Just quit a strong year long habit.. but there's something boggling my mind!

[FirstTime123]

I am glad to announce that I am completely tapered off and done with my addiction as far as getting it out of my system. I followed some very sound advice on this forum and managed myself down to 0 MG per day and for it being the third straight day without ANY opiates I feel reasonably well. Thanks for all the support swinger I hung in there, followed my plan and accomplished my goal. Couldn't have done it without the support I got here. Thanks again! As far as WDs go, my situation got kind of weird the last couple weeks. It started on last Saturday when I was still at around 30mg per day. For some reason I went out to a game and had too much to drink which somehow resulted in kicking me into what I felt was the withdrawal. I was vomiting non stop and had super bad stomach pains. It reminded me of when I went cold turkey the first time. A combination of GERD and WDs flipped my stomach upside down. I was in so much pain I couldn't even get to my supply and take any so for about 5 days I maybe had a total of 60mg but this is the strange part; when I would do a pill my pain and WD would obviously go away within minutes but I stayed at such a low dose the whole time, every morning I woke up I had my pain and WD back again. Finally after about a week straight of this WD and pain Rollercoaster I started feeling normal again so I decided maybe I just went through the worst of it I'll just take advantage and quit it now conpletely while I'm ahead and it seemed to have worked ok. I'm on day 3 without anything at all and at worst I have some minor runs but that's it. Took immodium today so that will help I'm sure. So do u guys think I'm almost out of the woods or not cause all I'm afraid of is a prolonged withdrawal but again I haven't touched anything in going on 3 days. Thanks for any input this one was boggling my mind. Am I done or what?! Lol....oh, and anyone heard of alcohol kicking u into withdrawals? I looked around but found nothing supportive just the fact that u can get alcohol poisinging a lot easier and that might have been it but I'm positive it felt EXACTLY like bad WDs...

 

[bakeryrogercow]

Maybe I missed it but you didn't say what you cut back from. But for almost all substances, 3 days you should be fine. Make sure you're taking immodium as indicated on the labeling. The literature shows that it actually takes a relatively small amount of drug compared to what is used to get high to keep a user out of withdrawal. So you probably maintained that minimum amount and your body adjusted quicker than normal, which I'd say is a great thing. No idea about the alcohol.

 

[RiseAgain]

You're not out of the woods yet, but the worst part is probably over. IME Oxy withdrawals peak on the 3rd or 4th day and then start to improve and I feel a lot better by the 6/7th day and it takes about 10-14 days until I don't feel sick anymore. You might get PAWS after that, but not everyone does. When you finish withdrawing that's when the real battle begins, all the problems you've been using oxy to cover up will start coming back and you'll have to find new ways to deal with them.

The immodium would have been blocking a lot of the withdrawal symptoms and if you keep taking it it will probably prolong the withdrawals, so when you stop the immodium you might get a bit worse for a few days. It sounds to me like the alcohol just made you sick, maybe you drank too much or your poor health made you less tolerant to it, that's just what alcohol does... It makes you sick.

Keep it up, you''re almost there! IMO you are handling the withdrawals really well, you won't have any trouble beating this, keep pushing through!

 

[FirstTime123]

Hey thanks for the responses guys. Just to be clear I only took the immodium once and that was yesterday. It was percocet that I was getting off of. I never took any immodium during the week I was sick. I know all about the length of the WDs but I feel like I'm actually on day 7 or 8. I feel normal I'm not sick at all I wake up early now and besides a little insomnia (still getting about 5 hours of sleep per night) I don't have any other WD symptoms. I guess the reason I'm a little confused is cause like u guys said since I was still taking a really small dose of the oxy the week I was sick in theory it should have just prolonged my WDs but I feel like the opposite happened. I really feel like I'm over it and I'm back to almost 100 percent. Either way thanks for the input and trust me I ain't complaining lol. Technically I'm on day 4 without ANY percocet but again last time I quit I didn't feel this good until about day 9 or 10. Just a little strange but in the end I kicked a 120mg a day habit just seemed a lot easier than last time. Thanks again.