc 60mg 3 times a day and that did so much more for my pain. When they changed the ocs my doctor immediately put me on Opana 40s 2 times a day. This is not working for me I need 3 because after 8 hours I start with withdrwals. I have been through two back surgeries and had taken three 60s a day for a few years so my tolerance level is outrageous I have to have my doctor change it to three a day along with 10mg opana ir for break through pain which now I take roxicodone 15mg 2 hours after taking the 40mg opana er. within 8 hours I am suffering withdrawls with this medication I smell something like burnt hair only worse a lot worse and the only thing I can do is take another 40 toget rid of the symptoms I know this is supposed to be a 12 hour extended release system but not for me and I was just wandering if anyone else was having the same problem with the 40mg opana er or if my tolerance level is just that high now because of all the heavy meds my doctors have put me on feed back would be appreciated.

http://www.drugs.com/answers/does-anyone-besides-me-go-through-withdrawls-on-336134.html
 
I was on 2 x 20er per day. I started quit by cutting the eve 20 in half for 5 days, now Im doing a half 2x day and am on day 3 of that. I want to make a reduction every 4 or 5 days till Im completely off.
Right now my guts are twisting up and Im sleeping really bad, and have the chills.
How much worse will it get?

I have heard of a tea made with poppy seeds to help with this. Does it work?
Are there any holistic or naturopathic methods of reducing withdrawal from opana?

I need as much help from those who know as I can get .
Thank you.
C
 
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:( This sucks.
I've been using 20mg of Opana a day for the last ten days... the mental aspect of it is miserable.
I still have morphine, so the physical aspect won't hit me but my mind is going crazy.
I've always used it here and there and not days straight like this.
 
I was on 2 x 20er per day. I started quit by cutting the eve 20 in half for 5 days, now Im doing a half 2x day and am on day 3 of that. I want to make a reduction every 4 or 5 days till Im completely off.
Right now my guts are twisting up and Im sleeping really bad, and have the chills.
How much worse will it get?

I have heard of a tea made with poppy seeds to help with this. Does it work?
Are there any holistic or naturopathic methods of reducing withdrawal from opana?

I need as much help from those who know as I can get .
Thank you.
C

I've been there and it is bad. Get clonidine pills or patches from your doctor. I got the patch which you only need to change once a week and as I was kicking opana and tapering morphine that was a good choice for me. The patch can take 48 hrs to work but the pills work right away. Call your doctor about this and I promise you will be better than okay! I didn't use anything else...no lope, AD's, benzo's, etc.
 
ive done alot in the past, i am currently w/d from opana. i never in a million years would have thought that w/d would be this bad. im goin on day 2 now. its not getting better...at all. im staying hydrated. taking tylenol pm for the muscle spasms. but nothing else helps. if anyone out there is thinking about taking opana again...DONT. its the biggest mind fuck of them all. the mental game its playing on me is ridiclous. sleep??? haha yeah right. i cant remember the last time i slept. and forget about eating. i can hold down toast sometimes. ive lost weight. it fucking sucks. opana.... never again
 
I've withdrawn from Opana quite a few times. I always prepare for the worst, but it never comes... It is painful but short and really surprisingly mellow. at least it's not commensurate with the strength of the opiate.
 
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