How long does it take mentally to feel better after quiting pain pills?

I take pain pills as prescribed because I am in excruciating pain and can not walk without them. I hate taking pills but none of the doctors can seem to get me out of pain.  I take them for what they are intended.  I figure if I don't I don't have a good quality of life and the pain is so intense I'd rather not live.  So for all of you that cry and boo hoo about how horrible pain pills are and how you abused them then you ought to be ashamed of yourselves for abusing them but you ought to remember that there are people like me that use them for what they were intended and have to take pain pills in order to move around and live a life!!

 

 

You should try 'kratom' it worked awesome for me and my husband! I am a month clean, with little symptoms, and I have 3 wonderful children to look forward to every morning! I actually have energy with this kratom...you can get different strands of it as well.it is all natural and not addictive, all u do is weigh a 3-5gram powder(it's a leaf crushed up) than I mix orange juice with it....you down the drink and 20 min later I have no aches...mental or cravings! im telling you this is something that is cheap....easy to do, I think everybody should use it coming off drugs!

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 I truly believe this saved my life! I don't know what I would have done without it! I hope this helps you out....it is like prison being hooked on something so addictive...I never will go back, I feel normal again and enjoy life everyday! Good luck, and remember you weren't always like this...you will feel normal again! Cheers :)

hi 'love my pup' just to reply toyour comment i know its been a while, but im just reading everyones post now and blown away by how many people are crying out for help same as me with the same feelings. u prob already found out by now why ur hair falls out n combs out so easily. its a common side effect but especially in women. theres a couplle causes of it. the 1st is slow but progressive mal-nutrition. while on pills for long time many dont eat healthy meals like they use to. u prob find urself eating lot more junk food, eating less at certain times during your addiction, not sleeping enough to giv ur muscles and body a chance to heal. if you look at long term heroin users majority suffer from being seriously underweight n malnourished. and usually women will have super thin hair , ther period stops, they dont move ther bowels for weeks at a time. whiich causes major amounts of toxins to build up in the body that normally come out. also opiates wear on our production of certain vitamins n minerals. you can have a major b vitamin issue. opiates stop production of b12 , b6, and all the healthy b vitamins which control our nervous system and stress n how we deal wth it. also causes loss of biotin another b vitamin which in healthy amounts feeds new hair growth n folicles. and it goes on and on ... my x girlfriend use to comb out clumps of hair and wed both be freakin out n i was so worried bout it.. but after 4 years we both finally got off opiates and she doesnt experience that problem anymor...

PLEASE STAY OFF OF THEM IF iTS BEEN 10 DAYS THATS AWESOME. YOU BE IN CONTROL NOT A STUPID PILL. GIVE IT ANOTHER 2 DAYS ALSO TAKE AMINO ACID PILLS AND B-12 , SOUNDS SILLY BUT YOU WILL GET A LOT OF ENERGY NOW THAT YOUR OFF. i DID THE SAME THING YOU DID AND IM GLAD, I WAS PLACED ON CYMBALTA AND THAT CHANGED MY DAYS WITHIN 4 DAYS OF TAKING IT . THE CYMBALTA GAVE ME THE MOTIVATION AND ENERGY TO ENJOY TO DO THINGS AND PEOPLE AGAIN. I USED TO SIT LITERALLY FOR HOURS ON THE COMPUTER AND NOT GET ANYTHING DONE I HAD NO DESIRE TO WORK. LIKE I SAID 2 MORE DAYS. GOOD LUCK ...LET ME KNOW HOW YOU ARE DOING.

Y'all hang in there I am only on my second day after 7 years of abuse but more than ready to get out of this hell!!!i lift weights twice a day keep on the go always never sit down no matter how bad you feel this way you will sleep at night.faith an patience!

I'm 24 and have been on pain medication since I was 19. First I was seeking care for my unlivable back pain but then it turned into seeking care to avoid withdrawal. I take 240 10/325 Oxys a month with a combination of anxiety meds and muscle relaxers and all that has drastically changed. My first doctor put me on 240 roxicet 30s 180 roxicet 15s 90 somas and 60 2mg Xanax at only 19. Fast forward to today I only take 120 10/325/ and tonight experienced the most unusual pain in my right eye.... I have an absessed tooth so I'm on penicillin at the moment and took 1 500mg penicillin 2 xanaflex 4mgs and a ibuprofen 800 and then sniffed a oxy 10 like I've done since almost the beginning. Well I got the most painful and uncomfortable sensation in my right eye while using the bathroom. I did not strain in any unusual way and was startled by this pain. Obviously my anxiety only making it worse and now I'm afraid I've wasted 10 mins writing this post when I should be driving to the er. Are they any know reactions to penilicjn in anyway because I normally take the others with the oxy? I'm nervous and don't know what to do

we had apin too but perhaps it subsided but thecravings did not something to think about..you may only need them a few years and some eople dont want to be on them if they dont have to be and its hell getting off try it..I know you cant but if you ever do u will understand tyhasnks sorry for your pain

Reading what you wrote was like looking in a mirror . I have been on them for 2 years , I blew out L4 and L5 . narco 10 . My doc just quit , I got called my doc office for my three month check up , To get my refills . Long story short the new ladie they hired doesn't prescribe narcotics . She says sorry your just gonna have to live this pain your gonna have it your whole life. So im sick as sh*t , every doc I talk to is treating me like I was buying them off the street . My wife wants to kill me half the time . Its hard to even get up more or less go to work . Im having trouble sleeping eating Anything .

God I hope this reaches many and can help. I WAS JUST LIKE ALL OF YOU.PILLS WERE MY LIFE MY LIVING MEDICINE.I COULD NEVER QUIT BUT I DID. OK THE MENTAL WILL DEFEAT YOU ALWAYS UNLESS YOU TAKE IT OUT. YOU MUST BE MENTALLY READY TO CHANGE BACK TO NORMAL.EVERYDAY YOU GO WITHOUT YOU CRAVE LESS N LESS.I DECIDED TO QUIT AGAIN BUT THIS TIME I WAS OUT OF MONEY AND ISOLATED W NO PHONE. I TOOK MY LAST 19 HYDRO 10S and I cherished the high "this is the last for real " I couldnt even ration to taper off just wanted my high. It was a sunday, good day to get high. I had givin myself up like a crying christian weak and willing. I searched for loose pills the second day.I never let pills get loose or fall but id always look. Its mental.your mental addiction is all your pain. Cut yourself off from money and contacts. Once your disabled from going back so soon the ride begins.. I told myself im not havin any for awhile and knew it and never freaked.I stayed in bed for 3 days and had a mild cold ,and opiates only physical attacker baad diarrhea. Tiny price to pay for your freedom. Let me remind you , when you soon get clean life is quite enjoyable. Better than opiates! Im prescribed tramadol and xanax but had to take a quarter of my xanax a day which sucked. I was comin off zanz at the same time. I didnt sleep much but stayed confident and noticed by day 3 the diarrhea was bad but my mental state was pretty solid. I wonder why cutting off the possibility of getting them made me Accept and the sick sad mental addiction withdrawals never messed with me. Not enough tomention. Like back when I could get them id get imaginary wd's in less than a day but detox starts on the second day along with liquid poo.well on day 4 I got out of bed and wasnt mentally disabled the poo only came once and I slept wiout zanax ! Not a happy camper but still happy I was really doin this this time. Day 5 filled my xanax and didnt have to take that much from weening down and two dYz w/o the zanax soothed my dancin legs and thats when the craps stopped ! I knew I was in the clear in 5 days. But I went to get a cpl oxy. Still trained to love and to cherish tbe pills that made the day awesome. Luckily they were out.today is day 7 or 8. I woke up smiling wtf? Didnt know it was possible! Little victories like that will hopefully keep me strong. I intended to quit for about 20 days until my refill and thought how nice and low my tolerance will be. But im gonna try and do it for good because you dont realize how hazed your mind is till u get sober.All those bad feelings you erase w pills are the pills robbing you of libido natural happiness ,i thought to be a myth, I thought it was my age making me feel bad. No dude 28 IS still young and you can be like all the people that are happy without drugs.Used to resent ppl for being so lucky. I got lucky and im still scared of relapse cause it dies hard man and pill heads are masters of self BS. Like me thinking I got it under control cause im a week clean.BS! I dont wanna lose my normalcy again, im just beginning to know myself and the clarity of my brain function is superb. JUST CUT YOURSELF OFF AND TRY OUT YOUR OLD LIFE. ENJOY THE RIDE .IF YOU DONT LIKE IT YOU CAN GO BACK BUT I know you all wanna kick it. Tramadol is a weak opiate not to be taken for pleasure but piece of mind and placebo perhaps. xanax will take care of other symptoms. ONE MORE THING: ITS NOT TOO HARD TOTALLY DOABLE.It is scary in many ways.You will be a total stud for quitting. You deserve it. You will discover things in life thought to be extinct ITS STAYING CLEAN that im excited to test myself and see how strong I can stay. Alright tiger go get em!

I was taking oxycodone and methadone for 8 years,xanax for 2years. today I am 67 days clean!! I will not sugar coat anything. IT HAS BEEN HELL!! I have not had any cravings and would not want to ever go back to that life or have to deal with this physical and mental withdrawal EVER.I still have no energy. I try to walk 30min to an hour everyday but when I get out I feel like I'm in a fog still. I have no coordination and no desire to do anything. I do think positive and look toward a better future! good luck to everyone who is going thru this...

Do not go on suboxone!!! Thats trading one killer for another, the withdrawl from subs is just as bad as pills or dope. I would suggest methadone to wean u off any of that....... thats what i did. U wont get a rush or anything really, yull jus feel kinda normal, and thats good. Once you have kinda weaned off of the methadone through out a week our two slowly decreasing the dose, u wont go through the shittiest parts of withdrawl,.... yull still b a lil anxious, but that will all slowly fade, and from there its yur own personal drive that will keep u clean, jus dont forget whats driving u to b clean, and how you are running yur life, not the drug...... i hope this helps someone as it did me

Amber stay with this. Force fluids and food. If you loose it wait 15 minutes and push more. You can beat this. I have faith in you. Praying for you girl.

Good luck to all of you...  I was on hydrocodone 10/500 for the last 10 years... the same story as everyone else, tired of taking too many to kill the pain and then "borrowing" from friends and having to payback and not having enough to get through the month, buying more off the street - and endless cycle until about 3 months ago. i decided i was tired of the habit, the withdrawls when i ran out and the mental hassel of tracking more down. the physical part was not so bad, i was prescribed colonipin already so that helped me get rest but i talked to a local pharmacist that i had went to highschool with and he recommended a supplement of vitamin d called ribose, really hard to find, but i took it 3 times a day for 6 weeks and the weakness in my muscles and the pain was eased. I still deal very much with fatigue, but i know that too will get better. i have tried vitamin b supplements for the energy, and do alot of energy shots but nothing seems to help the tired feeling. i am no longer taking the anxiety meds for sleep, i take melatonin and that helps alot i sleep very well, just do not wake up feeling refreshed. i pray that God gives all of you the strength to overcome the bondages of addiction, i have! if anyone could offer me some information on how to get my energy back i would appreciate it, or if you know how long its gonna take to return. again lots of luck to all!!

Your hair falling out has little to do with the pill snorting but is from lack of nutrition. Which the pill snorting is a main cause of your lack to eat let alone eat right. Proper eating will help you pass this along with keeping yourself hydrated. I would advise you to quit asap do to it being really hard at a later date.

Hey man i have found that working out helps with energy. Take the proper amount of protein a day and take in a lot of water. Normally drink your body weight in oz of water. Work out about 4 days a week. Now I'm not saying go out here and try to get buff but a good light weighted work out and cardio 2 of those days will help as well. Good luck!