I am on day 2 of no lortabs after being on about 30-40 mg daily on and off for over 6 months, the worst w/d for me has been lack on energy and diarrhea. I took them simply because I liked them, no pain and usually bought off the street at 5-7 bucks a pill, so besides the addiction, the expense is ridiculous. I have quit cold turkey ambien which was a lot worse than this, so I anticipate feeling better each day, just felt the need to post just to vent
well, not that i want to say i am glad that i am not the only one taking 16 to 20 10 mg lortabs each day . wow i thought i was the only one. but enough is enough. so this past Friday I realize that in one day I have downed 18 tabs in the one day ...hello not good. even worse I only had 4 left. Well, then I guess today is as good a day as any and I also have a really intense cold, but what the heck. Sat new day can i make it through with only 3. try desperately to locate more... no luck guess i will make it through..... had immediately all of the withdrawals. but guess going from 180mg to 30 would have that effect on a body. I have been talking lortab for about 3 years now steadily increasing and not missing one day. Guess I need to admit that I have had one addiction after another all my life and bottom line is I am an ADDICT!!!!!! Guess I have fought that demon too. Denial!!! Addiction has ran wild in my family and I guess I have tried to deny that I am one too but since starting on lortab's several years ago for legitimate pain but alas that has over time turned to addiction. Sucks, can I say that on here? Hope so. So back to my weekend. Saturday. I had only 3 10mg. plus all the aforementioned withdrawals...headaches, severe body aches, sleeplessness, chills.....oh, the chills......sweats.....but Sunday did come and I had made it. After only taking 3 on Saturday. Sunday I had one left and was able to get my hands on 3 more. So I had two on Sunday still feeling rough but making it. Monday....took only one in the morning. Have had nothing since and today is Tuesday almost 9pm. Diarrhea has almost stopped, headache a bit better, chills better but today, that funky buzzing in the head and body has started and anxiety attacks today but I made it. Oh yeah, someone had said that they couldn't stop yawning. I have had that too, it started yesterday and is annoying but tolerable. So my suggest. Wean off if you can at least a little, switch to just Tylenol or advil, pump up the vitamin C, take a xanax or ativan if you have one and rest. Use Imodium for the diarrhea and rest if you can. I am sure I have a few more rough days ahead of me but positive frame of mind and knowing you can do it will get you through. Good luck to anyone trying to fight this demon or any of these demons.Code:
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Hey, stumbled upon this just searching around... I've been taking lortabs since I was about 15. I was a marijuana user, and just happened to find my dads script for LT's. low and behold, I thought I found heaven. I was taking them from my dad all the time without him noticing for 3 years.. then I got my own script at 18. ended up getting boosted up to percacets and bought oxycontin off the street. needless to say I was a hardcore addict. I went to jail for a crime and was forced to detox in jail, wasn't in long, only about 2 weeks... but that was hell. I can tell you the worst of my experience was the first 3 day mark. (as I've been on and off of them and done the withdrawl from these about 10 times) the first day is fairly ok. as you still will have traces of it in your system, when day two hits you, expect it to HIT you. symtoms that I had, (not what I read) include sweatiness (coldsweats), undeciciveness including racing thoughts and doubt, diahrea (sp?), exreme irritability, racing heart beat, heart palpatations, chronic and constistant pain in the joints, loss of interest in everything, depression, and trouble sleeping. basically it just sucks, it sucks alot. Heres a timeline that can help, Day 1 - you'll be aight start to get some of the feelings but bearable. Day 2-3 - You just got hit by a brick wall. Day 4-7, your body starts to realize its not getting anymore of the opiate and starts to shift to dealing with it, the symptoms will still be here, but not near as noticable n diahrea should be done by this point. week 2, cravings will still be noticable from time to time, and youll feel some of the symptoms still, but your in it to win it, your on the home stretch, week 3 you should not have any physical withdrawl symptoms anymore, as your body has had plenty of time to adapt, cravings will still be evident. week 4, cravings will be seldom, withdrawl symptoms only include depression at times at this point some uncertainty... After a month you've fallen into making it habbit not to take anything, your body is completely free from its bond, cravings will be dying down/unevident at this point. I am going onto day 2 of the withdrawl on my OWN choice. I fell back onto it again for the past 8 months.. I am 25 now, and enough is ****ing enough. I am not myself, no one is while taking this. basically you need to get off of it, and do it ASAP, your life WILL be better without this garbage, A few tips to use to help you through it.... First, Take plenty of showers.. the shower will feel **** good. do not hold back from doing it, EVEN IF YOU FEEL TOO LAZY. FORCE yourself to drink lots of water. about 12 - 16 oz bottles of water a day. you will constantly be urinating, and as I like to call it p***ing out the poison. to help with some of the pain do some light exercizes, and dont let your joints get stiff by lying around all day. it will make things a little easier, but it will not stop the hell your going to enter. be strong, stick with it... it's well worth it in the end.
i've been taking lortabs for only 2 weeks will i withdrawl or will i be good ? someone tell me something it was 60 tablets?? but is it possible to withdrawl for taking them for only 2 weeks? someone please tell me something !!!
I started with Lortab 7.5's and soon moved to 10's just because my doctor said I could. I had, what seemed to me at the time, regular lower back pain related to what I do for a living. I have been taking these pills almost 2 years now. 4-6 per day. I made the mistake again of going over the prescribed daily and ran out 5 days before my next refill. So now I am enduring the end of day 3 of detox. I have been miserable. It's 1am and I can't sleep. I have slept 5 hours in the last 3 days no lie. My wife found this chat forum earlier today and quoted a couple lines as I lay on the couch suffering. My withdrawal has included hot and cold sweats, headaches, all-over body aches, diarrhea, arms on fire and wicked insomnia. I was planning on refilling on Monday, which would be my 5th day, and then quitting gradually from there, but after finding this site I realized I am addicted to these pills and I don't EVER want to endure what I'm going through right now again. Thanks for this site, it gave me courage and hope that others have been through this and won! I am looking forward to having my life back again. If you're thinking of quitting, I say just do it. I haven't been myself for almost 2 yrs. Looking forward to feeling naturally happy again. Good luck!
I have something to add that I basically just "discovered". I was taking 15-20 a day(hydrocodone10mg). I weaned down to roughly 8-10 a day. then a friend I confided in told me to try the methadone clinic, I didn't like the idea but went anyway. I ended up going 2 times, then decided I didn't want to create another addiction and stopped. I had resolved myself to go through the withdrawls of the lortabs. But when I woke up over the next few days, NO withdrawls. To summarize, I went from full blown wd's to none with almost no effort.
i have several health problems, polycystic kidneys and ovaries and endometriosis to name a few. im not a constant lortab user but usually every couple of months ill be on the 10's for about a month and ive never had a problem coming off them, except for my pain in my kidneys that i'll always have and will get worse for the rest of my life.(im only 23) this time i was on the meds for two months straight, taking up to 8 a day. i have no insurance so im swithching to a free medical center that will not prescribe pain meds. i saved 4 of the pills and went off them anticipating the doc switch. i went through diarhea, extreme joint pain, no appetite or sleep, hot and cold sweats for 4 days. i was past it and then i had one of the many cysts on my kidney rupture. talk about pain,so i took 2 lor/10's for 2 days, now they are wearing off and im afraid of the pain, but can anyone tell me if this two days and 4 pills will make the withdrawl start all over? i dont want to be on pain meds for the rest of my life, but my mom has the same kidney disease i have and she was on dialysis for 4 years before she got a transplant and although that helped her kidney function, because they dont remove the old cyst filled kidneys(that are twice the size the should be because of all the cysts)she still has pain. it's depressing to be this young, this sick, and depressed because it'll onlyget worse not better. and now with no insurance i'll never have any relief from the pain. i am at least thankful for my wonderful supportive husband, but he deserves better.
i have several health problems, polycystic kidneys and ovaries and endometriosis to name a few. im not a constant lortab user but usually every couple of months ill be on the 10's for about a month and ive never had a problem coming off them, except for my pain in my kidneys that i'll always have and will get worse for the rest of my life.(im only 23) this time i was on the meds for two months straight, taking up to 8 a day. i have no insurance so im swithching to a free medical center that will not prescribe pain meds. i saved 4 of the pills and went off them anticipating the doc switch. i went through diarhea, extreme joint pain, no appetite or sleep, hot and cold sweats for 4 days. i was past it and then i had one of the many cysts on my kidney rupture. talk about pain,so i took 2 lor/10's for 2 days, now they are wearing off and im afraid of the pain, but can anyone tell me if this two days and 4 pills will make the withdrawl start all over?
I have taken 4 Lortab 10/500's a day for two or three years now. I'm a 27 y/o male 150lbs. Today is now Thursday Sep 30. Last Thursday exactly a week ago my heart started beating funny and i went to the hospital!!! I don't know why it did but all I can say is it scarred the hell out of me!! So I stopped taking my pills and stopped smoking cigs(2 packs a day by the way). I took only a half of a pill Friday, Saturday, and Sunday. The withdrawals have been hell. I can't sleep, I have the restroom problem like everyone else, hot and cold flashes, I actually barely could get out of bed the first three days. My anxiety is through the roof and whats driving me completely crazy now is this burning sensation all over!! This is day seven, maybe it was there before and I just felt so bad I didn't realize it but WOW!!! It made me so happy to see other people felt this sunburn like feeling so at least I know this is normal. The burning started in my arms and then my face then my back and chest. I guess it's my body rejecting everything out kinda like niacin burns and makes you hot but also cleanses you. I just hope it goes away soon i am drinking so much water and gatorade to try and speed it up. Plus the body has been running for years with so much tylenol. I don't every want to go through this again those pills are the DEVIL. I pray for everyone out there going through this to be strong, It's for the better by far. God bless all of you and if your reading this post I hope you write you experience to educate others also. I read hundreds of forums before finally finding this one thats actually up to date. GOOD LUCK
>;) :-S You guys can do it. I belive in all of you. I suffer from cronic migrains and have to spend 5-7 days at a time in total darkness praying for death. Monthly. Never comes the doc gave me this lortab jazz.. its awful all I did then was still want to die and high. I hated them still do Ill take my tylanol and suffer like a man. Those things were very addictive how they make you feel its hard to say what there doing to your guts. I want to be pain free but I want to enjoy my life the way god intended clear minded not wondering where my next high is. Thats why I flushed them never looked back.All my old high school friends loved them now they all live in the same house. Regional jail. These things are a one way ticket to addiction,jail,crime stop while you can Ive seen great people end up in jail trying anything to get that lil bottle of demons!!! Good luck everyone i assure you every one has the power to start tomorow as the new you....
I am a 50 yr. old grandfather of 3 with a saint for a wife and the 2 BEST children alive. I am a 5yr user of lortab with a 2000.00 a month habit. ( 10-20 a day) My wife, a teacher is away on a school trip today as i started my at home detox last night I feel like hell at 5 pm and i am not looking forward to tonite but I KNOW i HAVE to quit. I miss the old me that was always going, to looking to becoming zombied in the evenings. Im experiencing running nose and a depressed feeling but anyone got any words of encouragement or any imput ?
I too am a long time Loritab user. I was given a script for four 10mg tabs per day for over two years, but after a while started wanting more, so I started buying them on the street. I stopped cold turkey seven days ago. I experienced all the symptoms you have all described. The biggest problem I am having now is MAJOR depression and severe lack of energy. Don't even want to shower, but as someone else said, if I force myself to shower, I do feel a little better. I am constantly having to stop myself from going to buy more from a dealer. I want to be free of this addiction SO badly. I just hope I can hang in there long enough to see if my energy will come back. All I can do is to hope that I start to feel "normal" again soon. This constant battle with myself to keep from buying more is nearly unbareable. I can say that reading all the other posts on here about what you all have gone through makes me feel better, not so alone. I definitely feel like I can draw some strength from some things I have read on here. I hope anyone who has posted on here knows how helpful it is to someone like me to be able to read that other people have gone through this and I am not all alone in this. Thank you to everyone who has told their story on here! If I have any advice for someone who is thinking of using Loritab, it would be....DON'T start! They say withdrawl from it is not life-threatening, but I disagree. I have been suicidal for days now and am trying to hang on. If that's not a life-threatening symptom of withdrawl, I don't know what is.
I've been on them for a year only taking them less than prescribed, (My doctor was mad about that) but I only took them as needed for pain but really they don't seem to work that much anyway so I've decided to stop and I'm not looking forward to it now that I've read these post but here goes nothing.