Kicking cold turkey can be very dangerous. It's a myth that know one has ever died from opiate w/ drawls. Tho it is rare it does happen. Depending on your age how much your using. Cold Turkey causes havoc on your heart, w/ blood pressure being off the chart. People have had heart attacks from kicking CT. Most doctors will give kick packs- usually containing,Clonadin for blood pressure. Vistaril for stomach cramps and diarrhea. And some doctors if there sympathetic will also prescribe a mild tranquilizer such as Lorazapam. For the anxiety, and panics. Which i use to get real bad. That's what usually took me back out was the panic, unbelievable anxiety. There is a excellent rehab in southern California. unfortunately it cost 48,000 dollars for 28 days but they do take all kinds of insurance. They specialize in opiate addiction. And they came out w/ the truth that people can and do die Kicking cold turkey. So please if you have decided to kick awesome. but please seek medical attention first. So your doctor can help make this life changing process a little easier and safe. I just want to add it took me years to get off heroin and each time I tried to kick it got harder and harder, physically w/ age. So I encourage all the youngster to do it now. Instead of waisting an entire life. It's like I nodded off at 23 and woke up at 52 a whole life had passed me by.
I was a heroin addict from 1979-1987. I did cold turkey 50 times. If you don't have your mental health fixed you will never get clean. I tried methadone and it is more addicting than heroin. I could not kick the methadone and had to go back over to H and then I got clean.
I wish I had seen this post before. I'll go ahead and respond in case it might benefit others. Or perhaps you are still on the treadmill. I am 63 and successfully withdrew from four years off & on of Tramadol. Back & neck pain for me, too. I used loperamide (generic Imodium with no other active ingredients except loperamide.) to get it off this time, and it's sticking. I had no withdrawals. I took my last dose of tramadol one morning, in the afternoon I took ten loperamide, At bedtime I took another 10. The next couple of days I took 8 mg every four hours. I did this for three days and got off tramadol with very, VERY little withdrawal issues. If you try this, don't take it for very long. I have sent for some DLPA hoping it will help with my pain issues. I haven't had anything OTC help with that yet, the pain just gets so bad. Best wishes for you.
Hi, I hope you are well. ...I need to talk. ...sorry I have neglected to even tell you I am still clean.....I really need you right now though. ....or a song...
Wow, I searched for so long to find this forum......Georgia you are the reason I am clean today I have awhile! !!! I can't even read what I once wrote........it's like another person wrote it.....it's scary...I'm sad something very upsetting happened today and you are the only person I could think of to talk too......I .....
Oh wow.......I had to search my name to find this...reading somethings from 5 months ago and my heart is breaking....If anyone needs help or advice or....Please let me know I will check this more....I'm sorry this site saved my life and I haven't even been here in over a year (don't they say addicts are selfish)......really though I am here for anyone! !! Georgia, I have wished the best for you and been so great full to have ever stumbled on this forum everyday.....why I couldn't bring myself back here I'm not sure. Actually, I just wasn't ready...I did want to talk Georgia, and I'm even upset it took something so (so what) to bring me back here. .okay well ill leave anyone who reads this with the best wishes. ..I don't pm...so please just write on board if you would like a response and I am here ...I don't know if I can go back and read anymore I read one or two posts from myself and it was so strange I don't remember ever being there....then I just went back like one or two pages and am.. so here if anyone needs me......
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I have been researching IBogaine for months now! It really seemms like the only humaine way to go...
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I'm on day 1 of quitting and scared of withdrawals. Cuz i ran out a couple months ago and couldn't find any and i went 1 day without anything and I couldn't sleep and my legs wouldn't stop moving. I couldn't get comfortable! I actually went on my honeymoon a year ago and didn't have any pills to take with me but I was so busy doing activities and drinking all day cuz it was all inclusive that the only problem i had was the diarrhea and i made my husband go get me immodium and he just though it was from the food or water from a different country. But when we got back home I of course bought some and as soon as I took the 3 pills I used to take, I threw up. Anyways, so for the past year, I've been taking anywhere from 6 to 10 a day sometimes 15 a day of percs or tabs. Everyday. I only have 3 left and I want to stop. I do not want to buy more ever again. I started cuz my doctor gave them to me for endometriosis. Then i liked how they gave me energy and made me outgoing so it progressed. I don't have a job right now so I can say i have the flu for a couple days cuz i can't let anyone know how bad its gotten. My husband knows i take them just doesn't know how bad. I have vitamins and gabapentin. And I've read that gabapentin really helps with the withdrawals. Is this true? I know I need ibuprofen, immodium and maybe sleeping pills and valium which I have all those. I just need some to tell me that I can do it. And that it won't be that bad with these meds I have and about the gabapentin. And how long am i going to have the "flu" for? Help. I'm done wasting thousands on pills. And i don't want to have to rely on them anymore. I know I'll be just fine without them. Only thing im scared of is withdrawals. I don't want to end up in the hospital. If it would be how it was on my honeymoon for a week, then I can handle it but I'm scared its not going to be. I already have a headache today and going to the bathroom.alot. any advice please! Help!
personal experiance: though pain killers like lortab, percoset, norco, etc. can be a bit difficult, they are far easier to come off of then tramadol, and methadone is worse then heroin withdrawl. fentanyl no good either
as i and my wife are going through something like that, and i know you must be out of mind with these symptoms, stay clear for at least 2-6 weeks and youre body will renew itself. we tried a methadone program, worst choice ever. that withdrawl made anything else seem easy, but fell back to opiates to decrease the effects. if you cant stop cold, taper down to 2 pills every time these symptoms get unmanageable, then 1, then half until you are comfortable going cold. there is a patch called catapress which can help tremendously, but dont stay on that for more then 2 weeks. hot showers, activity, and even alcohol can help. but if you do it cold, suffer through it and make it to the end, there will be light and you will most likely not go backwards due to what you had to do to get off them.
Hello, I am curious to see how you are doing? I hope you're well?
I have posted in this thread and the older ones many times throughout the years. It wasn't until I got involved in NA that I was able to stop using drugs, including opiates. I always wanted to stop using this, but then use that. I'd get on opiates, stop, start drinking, stop, get on opiates, stop, start drinking+coke, stop, opiates+coke stop you get the picture.
I was quite good at withdrawing, but not very good at staying off.
I have been clean for quite some time now. For some reason this thread just popped into my head. I actually remember the first time I posted on this thread I was in a hotel room. Coincidently, I now live in that same city.
One of my favorite memories from this series of threads was from a mother in the UK struggling with Codeine addiction. It was raw stuff and quite inspirational. I wonder how she is doing today. I remember she had a son.
There is help out there, for me it took NA. For others, they have to find their own path. However, for me, its just easier to not use drugs. I am free today! But, I am still an addict. The moment I start using again, the moment things fall apart.