Home Remedies For Opiate Withdrawals

Tonight I will take my last 15ml MS Contin. Been on oxy's for about 7 years. Sick of being a slave to these stupid things. My husband quit last weekend. His fifth time going through withdrawals. In 2009 I went through withdrawals for 2days. I am terrified. But meds are getting harder to fill each month. I want my life back. I want to be the mom I used to be. 5 kids age 20 to 7.  for them?? For me?? Can I stay clean??? 

Somethings that I have used to WD that made it quite bearable. But you have to taper down to a light dose per day or use a mg or so of subutex if u can get prescribed it, but for no more than a week, no matter what the doctor tries to dose you with!!! First- I am prescribed klonopin, that helps with sweats, anxiety and to sleep. I am also prescribed a mild antidepressant called mirtazapine(remeron). I take it solely for the side effects which are drowsiness and it give u an amazing appetite. It's nothing like cymbalta or Prozac, so might be easy to get a walk in clinic or gen practitioner to prescribe u that and a mild benzo if you say it feeling anxious n depressed. I take them legitimately tho, it was never for WD. I have major gen anxiety, insomnia and too high of a metabolism so I lose weight very easily. I also had leftover lyrica from when I was prescribed it for fms (also have ms but no help from drs there either) and it didn't help, nothing helped but opiates but its not something u wanna be on forever. Also, tramadol is the devil, i was prescribed it for 3 months and I hated it and cold turkey and I had WD from it for three whole months!! But sorry sidetracked, lyrica helps it kind of lifts you up, helps a little w pain... Not sure how or why it helped during detox and not for my everyday struggles. But no more than a week of taking it. A jacuzzi tub helps, walking, riding a bike. As for the restless legs keeping u up, a heating pad and something I found at Walmart called hylands restful legs. It's by the vitamins, they are Monty and dissolve under the tongue and are like 5 bucks and they work!! They have a nighttime one too which I assume would help its got same ing in it plus herbal stuff for sleep. I already take remeron n kpin to sleep so I didn't need anything extra. And aside from staying hydrated and eating what u can, keep the caffeine to before noon or it will kill your legs at night. I also am prescribe Ritalin for ADD which is more a side effect of the fms but that helps me thru my day. I'm not condoning trying to get these drugs illegally, just wanted to share what was helpful if you happen to be prescribed them or can find a dr who will prescribe them. And to everyone suffering, you can do this. I was on 180mg roxys a day, then to subs, then to heroin and I never ever thought I'd put a needle in my arm, back to subs til I ran out and just happened to get bronchitis so I got hydro cough syrup, then dislocated my hip so I got Vic's and weened myself down to 5-10 mg daily and then just jumped. It's been like a week and it hasn't been too bad really, just my legs won't quit. So I keep using the restful legs and try to exercise when I'm not waitressing. Good luck everyone!

Whoops meant to say they are minty, the hylands leg pills, not Monty. And to explain I have fibromyalgia (fms) and MS.... I'm 32, I've had em since like 18.... I realized I said I dislocated my hip, yeah did that at age 32... It stuck out of place for three hours an I refused to go to the ER I just stretched til it went back in place. Kinda made my back and sciatica worse but hey, comes with the territory right? Lol

I have failed to reply as a guest 3 times today. When did I forget how to use the Internet? I have been taking Oxy's for about 7 years. Tonight I will take my last 15 ml MS Contin. Tomorrow is gonna be awful. My husband quit last weekend. He has gone through withdrawals 5 times the most I have done is 2 days in 2009. He agrees that the more you do it the easier it can be. I just got off the phone with my dad. I am excited. I know my fear will return. I am glad to give him a reason to be proud of me. I am going to try to stay online as much as I can during this challenge. My husband is going to be taking care of our youngest 4 kids. 

Reply to guest on oxy - I went through withdrawals to many times to count and I found the loperamide website for narcotic withdrawals and decided to give it a try. WOW the first time I had basicly no withdrawals at all. I was in total shock that an OTC for restroom issues actually took the withdrawals away. I took 2 Zantac and 30 minutes later 8-10 loperamide and was amazed. Give it a try and you will be so happy you did. If you google loperamide for oxy withdrawals there's a bunch of success stories and they even have videos on you tube about it. Loperamide is a miracle OTC for me and so many others. Best wishes

Thank you finally free. As soon as it cools off I am heading to the store. I lost my Xanax so I am getting some valerian root as well. I 'm still optimistic my best friend came to see me today. She is so happy for me. She doesn't know what it's like but she offered to take one of my little ones in the morning. I have been tapering for 2 weeks and the last 5 days have been pretty bad. I have no patience. My poor family has had enough of me. I have had enough of me. Haha

What does zantac do?

 

i have been taking hydrocodone for the past four years. yes, there was a few times i quit but kept going back. i started wit one or two a day but like everyone else i had a lot of stress and problems, we know those are things that push us over the edge. i started taking more an more wen i got aggravated i would just pop more and more three at a time of course it was at the point where id have to take them wen i woke up just to function before i knew it i could take twenty pills maybe a lil more a day. i wanted to quit but felt like i couldnt and wouldnt be able to deal with the withdrawals but recently i was kinda force into quitting im still feeling the withdrawals but there not as bad. the point is im glad i was force into quitting cuz idk if i would have on my own im so over being dependent on these things i just want to be back to my own self so remember your def not alone and you can do this we all can especially if we continue to share our stories. my willpower is my kids i just want to be a good mom the mom i use to be before the pills good luck to you stay strong and keep your heads up love always

I'm not sure what's in the Zantac that helps but for some reason it makes the loperamide work a lot better and seems to take away more of the withdrawal symptoms. I tried the loperamide by itself the first day and it helped some but then when I took the 2 Zantac 30 minutes before the lope I noticed a big difference and felt very little if any withdrawals at all. I'm sure everyone is different but for me the Zantac and lope is a blessing.

CANNOT GET OFF OPIATES. MIGHT NEVER DO IT.  I have been stuck on tramadol for 3 yrs after being put on htat to get me off of percocet I was given for chronic 20 yrs of back pain that had gotten worse. The first time I tried cold turkey myself and lasted almost a whole 2 days. Im age 54 now by the way. I then went to a detox doc who put me on suboxime and after 6 months of titrating down I couldnt get lower than 3mg day of subs. I tried another detox doc and he said "I must tell you this will be harder for you than someone younger." HE DOESNT KNOW THE HALF OF IT. I was even more depressed tapering the second time. I then went into a detox center for 10 days and after 1 week of being home I was so weak I couldnt even drive 5 min to the supermarket and was living on canned beans and canned tuna for 3 days before giving it up and going back on my 6-8 trams a day as Id rather be on trams and alive then be dead and off them. They are now getting studies coming in that are showing because trams arent exaxtly an opiate,but mimick them, the come down isnt the same eother. Its worse than heroin for some users a nurse told me.

 

Question I already know the answer to: DOES ANYONE HERE KNOW ANYONE WHO HAS QUIT TRAMADOL(OR ANY OPIATE) THAT IS MY AGE OR OLDER THAT WAS ON IT FOR AT LEAST 3 YRS? i HAVE NOT FOUND ONE PERSON ANYWHERE!

 

Its nice to encourage others to "cowboy up and do it" but 2 weeks after I got home from the detox I woke up with 5 scabs on my body that to this day, 14 months later, one still has not healed. I definitely blame the tramadol detox for throwing my body into shock. I think that the way they tewll some old people who have been smoking 40 yrs not to quit, in my case Im afraid to try this again as I dont know if my body and my immune system can hold up to it. i say some people cannot quit...they would die. I thought of wanting to die many times and was so weeak I couldnt go out shopping. Thats not a normal detox. I say if you can live even a failrly normal life and you arent taking life threatening amounts.... ...dont just listen to the doctors and rehab people who all make money by getting  YOU to "cowboy up."  Im now on 12-13 trams a day and I felt close to death when coming off of just 6-9 daily last year! I live alone and would never do this again without some loving support in my house 24/7. I may be just the 1%, but understand folks, people have died from withdrawing from many things before......in a rehab they just make sure you get home safely first and then who knows......6 months later you get cancer or some crazy thing and they say it was "unrelated."

 

When I was on 4-6 percs a day it wasnt half this bad getting off of them. Tramadol is easy for some...and worse than heroin for others.  

Guest - I am in my forties so not much younger than you. Yes it is possible and you can do it. I was in pain mgmt for over 7 years and the last 3-4 was taking at least 4X my prescribed dose and after endless attempts and never succeeding I was finally able to quit cold turkey. LOPERAMIDE!!!! I thought everyone was crazy but I had nothing to lose so I tried it and I honestly felt zero withdrawals. My sleep and energy were not 100% but at least 50% which was 50% more than I ever got when I was going through withdrawals. If you can find the strength to try it for even just one day you will be very suprised and very happy you did. It's never to late it stop and you are never to old to either. I wish you all the best and don't give up. You can do it!!!

Guest. I'am 52 years of age and I'm on day 13 of going cold turkey from a 4 year habit of 50mg oxy per day. I'm so proud that I have come this far. My energy has been getting better everyday, my wife has said she is starting to see my old self coming back and she loves it. It does not matter your age, it matters what is inside you. If you are on this forum, you want to kick this evil demon bull#c**p. Stay strong and it will work for you.

Thank you Finally Free for all your advice on the stages of withdrawal. Tommorow is going to be day 14 for me and I'm starting to come around (except for lack of sleep, but sleep will return) I'm so grateful that this forum was here to help me through the first few days of withdrawal. After the first 4 days of going cold turkey(with the help of Lopermide) I thought OK I'm free and clear, but this is not the case. After the initial withdrawal symptoms has subcided, there is the point of feeling comfortable in your own skin and this could take weeks. I'm at that point now at day 14. Tommorow will be a better day. I'm so grateful to be where I am right now. I hated being addicted to OXY feeling like c**p every five or six hours, then gagging until I got another pill down my gullet. All I can say is if you are here on this forum, you want to quit. I wish everyone the best of luck to rid your life of these evil pills and I love you all,

Peterearl - first and foremost congrats on 14 days that is awesome. Yes it takes time to feel "normal" in your skin because we are so used to feeling the way the drugs made us feel and we looked at everything differently. But it goes away and you will realize you love the person you are and the skin your in much more being sober. Keep up the awesome work and keep reading and posting it helps so much more than we even realize. These forums are all some people have and it's great we can all read and vent in writing especially on those bad days when we think about getting some just "one" more time. Best of luck keep up the good work we all deserve a normal drug free life sometimes it just takes a little while to get there.

Thank you Finally Free.  You have been an inspiration. I'm at day 18 now, cold turkey from 4 year stupid OXY habit (50mg per day)

Finally I can sleep now. It was hard to get to sleep for the first couple weeks. I'm starting to feel like my old self, that I forgot about. My energy is increasing everyday. I did this stupid habit for pleasure and not pain, which makes me feel worse for wasting those years. I'm at a loss as what to say about those of you that take these evil pills for pain. (There must or should be something better for pain management) than stupid opiates. I feel so free not taking these anymore and I will never go back. If you are on this forum, you are thinking of quitting this evil drug. Best of luck to everyon here. Remember relief is the day you quit these demon pills. love everyone here