Getting off percocet withdrawels!!!!!

Hi was a firefighter too, quit because I felt that because of my addiction I was putting myself and others at risk (i'm sure i woulda done something stupid and been kicked out if i didnt quit in time). Now i'm not saying you should do that, I was on high levels of Oxycontin so probably in worse shape than you. Just heed the warning that staying on this stuff is ALL ENCOMPASSING; give it enough time and it will ruin your job, family, friends, life. I hope you can use that warning as strength to stay on your path. good luck brother.

Unlike you guys I started on Percocet when I was 16 from a car accident in Aug 2005, at first when I was taking them they wouldent do anything but put me to sleep. Then I took a generic 10mg one and I was high as a kite I mean I felt like I loved the world they gave me a sense of well-being like a little kid with no worries. Im on 5mg Percs now I have to go to the Emergency rooms to get them though I have kidney disease and right now I just took my last one. Im now 20 years old and let me tell you I wish I would of never took them because I cant funtion without them. If im going out I need at least 2 of them they basically took over my life, no one knows but my mom and she said I need to weenmyself off of them, Nurses,doctors, psychiatrist, does not matter what you do or who you are if you take percocet for long periods of time youll eventually get hooked. 5 years so you know my with drawl symptoms will be hell!! And I havent even started to try to get off. All I know is sometimes I could go a month or 2 without them in the begining and now ha! if I go at least 2 days without them I have runny noses and watery eyes yawning alot Ill have a bad attitude. you can email me at _[removed]_, I need someone to support me we can always talk and be supportiveof one another because we are going through the same thing. One of the best things to have is support and someone to understand with out having to call you a addict or ridicule you. I know, its not easy working together we can accomplish so many.

Hang in there FIREFIGHTER Im a few days behind you hoping you are still on track. Be patitent withyourself and the process.

Im 34 years old and I have been hooked on opiates since early 2000 or so. It started with Kidney stones, and that was when I was introduced to opiates...all of em. I have lost who I am, and I so desperately want it back. I get a script every 2 weeks from the VA..around 84 pills per pop. I eat about 20-25 of them the first day..that night I may pop 10 more. The next day I usually finish off the bottle. Its pretty pathetic. I have resolved to quit...I remember being a soldier and a sailor once...yeah two branches of the military. Im a pale shadow of my former self, but I do want to stop.

There is another vet that was a vietnam vet that sells me his for 100 bucks for 20 of them. Recently I paid him what I owed and told him Im not interested anymore. It was time to stop being a pestillance to society to and to him and myself. He kindly added that it was no harm and that he was just there to help. I have a hard time believing him since it was driven with money usually. So, I cut him out. I WILL STOP. Its maybe not the most smart thing in the world to quit on your own, but I aint got a choice. Wish me luck guys. God knows I wish yall luck.

good luck... it IS hell