how to detox @ home off oxycodone?

Hi Tony! What you have to realize is that it is NOT you whom is addicted it is your brain! So your brain can actually make you feel more in pain, so you take more pills - it's a VISCIOUS cycle! So as I stated to Doctordad, I will say to you too - as I just started these, and wish I had them when I first started battling this! They Hydroxyzine 25mgs is an EXCELLENT pill for nerves, thatjittery feeling! And I haven't had NOT 1 night terror since taking them! And boy did I suffer from them! My kids heard words that they never heard before! My poor husband even got a black eye!!! So he can attest to the fact that this REALLY help calm you down! and then you can replace those for the narc's! Give it a try and be open and honest with your doctor OK

I was snorting around 2 80's a day for the last year or so i was on it. I went on methadone for a couple months but i still would do the odd pill on weekends or whatever. i tryed to quit methadone cold turkey for about two weeks but let me warn everybody that the WD from methadone is a hundred times worse than oxy. It was the worst toture of my life and after two weeks i couldnt take it anymore and had to start doing pills again to take the methadone WD away. But i did quit oxy's cold turkey twice before and i found the easiest way was to stay drunk for the first four or five days. It might not be the healthiest way to do it but the alcohol really numbed the WD symptoms for me, just make sure you have lots of toilet paper and water. Way better than methadone in my opinion, and make sure you got tv or something to try to keep your mind from feeling sorry for yourself all day. maybe this aint the best way but it worked for me and after four or five days the WD isnt half as intense

God....I'm detoxing, not on purpose but really out of lack of meds. Oxycotin and hydrocodone ...or norco. My insides have just about turned out, I'm snapping at everyone, my skin crawls, I'm hot, then scary cold. Everytime I fall asleep I wake up like I had been running, but I'm terrified. I never want to go through this again....but how many days on average is this? It's been two days but I at least have three more. But why not just get off the whole thing so I never have to deal with this again? Is it enouph to keep me away from the pharmacy, I don't know. I would hope so. It affects everything I do....

Hi Kim! I TOTALLY understand this! Do you use them for pain, or you were just addicted! The snorting is more addictive - as you are aware!

So each person is different so remember this! Also you need to take Melatonine it's a GREAT relaxation herb! IT TOTALLY works on letting you sleep and getting that twitch under control! Drink LOTS of water! Also look into Milk Thistle! As the drugs have been kept in your liver, and it needs to get rid of all of the c**p!!

Be outside as much as possible - fresh air etc! do NOT smoke or drink anything! As your body will be going ithrough detox and wont be able to handle anything else! Eat as fresh as possible! Your body has been processing so much toxins and harsh attacks on it's system, it needs to be able to relax and process the bad stuff out!

Keep out of the sun, as this can burn your skin - as the toxins will come through your skin too, and the chemicals can interact with the UV rays and you can end up burning pretty badly actually!

Take a LOT of showers, keep your skin clean, and keep thinking that you are getting ALL of this out of your system - either through your skin, urine, stool, sweat etc!

Try and start doing productive things - running, swimming etc! This will get your mind off of it and also help with burning off the toxins!

Just know as long as it's not for pain, you CAN and WILl do this! You know that old expression "If I can do it so can you"? Well that is TOTALLY true with me! I was taking 300 oxycocet a month 150 oxycodone, and about 15 other pills a day!!!!!!!!!!!!

I wish you luck and sobriety!

I'm finally off that oxycodone. It took me about 2 weeks, with the symptoms becoming less and less each day over that period. I tried Clonidine but the itching was overwhelming. Someone here (bambi, I believe) told me about hydroxyzine, which I told my doctor about and she prescribed it for me. It worked great. I still needed 2 per/day of the Percocets to get me from dose to dose of the hyroxyzine, then it became a 1/2 of a percocet between doses of hydroxyzine. Now I don't take anything. I still have a little of that skin crawl - just a little. It's becoming less each day. If I stay busy I don't even notice it. When I just sat and watched TV that is when it drove me the most nuts!! I get it though, that we really don't want to do anything, but it's worth it to get off your butt and clean or whatever, just stay busy. If you can't get hydroxyzine, then get over-the-counter BENADRYL. It's the same thing, my doctor said. It'll calm the itching while you detox. It'll make you sleepy too, so be careful. I thank God I'm off that stuff now! And I thank you Bambi for your advice!

Today is just a little bit better than yesterday but I have the skin crawls too. Sleepings the worst, I almost don't want to even try. Bambi...I was taking the hydrocodone for a severe car accident I was in that hurt me back, then I found out I have nuerothopy in my legs? It's just where they are sore most of the time, I guess it's diabetic thing normally? I really tried to get up and even walk at the gym when I did have the oxy's. I think what really scared me is that an old friend of mine try to sell me 80mg oxy's for 50.00 a PIECE! I could have died...what was he thinking, I'm not some drug addict! Right? Wrong.... I am a mother of seven, actually if you include my stepson that's eight. They are quickly seeing if I don't have this med, I'm nothing...just like shot in the legs, with a turned over stomach and attitude problem ( not good with small children). I was taking very carefully only four 40mg. Tablets a day. Until I met soma....then it was over. I would forget how many I took if I control it. Then, I gave it to my husband to give me. Only four tablets a day right? But with six norcos and four somas...one ambien, hmmm, ya, I think that's it. If I mix them I'm trying to contain myself. Now, I'm out of everything, and kicking myself. But...oddly I think it was the best thing for me and my family! It's going to be some time. But I was sober once, someone said. I think I remember that person. I think I kinda like her more, I guess the big question is....will everyone else?

The answer to your last question is "YES!" I guarantee it!

not sure how to do this because this is my first time ever looking at this site. i have been addicted for well over ten years however i am in the process of staying off lortab,roxies,oxycodone/contin. it doesnt matter,whatever i could get i would take them. i got on them originally when i hurt my back severly and had many surgeries.

then i would take them just because i liked the way it made me feel but like anything most of us we build up a tolerance for meds. so i was up a unheard amount per day and it would blow your mind if i told you. i have been in the hospital several times because of this. i have lost jobs, and it even led too me getting a divorce after 17 years of marriage...it SUCKS and i am trying too get off of everything! actually i havnt taken anything in the last 7 days...its the first time in over 7years that i have gone more than one day without being high on these killers...too me they are not pain killers they are human killers...family killers...when i see my former wife remarried and too know that i chose this stinking life style instead it hurts...

i have been very very very sick...without being too graphic all i will say is you will feel like you have the flu at first and then it will get a whole lot worse...i am a private person. i havnt told anyone however of course some family members have suspected i was on drugs but i always denied it.. i am gonna do this and i am actually starting too feel much much better. havnt slept in a week hardly until last night. couldnt hardly work. didnt wanna talk too anyone. i had a very bad outlook on every part of my life.. makes you feel like nothing is worth living for... i am so sick of seeing people struggle with this... i want my life back completely, i miss who i really was and i know eventually i will meet another woman and live life the way it is supposed to be...live life too the fullest,like today is the last day on earth and whatever it takes find happiness in this world....it is a blessing and a privledge too be alive... i want GOD too smile on me when he looks my way....so please all of you find happiness,just dont look for it in these human killers...

hope i did ok for my first time writing on here and hope you overlooked my punctuation,i wasnt really concerned with it much if you are i will do it the correct way next time....blessings on you!!!

billy

Hi everyone.
i have been reading your comments about getting off oxycontin and i find them very helpful. I was about to try to detox myself until now. I take 180 mg,s a day for 4 yrs and i have been contemplating suicide because my life has become c**p. I am married 4 children and would give anything for my life back. I started taking oxy because of a herniated disk never took it for rec but i can't stop. I tried but no i don,t think, so holy man i have never experienced hell like that. After reading all the comments i feel like there is hope. I was going to go cold turkey, no now. any more helpful hints.

I've given you all the tips I had already. Hydroxyzine will get rid of the itching during detox. Taper off with a doctor's supervision. I went from 10-14 oxy's a day to 4 per day all at once. I had one bad day (flu like devastation) but then it was just about dealing with the damned itching on my legs. After starting the Hydroxyzine I only needed 2 oxy's per day, in between the Hydroxyzine doses. By the time the itching was gone, I was off that stuff and glad to be back to Normalville. :-) Oh, and if you're struggling, try prayer for relief. It works.

I have been taking painkillers for about 5 years now. I have quite and started back up again four or five times now. The worst part about this is that I do have a good job and so does my wife. We both have been taking them for the same amount of time. It has been hard for us to quite because we have not been on the same page at once. Two nights ago, I was hit with some hard reality. She was leaving and taking my two kids with her. I have not had a pill since then and I have had them on me. It has been hard, but I do not want to lose my wife, and kids. We have been very reckless about them. We have spent all of our money on the pills and not paid our bills. We continue to borrow money from our parents and we do what ever we have to too get them. I am lost for words and want to know what I can do to help her go thru the detox starting tomorrow. We have a 3-day weekend coming up and she is going to try to quite as well then. I feel like a loser for allowing this to go on this long and I do not know where I ever went wrong. It

I suggest you have her get with her doctor to put her on a detox protocol. Tell the doctor the truth about how out of hand it's gotten and ask the doctor to wean her off of those pain meds. It's important that there be accountability involved with her pill use and you obviously aren't good accountability for her. It's common that two addicts aren't good accountability for one another in cases like this, so don't trip on it. But get her doctor in the loop and let the doctor put her on a detox protocol. It's the easier, softer way. If you fall back in (take more pills) call your own doctor and let them detox you. You have to tell the doctor the truth about how much you've been taking and ask them to wean you off. Ask for Hydroxyzine when you get to that point (almost all the way off the pills). Tell your wife to call the doctor first thing in the morning and get started on the detox protocol.

Has anyone ever seen where a woman doesn

I have been on Oxycodone 30 mg x6 (180mg) a day for 2 years now for my herniations in my lower back. Due to the laws tightening, I had to keep moving around to different doctors because of the offices kept shutting down. So, this last month, my doctor said he was doing the same. I didn't want to go through the whole new office visit and high visit pay because I just started a new job and my insurance hasn't kicked in yet, so I am into day 2 without any meds at all. I can't get Suboxene for another 2.5 days from his walk in clinic. It's been hell...I haven't felt the need to call 911 or check into a detox center yet. I built my tolerance up to the level of snorting 5-6 at one time...(150-180mg)...but it held me for 8 hrs. Thanks to good friends for showing me how much better the effects were from snorting...I no longer will talk to any of them for turning me on to this. I'm hoping to be clean before the 2.5 days, so I don't have to go get the Suboxene..cause they only give you 7 of them for one week....then you have to go back and pay more office visit fees. It's all a scam. I'm sure I'll make it through the WD's symtoms...I just have to put my brain towards new goals in life, rather than thinking when is the next time I can get numb.

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If you can't get any hydroxyzine to eliminate the itching symptom of detox, you can buy Benadryl over the counter. It's the same drug. It works to take away the itching, but it makes you drowsy. Be careful not to drive or operate dangerous machinery while you're on it. You can do this!