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

honestly im same boat as you its 3 monthd now olny last week im feeling like my oldself

I just stopped my pain pill habit about a mo th ago. I was using pain medication for over 3 years. When I stopped I got sever anxiety. But now 30 days later I feel great and I have my energy back. I still get the urge to use but its rare and passes within a few min. Good luck to you and keep in mind that as each day passes it gets a little bit easier.

Reading all these posts, I find myself nodding my head UP & DOWN saying to myself - "yup, I'm feeling like that, etc". Six year user of opiods. Started out with Shoulder sugery. Then I developed three anular tears in lower back. Looking back, I definitley exagerated my pain/lied to myself on some days just to take my Vics, then graduating to Oxy. Then, what I was being prescribed wasnt enough - I found the 30mg Oxy's - THEY ARE THE DEVIL!! Last year I decided to try the Methadone Clinic - Felt so good and cocky, I quit - thinking I could beat this down myself. Needless to say, it didnt take long to get back in the Oxy groove. Earlier this month I hit a new low. I failed my piss test - finding various other opiods in my bod. Of course my pain managenent Dr, who I've known for nearly 20 years and consider a friend, had to cut me off. So - I've decided I can either drive my family and I into the abyss or quit. So far, Im choosing the latter. I've tapered myself down with what I had left but man - do I feel like hell. ANXIETY, SWEATY, NIGHT SWEATS (change my shirts 3 times a night and have to sleep with towels), VERY LITTLE SLEEP, ACHEY JOINTS, etc, etc, etc. I have to say though, I feel I am through the climax worst of it but you are all correct - the MENTAL ANGUISH will test you. I've started the P90X3 exercise program, dropped 18lbs and so far, is my saving grace and my sole focus. YOU NEED SOMETHING ELSE TO FOCUS ON!!

I was an addict for over 8 years, mental is the worst part.. about 6 months I'm doing a lot Better, believe me it's not an easy road but there is plenty of hope as long as your willing to put in the work. Good luck...try working out, music, reading....get back to work regular schedule keeps your mind busy :-)

I just wanted to say that cutting sugar out of your diet may help with the withdrawals including the mental withrawal.

He or she has relapsed. The blue powder is a 30mg IR oxy aka a blueberry. Often times people crush them up in order to snort them.

I DO FEEL FOR U LACRUS ... I BEEN THREW THAT SAME FEELING WAS DOING LOT MORE ROXY'S CUZ I HAD THE MONEY ... HOPE YOU ARE OK TODAY BABY GIRL ... BE SAFE

No easy out here, been there and back many times. I am presently on 200mg of ms contin up to 3 a day and 4 30mg Roxicodone pills a day not to mention tramadol, Fioracet and Xanax. At this point my pain is so bad as well as my mood my only advice is get off these drugs NOW. Your life will be rough for a while but it will get better. I have too many problems to get off meds so I am locked in. I suggest Yoga, stretching or any exercise but stay off drugs that your Brain over time says I WANT MORE. The cycle continues until you break it so it is all on your shoulders. There is no shame in rehab. Do not ever take Methadone as it almost killed me and you never get better after a stint on that drug. I feel like I am in a twilight zone with anti-depressants and anti-anxiety drugs. Sometimes I just want it to be over so STOP now please.

I am curious how you ended up? I have been in and out of Recovery for 26 years. Out right now, I have no problem with the physical withdrawal as I am so afraid of it when I am running low I ALWAYS wein myself off. The Psychological withdrawl is something different. I will be off them a week or two then be somewhere where I know they are (FAMILY) and I steal them. It's a fight in my brain which I always lose. It sucks cause my entire family counts their pills now and I know they will know but I do it anyway and feel like a junkie, which I am most likely. I hope you faired better then I , I recently got into heroin as its everywhere here and I heard better then pills, however after being on heroin for a couple months daily 2-8 bags a day I couldnt find a vein and shot up in my foot and got a HUGE abscess . Like a Golf ball. scared me so much I havent done Dope since but went back to stealing pills from family. What a loser.

I can tell you one thing is that once you have been hooked on pain killers you will always be subject to go back to them. Life without those dam pills seems to just scuk all day ever day. Sure you can go to rehab and get off them for awhile but it comes back no matter how hard you try. All I can say is that you have just got to decide weather or not you can live a normal life. Witch is harder than you think if you always been clean you don't know any other way. I had a motoecycle weck in 2010 and it's been all down hill from there. Sure rehab worked for awhile but that everday grid that is life just brings some of us down. Those dam pills have cost me money,women,jail,cout,fines,and rehab but I still seem to fall weak go back to them. I wish you all the luck in world brother cause we both going to need it!!!And going to other drugs to help just makes things worse. And if you come from the streets or know someone that come from the street is all you need to get all you want and a lot of money or if you know a so called good doctor. At the end of the day just try and rember this it's not only about you cause you are hurting it's all your loved ones or just people you know you become differnt and don"t even realize it.And one last thing i been a hard partier sine I was in may early and I mean early teens. I done coke meth,all kind of pills,beer,wiskey,weed,all but sticking a needel in myself thank god for that.

But  I never got on nothing that I could not just walk away from before but pain killer's . EVEN PEOPLE THAT HAVE KNOWEN ME FOR A LONG TIME WILL TELL ME THAT NOTHING HAS KICKED MY ASS LIKE PAINKILLERS!! I am currently drug free and it's been a good little while atleast in my eyes. But I could relaps at any time and I am thinking about it right know.  Good lucky to anyone who reads this wish you all the best but don't think it is eazy cause it's not!!! ( 47 year old white male) as if that really matters :(       

IVe taken pills (Norco) for about 10 years. I thought it was enhancing what was already in me. Work was easier and I didn't mind going to work at all. it gave me something to do(I was 20).. I would take 5 in the morning and then 5 in the evening . then as time passed I took 15 a day. Then my GF(soon to be wife) inherited money and it was OVER. we could take up to 30 a day. At 5 dollars a pop that is a lot. we did that for along time. we even when to Disney world with like 130 pills fore 7 days and we still had to have someone send us more in the rush mail in a teddy bear purse lol. but not that funny huh. years would go by and now my mind and body would tell me that I needed these pills to co-exist with people. I found myself sounding like people on herion in movies. Something had to be done. so I found out about suboxone. I thought they were great. I couldn't believe the they were getting me high. I thought maybe I can just take these. Well when your trying to keep everyone in your family and friends from finding out what you are(addict) You cant just go to a doctor and say hey help me out . I just thought that if I go to a Dr. they will put this on my record and now dr"s are going to black label me. so I found this maybe 45 to 50 year old lady that got like 100 suboxone every 2 weeks. so I found another fix. well one day she stops answering her phone and now My gf and I are screwed. so it just happens that an old friend of mine (who lost contact with the people I still hang out with now which is not many people cause I was trying to keep my pill addiction a secret) started taking care of some elderly people goin to there homes and my friend tells me she can get me methadome. My friend found 3 large bottles of these waffer 40mg methadome in this person closet and they said they also still get a script of them every month. well we thought we hit the jackpot so then we abused those. well we did that for the last year. WELL we ran out of those because of my friend almost getting caught stealing them. so we went to the hood and tried to find more. Only thing we could only find norcos and vicodone and finally we got suboxone . I work at a seasonal job that lays me off for about 3 months a year. I told myself that I would quit this thing once and for all during my break........ and that didn't happen but about 5 day before I start a new job there as a manager I stopped. I don't know how I did it but I did. it sucked so bad but the more time that passed the better I started to feel. and let me tell you trying to be a responsible person when all you want to do is slap people for even talking to you to much is hard. so now ive been sober( except for smoking some weed at night to help me fall asleep) for 20 to 25 days. ( its better after stopping alittle to not count the days of soberness). things are getting better. im not 100% but I feel a lot better. now ive been an addicted for 10 years. so im not sure how much longer I need to go to be me again. but I know that not taking pills is the best decision ive made in my whole life. My gf stopped to. It was hard on me to deal with myself hating everything and to make my gf feel better but I did and id do anything for her. i even started eating better.(my gf is about 7 to 8 days behind me but I can see that she is felling better everyday.) well I wanted people to know my story before I try to tell you what to do. I know the lowering the amount you take of pills every 3 days will make you stressed but will help your withdawls feeling at the end. suboxone and methadome will help you but then you'll just end up being addicted to those. Methadome has some really bad withdrawls too. ( unless you lower the amount you take every 3 days. there is no not having withdrawls.(sorry). but you must know that it is worth it. I mean I actually have money in my bank right now, which would not be possible if I still took pills. you can try the suboxone but don't take it for very long cause you'll get addicted to that then you'll have more withdrawls. good luck to anyone trying to stop the devil which is pain pills. its worth it to stop. and you can get through it. evening with withdrawls and a high stressed job I did it which is very tough. just everytime you think about it just keep saying "no" in your head. everytime you think about it keep saying " I can do this and I don't need pills to make me who I am or to have fun or to work or to deal with stress. even with pain in your body. I used to come home so sore that I thought I needed pills to help with the pain. this last week and a half I noticed the I recover so much faster now. I might be tired when I get home but when I wake up( if I get some sleep) ( still having a lil problem with that) im not sore. when I was taking pills every day I was so sore I had a hard time walking and even getting up out of bed. So please for your self and the people you love stop taking pain pills. you can thank me later when your feeling better. ; )

IVe taken pills (Norco) for about 10 years. I thought it was enhancing what was already in me. Work was easier and I didn't mind going to work at all. it gave me something to do(I was 20).. I would take 5 in the morning and then 5 in the evening . then as time passed I took 15 a day. Then my GF(soon to be wife) inherited money and it was OVER. we could take up to 30 a day. At 5 dollars a pop that is a lot. we did that for along time. we even when to Disney world with like 130 pills fore 7 days and we still had to have someone send us more in the rush mail in a teddy bear purse lol. but not that funny huh. years would go by and now my mind and body would tell me that I needed these pills to co-exist with people. I found myself sounding like people on herion in movies. Something had to be done. so I found out about suboxone. I thought they were great. I couldn't believe the they were getting me high. I thought maybe I can just take these. Well when your trying to keep everyone in your family and friends from finding out what you are(addict) You cant just go to a doctor and say hey help me out . I just thought that if I  go to a Dr. they will put this on my record and now dr"s are going to black label me. so I found this maybe 45 to 50 year old lady that got like 100 suboxone every 2 weeks. so I found another fix. well one day she stops answering her phone and now  My gf and I are screwed. so it just happens that an old friend of mine (who lost contact with the people I still hang out with now which is not many people cause I was trying to keep my pill addiction a secret) started taking care of some elderly people goin to there homes and my friend tells me she can get me methadome. My friend found 3 large bottles of these waffer 40mg methadome in this person closet and they said they also still get a  script of them every month. well we thought we hit the jackpot so then we abused those. well we did that for the last year. WELL we ran out of those because of my friend almost getting caught stealing them. so we went to the hood and tried to find more. Only thing we could only find norcos and vicodone and finally we got suboxone . I work at a seasonal job that lays me off for about 3 months a year. I told myself that I would quit this thing once and for all during my break........ and that didn't happen but about 5 day before I start a new job there as a manager I stopped. I don't know how I did it but I did. it sucked so bad but the more time that passed the better I started to feel. and let me tell you trying to be a responsible person when  all you want to do is slap people for even talking to you to much is hard. so now ive been sober( except for smoking some weed at night to help me fall asleep) for 20 to 25 days. ( its better after stopping alittle to not count the days of soberness). things are getting better. im not 100% but I feel a lot better. now ive been an addicted for 10 years. so im not sure how much longer I need to go to be me again. but I know that not taking pills is the best decision ive made in my whole life. My gf stopped to. It was hard on me to deal with myself hating everything and to make my gf  feel better but I did and id do anything for her. i even started eating better.(my gf is about 7 to 8 days behind me but I can see that she is felling better everyday.)  well I wanted people to know my story before I try to tell you what to do. I know the lowering the amount you take of pills every 3 days will make  you stressed but will help your withdawls feeling at the end. suboxone and methadome  will help you but then you'll just end up being addicted to those. Methadome  has some really bad withdrawls too. ( unless you lower the amount you take every 3 days. there is no not having withdrawls.(sorry). but you must know that it is worth it. I mean I actually have money in my bank right now, which would not be possible if I still took pills. you can try the suboxone but don't take it for very long cause you'll get addicted to that then you'll have more withdrawls.  good luck to anyone trying to stop the devil which is pain pills. its worth it to stop. and you can get through it. evening with withdrawls and a high stressed job I did it which is very tough. just everytime you think about  it just keep saying "no" in your head. everytime you think about it keep saying " I can do this and I don't need pills to make me who I am or to have fun or to work or to deal with stress. even with pain in your body. I used to come home so sore that I thought I needed pills to help with the pain. this last week and a half I noticed the I recover so much faster now. I might be tired when I get home but when I wake up( if I get some sleep) ( still having a lil problem with that) im not sore. when I was taking pills every day I was so sore I had a hard time walking and even getting up out of bed. So please for your self and the people you love stop taking pain pills. you can thank me later when your feeling better. ; )

try asking for suboxone from your doctor. those will help a lot. but slowly take less and less because you cant get addicted to those to. its one of the best ways. after is will power. just say no. it might take a long time thou (more then just a month)

don't you think most people here are ashamed? that's why we chat here. most people here started taking these things because they needed them for pain. wwhen you take them for more then 5 days you can have withdrawls. and when doctors give people script for 90 plls and 3 refills that's how people start to depend on them. so don't write things that that make people feel bad for trying to figure out how to stop doing drugs. but maybe inside you feel like your addicted, that why you looked this blog up right? you should be ashamed of yourself for being a self centered jerk. ponder on that................ b***h

Hello, I'm feeling the same way. The depression is so bad, I'm not sure which way is up any more. I don't know where to turn. I'm going to try AA. I never believed it would work before but what have I got to lose? Also, I just got out of rehab for the 5th time. I relapsed as soon as I got out...as usual. I don't want to die. I want to be happy again. Innocent like I was when I was young.