[jasonj79]

Hello everyone, How are you all doing?

My question is concerning hydrocodone withdrawal. I got hooked about 2 years ago, no medical conditions. Got hooked recreationally. I have actually been doing pills for the last 5 years, but it got real bad the last two years, especially this last year. I used to only do a couple a day every once in awhile. Then it moved up to 6 a day, 8 a day, and I finally topped out at an average of 12-15 a day. I was taking the 10/500's or whatever kind of 10's I could get my hands on. I would take 2 to 3 in the morning upon waking up, then I would take 1 every 2 hours until I went to sleep. The last two weeks before I quit I was taking 1 every hour. I did that because I knew I was quiting and figured "hey, why not go out with a bang". Then I quit cold turkey.

Well that was a week ago. Now before I go on, I have had withdrawals before. Usually after 4 days I was back to normal. This time its bad. The last pill I took was at 4:00 pm last Monday. So yeah, ive been clean for one week today. I used 200mg time release ultram and xanax to come off. I started the ultram on Tuesday morning. I would take one a day due to the fact that it was time released. Then I would take the xanax at night. Monday night, Tuesday, Wednesday were the worst days. Wednesday night was the last night I took a xanax. Thursday I took an Ultram and started feeling much better, but still pretty bad. Friday I woke up and didn't take an ultram at all. I felt pretty good Friday morning and figured I didn't need the Ultram. Then around 3:00 Friday afternoon I felt like I was hit with withdrawals all over again. So I took another ultram. I know Ultrams are a class of opiates so I figured that if I was to come clean, then I needed to s**** that to. So that night I flushed them. I figured I would use the rest of the weekend to heal.

Saturday morning woke up, took it easy, felt a little ****py but not as bad as I thought I would. Then Sunday morning came around, once again felt good. My wife and I laid in the bed all day and watched movies. Well around 5:00 pm I got extremely tired. So I took a nap. I woke up at 11:00 that night feeling terrible. The back of my neck was covered in this god awful sweet, it was the nastiest feeling I have ever had. So I watched more tv until about 1:00 am, then got extremely tired again, I passed out. Woke up at 4:00 am this morning with that awful sweet again and just laid in the bed until my wife got up at 7:00 am. I felt ok at first, got some laundry done, got in the shower, got dressed. Then when I went to sit down, these awful aches and pain's are shooting all through out my body. I feel really weak and some pain in my arms, around the elbow joint, and in my back. I also keep having this awful tast in the back of my throat. I didn't taste it when I was ON. Only when I came off. It almost has a dead taste to it. I still don't know what that is. I take very good care of myself other than the pill abuse.

But anyways, how much longer until I feel normal again? I stay so tired and weak, and ache. I just want this to be over with. I haven't had many strong cravings for the drug. Every once in awhile I wish that I could just find one around the house somewhere, then I sit there and think about how awesome just one would be right now to get me over these aches and pains for a couple of hours. But then I forget about it and all is good. I could easily pick up the phone and call some sources, but I'm not. If anyone could give me some insight it would be much appreciatted.

Thank you,
Jason

[Kaidog]

Jason:

I am on day 27 of being clean of just about the same daily dosage as you were using. I did it for many, many years.

You should be feeling better and better with each day. That is not to say however that there aren't set backs and fluctuations in the recovery process.

I've had bouts with the night sweats too. In the 1st week and a half, they were so drenching that I had to get up and change the sheets on the bed because they were so wet. Really funky stuff.

Now however, they are just like I get a bit hot at night and have to throw-off the covers.

After a week of the withdrawals you should be experiencing fewer and fewer withdrawal symptoms. I have found that the cravings still come and go but the memory of the C/T withdrawals have kept me clean. Never want to go through those again!