percocet withdrawl how long does the depression last

My son has recently admitted to me and his doctor that he has been addicted to percocet for just under a year. It started with three different doctors prescribing it for three different ailments. He said it made him feel so good, gave him confidence, he felt better than he ever did. This is how he got hooked. He has been having some emotional problems, depression, anxiety, crying for several months now. He attributes this to stopping "cold turkey." Is it really possible for someone to stop abusing on their own and stay clean? He says he had done a lot of research on percocet and realized it had taken over his life and nothing had ever done that before. It is readily available at his workplace and this worries me. I guess I just want someone to tell me that it is possible for someone to quit on their own and never go back! He swears he is no longer using and has no desire to use it again.

Greetings Everyone. 

Wow you just wrote down my life! I'm going through the exa

just a note in my town there are pain clinics set up. they have become a place for drug addict to go..to get there fix its sad to see when you drive by theses places they are so full of people standing outside pacing back and forth it amazing to me if a person is able to walk back and forth chain smoking he cant be in to much pain.. just what do u think if all of theses clinics across america where closed down what would happen it would be scary place

I have also been on Percocet for 5 years but I stopped taking it on July21, 2012! What DID help he was to SLOWLY reduce the dosages AND I started taking Tramadol. I went through hell but it only lasts @ 2 weeks. If you REALLY put your mind to it and PRAY it can be done. I won!! Tell people your plans and they will cheer you on. It is amazing how much phantom pain I was having when the percs wore off!. I would friggin PANIC! But I found that OTC meds like 800mg of Ibruprofen, work just as well. Ibruprofen reduces the inflamation, Percs only MASK the pain. Its like putting a bandaid on a wart. The only thing I suffer from now is depression. I will have to increase my Prozac + talk to my doctor. Remember,It cab ne done and you will reap great victory and freedom!!

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I was prescribed 10 500 percosets 180 a month oxy cotton 80 milligrams tablets 4 * a day hydromorphone 8 milligram tablets 8 * today oxymorphone 10 milligram immediate release 5 * a day and for otp anna 40 milligram extended release 5 times a day. It's in the will of the person I've been taking all these medications for over 10 years with exception to be up an addition which was in the last 6 years. As well I was on xanax valium adderall methadone a whole list of ads I went cold turkey it took me about 30 days to get over the physical withdrawals do to that the down in some of the other medications the mental side took me about 3 months.

My son has recently admitted to me and his doctor that he has been addicted to percocet for just under a year. It started with three different doctors prescribing it for three different ailments. He said it made him feel so good, gave him confidence, he felt better than he ever did. This is how he got hooked. He has been having some emotional problems, depression, anxiety, crying for several months now. He attributes this to stopping "cold turkey." Is it really possible for someone to stop abusing on their own and stay clean? He says he had done a lot of research on percocet and realized it had taken over his life and nothing had ever done that before. It is readily available at his workplace and this worries me. I guess I just want someone to tell me that it is possible for someone to quit on their own and never go back! He swears he is no longer using and has no desire to use it again.

I have also been on Percocet for 5 years but I stopped taking it on July21, 2012! What DID help he was to SLOWLY reduce the dosages AND I started taking Tramadol. I went through hell but it only lasts @ 2 weeks. If you REALLY put your mind to it and PRAY it can be done. I won!! Tell people your plans and they will cheer you on. It is amazing how much phantom pain I was having when the percs wore off!. I would friggin PANIC! But I found that OTC meds like 800mg of Ibruprofen, work just as well. Ibruprofen reduces the inflamation, Percs only MASK the pain. Its like putting a bandaid on a wart. The only thing I suffer from now is depression. I will have to increase my Prozac + talk to my doctor. Remember,It cab ne done and you will reap great victory and freedom!!

I have found marijuana to be a great cure for pain medication withdrawal especially hash for the initial first 72 hours of kicking. Wasn't really up to smoking get it in the beginning so I had brownies and then that help the stomach but for the immediate I needed to smoke it

Most addicts cant afford to regularly see a Dr., thats why we street medicate

I'd never used drugs before at quite this level, and my current level is not ultra-high. I had climbed a Percocet mountain once; I took nearly ten pills a day, feeling overwhelming euphoria, joy, and a sense of purpose.

When I was in high school and early in college, I smoked marijuana and drank too much; this occurred after my sister passed away. I was highly self-medicating). But I have a new problem, quite ongoing with Percocet and Clonazepam; I have experienced OCD-like symptoms for years in the past. I've suffered obsessional thoughts.

Then, when I began taking Clonazepam, or Klonapin, on a lark -- trying my wife's -- I felt improved, but now I feel so uncomfortable without it. I have a double-problem. This will sound like the world's biggest excuse. Nonetheless --

I am a writer. I have written a few novels and screenplays. I am not significantly published, but I have won scholarships and fellowships. I found that with Percocet, I write entirely more, sometimes beautiful passages.

I am a natural entertainer with a good, loving heart and two beautiful children, but, my friends, I am having trouble. I sometimes behave highly erratically. I can rage one moment, and want to cry at another. I have been better now that I am at low doses (for Percocet two a day; this took massive discipline; nonetheless I long for that euphoria ... the sense that all is right with the world. The world feels so broken at times. My Klonapin use is out of control -- two or more a day; I have found that Klonapin can keep me from the Percocet, which is a blessing, for, at its worse, P is a monster. The come-down is awful. 

Sometimes I feel so sad. Like I am forever chasing a complete quit. Help.

If you're in pain out there, I understand. I have love in my heart for you. God bless you. Hold on.

I am really sorry for your lost and hope you are better pls resond if you there.

Methodone was the worst thing, people like us who take more than 1 should never take these unsupervised, i was taking them from a friemd who gave them to me to get me by until my next prescription, one day i had split with my wife aand took around 12 of them, and an a additional 3later, i do t remember much other than waking up in a hospital, they said my son found me unresponsive and i was narcan'd back to life, i had no idea how powerful they were, that was my chance to start over..later i was in a car crash and shattered my shoulder and now here we go again...

My RX pill was percocet 10-325 sorry i didnt include that in the post

Did you return to feeling happy without meds?

BS. I don't need no one too make me happy inside if I can't lol

I was on percocet 7 months ago and the withdrawal was "Horrible" physically and mentally! I am still suffering mentally, with severe depression! I still fantasize about wanting and taking this pill.I'd recommend if you are taking this that you get off immediately! Pecocet gave me the illusion of being super human, made me a hypochondriac, almost ruined my life! And i still crave it! Now i fear that if i ever get severely injured and am unconscious that it will be given to me and when i wake up the nightmare will be back! Get into a drug treatment program bc this drug or any other is not worth ypur life or your family to suffer!