percocet withdrawl how long does the depression last

My husband was taking percocet for a couple of months from back surgery, and he began to abuse them. He decided to stop them, he got through all the withdrawl symptoms, but now he is suffering from severe depression.
Can anyone tell me how long this will last.

I can honestly say i have been addictied to percocet now for five years and would like to quit, willingly and have not had a pill in over a month but still crave it. I think it is just like any other serious drug.... you should speak to your doctor. most people i know who have been on it always crave it.... and feel empty without it. did you know it is in the heroin family of drugs.... scary... Try a phyciotrist... maybe he is deppressed.... or needs meds to get him off the drug itself... i am searching myself.

good luck

I first withdrew from percocet back in '97 after taking it for about 7 months (for knee surgery and a subsequent herniated disk). I remember feeling depressed for about a week; the withdrawal made me sleep a lot. Now I'm withdrawing again after being on it of and on for about 9 months (for lower back pain due to that same disk leaking disk fluid). I wish I could find an easy way to get off and stay off. I have about 40 pills left (5/325 mg), and plan to put them in a safe to help me resist temptation. Sometimes I think I'm "inventing" back pain to give me an excuse to take them. They give me energy, but after a few days, I'm exhausted, especially because they interfere with my normal REM sleep, and often cause strange dreams. I took 1.5 pills yesterday (i.e., 7.5 mg), and I'm feeling weak, lethargic, and depressed right now. I'm praying that God will help me through this. I'm 54, had a drug & drinking problem when I was younger (i.e., in the late '60s through the '70s), but haven't had a drink since 9/14/80. I'm not taking any other drugs. I'm in the process of looking for another job since the federal agency I work for is closing, looking for jobs is stressful, I need to be clear-headed, and I can't use percocet to escape from the stress! Any advice will be appreciated!

Hello i can say that i was a percocet addict. Yes the withdrawl is bad and does suck real bad I used to take nyquil to sleep at night. The only way to really stop using is to get yourself into a recovery program and work the twelve steps or you will be suffering from an unhappy life. I believe on can stay off the percs without lets say NA or AA but you wont be happy and will not be able to change yourself on the inside

Hi, ive been taking percocet 10/325 for over 8 years, my primary Doctor was prescribing them for me untill last month, he was giving me 120 a month and a friend got 90 a month, which he gave to me, now i have only about 50 left so i went and saw a Pain Management Doctor, it was the best thing i could have done, he told me that i wasn addicted to percocet, but was dependent on them, to me that was the same, but he did go into detail the difference, but i dont have enough space here to tell you all the difference, he put me on FENTANAYL (25mg) PATCHES, Ive just started using the patch, and i can see a heck of a difference, i have very little withdrawel symptons, i have cheated and in the last 5 days have taken a half of a 10/325 a quarter at a time, which has really helped, but iknow i need to get off completely, when i asked about the dependency of the FENTANAYL, he told me not to worry about that, i wouldnt be on it long enough, i pray to God this works, because i want to get off from thsed Percocets so bad. I dont have the energy i used to have with the percocet, which does bother me, but other than that things seem to be coming together, if you are like me with the percocet problem, i strongly reccomend you see a pain specialist./ good luck, and GOD BLESS

I have been seeing a pain management specialist for several months now and have figured out that they don't expect you to ever stop using these drugs, I told the doc that I was getting better and she was shocked.
I am also in recovery for alcoholism so I am very careful about how I take them and am always honest with my sponsor about my doseage. She has warned me (from personal experience) that the pain clinics are trying to get you hooked. It's also where heroin addicts go to get methadone which is only one step away from percocet.
BEWARE pain clinics- they expect you to be a life long client

I sorry but methadone clinics do not want you to stay on the drug. I don't know where your getting your info. they slowly wean you off and I have never heard of a perc patient going to a meth clinic. I know a %#&^%# (person) if you will who has been on percs for over 20 years and she claims she can care for her 12 year old son as if she didn't take drugs. Too bad she lets his girlfriend sleep over and while she is in her drug induced state god only knows what is going on. She is an addict and goes to pain management and she doesn't want o get off.

I must have a propensity to become addicted. As it is I am pretty sensitive to narcotics and it usually doesn't take much for them to put me out cold.
This past month I developed kidney stones and was put on percocets. As the days went on, I found the pain cutting through the percocets earlier and earlier.
At the hospital after the stone surgery, I ended up in hospital with severe pain after percs were lasting 1 hr and I was popping 2 each hour.
I am now home after 5 days in hospital on percocets and diladen (sp) and am finding that today I have been crying at the drop of a hat. I feel so down and depressed and it must be the narcotics running through my system.

Just like the guest above me, I also was prescribed these for kidney stones, had the kidney stone surgery and also wound up back in the emergency room. One thing I do not understand is why they give this to us. We are supposed to pee all the time, drink atleast 2 litres of water a day and one of the main side effects of perco is bladder spasm, which makes it very hard to pee, so they put me on Detrol LA which is a anti bladder spasm medication. (a very expensive med, but it works!) I tried dilaudid and it did not work at all, I had to return that script back to my Doctor (Doctor Adam Perlmutter, the BEST doctor I have seen in my adult life!!! ) and ask for the perco's again as they worked well for me, through all of this mess I have taken about 120 perco's all together, suffered through many many hours of pain (hundreds) to try and avoid being addicted to these pain killers. I hate how they make my chest feel spun up and energized, they make me feel greasy and dirty. Percoset also constipates me VERY bad, I take 4 exlax a day and am supposed to take 1 perco 5/325 every 4 hours. I will lengthen that out to 6 to 8 hours sometimes so I can get a measure on the pain and see if I am getting any better. I go in may 1 to get the stint out of my kidney.. I would expect one last bottle of 40 5/325 perco's to wean off with and that should be it for me. I feel sorry for anyone addicted to this medicine or any drug for that matter. However, if you are in pain, for real, take them as prescribed for the duration and if you have problems , DONT BE AFRAID TO TELL YOUR DOCTOR, THATS WHAT WE PAY THEM FOR. IF you are REALLY in pain and NEED them, your doctor knows and can tell whats going on.

For those junkies out there reading this F%$& YOU ALL! You make it so hard for the people who DO need pain meds that its miserable because of you junk heads that fraud the system and doctor shop.... just get off the crap folks.. youll feel much better and youll make it easier on the rest of the people who do , on ocaison, need serious pain relief for serious problems. Im sitting on a pillow and can hardley move and this idiot comes into my docs office complaining that she needs perco's or vikoden because her back hurts... LADY, if you back hurt like mine, (and mine is just from kidney stones and surgery) you wouldnt be standing up with your hands on your hips acting pissed... you are a junk head and a total insult to ME, my Doc and everyone in that office that was in serious pain.

I am on Soma and this is a dream drug for back pain and muscle spasms also, I am a VERY anxious person , I HAVE to take xnax to even go into the doctor's office and it is my personal goal to be completely pill free by june 15th.

For those who have been on perco's and are having a hard time getting off of them, there is a medication called seboxum (sp) that greatly reduces the addictive nature of the perco or any opioid type of PK but it is yet another very expensive pill. I think it is about 150 bucks per treatment and the treatment takes 2 weeks.
Peace and God Bless!

like the other 2 posts I have severe kidney stones. I had one that was the size of a golf ball and it lodged and almost shut down my kidney. The pain ppl go through with stones is horrible. When I went into the ER I was screaming n pain and couldnt walk or stand up completely. After the surgery I was on percocets for pain every 4 hours or needed for pain and i barley took them untill i had the stint taken out. then a day later I stopped all togther. Then the next month I had an other large stone and another surgery and had percocets and a stint. Then I went 3 months without any stones...now I have 48 kidney stones and I'm trying to pass them w/o getting surgery so I'm on percocets. somedays I have to take them every 2 hours for pain b/c i dont want to go to the hospital but then sometimes I dont take them at all all day. But its horrible b/c im working full time and going to school to be a doctor and when I cant walk somedays without them it depresses me. Some ppl cant do anything but take them. But last time I went to the hospital they accused me off being addicted b/c all the cases that has been going through lately, then they got the CT scan back and the doctor apologized for saying that and making me wait for any pain killer. I hate when ppl act like they r n horrible pain to get drugs when they dont know what pain even is. I fear all the time that I might become addicted to this pills b/c how much I have to take them sometimes..but I have no choice to take them. Junkies have the choice to take them...they dont need them and they need to come clean now. It isnt fair to the rest of us that cant help it. I went one day to the ER for kidney stones and a lady was there and said she needed pain medicine b/c her back hurt alittle. Then she got pissed off b/c they took me back before her since she was there first. I blew a gasket on her b/c what she said to me...she said that "kidney stones cant hurt that much" when I'm sitting there almost crying from pain and i cant walk and can barely even talk or concentrate on anything, and she tells me it cant hurt that bad. Passing a kidney stone is compared to giving birth to a 10lb baby naturally with no meds. And I know that first hand b/c when I had my first surgery my room mate had twins then a stone and she said she would prefer giving birth again then trying to pass a stone anyday, nothing hurts like this. But I know that things happen to ppl and I'm not hear to judge anyone...but ppl that can help this and takes them for the feeling that it gives them..thats a horrible reason, it isnt fair to us that cant help this and needs them. So please dont abuse prescriptions or any type of drug. Some ppl have to take them to help with serious problems. But if u think u r addicted and u dont think u can get off of them go to the doctor and explain to him/her...doctors aent there to judge but to give help. They can help u get off of them. Good luck everyone!!!