how to detox @ home off oxycodone?

I was on the oxy for 3 years. I wanted to die. Only use the bathroom one a month.I really was killing myself.Two months ago I started to cut down from 280mg a day to 10 mg a day.then nothing. 10 days of very sick. Throwing up and other. On the 11 day I could keep fluids down and finally could keep food down.on 2.5 weeks totaly clean and feeling much better

If u do one or half a day can it b out ur piss test if I stop 7days? Plz help me. I took them being dumb.

Look its good to know it is someone who knows how hard this is, I can go without a lorbat 10 for2,3 days then I got to have it I'm going with wd right now lord help me.

My doc says to take less and less each day like that what u said. I did 7 pills for a week , 6 the next ,5 the next and so on

In the hospital after a surgery, i tried quitting the opiates cold turkey. Id actually ripped the iv out, after hallucinating ants crawling into my arm. I was so out of it ididn't  know i'd been on the drugs for four months and had just been moved out of the ICU, the surgery having discovered a bone infection. The withdrawal wasn't nice, but it was survivable. I was feeling the restless legs, arms, body, the pain, melting hot freezing cold, paranoid that I'd get sent to the looney bin. After fourteen hours of this not nice process, i was finally lucid enough to talk to the docs. They restarted the heavy stuff, but at a much less dose, and without the other knock-out c**p they give ICU patients to induce comas. After discharge, i quit the meds over a week and was fine, not even noticing the second withdrawal.

A few years later, i had to go on the strong stuff after being attacked, while waiting for the surgery to correct the attacker's damage. My doc gave me tramadol with a specific dose to take religiously as i first went 30 minutes longer between doses of the strong stuff (hydromorphone). He also had me take a stronger than otc dose of alieve, twice a day. Then, after stretching out the doses from every 4 hours to 6 hours, he had me cut 1 mg off of the hydro in a day. After i could handle that 1 mg less, cut the next mg off. His plan was to take weeks as once i was off the hydro, then i'd have to do the same with the tramadol.

i took one dose of the tramadol and started itching all over, nothing could stop it. I never took anymore, but tried cutting down the hydro.  I saw a different doc, who communicates to the first doc, a few days later and was prescribed a baby painkiller, codeine. because the pain was very little, i stopped the hydromorphone immediately, which was two mg in the morning and four at night. I started with four of the codeine tablets, yeah, its more than prescribed, but i won't need more pills, I'm getting off these meds. Anyways, I'm down to two of the tablets in the morning, and will let pain be my guide if i have to take another. I have been fighting nausea since the first hydro pill and stopped the anti-nausea meds yesterday, after a very sick night with little sleep, this morning i restarted 2 of the 3 anti-nausea meds. My prevailing mindset is "I will get off these meds, I will get my mind and my life back, i will NOT be a chronic pain patient." I've been repeating this to myself almost constantly, especially when last night i so wanted to try another hydro, to calm how sick i was feeling. But, another one of those pills would only prolong the withdrawal.

Through my tears i remembered my counselor telling me that i had to set aside some time to indulge the tears or they'd come out elsewhere, so i set a timer for fifteen minutes and bawled, relieved everyone else was asleep so i could bawl in private. I stopped crying before the timer and indulged in how silly i felt for wanting another one of those pills when i had little pain (little as compared to before the surgery). Then i felt better as laughter replaced the tears, here i am, a grown woman, and I'm bawling over something so tiny, and when finally I'm not in so much pain. I've stayed in bed the next morning too, the more to prolong the no pain feeling, and to type this, hoping to share my silliness with the world and to give those in need without resources something that i hope will help. If silliness replaces shame, then those that have to suffer thru getting their pics taken at addict clinics might start having fun with ths awful situation. Like, right as they're about to take your picture, remember how Calvin of "calvin and hobbs" gets his picture taken, "the mighty megasaurus surveys the fleeing populace..."

 

good luck all and heal quick

BTW, stepping down from Dilaudid to codeine kept the withdrawal symptoms minimal. I'm off the heavy stuff and off the codeine. It took 6 days, one for each month I was on the Dilaudid.

Hope this helps someone out there.

I have a question. I dont know how to post for everybody so I commented on the one with the less comments. But my bf is slippin back into his addiction. N its taking a toll. How do I help him?? Please I need some much needec advice.

I grew up in south florida at the peek of the oxycotin epidemic. I was in my teens when I first tried oxycotin. I had no idea that it was synthetic heroine. Had I known that I never would have tried it. I dated a man that had been addicted to them for years. This lead to a very destructive co-dependant drug relationship. He went to the Navy when his parents found out, and subsequently I quit because he was no longer leading me down that path. It was incredibly hard. I suffered for about two months. I am now thirty years old. A friend gave me a pill called suboxin. He told me that it was an energy pill and it was not addictive. He was very wrong. I later found out that the pill is actually used like methadone to get people off opiods. The doctors perscribe people these pills for years, and say that they are not addicitve. I am so frustrated because now i am in the same position that i was all those years ago. I am so scared of the withdrwals. I am having a lot of strife in my personal and professional life. I have no motivation and get very sick if i do not have any type of opiods. I would like to know if there is any way for me to come off of suboxin at home, descreatly and without horrible torture of withdrawl. Any info would be greatly appreciated. I want my life back. I have so many things to fix in my life, and none of which can be addressed until I end this dependancy. Thank you for any info.

you cannot die from opiate withdrawl! The only withdrawls that can kill you are alcohol and benzos.

Barbituate and Benzodiazapine withdrawal will MOST LIKELY kill you if you go "cold turkey". Opiates and the synthetics can, but more likely the associated dehydration from vomiting/diarrhea would be what actually can be fatal. NEVER use Methadone, it is worse than Heroin as it's half-life to metabolize causes an even more serious addiction than heroin. Saboxone is probably a better alternative. There is also rapid detox but it is costly, you can google it. I suggest using a doctor, but if you cannot for some reason, taper the dosage. Say you are taking 50mg/day, cut to 40mg/day for a week, then go to 30mg/day for another week, then 20mg/day for a week, etc.

If you can find the actual suboxone strips when I was going through withdraws from blues I would take 1/4 to a 1/2 in the morning and use it throughout the day, if you take suboxone without oxy in your system it can be very addicting, because it's not able to do what it is supposed to do. I also started during the pill epidemic and knew people that were going to 7-8 doctors just to get them, I was snorting 150-300mg a day when that was happening, and only did suboxone when I was sick from not having any pills, best way is to cut it down, or get the N2's instead of the N8's or get the strips, also come in 2 and 8mg.

Reverend Lewis

I hope this email reaches you because I need your help. Like you, I have struggled with back pain for 16 years. I have disc herniations in both my thoracic and lumbar back. I had surgery in '94, but it only worked a few years. I have been on oxycontin since 2001. Although I've weaned down to 2 30 mg oxycontins on most days, I can't get below that. As it is, I have to supplement them with 6 to 10 ibuprofens a day. The pain in my middle back is a constant, nagging pain that is hard to ignore. On top of this, I have diabetes, foot neuropathy, left leg edema, and macular degeneration. I am only 51. It is so depressing.

Anyway, I've done alot of reading on healing from God. I rebuke Satan and the spirits of infirmity from the top of my head to the soles of my feet, I quote healing scriptures out loud, I am trying to have faith, but it is really hard. How do have faith in God's word when the healing never comes. I really need a minister to talk to that understand pain, depression, and the word of God. I just don't understand why God doesn't heal me. I need help to maintain and grow my faith. Thank you.

Suboxin is extremely addictive and takes avery long time to detox from. It will take every once of your ability to get off of it. I know people who have been on it for years and are down to cutting 1/4 of a pill into crumbs and still can't quit. But I also know people who have struggled through it and made it! You have to wean yourself VERY slowly and you have to be VERY strong. Most Drs. will tell you it has very few side effects while detoxing from it, that is a BIG lie. Ask anybody who tells you that if they personally ever detoxed from it. If they say "no" you know they have no idea what they are talking about. Just because they are a Dr. means nothing if they haven't walked in your shoes. YOU can be one in a thousand if You decide to be, it's all up to you!

I have been on perc 10s for over a year now for my back.  I have had the epidoral injections and they worked for a while, but they gave out.  I was diagnosed with digenerative disc disease and have 4 discs that are messed up(hemoragged)?  I think is what they told me.  Any way i was a steel erector for 14 years and that just basically ruined my back.  My doc made me go on disability.  My back was locking up from stupid things like sneezing, or just bending over.  And that sucked!...if you have never had it happen to you, trust me, you dont want it to!o.O  At any rate back to the meds...i have been taking them a little over a year now.  i started out as i was supposed to 4 a day down the hatch.  That was fine for a couple months then someone told me that i could get results faster if i snorted them.  So i had a flare up a couple days later and tried it...and the rest is history.  Im now up to bout 10 a day, snorting, maybe as few as 4 or 5 some days, but usaully 10.  Im constantly running out early, and we all know what that means(the hunt begins)..I have went through Dt's for a day or two here or there, but never all the way out.  Im sick of it, my problem is this.  The doctors tell me i will have this pain the rest of my life, surgery might help, but im not interested in being cut on and ending up in worse shape than i already am!  So i have to get this under control, taking them as persrcribed and only the amount im supposed to.  Should i go clean and try to like start over with a clean slate?  I dont really trust giving them to anyone so they could control the amount i take a day!!!  Like i said i have started to detox a couple times and it was awefull, cold sweats, on the toilet every hour, no energy, very sad, basically useless.  So im really wanting to get this under controll.  My blood pressure went up as well when withdrawal was happening.  Any tips or suggestions would be very appreciated!

I liked reading your post but i just wanted to say this. I tried 3 times to get off Oxys I have been on them for 5 yrs and yes my Doctor this the one that gives them to me and he let me know with my medical problems I will need them for the rest of my life. So the 3 times I said im just not going to do this any more and I also wanted to see were i was with my pain. All times I went cold Turkey and It was HELL after 45 days the HELL was not ending every time it was 30days 40 days and the last on was 45days I went to the doctor and i said if you cant do something to make this at least a little better I will not last. EVERY Medical person said it was in my head and it only takes 3 to 4 days. They do not have a clue to what HELL they hand out in a little pill. The very first doctor that put me on them I was scared because my dad was a accolic. She said to me you have nothing to worry about its like coming off of coffee! I dont trust doctors anymor