How long lasts Oxycontin withdrawal?

Alka-selzer cold helps with withdrawls. just sayn

I am now on day seven of withdrawal from percoset 7.5 3x a day. I have a refill app very soon. While I feel a little bit better, my pain is feeling unbearable to me. I have spinal issues in the neck and lower back as well as myelopathy. I am so frustrated because I want to live a life FREE of these meds but I don't know that I can. I HATE being on them, HATE it.This is my third precipitated withdrawal and the longest I have made it. I am in good health otherwise where I was not before, so I had to try. I've only been on these fora  year and a half.I am now trying to back off the OTC meds too, including ibuprofen that I've been popping like candy. Today only two aleve and still my lower back and legs are in a great deal of pain. I walk I have not been just 'sitting around' but really pushing and trying to distract.I'm glad I have a few more days left till I can refill. I'm going to continue to back off the OTC's and see if there is improvement. I have gone a week and am really proud of myself. I don't want to be chained to these meds anymore, but my quality of life without pain, was a big bonus.

Depends on both psychological and physiological variables. People taking higher dosages can be more severe and psychological symptoms too. Sleep being an issue and depression from being so "Dope Sick." To answer your question 5-15 days, I was taking very high doses of Morphine 200mg, Dilaudid 32mg, OxyContin 90mg cr, my doctor said I had the highest tolerance even encountered. I want so badly to stop these medications, but my pain was too horrible to tolerate. I have been through withdrawal approximately 10 times and when I tapered my doses the withdrawal lasted on average 5 days. When I went "Cold Turkey" it lasted about 15 days. It is so horrible to go through withdrawal; however, there are a few medications you will need to request from your doctor: Robinul Forte, Klonopin, Tranxene, and if you are a chronic pain sufferer....Try Marinol....it works wonders for chronic pain. I went "Cold Turkey" the last time so I would remember never to take another opioid. The bloating, constipation, and frustration of having to increase my dosage. I was a slave to it and eventually it started attacking my liver and kidneys....if you are serious about stop opioid/opiate use you have to very strong "will power" it took me ten times to finally learn my lesson. 

I've been taking 20 mg/day for severe back pain and became psychologically addicted.   I am quite anxious to see the pain clinic because I hope there other approaches to this pain.  In the mean time I decided to come off the oxy because of my psychological addiction.  Day two was the worst:  severe stomach cramps, restless everything, sweats and chills, goosebumps, bad muscle cramps, headache, nausea, diarrhea (as in it woke me up in the night, as in run to the toilet) which was like turning on a faucet.  I know this is unsavory however I felt some readers might want the information.  Although I felt feverish, my temp. ran normal. I took tylenol for the muscle cramps, ativan and atenelol to calm down my CNS and pounding heart.  We have a tub with jets and It was really soothing to get in that, which was like every hour yesterday.  

Day 1 the symptoms were manageable.  I felt fatigue from not having been able to sleep the night before.  By day 2 morning I felt 'sick'.  I hadn't slept much and was beginning to feel the flu symptoms.  As the day progressed I felt extreme anxiety, almost panicky and then came on the stomach cramps, the muscle cramps etc.  Here I am day 3, feeling much less anxious even though I barely slept.  I had to run to the toilet several times through the night and this morning.  I have sweats and I still have the mild headache, painful stomach cramping and sore muscles, especially my legs.  I plan to take it easy today, have baths.  It feels like the worst is over.  

I can't imagine how difficult this would be for people on higher doses.  

Remember to sip on fluids to stay hydrated.  I couldn't bring myself to eat but my husband made an avocado smoothie that actually went down pretty well.  I have also been able to eat toast.  Just eat slowly.  

 

Good look to you all.  

Sarafina

 

i have been hooked on these little hill billy heroin pills for almost ten years. i quit for two years and after a few months of doing up to or even over 6 80's a day wich is almost deadly here i am again. i should have rememebered how much with drawls suck so much. but with out coming clean to my girlfriend and with out her help it would be so much worse. she was ready to toss me out because i was not bringing home money and my moods and the one or two day w/d she was sick of it. i wrote a four page note to her and confessed told her to look it up and to see what its like she didnt want me around but we love each other, she knew id be ffd with out her and she stayed up for hours researching it and me having seen the efforts she would do for me i woke up and decided she needs so much better from me. i was a lousy junkie low life. i did it cold turkey with vitamins and store but muscle pain pills tomorrows day five and i feel so much better but i know it will take months to get over. these things are evil demons, i pray to god to help with the with draws and all my sins andd to be better for my girlfriend and daughter to be what they deserve and it helps. you need to stay out of the loop, stay away from users and dealers and just forget these evil demon pills. i so wish i never took that very first percocet witch led to all this. but if you are hiding them from some one you love and loves you thats who you need to come clean to and they might help. i even posted a pic of a oxy 80 on my fb before i started again guess reaching out and she isnt on fb so didnt see but no one supported me knowing that the past 7 years i was a looser and wasnt there for any one but my self. i was engadged to be married to my ex and she tossed me away. my gf now brought me right around i was so happy but slipped one day. but this time its for good im so over these things owning my life and mind, its a hard go but i did it and so can you both times cold turkey. it sucks so much but you dont want to substitute, just take a week off and just suck it up. im on day four today and last night i ate and slept for over six hours.im much better and stoped the crying and whining, i might even go for a walk today and cook us dinner. maybe. its still hard and im in pain but i want to try. thats all you can do. but never turn back forget them. and i hope you can convince others to not even start. look at what they did to us^^^^^^ living hell. good luck with your battle every one. 9 year user

YOU. CAN, DO. IT!!! GOOD FOR YOU!!! YAY!

I'm on day eight and this was turning point day. I'm feeling so much better. A rather nasty headache and some BP issues but the withdrawal and pain is GONE. Now it's PAWS time.

Make sure you have support other than just gf. NA meetings might really be helpful to you. Post again if you're struggling, day five is SO GREAT! Hang in there!

Well done to all you ppl out there on high doses of oxy! I'm giving them the flick too. I have a broken back and am ready to take my life back! You guys and gals are insperational and I know , coz I have detoxed 1 time before!! Ran out of the tablets and was not fun!!!!!!

thanks! means so much to have others with this problem too to support me and all of us.
i took the first step and sighned up for a n.a. meeting tonight at 7:30. then i read your reply and i guess im doing somthing right.
i just cant believe i did this to my self once again. this time im done, no pain is worth this pain.
yep day five today and i feel way better then the past week i went through, still feel really week and tired and no energy but i still feel like getting up and moving but its so hard. why do we do this to our selfs.
when will i get some energy back? i still feel like crying some times. amazing what they will do to a full grown man like me, and some of the things i have been through people call me a rock, or strong as a brick wall. frig if they seen me go through this.
i live in bc canada and here they are getting them off the shelfs as of the end of febuary. replacing them oxyneos but i say eliminate them all together,
nazi oxys there just so friggen evil.

i have been taking 120mg of oxycontin for 6 years tried cold turky after 5 days i got them back ,,i could not take it anymore.....now i,v stopped again after two months and i did it better. i got my doctor to take my 40mg and make them 20mg,..i took 3 a day for a week then went to 2 aday till i had 10 left..then 1 a day for 10 days and then none....it,s a lot better this time though the only thing that bothers me is my shin bones ache..but i,m sticking to it ...it,s alot better this time..hope i helped your start and good luck my friend be strong.

I contemplated going to the gym today. I used to go everyday untill I turned to oxycontin. Havent been in months. I'm on day 2, yesterday was unberadle it wouldn't have been so bad if I didn't have the rls. Thank god its gone today I just feel like I have a bad fever. Stool is still prettt solid. Propably have some issues tommorow with that. Just took 100mg of generic benadryl. When will I stop feeling like this? I'm not worried about the mental w/d I'm so happy I'm so happy I'm doing this.I quit my job which was the root of all evil. Thank god for these websites.

It will take about five days till you start to get over it. Your going to be depressed and all you will think about is them but you have to stay strong. I'm on day 9, 10 tomorrow and I feel so much better. I'm eager to go back to work to get back to my old self. You made a wise choice. Just keep at it and it will be the best thing and choice you'd have made since you started. Good luck friend you got support here.

F%@k oxycotin its the most discusting drug i've ever come across. what it did to me over a 5 yr period is unimaginable to most people. the devils poison, made by the pharmisuidical companies and distrbuted by the goverment for massive profits. legal heroine but having had both myself far more addictive i used to buy heroine only when i couldnt get my beloved oxycotin. i have always been a recreational drug user mostly weed,but pretty much every thing except opiates, but now ive lost family, friends, been to prison 4 times for drug related crimes, been stabed twice. woken up in the hospital on multiple occassions, must i go on.....

i recomend anybody given this drug by a doctor for pain [i have shuermens disease and scoliosis], throw them at there head and look into other options, unless u are bed ridden dying from some thing. dont desrtoy your life. 

 

im clean 4 7 days and dont intend doing this again ive relapsed before, failed, even tried rehab long term residential, been 2 times detox facility with fairhaven{great people, go tha salvos}, 2 times at the hospital d-tox,   and know whats on the road ahead however ive had enough of making myself sick, to not be sick. past the physical now for the mental sh*t, i know can do it done it before. the though of having one makes me sick it disgusts me that much. 

relate to that. good luck, rip that monkey off ya back and stomp it for good.

I've gave In and I could cry, the pain was just so unbearable, I'm gutted tho as I've done 3 days of cold turkey but couldn't do it anymoreolive been on 240 dihydracodine and 80mg oxy for as long as I can remember, I take it for chronic pain but I have never ever been in so much pain as I have been the last 3 days, I don't know how you's have all done it, I feel so weak and I've let my family and myself down, I took 40 mg oxy and 60mg dyihydracodine 40mins ago yet still in agony, all of you who have gave up I envy you's, I wish I wasn't so pathetic !!

how are you doing when it comes to sleep? the last 3 nights iv gotten 6 hours and I want nothing more then a good nights sleep. I'm hoping tonight will be different. iv been taking benadryl but its not enough.