anjeegyrlI am interested in personal experience from stopping opiods- codiene, morphine, percocet, etc.
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pattishan6126 Jun 2011
Kinda like having the flu and the stomach flu at the same time. If you will google the clinical opiate withdrawal scale, it will give you a list of the symptoms of opiate withdrawal. If you will add some info to your post, such as how long you have been on opiates, and how much you take, it may be a bit easier to tell you more about it. If you have been taking them less than 6 months, and are at a low dose, it will be a short duration of symptoms likely, the longer you have been on them, and the higher the dose, the more likely it is that it will take a while to heal from that and get back to normal.
caringsonbj26 Jun 2011
Dear Anjeegyrl:
I am prescribed opiates for Chronic pain but I have made attemps to stop the medication (my decision) some of the withdrawl I have had first hand has been (Now I stopped the medication Cold Turkey) sneezing, runny nose, burning eyes, as Pattishan said body aches, legs ache, diarrhea, vomiting, muscle twitching, loss of appetite, seizures, headaches, inability to sleep these are after being on prescribed chronic pain medicine and just stopping it (thats not easy and it's not safe) I had to go back on my medications because the pain was so bad I could not tolerate it, Pattishan has experience and is a good knowledgable person I just wanted to give you some idea of the problems that I had encountered. Please take good care and be safe!
anjeegyrl
26 Jun 2011
thanks
28 Jun 2011
Hi their, I'm Dr. Trevor, if you have any questions or concerns just let me know. Your question was kinda vague. Percocet is Oxycodone and Tylenol, Morphine comes in immediate release 15mg and 30mg as well as extended release tablets in doses of 100mg, 150mg, and 200mg ER! Codeine is a less restrictive narcotic and only comes in a 2.5mg and 5mg tablet so with those three drugs, you have a wide range of withdrawl feelings! If you could tell me the name of the drug, the dose, and how often for how long I could give you a pretty accurate fortune to how you might feel! I hope all is well, take care! Dr. Trevor
Anonymous 28 Jun 2011
Hi anjeegyrl,
I went cold turkey off of prescribed OxyContin (at the end 160mgs!!) and I kept a withdrawal journal (which I recommend, because if you ever get the urge to take an opiate again, you can just read your journal to recall the horror of withdrawal) and here were my symptoms (keep in mind I took this stuff for almost ten years!)
anxiety, depression, nightmares, goose flesh, vomitting, diahrrea, yawning, tearing eyes, runny nose, muscle aches, and major insomnia. Those are the main symptoms I had.
But as Dr Trevor said, it does depend on the mgs you were taking and for how long. It may be easy for you!
Best wishes,
sweetlemon
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from personal experience, I can tell you I felt the anxiety and restlessness first, then later came the #3 ( diarrhea) and leg and hip pain. I elected to start suboxone treatment, which saved me from the withdrawal. A person who wants to go on suboxone DOES have to be in opiate withdrawal for at least 24 hours before they start the medication or a nasty form of withdrawal called Precipitated withdrawal will occur. If there is any opiate on the brain receptors when a person attempts to start suboxone is when precip occurs. If a person is a methadone patient and wishes to switch to suboxone, it has to be done in a different way than how I started the program, and the reason I mention this is others read these responses without officially posting themselves, and methadone to suboxone is much trickier than short acting opiates to suboxone switch.
Thank you for the info. Appreciate it.
I have been on opiates for like 10 years. I've gone from little old vikes to oxycontins. Honestly it also depends on what opiate your taking. Because I will tell you that oxycontins compared to vikes is totally different withdraws. Oxys you have the flu symptoms, every ache and pain is modified like ten times because your body is used to taking a pain reliever so it doesn't produce your natural pain reliefs. The anxiety is always what kills me if felt like where I feel like I'm dying and you start to freak out and then you feel like you can't catch your breath, you start to have a anxiety attack. When you feel like your ready to sleep and lay down then your legs feel like they are running and very restless. It's horrible after a day or to because your so tired but the withdraws won't let you sleep. Your constantly in the bathroom from the flu symptoms. Withdraws are not easy at all you will need help from your Dr.
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Mine gave me anxiety medicine and sleeping pills which helped. But I have also taken subs which helps with the withdrawal symptoms I still needed anxiety and sleep meds. The best way to get off this hell is to cut back as small as you can get to without having horrible withdraws then gave Dr give you subs anxiety and sleeping meds and you'll be fine. As far as how long it takes everyone is different and depends on how long and how much you were on. Mine after the fourth day I was still punky but slowly feeling better by day six I had some energy and feeling a lot better. Good luck I hope I helped a little. Any other questions send e a note I'm happy to help. It's not easy by no means but you can do it, if your mind is set.