What does withdrawal from Morphine feel like?

Yes,it's like having a very bad case of the flu that lasts about 5-7 days...Dave

Don't feel bad buddy, im going through it all now,trying to get off precs, and its driving me crazy..

Withdrawal 1- 5 days
Dosage: 60mgwere in "hell" that I can imagine. Depression, feelings of isolation, hopelessness, cannot eat, the sweats, first I'm hot- then cold- then hot again. Smoking constantly- if you are a smoker. Irritable. Impatient. Frustrated. Desperate. Cunning. Crafty. Confused. ANXIETY! ANXIETY! ANXIETY! Pacing- constantly. Restlessness. Sometimes exhausted but mostly an insomniac. Now about the ENCOURAGEMENT part: BUT- you WILL overcome!!! First day is hard. Second and third days are the hardest. Fourth and fifth day you will spend half the day on the toilet but you will begin to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Day 5 1/2 and it is pretty much out of your system. You can do this! I have done it! Actually a couple of times over the years for one reason or another with back pain or surgery. I found that walking helped me in an EXTREME way. One, it gives your mind and body something else to do besides think of "it.". Two, it speeds up your metabolism to get "it" out of your system. Sleep as long as you can. Sleeping is actually a time when your body works really hard and burns calories-expelling energy, waste and so forth out of your system. And you can burn off some of the hours whereas you would be craving if awake. Continue to MAKE YOURSELF EAT SOMETHING or your metabolism will slow down and you body may enter starvation mode-causing the withdrawal process to take even longer. Talk about it to someone. Express your feelings. Or if you have to -sit and write how you feel down. It will help you get through this! There is hope and it WILL get out of your system and you WILL feel better! Just for your own sanity DO NOT give into the tempation to "take some" to ease the withdrawal. No matter how you want to rationaize it- DON'T DO IT! You WILL have to start ALL OVER AGAIN and the day(S) of suffering that you did endure will all be for nothing. Get accountable. Give the meds to someone else that you cannot get them back from. Or destroy them. If you keep them, even just one, you will rationalize taking it during the hardest time of your withdrawal phase. Finally, there is "methadone" which to me is just another "DRUG" however it is used to wean some people successfully off of morphine and heroin. Or Suboxone- which will make you go into IMMEDIATE withdrawal and it will expel it out of your system. I do not know how long that lasts. Lastly, a drug induced coma. Possible, but not a viable option for most. It was for me. Only because an allergic reaction to morphine put me on "life-support." My family started to prepare for the worst- A FUNERAL- yeah- morphine can do that to you. So my advice!? Get off of it AS SOON AS YOU POSSIBLY CAN. Remember there is hope and I KNOW THAT YOU CAN DO THIS! ; ) jASON