percocet withdrawal symptoms

susang · Newbie Joined: 15 Jul 2007 Posts: 1

Can anyone tell how long the withdrawl symtoms last?

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hi i am 29 years old and i have 4 children i am married .i have been on endocet 5mg-325.mgs. plus im on paxil for depression .at 1 every four hours an di have been on them for 4 weeks ...i was put on them for my sholder ...no its better and i can t seem to want to stop is this possable am i now addicted ...i tried to stay off of them for one day and i turned into a wolf .my kids hate me and my husband thinks that im going crazy ..so i got back on them just to caaalm me down and it worked so now i cant get off of it with out going crazy is there a salution ..please help

scarletpoppy · Newbie Joined: 21 Aug 2007 Posts: 1

I hear you. I have 3 kids, and was prescribed percocet 5/325 for back pain. i also take paxil. My dad died this summer, my husband lost his job, and i have virtually NO help with the kids. I stared to find that every now and again i wld take it as a mood enhancer/stress reliever, and yeah, it wld take the edge off, but yeah, i'm sensing potential addiction. i never take more than one in a day, but still......try to cut down.

Bermudagirl · Newbie Joined: 03 Oct 2007 Posts: 1

I had no idea that this could happen (addiction). I'm an intelligent businesswoman who was described percocet after dental surgery. It is so easy to get addicted. After I healed from the dental surgery I just couldn't stop. I would go to different doctors (doctor-shopping) and feed them lies to get the medicine. I would even get a friend who has cancer get me prescriptions in her name which ended up to be so easy because her doctor would give them to her no problem-he'd just call the prescription into the drugstore whenever she called him-she didn't even have to come into his office. I would always say 'just one more (tablet)...just one more...' but there would always be more. Once my doctor gave me a prescription for only 10 percocet (I think he was getting wise to me) but forgot to also write out the word 'ten'...I rushed out the office so happy-because it was SO easy to just write an extra '0' on it and change it to 100. I went to the pharmacy right at closing time because I figured the pharmacists would be so rushed to close up and go home they wouldn't look at it too closely or take the time to try to call my doctor and ask any questions and that's exactly what happened-he filled it no problem. Where I'm from (Bermuda) percocets actually come in bottles of 100 from the manufacturer so he didn't think anything of it...instead of having to empty out the required amount into the bottles they give you at the drugstore, he was able to just stick the label straight on the original bottle. My heart was racing but he didn't even blink-it was so easy and I was so gleeful when I got away with it. I'm trying to get off them but I don't even know where to start...I'm starting to run low and I'm already thinking of how to get my next supply.

kinipeli · Newbie Joined: 06 Nov 2007 Posts: 3

I am 39, & have had an implanted pain pump with Morphine in it since 2000. I decided to start stepping down the morphine dose from 20mg/day & got to .0825mg/day & decided to have it shut off. 4 days later I started sneezing, had severe restlessness, anxiety, & extremely unbearable body aches. I felt like crying, screaming, & kicking my legs all of the time. I had old Percocet from 4+ years earlier & started taking them in quarter/halves to help with the withdrawal. When I went to my pain management office they also gave me Clonidine (for sleep & withdrawal) & Phenegran (for nausea) & gave me 120 Endocets (generic Percocet) for 2 weeks at 8 a day. I told them then that I was worried about becoming addicted & they said there is a difference between addiction & dependency & told me not to worry. Within 2 & 1/2 weeks I needed more and they prescribed me another 60 pills. 2 weeks later I went in & they said I was taking about 5 a day & prescribed me 150 for 31 days. Nearly a month & a half later after tapering down to just slivers or quarters a day, I've run out & my doctor simply refuses to prescribe any pain medication for pain or withdrawal, & I've been miserable!!! Yesterday at my appointment I decided to turn my implanted Morphine pain pump on again because my quality of life is gone. This process takes several days & still my doctor wouldn't prescribe me some type of pain medication until they can fill my pump. I feel angry, they got me dependent, cut me off, & I don't see the point of them not prescribing me 5 pain pills until my pain pump is dosing Morphine again, as I'll still be dependent. Doctors know we become dependent on medications, & I find it wrong and plain cruel to cut somebody who is not abusing medications nor has for 8+ years. My doctor's office didn't even bother to call me to explain so I had to wait a week to get in to my previously scheduled appt., and it made me feel like they didn't care or that I had done something wrong. I've had withdrawal symptoms for nearly 3 months & wish I had never tried turning my implanted pain pump off! At least with the Morphine through the pain pump you don't feel the drugs, & it controls the pain with the occassional help of oral pain medications.

gin530 · Newbie Joined: 08 Nov 2007 Posts: 1

My son, which is 25, is going through withdrawal from Percocet as we speak. He got started on them when he was having back pain. He finally admitted to us that he has a problem. We went to the hospital last evening in hopes that he would be admitted to the addiction center, but they said he didn't have enough of a" drug" problem to be admitted. They prescribed muscle relaxer, and something for nausea and stomach cramps. After being up all night, he is finally getting a little sleep now. We are praying, and believing that with the help of our LORD that he will get through this. After I had back surgery this year I found that I was developing a dependency on them. I got off before it became an addiction. You all hang in there!!!

dwmcrae · Newbie Joined: 28 Nov 2007 Posts: 1

I'm on day two of no percocet after taking it for 10 months. I took it while waiting for surgery on my back and then after. I was supposed to stop taking them but I couldn't. My doctor told me I couldn't just stop taking them immediately. I was taking 5/325mg, probably about 10/day. I tapered myself down to about 4/day and then ran out a few days ago. I've accomplished that before, but when the doctor gave me more (100 pills each time) I would just sail back up to taking 10/day. So this time I've stopped at four and not asked for a repeat. It has been very rough, and especially since I have not told anyone about it. But, I am on day 2 and I know from the past, that day 3 is the worst and about as far as I've got. I sure hope this time I can do it. I have been taking some Robaxicet with a little codiene in it that you can get at the pharmacy without a perscription. It seems to help a little bit, but I'm still feeling like I'm going crazy. I'm so close to phoning the pharmacy/doctor for a re-fill. The problem is I still have back pain too which makes it even more frustrating.

shelli43 · Newbie Joined: 04 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

I am writing this to anyone out there who is on this dangerous drug . My story is of saddness I t started with my husband being addicted some 20 years ago to this drug I did not know him then but he was using a hundred pills a day , when they ran out he went from doctor to doctor to get them he eventually broke the law and wrote his own prepscriptions, finally after a year or more he got caught and after time he went to prison for this ,this a man of high intellagence a college degree a kind hearted soul , after being off this drug for 6 years he broke his foot and started them again why !!!! I dont know , HE has started taking 30 or more a day I finally found out by finding pills on the floors , and doctor appt in his pants, he finally told me he is now once again tring to withdrawal off this nasty nasty drug !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I can only pray that he is being honest with himself, and only god knows this he has tried in the past so many treatments even giving all his power to god , but he is back in this deep hole please pray gor him pray for our family I am scared !!! we have a 11 year old son , but I dont know how much I can take and put my son through. please tell your love ones to never nerver take this Drug!! god bless

Rotti · Newbie Joined: 17 Dec 2007 Posts: 1

Thanks for all this, I been on percs for 2 months since getting a pilonidal cyst. Started abusing them then threw them out last friday. The past few days i couldnt figure out what was wrong. I have been seeing things sooooo differently and have been crying non stop. At times feeling like i needed to go to a psych ward or the er or something to find out what was wrong. The Runs started today. Im also on 40mg of paxil and 30mg of Adderall. Im hoping someone can tell me how long i may feel like this. I took probably about 12 5/325's a day :/ I want my life back.
Hopefully i will feel better soon. This has given me some hope
-M

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I'm just coming off of a Cold turkey stop after a 3 year, every day run on percoset, due to 8 knee surgeries during that time. It was pure hell for 5 days,with severe dysentary,anxiety/sking crawling feeling in my stomach 24/7, no sleep for 3 straight days,and very little sleep for 5,runny nose,tearing eyes,sneezing uncontrolably at times,and a constant pain throughout my body.Today is day 6,and I'm starting to feel "human" again. Very Happy

I would not recomend doing it the way I did it, but I didn't want to wean down from the 12 a day I was up to, and I knew I was spiraling out of control, so I just went Cold Turkey. I feel like I'm coming out of a cloud,and getting my old self back. It's awesome not to have to worry about where my next "hit" is coming from, like when your prescription runs out and you have to go looking to friends.

Bottom line, take as little as possible, and get off of them as fast as possible after an injury.You'll be thankful you did.

And Good Luck to all who want to kick this habit!
Gary

percocet withdrawal symptoms

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