Help need to get past withdrawl phase!!!

started out with some fentanyl abuse. got sick of that haven't had any in 2 weeks. But I have a huge bottle of oxy 10 apap325 that i've had sitting around for a while prescribed to me for a herniated disc that i've been using to avoid withdrawl, I'm down to about 5-7 mgs of oxycodone a day but can't get lower or off of it totally.

I start to get very anxious and restless are my symptoms. I also have tons of tramadol that might help me get off the meds altogether but havn't tried that yet.

Please help and give me any advice I want to be off of all of this stuff, i don't like doing it for fun so that isn't the problem just trying to avoid the withdrawls

 

Stay strong, your doing good so far, just slowly tamper down little by little, I mean take 5-7 a few days, then move to 5mg for a few days, then half that, and before you know it you will stop taking them, but you will still have it in the back of you mind for a while to take them. I hope you will do better each day, you will

 

Stay strong and continue to taper down, A few days of withdrawl is better than the life so many of us live. Benadryl for sleepless nights, Imodium for diarrhea and I strong mind will get you through it. I wish you the best, good luck

 

I used to work with a reformed crack head and the most important thing he ever said to me about anything is that almost no one dies from withdrawal. If you hold ten things to be true in your whole life make that one of them.

I used to be a heavy drinker ,and a chain smoker. Nicotine was one hundred times more addictive than my alcohol abuse. I don't think I had much of a physical addiction and it was mostly psychological. At this particular time I drank caffeine , alcohol and smoked about two packs a day. I got "passed out" drunk every night for about five years. I think that nicotine is the gateway drug if anything. First I quit smoking. You don't fight withdrawals you surrender to them. Just release your self to them and let the withdrawal get as intense as it is going to get. LET IT TAKE YOU FOR A RIDE. Withdrawals are like being on drugs to begin with. The withdrawals from nicotine makes you feel like you are tripping on five hits of acid. Theres no reason not to enjoy it. You have paid and pursued buzzes for a long time so go a head and enjoy this one too. This is sort of a masochist way of looking at it but it work for me. I believe that addictions are heavily related to chakras. A drug will energize a chakra a certain way and when the drug is absent, the chakra itself feels the pain of the lack of the drug. The chakra is not medicated anymore. The pain never really goes away but you get used to it. You in essence get used to feeling like shit until feeling like shit now feels good to you. So everyone that is straight feels the same way as you do while going through withdrawals but to them it feels normal. After a while the chakra does not go through the process of trying to replenish (craving) its self with the missing drug and you feel better. AA and Al-Anon and groups of the like make the mistake of trying to harness your drug using ambitions to some thing else , staying straight. What you should do is learn to relax these energies to use drugs. I used to use drugs and mostly alcohol to embellish my mood. I would focus on the buzz and it would calm my whole psyche. You will not be able to associate with drugs users for a few years and after this you won't want to anyways. The thing AA states that you have to change are absolutely true. People places and I forget what else. After you are sort of stable you get into your sobriety. A family member could call you at any time of the night and count on you in a time of emergency. You can hop in a car and go with out worrying if you are sober enough. You will not want to compromise your sober ability after you stop taking its value for granted. Sobriety become your new drug of choice but you won't approach it like a drug. It will be more relaxed.

Another aspect to aide you is the thinking of " Is this addiction going to beat me or am I going to beat it". Being someone that puts their nose to the grinding stone has a bit of masochism in them. Sobriety is like Religion in a way where you don't see the benefits of it right away , (just an analogy). You won't go to heaven if you don't believe and you won't feel better UNTIL YOU MAKE IT THROUGH WITHDRAWAL. I quit drinking because I felt like hell and I couldn't drink anymore than I already did so some more alcohol was not an option but I could go the other way. When I stopped smoking I drank more to relieve the withdrawal. When I quit drinking I drank more caffeine to relieve the withdrawal. I drank so much coffee that sometimes I could not stand up. So I relieved withdrawal by using twice as much as a less addictive drug. I suppose I was lucky that I had a mostly psychological addiction to alcohol and could use it to quit nicotine. My father is not so lucky. He has drank about a liter of Vodka a day since he was twenty and now he basically is just a fucking bottle of vodka with an abusive personality attached. It has ruined his life. I eventually quit drinking coffee because I was drinking it for the god damn caffeine buzz. I recently started drinking it again but I hate the shit know so I stopped again. For me any drug that changed my mood was just agonizing me so I quit everything. There is a type of drug called psychotropic which is any drug you use for a buzz. I always had a slight problem and it really didn't matter which one I used as long as it was one of them. Which ever one was the most fitting is the one that I used. It's all just self medication in the end. I have been sober for about eleven years and every now and again reflect on how much better my state of mind is. Reality is meant to be hit straight on.


I hope this helps and you make it through the other side to sobriety eventually. If this info helps maybe you can then forward it to someone else as well.

Serendipity to you!

 

5-7mg a day? just stop bein a pussy and tough it out. im surprised you're even feeling WD's at all. and if you really are, they shouldn't be much worse then a simple cold.

not tryin to be a dick, but c'mon.

 

I cannot "tough it out" I have a high stress job where I work 12 hrs a day and I just can't deal with these symptoms and be productive at work at the same time. if i had nothing to do but sit around my house smoking weed all day I would have already tried just going cold turkey to get through the phase.

 

tried and true, taper as much as you can and when you get down to where you know its the last 3 days start taking Wellbutrin for a total of 7 days, it blocks all of the side effects, RLS, 98% of the depression part, sleeping is a little tough but i recommend a CA MG powder, Natural Vitality makes a great one and most important, EXERCISE!, it helps immensley!! even if its a little bit. I did a lot of research on this as i was oblivious after i had a dry spell after 5 years, i went through 7 days of complete hell, of course started up again and quit and again, you know the routine, i just did this combo not too long ago and walked away unscathed. I too have an intense job and couldnt even think of WD's at work, thats how i formulated this plan. If you read up un Wellbutrin you will see it blocks alot of withdrawal symptoms. Thats my 2 cents, I'm currently clean but not by choice, out of connects, sucks! If you have any more questions feel free to ask. Hope this helps some people out.

 

send the oxy to me LOL..jk